Ute Gfrerer

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What's new in 2012?

I am proud to announce that I will be the Artist In Residence of the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau this year!
(http://www.kurt-weill-fest.de)
You can see me perform on 7 different occasions within a two week period.

Here are the dates:
Feb 24th opening of the Festival with songs by Weill and Glanzberg at 5pm (Foyer of the Opera House)
at 7pm "Hotel Monparnasse" a ballet evening where I sing the "Marie Galante Suite" (Opera house)

Feb 25th 7:30pm "Life in the Limelight" - an evening about the lives of Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya (Marienkirche).

March 2nd - 8pm, "Life in the Limelight" (Marienkirche)

March 3rd - 2:30 pm, Literatur Café with an interview and songs

March 4th - 5pm "Hotel Monparnasse" (Opera House)

March 8th - 8pm "Voyages a Paris", a voice recital (Bauhaus)

March 11th -5pm, "The Seven Deadly Sins" with the MDR Orchestra (Opera House)

You see, I'm going to be quite busy!!!!

The otehr exciting news is that I will be at the Salzburg Festival this summer singing the part of the old Papagena in the opera "das Labyrinth" by Peter de Winter. Opening night is Aug 3rd!

Before that I will perform at the Havard Music Association in Boston on May 5th and give several recitals on the Boston North Shore in May as well.

2011 was also busy with performances in Vienna,
Boston, Rockport, Washington, Marseilles and Hamburg.

Another French project is the CD "Les chemines des dames" that I recorded with the French "Trio Futurum" (Sax, piano and violin).
Songs by Weill (of course!) , Milhaud , Sauget and others. The arrangements were written especially for us and it was exciting to do something very unique! This CD will be released in 2012.
If you would like to get a little taste please go to www.myspace.com/triofuturumutegfrerer

Also finally available is a new CD with music by Simon Laks, a Polish composer. It was recorded live at a concert in Warsaw with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
I sang the part of the L'Hirondelle in a concert version of his opera comique "L'Hirondelle inattendue".
It's a very special Cd with music that should get the exposure it deserves!

Take care now and please visit again!

Ute Gfrerer