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The German soprano singer and cultural manager, Cornelia Winter, was born and raised in Heidelberg, where she still lives. After completing her business studies, she studied singing in Frankfurt and Berlin with Elsa Cavelti and Ingrid Figur. She participated in master-classes with Laura Sarti, Paul Esswood, and Barbara Schlick, and in Lied recitals with Charles Spencer and Ulrich Eisenlohr. She also studied early music with Michael Schneider at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (Bachelor of Music degree in Voice and Opera: September 1990-June 1993). She obtained her Concert Singing Diploma in from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim (2001-2005).
Following engagements at the Mannheimer Nationaltheater (1987-1995) and the Stadttheater Heidelberg, Cornelia Winter devoted herself entirely to early and sacred music. Her active concert schedule, encompassing oratorios from the Baroque to the contemporary period, as well as recitals and radio recordings, has taken her to Austria, Sweden, France, Belarus, and Crimea.
In addition to recitals with pianist Misty Schaffert, Cornelia Winter developed a program dedicated to Paul Verlaine, featuring French vocal music, which she performed in April 2022 at the Institut Français in Florence with pianist Gianni Fabbrini. With the ensemble Via Florum and Sebastian Hübner (tenor), Terry Wey (counter-tenor) and Johannes Vogt (lute) she has been performing concerts with vocal music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods since 2012. |
