BESUCH DER LIEDER

Ulrike
Andersen
alto

www.ulrikeandersen.com

The earth loves us. It rejoices to hear us sing.
(Wisdom from the Blackfoot of North America)

In my opinion, singing is a meaningful form of being present on this planet. A day in my life where I have sung was never a day wasted.
When I am asked how I managed to become a singer, I reply: I didn't have the strength not to be. And when I meet my neighbour on the street and she asks me once more "when are you going to practice the Brahms again, I love listening to it so much!", then I know that even in my house there are people who experience joy through my singing. Singing comes straight out of the centre of life and belongs right back in the centre of life. Perhaps it does in your house too, and in your heart?

BIOGRAFIE:

Ulrike Andersen grew up on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein. She studied singing under Jutta Schlegel at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, complementing her studies in courses with Anna Reynolds, Margreet Honig, Irwin Gage and Dunja Vejzovic.
She has been a freelance concert and oratorio singer since 2001. Her stylistic spectrum ranges from the renaissance to contemporary music, and one of her focal points is the baroque, in particular Bach's cantatas and oratorios. In addition, she is a dedicated and passionate Lied singer, and is interested in breaking open the traditonal form of the Liederabend and liberating it from its old-fashioned dusty patina.
She has given the premieres of many vocal works that were composed for her.
As an alto, she is also at home on the operatic stage. She has sung the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Galatea in Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, solo parts in Beat Furrer's opera Invocation, in Wolfgang Rihm's Seraphin, and in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

Besides her activities as a classical concert singer, she uses the deep timbres of her unusually low voice as a diseuse in the chanson and cabaret repertoire, in particular as a member of the SEN Trio, which she founded, and which has made a nome for itself with witty and unabashed literary and musical programmes. Her partners in the SEN Trio are the pianist and composer Hans Adolfsen, and the author and actor Jens Nielsen.

Numerous radio recordings and CD-releases document the variety of her artistic work, for example in the recording of Rossini's Petite Messe Sollenelle on the Carus lable. She has worked with such conductors as Marcus Creed, Daniel Barenboim, Jonathan Stockhammer, James Wood, Beat Furrer, Philippe Herreweghe, Andreas Spering, René Jacobs, Werner Erhardt, Philippe Bach and Tonu Kaljuste.