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The German soprano, Viktoria Wilson, studied at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, where she was awarded several scholarships. In addition to numerous stage and concert performances at the university, she was a choir member at Grand Rapids Opera and featured as a soloist in the Comic Opera Guild’s first recordings of rediscovered operettas. She is currently studying towards a Master’s degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden with Professor Edward Randall and also studies Lied performance with Professor Kammersänger Olaf Bär.
Viktoria Wilson regularly performs with orchestras such as the Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, the Kammerorchester Heidenau, as well as the Erzgebirgs-Philharmonie Aue, directed by acclaimed conductors including Peter Schreier, Olaf Katzer, and Fabian Enders . At the Internationale Mendelssohnakademie in Leipzig, she received significant artistic impulses from Peter Schreier, as well as in master-classes with Barbara Bonney and Aribert Reimann.
Besides Lied and oratorio repertoires, Viktoria Wilson focusses her work on ensemble singing. In October 2014, she was selected as a scholar of the Rundfunkchor Berlin (Directors: Simon Halsey / Gijs Leenaars). Since then, she has performed with the Dresdner Kammerchor (Director: Hans-Christoph Rademann) and Sächsischer Kammerchor (Director: Fabian Enders), as well as the ensemble Auditivvokal, who dedicate their work to contemporary music and founded the Neue Dresdner Vokalschule. Together with Auditivvokal and the chamber orchestra Iberoamerica, she toured to Chile and Brazil. |
