Stephanie Krug
soprano
Stephanie Krug was born in Munich and studied with Hanno Blaschke in Munich and with Monika Lenz and Martha Sharp at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She continued her studies with courses in Lied and oratorio with Breda Zakotnik, early music with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and several master classes with Hartmut Höll, Edith Matthis and Kurt Widmer. She was awarded a scholarship for a postgraduate course in Early Music at the Guildhall School in London with Jessica Cash. There she studied with well known interprets such as Phillip Pickett, Steven Preston and others.
Stephanie has sung in operas, concerts and recitals covering a wide range of repertoire in Germany and abroad. She has performed the soprano-parts in numerous Baroque, Classical, Romantic and modern masses and oratoria in famous german cathedrals and festivals like the Feldkirch festival, the Baden Baden opera house or the festival Sémaphore in France. She has sung with orchestras such as the Bamberg and Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Musica Iuventa Halle, the Prague Radio Orchestra and under renowned conductors for Early Music like Thomas Hengelbrock, Wolfgang Katschner and Peter van Heyghen.
Her opera appearances have included Susanna (W.A. Mozart) and Belinda (Purcell) in Salzburg, Amore (C.W. Gluck) at the Regensburger Kulturtage, Poppea (C. Monteverdi) at the Semperoper in Dresden, Munich, North Germany and Switzerland, La Musica (Monteverdi) at the Barbican Hall in London. She appeared at the Händelfestspiele Halle and the Musikfestspiele Dresden as Oronte (L'Antiope by S.B. Pallavicino) and at the Ekhoffestival Gotha and the MDR Musiksommer festival as Tirsi (G.F. Händel). She performed Filene (F. Cavalli) for the Vienna Baroque Festival, Galatea (G.F. Händel) and Dido (H. Purcell) in Munich, North Germany and Austria. For the Handelfestspiele Karlsruhe she performed the solocantata “il delirio amoroso” She will sing Euridice and La Musica (Monteverdi) at the Cuvilliès Theatre Munich.
Chamber music is an important part of Stephanies musical life. She has given Lied-recitals (W.A. Mozart, J. Haydn, F. Schubert, H. Wolf, B. Britten, K. Weill) in Munich, Bayreuth, Vienna, Salzburg, Switzerland and for the MDR Musiksommer festival. Her partners are Breda Zakotnik (pianist and professor for Lied Mozarteum Salzburg) and Florian Birsak (Hammerklavier). She has participated in performances with the Austrian Radio ORF, the German Radio MDR and BR and CD recordings. As a soloist in the ensemble Cosi Facciamo for Modern and Early Music on period instruments she tours Europe with chamber music and operatic-parts .
