Beata Heuer-Christen
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Beata Heuer-Christen (born 27 February 1935) is a Swiss-German soprano concert singer and voice teacher.
Life
Born in Bern, Heuer-Christen is the daughter of the violinist and member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Christen,August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Heuer-Christen, Beate. In Wer ist Wer, The German Who's Who. Vol. 50. Schmidt-Römhild, 2011.{{Cite web |author=Badische Zeitung |url=https://www.badische-zeitung.de/wichtig-ist-dass-es-um-musik-geht|title=Portrait: The vocal professor Beata Heuer-Christen. What is important is that it is about music - culture - Badische Zeitung |date=25 February 2002|accessdate=27 August 2020}} and Greti Christen-Schiffmann, also violinist in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Primaria of the Schiffmann Quartet.
Heuer-Christen studied singing in Bern with Maria Helbling, in Freiburg with Margarethe von Winterfeldt and in Zurich with Dorothea Ammann-Goesch.Heuer-Christen, Beata. In Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006. K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, {{ISBN|978-3-59824-212-0}}, {{p.|183}}. After her studies, she first worked as a classical concert singer in oratorios, Lieder recitals, radio and television recordings in various countries. Her main focus was in the field of Neue Musik. She has performed world premieres under the direction of Arturo Tamayo, Hans Zender and Wolfgang Fortner.
Since 1962, she was a lecturer and from 1980 to 2005 professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She also gave master classes{{Cite web|author=Landesakademie für die musizierende Jugend in Baden-Württemberg |url=https://www.landesakademie-ochsenhausen.de/de/konzerte/konzert-120?language=en |title=Concert |accessdate=27 August 2020}} in the fields of oratorio, opera and lied.
Among her students are prize winners of national and international competitions as well as concert singers or singers with engagements at opera houses in Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, Bern, Geneva and Basel. Among them are Maria Bengtsson,{{Cite web |author=Volker Blech |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/berlin-kultur/article114903501/Wie-aus-einer-Ersatzsaengerin-ein-Opernstar-wird.html |title=Wie aus einer Ersatzsängerin ein Opernstar wird |date=2013-03-31 |accessdate=27 August 2020|language=de}} Rachel Harnisch, Bernhard Richter, Clemens Morgenthaler, Benoît Haller and Markus Flaig.
Further reading
- Heuer-Christen, Beata. In Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006. K. G. Saur Verlag, München 2006, {{ISBN|978-3-59824-212-0}}, {{p.|183}}
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