Isa Katharina Gericke

Isa Katharina Gericke is known for her versatility as a performer with a repertoire of opera, chamber music and concert works ranging from baroque to contemporary. Her love of Lieder and art songs has resulted in well-received concert performances centred on the life and work of singers Eva Sars Nansen, Kirsten Flagstad and Jenny Lind. Isa reveals further facets of her versatility in the cabaret “Frauen sind keine Engel” featuring music from Berlin in the 1930s and 40s. Isa is a sought-after presenter for various concepts centred on classical music, and she has been artistic director of Kongsberg’s Glogerfestspillene since the start in 2001.
Isa graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She has won several awards, including the very first Wesselpris awarded by Norske Selskab for her contribution to the promotion of Norwegian vocal music. Isa made her opera début in 2003 as Gretel in Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet.
Solo engagements have included collaborations with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, TrondheimSolistene, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductors Sir Andrew Davies, Manfred Honneck, Franz Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Antonello Manacorda and Ole Kristian Ruud.
Isa is a frequent guest at chamber music festivals in Norway and abroad, and her CD recordings for Simax Classics and LAWO all have a connection to the Nordic art song repertoire.