Heidi Maria Taubert

The German soprano Heidi Maria Taubert was born in Dresden and received her first musical training in the Girls Choir "Schloß Albrechtsberg" and at the Conservatory "Heinrich Schütz" in Dresden. She studied with Ilse Hahn and Christiane Junghanns at the Academy of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden. During this time she was a member of the "Sächsisches Vocalensemble" (Matthias Jung) and the "Dresdner Kammerchor" (Hans-Christoph Rademann), where she got first solistic tasks. This was followed by studies in Historical singing with Marek Rzepka at the Academy of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Important impulses she also got from masterclasses with Richard Wistreich and Monika Mauch (Innsbruck) as well as courses in historical performance practice with Maurice van Lieshout and courses in baroque gestics with Sharon Weller (Basel). Solo participations in festivals such as the "Dresdner Musikfestspiele", the "Händelfestspiele Halle", the festival "Mitte Europa", the "Bachtage Potsdam", the "Heinrich-Schütz-Fest Dresden" and the Festival of Early Music "Güldener Herbst" and the collaboration with ensembles as the "Lautten Compagney Berlin", the "Sächsisches Vocalensemble", the "Cappella Sagittariana Dresden", "Cantus and Capella Thuringia" and the "Telemann Collegium Michaelstein" show her interest in the performance of Early Music. Moreover, she performs with the Cantor of the Frauenkirche Dresden Matthias Grünert in church services and concerts and as a concert soloist with choirs and orchestras all over Germany. On the opera stage, the young singer has been successful as Clori in the chamber opera "Clori e Fileno" by Georg Friedrich Handel, directed by Barbara Hoene. 2007 followed the title role in Vivaldi's opera "Mio povero cor" at the Festival of Early Music "Güldener Herbst" '. In 2009 and 2010 she sang the part of Atalanta in Handel's "Xerxes" at the "Händelfestspiele Halle" as well as in Bayreuth ("Bayreuther Barock"), Hanover, Schweinfurt and Warsaw (PL).