Biography – Katrin Küsswetter
At the beginning of her extraordinary career, Soprano Katrin Küsswetter focused on Early Music. With her agile and versatile coloratura soprano she soon expanded her unusually broad repertoire spanning from the early baroque to the contemporary. Always open to new, she is not shy of testing and overcoming artistic boundaries between the different genres. With her two ensembles “Barocke Sinneslust” (“Baroque Pleasure”) and “Classic meets Jazz” she produces and arranges a broad musical repertoire, while collaborating with other musicians in refreshingly unconventional ensembles. Her projects have repeatedly been awarded grants by the Free State of Bavaria. As a soloist, she regularly performs on internationally renowned stages both in concert and opera, including appearances at the Ansbach Bach Week, the Balthasar-Neumann Music Days, the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival and over many seasons at the Bayreuth Festival. She has worked with internationally renowned conductors, namely such as Helmut Rilling, René Jacobs, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Hartmut Keil, Christoph U. Meyer and Sebastian Weigle, and with orchestras such as the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, La Ciaccona Munich and La Banda Augsburg. Most recently, at the end of 2023, her much-acclaimed solo CD “Arias & Motets – Last Heroes,” the result of a scholarship from the German Music Council, was released by the Rondeau® label and is already in its second edition. Numerous live recordings by BR, WDR, SWR, and Arte also attest to her versatility. More at www.katrin-kuesswetter.de.