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The German soprano, Elisabeth Menke, grew up in a family of musicians, and started taking violin and piano lessons at an early age. At the age of 16 she dedicated myself to studying singing. She completed her artistic training in singing with Professor Arthur Janzen at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with a very good diploma (2012). Professor Klesie Kelly and Professor Aris Argiris gave her important artistic impulses. She received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Since graduationg, Elisabeth Menke has been working as a freelance singer and singing teacher. After initially working as a stage musician with the violin at the Oper Köln, engagements followed as a soprano in the ensemble of the Kammeroper Köln, Opernwerkstatt am Rhein, Literaturoper Köln and Theater Aachen. She could be seen in the roles of Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Euridice. She also devotes herself to oratorio and concert singing. Concert tours have taken her to the New York, Amsterdam and China. She especially loves the sacred music and especially that of J.S. Bach. She consider herself lucky to be able to give concerts regularly in the churches of the beautiful Rhineland. What sets her apart is her ability to improvise musically. It is a particularly intense experience for the listeners and for her as a singer to let music emerge in the moment, to feel external influences and to integrate them musically.
Elisabeth Menke's second great passion has always been communication, the exchange with people. She feels great effectiveness when she achieves a change of perspective together with my interlocutors, which opens up new options for action. In recent years she has dealt intensively and professionally with communication techniques and personal development. This resulted in the coaching program "You have the choice". She regularly offers group and individual coaching in which they develop options for action in seemingly hopeless situations. She currently lives in Lives in Cologne, Germany. |
