Salome Kammer - voice
"To call Salome Kammer a great singer would be an understatement. In fact, she is a phenomenal vocal acrobat who knows no limits between speaking and singing, humour and solemnity."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Salome Kammer's talent transcends musical boundaries. Her repertoire defies categorization and is comprised of a mix of avant-garde music, virtuoso voice experiments, classical melodrama, Lieder recitals, dada poetry, jazz, and Broadway songs. Whether performing as a singing actress or as an acting singer, Kammer's stage presence in musical cabaret and theatre roles is fascinating. Numerous contemporary music works have been dedicated to and premiered by her, both nationally and internationally. Composers such as Helmut Oehring, Wolfgang Rihm, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Lang, Luca Lombardi, and Jörg Widmann have written for Salome Kammer, inspired by the manifold facets of her voice as well as her exceptional expressiveness.
Salome Kammer studied music from 1977 to 1984, majoring in cello and studying under Maria Kliegel and Janos Starker in Essen. In 1983, she was engaged at the Heidelberg Theatre appearing in countless plays, musicals, and operettas. In 1988, she moved to Munich to begin filming Die zweite Heimat with director Edgar Reitz. While working on this monumental film project, Salome Kammer began her formal vocal training, taking lessons from teachers such as Yaron Windmüller. She has been performing as a vocal soloist in contemporary music concerts since 1990. Heimat 3, the next part of the Heimat series which was premiered in Venice in 2004 and broadcast throughout Europe, also allowed her to exhibit the breadth of her abilities in the role of Clarissa.
Her wide-ranging repertoire includes classics of modern music such as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and String Quartet No. 2, Die sieben Todsünden by Weill, La fabricca illuminata by Nono, works by composers such as Cage, Berio, Zender, Rihm and Kurtág, Brecht and Eisler Lieder, and the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Salome Kammer has wowed audiences in numerous productions of new operas including Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Opéra National de Paris, Jörg Widmann's Das Gesicht im Spiegel at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2003, and Isabel Mundry's Die Odyssee - Ein Atemzug at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2008, she performed Peter Eötvös's Lady Sarashina at the Opéra national de Lyon and the Opéra Comique Paris, and in Munich she sang in Ligeti's Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures. She regularly performs Kurtág's Kafka Fragments with the violinist Carolin Widmann in a staging by Antoine Gindt which already has been performed in Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, Oslo and Salzburg. In January 2011, she successfully sang Brice Pauset's solo work Exercices du Silence at the Berlin State Opera/Schillertheater.
Because of her expertise in interpreting Kurt Weill's music, Salome Kammer has been invited to perform at the Rheingau Musik Festival and to be a resident artist at the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau. Following her residency in Dessau, Kammer teamed up with Ensemble Modern to put on Weill's Mahagonny-Songspiel as well as the world premiere of Helmuth Oehring's work Die WUNDE Heine.
In July 2011, Salome Kammer returned to the Rheingau Musik Festival for concerts with the Athena Quartett, as well as with Carolin Widmann and the SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. The current season includes concerts of Aperghis' Zeugen in Paris, an appearance with Klangforum Wien for Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 2 at the Vienna Konzerthaus and in Cologne, as well as a performance of Aperghis' Dark Side at the Dialoge Festival Salzburg with the Ensemble OENM. She will also perform Pierrot Lunaire along with songs by Anton Webern with the Spanish Plural Ensemble.
Numerous radio and CD productions document Salome Kammer's exceptional talent, among them a recording of Schoenberg's Jakobsleiter (Harmonia Mundi) as well as Lachenmann's Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (Kairos). Her recent CDs I hate music, but I like to sing (Capriccio) with works by Schoenberg, Weill, Bernstein and Britten amongst others, and salomix-max (wergo) received rave reviews. Salome Kammer teaches Theory and Performance of Contemporary Music at the Munich Conservatory.
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Salome Kammer's talent transcends musical boundaries. Her repertoire defies categorization and is comprised of a mix of avant-garde music, virtuoso voice experiments, classical melodrama, Lieder recitals, dada poetry, jazz, and Broadway songs. Whether performing as a singing actress or as an acting singer, Kammer's stage presence in musical cabaret and theatre roles is fascinating. Numerous contemporary music works have been dedicated to and premiered by her, both nationally and internationally. Composers such as Helmut Oehring, Wolfgang Rihm, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Lang, Luca Lombardi, and Jörg Widmann have written for Salome Kammer, inspired by the manifold facets of her voice as well as her exceptional expressiveness.
Salome Kammer studied music from 1977 to 1984, majoring in cello and studying under Maria Kliegel and Janos Starker in Essen. In 1983, she was engaged at the Heidelberg Theatre appearing in countless plays, musicals, and operettas. In 1988, she moved to Munich to begin filming Die zweite Heimat with director Edgar Reitz. While working on this monumental film project, Salome Kammer began her formal vocal training, taking lessons from teachers such as Yaron Windmüller. She has been performing as a vocal soloist in contemporary music concerts since 1990. Heimat 3, the next part of the Heimat series which was premiered in Venice in 2004 and broadcast throughout Europe, also allowed her to exhibit the breadth of her abilities in the role of Clarissa.
Her wide-ranging repertoire includes classics of modern music such as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and String Quartet No. 2, Die sieben Todsünden by Weill, La fabricca illuminata by Nono, works by composers such as Cage, Berio, Zender, Rihm and Kurtág, Brecht and Eisler Lieder, and the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Salome Kammer has wowed audiences in numerous productions of new operas including Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Opéra National de Paris, Jörg Widmann's Das Gesicht im Spiegel at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2003, and Isabel Mundry's Die Odyssee - Ein Atemzug at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2008, she performed Peter Eötvös's Lady Sarashina at the Opéra national de Lyon and the Opéra Comique Paris, and in Munich she sang in Ligeti's Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures. She regularly performs Kurtág's Kafka Fragments with the violinist Carolin Widmann in a staging by Antoine Gindt which already has been performed in Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, Oslo and Salzburg. In January 2011, she successfully sang Brice Pauset's solo work Exercices du Silence at the Berlin State Opera/Schillertheater.
Because of her expertise in interpreting Kurt Weill's music, Salome Kammer has been invited to perform at the Rheingau Musik Festival and to be a resident artist at the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau. Following her residency in Dessau, Kammer teamed up with Ensemble Modern to put on Weill's Mahagonny-Songspiel as well as the world premiere of Helmuth Oehring's work Die WUNDE Heine.
In July 2011, Salome Kammer returned to the Rheingau Musik Festival for concerts with the Athena Quartett, as well as with Carolin Widmann and the SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. The current season includes concerts of Aperghis' Zeugen in Paris, an appearance with Klangforum Wien for Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 2 at the Vienna Konzerthaus and in Cologne, as well as a performance of Aperghis' Dark Side at the Dialoge Festival Salzburg with the Ensemble OENM. She will also perform Pierrot Lunaire along with songs by Anton Webern with the Spanish Plural Ensemble.
Numerous radio and CD productions document Salome Kammer's exceptional talent, among them a recording of Schoenberg's Jakobsleiter (Harmonia Mundi) as well as Lachenmann's Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (Kairos). Her recent CDs I hate music, but I like to sing (Capriccio) with works by Schoenberg, Weill, Bernstein and Britten amongst others, and salomix-max (wergo) received rave reviews. Salome Kammer teaches Theory and Performance of Contemporary Music at the Munich Conservatory.
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