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The German soprano, Johanna Greulich, studied opera singing and vocal pedagogy with Professor Heidrun Kordes at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (2003-2008) and completed a specialized master's degree in contemporary music with Jürg Henneberger at the Hochschule für Musik Basel (2009-2011). She has won several international prizes, including the 1st prize at the Lenzewski Competition in Frankfurt in 2008; the Special Prize for the interpretation of modern music at the Hilde Zadek International Singing Competition in Vienna in 2011; and the Special Prize for New Music at the Concours Suisse Ernst Haefliger in Bern in 2012.
Roles in classical operas and operettas have taken Johanna Greulich to opera houses in Heidelberg, Bern, Chur and Lucerne. She has performed in contemporary music theater in Mannheim, Bern, Munich, Darmstadt, Lucerne, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Heilbronn, Bern, and Vienna. She has performed at renowned festivals such as Wien Modern, Lucerne Festival, Munich Biennale and Rainy Days Luxembourg.
There are recordings and reports about her work on Bayrischer Rundfunk, SRF 2 Kultur, SWR 2 and Hessischer Rundfunk. For the productions »Hypermusic Prologue« by Hector Parra (Berlin/Basel) and »Pnima« by Chaya Czernowin (Lucerne), Johanna Greulich was nominated as Singer of the Year 2013-2014 in the magazine Opernwelt. In 2018, the music theater Fliegenglas by Johanna Greulich and Clemens Hund-Göschel was performed at the Konzerttheater Bern at the International Platform for New Music Theater.
Johanna Greulich is particularly interested in the combination of contemporary, classical, popular and early music and performance. She is a founding member of the Eunoia Quintet (prize-winning ensemble of the Concours Nicati Bern 2015). The Eunoia Quintet creates exciting performative concert formats and new music theater performances.
Johanna Greulich holds a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. |
