Lieder recitals will take the soprano to the Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien, Elbphilharmonie and Heidelberger Frühling, where she will present the recently released, critically acclaimed CD programme ‘Echoes’ together with mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison. She will appear at the Schubertiade Hohenems/Schwarzenberg accompanied by Daniel Heide.

Katharina Konradi was born in Bishkek and is the world’s first soprano from Kyrgyzstan to sing lieder, concert and opera. She moved to Hamburg with her family in 2003. The soprano studied with Julie Kaufmann in Berlin and Christiane Iven in Munich. She also received important artistic impulses in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch and Klesie Kelly-Moog. Katharina Konradi was the winner of the 2016 German Music Competition and a BBC scholarship holder in the New Generation Artists programme (2018-2021).

The singer’s first engagements took her to the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden and the Hamburg State Opera, where she has been a member of the ensemble since 2018. This was followed by debuts at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Bayreuth Festival.

Katharina Konradi has since won over audiences and critics alike in the most important roles of her voice, including Pamina, Marzelline, Gretel, Adele, Susanna, Zerlina and Nannetta as well as Morgana, Ännchen, Zdenka and Sophie.

Katharina Konradi is also a welcome guest of renowned orchestras, including the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Arcangelo, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the symphony orchestras of the BR, hr and MDR symphony orchestras, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble under conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Kent Nagano, Gustavo Dudamel, Andrea Marcon, Philippe Herreweghe and Daniel Harding. Concerts have taken her to music centres such as the Philharmonie Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Konzerthaus Vienna, as well as to Antwerp, the Felsenreitschule Salzburg and the Philharmonie de Paris.

‘In song, I am my own boss: in each of these three-minute operas, I can decide for myself who sings and what that person wants to express,’ says Katharina Konradi, who is particularly passionate about song singing. Recitals have taken her to renowned concert series such as the Wigmore Hall, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Schubertiade Hohenems/Schwarzenberg, the Heidelberger Frühling and the Boulez Saal Berlin.

Katharina Konradi’s artistic work is documented on her numerous critically acclaimed recordings. ‘Solitude’ is the title of her latest album (2024) on Berlin Classics and is celebrated for its unusual concept accompanied by the Cosmos Quartet (Barcelona). Following ‘Liebende’ (AvI Music/2021) with works by Strauss, Mozart and Schubert together with Daniel Heide, ‘Russian Roots’ (Chandos) was released in 2022 with the Trio Gaspard and songs by Weinberg, Gubaidulina and Shostakovich, among others. The singer has dedicated her album ‘Insomnia’ (2023), which she recorded with Ammiel Bushakevitz for Berlin Classics, to Franz Schubert. She also recorded Mozart’s ‘Coronation Mass’ with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under Howard Arman for the BR Klassik label in 2022. She has also recorded Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ with the Gaechinger Cantorey under Hans-Christoph Rademann (Accentus) and masses by Mozart with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Radio Choir under Christoph Poppen (Naxos).