Born and raised in Paderborn (Germany), Kathrin Zukowski obtained her first musical diploma in classical guitar before she went on to study vocal pedagogy and opera/concert vocal performance at Detmold University of Music. She then obtained her Masters‘ diploma in music theater/voice (opera) under the guidance of Lars Woldt at the August Everding Theater Academy in Munich.
During her studies, Kathrin sang one of the leading roles in Johann Adolf Hasse’s opera Artaserse with the Munich Hofkapelle conducted by Michael Hofstetter on the occasion of the re-opening of the Margrave Opera House in Bayreuth. In August 2018, she sang her début at Munich Chamber Opera, covering the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
Kathrin Zukowski was a Bielefeld Richard Wagner Society scholarship holder, received two succes- sive scholarships from the Johann Adolf Hasse Society, and was awarded the Best Singer special prize at the Giangiacomo Guelfi Competition in Bolzano.
From 2018 to 2020, Kathrin Zukowski formed part of the young artists’ ensemble at Cologne Opera (Interna- tional Opera Studio). She was then selected to be integrated into the permanent roster of soloists at Cologne Opera, where she has had a fixed contract since 2021. Roles she has covered include the Niece in Britten’s Peter Grimes, Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann, Marzelline in Fidelio, the Countess in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Konstanze in Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail, and Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème.
Further roles have included the Infantin in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and, most recently, Ilia in Idomeneo. Kathrin Zukowski also makes frequent concert appearances: for instance, she was recently featured as soloist at the New Year’s Concert of the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich at the Musikverein in Vienna.
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KammerMusikKöln has established itself as a cultural institution in the music capitals of Cologne and Bonn, an emblem of the extraordinary level of chamber music that has been evolving on the highest level in this region for several years. Multi-awarded soloists of the Gürzenich Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, along with music university professors, freelance soloists, and chamber musicians from all over Europe have joined their forces in this venture with the goal of offering unique programmes in compelling musical quality.
The main characteristic of KammerMusikKöln is the creation and elaboration of programmes that lie beyond the mainstream, featured in unusual instrumental line-ups. This utterly versatile ensemble devotes itself to a wide array of repertoire, ranging from great masterpieces of chamber music to arrangements of outstanding orchestral works for chamber ensemble commissioned from prominent composers of our time.
With energy and passion, KammerMusikKöln has made it its mission to do full justice to music in all its different facets; it has achieved that goal in a series of remarkable successes ever since it was founded in 2011. The array of instrumental line-ups and combinations, including piano, winds, and strings (expanded on this recording with the human voice), ranges from two to eighteen musicians.
www.kammermusikkoeln.de NATALIE CHEE Violin I and Artistic Leader JUTA ÕUNAPUU-MOCANITA Violin II ÖYKÜ CANPOLAT Viola JEE-HYE BAE Cello I ANGELA CHANG Cello II JASON WITJAS-EVANS Double Bass ALJA VELKAVERH Flute TOM OWEN Oboe ANDREAS OBERAIGNER Clarinet I GRIGORIS VASILEIADIS Clarinet II ** PIETER NUYTTEN Bassoon EGON HELLRUNG Horn I KU-HSIN CHEN Horn II PIERRE EVANO Trumpet CLAUDIA CHAN Piano