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The German soprano, Natasha Schnur, studied at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe under Donald Litaker (2010-2015) and at Yale School of Music in New Haven, Connecticut under James Taylor, specializing in early music. She was awarded the Hugh Porter Scholarship from Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music and the Margot Fassler Prize in the Performance of Sacred Music. At Yale she performed with conductors Masaaki Suzuki, David Hill and Nicholas McGegan. Concerts included J.S. Bach's Trauerode BWV 198 and Magnificat BWV 243, as well as Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem.
Natasha Schnur is widely active as a self employed concert singer since February 2019. She specializes in early music but enjoys a wide range of repertoire including opera, art song and contemporary music. In 2017, she made her debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall performing in the premiere of Reena Esmail’s This Love between Us. In collaboration with pianist Markus Hadulla, she performs in the musical-literary concert series wort+ton. These concerts combine two art forms about which she is passionate: literature and art song. She is a regular member of the Vocalensemble Rastatt (since April 2019; Director: Holger Speck) and the RIAS-Kammerchor (February 2018-March 2019), and is one of six laureates of the 8th edition of Le Jardin des Voix. She performed in the programme "An English Garden" under the direction of William Christie and Paul Agnew at the Festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie, and then on tour at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, Théâtre de Caen, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Paris Philharmonie, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. She is a member of Les Arts Florissants (Director: William Christie) since August 2017. |
