Biographies & programs
27.5.24
12:20
Anna Lautwein
Germany
Laura Pitz
Germany
Program
Franz Schubert
Auf dem See D 543 (Goethe) - 1R
Verklärung D 59 (Pope/Herder)
Der Musensohn D 764 (Goethe)
Franz Liszt
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
1. Pace non trovo
3. Vidi in terra angelici costumi - 1R
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op. 25
18. Zwei Venetianische Lieder II (Moore/Freiligrath)
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
12. In dem Schatten meiner Locken (Anonymous/Heyse)
36. Bedeckt mich mit Blumen (María do Ceo/Geibel)
Goethe-Lieder
27. Die Spröde
Eichendorff-Lieder
3. Verschwiegene Liebe
Edvard Grieg
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall Op.48, Nr.4 (W. von der Vogelweide)
Mathilde Krallik von Meyerswalden
Jugend Lieder
1. Morgengesang (Shakespeare)
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
3. Under the Greenwood Tree (Shakespeare)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
1. L´invitation au voyage (Beaudelaire) - 1R
4. Extase (Lahor)
Roger Quilter
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.6
1. Come away, Death
Erich W. Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31
2. Under the greenwood tree
4. When birds do sing - 1R
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Anna Lautwein
Mezzosoprano
Year of birth:
1993
Anna Lautwein completed her bachelor's degree in singing in Prof. Mechthild Georg's class at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2017. She continued her master's singing studies in Prof. Kai Wessel's class at the HfMT Cologne and completed her master's concert in 2020 with top marks. From 2020 - 2022 she completed a postgraduate course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Prof. Pauliina Tukiainen together with the pianist Laura Pitz. She also completed this with top marks. During and after her studies, Anna Lautwein continued her training in master classes with Thilo Dahlmann and Dorothea Wirtz, among others. She receives regular lessons from Ingeborg Danz.
Anna Lautwein was a soloist in musical theater and was heard and seen as a member of the ensemble at the Cologne Literature Opera, at the Early Music Festival in Knechtsteden, at the Aachen Theater and at the Cologne Volksbühne. Since the beginning of 2021 she has been a guest in various opera choirs, including at the Cologne Opera. Since summer 2023 she has been a permanent part-time member of the Krefeld/Mönchengladbach Opera Choir. Since completing her master's degree, Anna Lautwein has devoted herself particularly to song singing. In 2019, a lively collaboration with the pianist Laura Pitz began. The song duo dedicates itself with great passion to the rarely noticed work of numerous female composers and poets. The two released their album in 2021: “Female Voices – Women raise their voices.” You can also hear Anna Lautwein singing as a soloist in numerous oratorio concerts.
Anna Lautwein has been a singing lecturer at the Frechen City Music School since 2015.
She also leads numerous singing workshops for choirs. Anna Lautwein is a member of the Association of German Singing Pedagogues and is therefore committed to regular vocal pedagogical training. In this context, she successfully completed a course to teach popular singing from 2021-2023. She also works as a speaking coach for people from various professional fields who want to optimize their vocal skills. www.anna-lautwein.de
Laura Pitz
Pianist
The pianist Laura Pitz, who comes from Kleve on the Lower Rhine, began playing the piano at the age of six and received her pianistic training at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Josef Anton Scherrer. She also completed a year of study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she was taught by Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch. As part of international master classes, she received further inspiration from Manfred, among others
Aust, Matthias Kirschnereit, Olivier Gardon and Markus Bellheim.
Laura Pitz has been performing since she was a teenager in concert halls such as the Essen Philharmonic, the Bochum Jahrhunderthalle and the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich. She also performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Ruhr Piano Festival. In addition to multiple first federal prizes in the “Jugend musiziert” competition, she was awarded special prizes by the German Stiftung Musikleben and the ZONTA International/Union of German ZONTA Clubs. She was a prizewinner at the Westphalian piano competition “Van Bremen” and the Rotary piano competition and received the 2nd Trimborn Prize NRW.
Laura Pitz received scholarships from the German Foundation for Music Life, the DAAD and the Gisela and Erich-Andreas Foundation. She was a sponsor of the Live Music Now Köln e.V. association, which also presented her on its 20th anniversary CD released in 2021.
Over the course of her studies, she developed a particular passion for art song and ultimately completed a master's degree in song design with Ulrich Eisenlohr at the HfMT Cologne. She has worked with song interpreters such as Anne le Bozec, Pauliina Tukiainen, Ingeborg Danz and Jan Philipp Schulze.
From 2020 to 2022 she studied with the mezzo-soprano Anna Lautwein in the postgraduate song duo program at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Pauliina Tukiainen. Anna Lautwein and Laura Pitz are passionate about the unknown work of female composers and poets and are releasing their joint debut album in 2021 entitled Female voices - Women raise their voices on the Leni records label.
In addition to her artistic work, Laura Pitz is dedicated to music education. She teaches at the Ludwig van Beethoven Music School in the city of Bonn and privately in Cologne.