Mechthild Bach

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Mechthild Bach is a German soprano and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen.

Biography and career

Bach was born in Limburg an der Lahn, where she was a member of the Limburg Cathedral's girl choir from a very young age. After her abitur, she began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, under Elsa Cavelti's tutelage. During her time there she also made her operatic debut at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.{{cite web|url=http://mechthildbach.de/mechthild%20bach%20sopran.htm|title=Biography|website=Mechthild Bach Official Website|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}

Since then, Bach has performed in such opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Nationaltheater München, and the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg, with conductors Reinhard Goebel, Peter Neumann, Ton Koopman, and Helmuth Rilling, among others. Additionally, she has performed the soprano parts in Mahler's symphonies, as Antigona in Handel's Admeto, and as Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.{{cite web|url=http://www.israel-opera.co.il/eng/?CategoryID=263&ArticleID=1847|title=Mechthild Bach, Soprano|website=Israeli Opera|accessdate=6 November 2017}} She has also performed with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Bach is a professor at the {{ill|Hochschule für Musik Trossingen|de}}.

1986: A grant from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bach-Mechthild.htm|title=Mechthild Bach (Soprano)|website=Bach Cantatas|author=Gerald Permantier|accessdate=6 November 2017}}
1993: Innsbrucker Radiopreis für Alte Musik, for her album Thomaskantoren vor Bach with Cantus Cölln{{cite web|url=http://www.cantuscoelln.com/thomaskantoren-vor-bach-sknuepfer-jschelle-jkuehnau.html|title=CD: Thomaskantoren vor Bach|website=Cantus Cölln|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}
2002: Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, for her recording of Zelenka's Missa Dei Patris, with Frieder Bernius{{cite web|url=http://www.mh-trossingen.de/hochschule/personen/dozenten-seite/fachgruppe/25.html|title=Mechthild Bach – Gesang|website=Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}

[http://mechthildbach.de/ Official Website]
[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bach-Mechthild.htm Profile] on Bach Cantatas Website