Verena rein · master classes
Biography
Biography
The soprano received her vocal training as a master student with Kammersänger (title awarded to a singer with outstanding ability) Peter Gougaloff at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. After completing her instrumental studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hanover [School of Music and Theatre], her bel canto studies introduced her to Mirella Freni. She further undertook a two-and-a-half year breathwork course and received advanced improvisation, rhythmic and movement coaching.Opera and concert performances have taken
her to Switzerland, the USA, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania,
Romania and Germany. She has participated in radio, TV and
CD recordings for, among others, the Danish national radio,
TV Kraków, the Lithuanian national radio, Bucharest
television, Deutschlandradio, and the Dreyer-Gaido label,
as well as the Potsdam Eastern Europe publication series.
She made her opera debut in Switzerland as Micaëla in
Bizet's Carmen. Her most notable roles since then have
included Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Violetta in
Verdi's La Traviata (which soon became her best role),
Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and
Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz. Recitals have become a
major component of her work as an artist. She has performed
at several international festivals, including the
Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Internationaler
Musiksommer "NordTöne", the Reconstruction Concerts for the
Dresden Frauenkirche (Wiederaufbaukonzerte), the Lausitzer
Musiksommer, the Summer Festival at Rosenholm Castle,
Danmark, the Karol Szymanowski Music Days in Zakopane,
Poland, the Christopher Summer Festival in Vilnius,
Lithuania, and the International Festival of Lyrical Art as
part of the European Cultural Capital 2007: Sibiu
programme. Verena Rein is further known as a performer of
different styles of contemporary music, from duets to vocal
works with orchestra. For more detailed information please
visit the artist's website at www.verena-rein.de
Since 1998, the soprano has been achieving great success in both Germany and abroad* in conducting master classes on such diverse subjects as stage performance and stage presence training, lieder interpretation, classical Italian bel canto techniques, as well as breath and timbre control. She previously held a chair at Shenandoah University* in Winchester, VA (USA). She currently teaches stage performance and stage presence to the lieder class of Prof. Axel Bauni at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin [Berlin University of the Arts], as well as courses at the Landesmusikakademie Berlin. Verena Rein also works as a publicist and writer.
Verena Rein ist a member of the DTKV Berlin (Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband).
* Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA
* In September 2006, Verena Rein conducted a highly successful master class for vocal students on lieder interpretation (German romantic art songs) at the voice faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA (USA).