Education
Uta Buchheister was born in Hagen/Westphalia. From early childhood she received musical training, took piano and ´cello lessons and was a member of choirs. After finishing school with the Abitur she read Philosophy and Modern Languages at Oxford University and received a first class bachelor´s degree. During her time at Oxford she sang in „The Oxford Chamber Choir“ and in Oriel Chapel Choir as well as performing as a vocal soloist. After her return to Germany she studied for an opera diploma at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“, Berlin, which she received after only eight semesters and passed with the highest classification „sehr gut“.
Scholarships/Masterclasses
During the time of her studies, Uta Buchheister was a scholar of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ and of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, where she attended the „Steans Institute for Young Artists“ and worked with world-renowned singers and pianists such as Barbara Bonney, Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Söderström and Roger Vignoles. In Germany she attended masterclasses given by Sena Jurinac (Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival), Ruth Berghaus, Wolfram Rieger and William Matteuzzi („Rossini in Wildbad“-Festival).
Opera/Operetta/Musical
In the first season of the European Union Opera, Uta sang the role of Béatrice in Berlioz´Béatrice et Bénédict in Baden-Baden and Paris (Theatre de Champs-Elysées). For this role she was nominated as „Best Newcomer of the Year“ in the Opernwelt-yearbook 1999.
From 1999 until 2002 Uta Buchheister was a member of the Neustrelitz Opera Company in North Germany until she decided to terminate her contract and now works as a freelancer. Her repertoire includes classical opera roles such as Rosina (Barber of Seville), Cherubino, Hänsel, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly) as well as operetta (Boulotte in Barbe-Bleue by Jacques Offenbach) and leading roles in musical theatre. Her latest major part in this area is Mrs Lovett in Sondheims Sweeney Todd. Recent engagements include Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Kassel, Nationaltheater Weimar and Staatsoperette Dresden. From November 2006 until March 2007, she sang the part of Hyacinthus in a highly acclaimed production of Mozart´s first opera „Apollo et Hyacinthus“ at the Bodemuseum on Berlin´s famous „Museumsinsel“.
More recently, in May 2007, she took over the part of „the Drummer“ in Victor Ullmann´s Opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Konzerthaus Berlin. In June 2007, she gave her Augsburg opera debut as „Béatrice“ in Béatrice et Bénédict to high critical acclaim.Lied
Accompanied by Gabriel Dobner, Uta Buchheister has won the Viennese competition
„Das Schubertlied“, an achievement which led to invitations into some of the finest concert venues in Europe. She has given recitals at the Brahmssaal of the Vienna Musikverein with Gabriel Dobner and at Wigmore Hall and the Wallace Collection, London with Graham Johnson. Further engagements took her to Barcelona, Switzerland, Oxford and several states in the middle east. Radio Suisse Romande and the Austrian ORF have broadcasted her lied recitals.Chanson
With her duo partner Martin Schneuing, Uta Buchheister has conceived and performed several programmes of chansons from the Berlin „roaring twenties“ period. Martin and Uta are regularly invited to perform with the „Brechtfreunde Augsburg“ and have taken their programmes to several states in the Middle East with the Goethe Inistitute.
On the occasion of Hanns Eisler´s 100th birthday, Uta Buchheister took part in a television feature on the composer´s Berlin years produced by the Sender Freies Berlin recording several songs from the collection Zeitungsauschnitte and the cycle Palmström, a parody on Schönberg´s Pierrot Lunaire in twelve-tone mode.Contemporary Music
She has a vivid interest in contemporary music and has worked on programmes of world premieres of German composers such as Walter Zimmermann and Jakob Ullmann with the renowned ensemble recherche and others. With the ensemble recherche she has made radio recordings of Walter Zimmermann´s music for the WDR Köln and the Deutschlandradio. In recent months she was involved in several world premieres of works by Berlin composers Samuel Tramin and Gabriel Iranyi.
In March 2006 she cooperated with the ensemble leitundlause in a staged production of Jacques Demierre´s „Je deviendrai Médée“ at the TESLA in Berlin . This September she sang the part of „Eugenia“ in Elena Mendoza-Lopez opera Niebla, which had its world-premiere at the opening of the Dresdener Tage der Neuen Musik at the „Europäisches Zentrum der Künste“ in Dresden-Hellerau.
On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Leon Schidlowsky Uta sang the solo-part in the world-premiere of his oratory „Deutschland-Ein Wintermärchen“. This performance as well as several chamber music pieces by the same composer appeared on cd („Leon Schidlowsky zum 75. Geburtstag“) and can be ordered through www.musik-art.de.
Contact information:
Uta Buchheister Berlin, Germany
mobile +49 1577 1701854
E-mail: utabuchheister@yahoo.de
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Last updated: January 15, 2008