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The American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher, Yvonne Marie Douthat Hartinger, completed the first part of her singing studies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, obtaing her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance Summa cum Laude from Louisiana State University (1996-2001). Her further path led her to the University of Houston, where she earned her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance (2001-2003); and to the Eastman School of Music, where she graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Literature (2003-2009). Her artistic companions include many important musicians and music teachers, including Robert McIver, Benita Valente (V), Richard Miller (V), Wolfram Rieger, William Bolcom, Martin Isepp, Gilbert Kalish (P), Bruno Canino (P), Diane Zola, James McKinney, Jennifer Larmore, Phyllis Curtin (V) and many others other.
Yvonne Hartinger's repertoire includes a wealth of styles and genres. Her sung operatic roles range from Ottavia in L'Incoronazione di Poppea to Ramiro in W.A. Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, Romeo in I Capuleti ei Montecchi, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri, Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon Dinah in Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Tessa in The Gondoliers as well as many other operetta roles. Some of her stops have included Houston, Natchez Opera Festival, Baton Rouge (Louisiana), Rochester (New York) and Ohio Light Opera. She has been a participant in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont for several years, conducted by Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode, where she could familiarize herself with the whole spectrum of the vocal chamber music repertoire. Your field of activity also includes a wealth of oratorio roles, for example George Frideric Handel's Solomon and Messiah, W.A. Mozart's Mass in C minor, J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248, L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Robert Schumann's Faust, Maurice Duruflé's Requiem and Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.
Since July 2009, Yvonne Hartinger has taught voice at the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg and at the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College (since July 2011), and since 2013 at the Kentucky Institute of International Studies in Salzburg. Since March 2013, she has also been an Adjunct Professor of Voice at the Mozarteum University. With her husband, tenor Virgil Hartinger, she has been the Artistic Director of the exciting and diverse programs of the Salzburg Chamber Music Concerts since 2019. |
