Cornelia Samuelis
Cornelia Samuelis (born 1972 in Gernsbach, Germany) is a German Soprano.
She began her musical training at the age of six by studying violin and singing in various choirs. From 1991 she studied school music and violin with Heiner Eckels at the Musikhochschule in Detmold.
In 1996 she took up singing studies with and Mechthild Böhme at the same school, finishing them in 2000. She supplemented her formal studies with master-classes with Klesie Kelly and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as private lessons with Peter Jacoby, Thomas Quasthoff and Ulla Groenewold.
After the studies Cornelia Samuelis was active for some time as a free-lance in the choir of the NDR Hamburg and in the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
The Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council) promoted her concerts with the Trio "Tagore" at the International Festival Bitola 2001 (Macedonia). Numerous concert engagements in her homeland and abroad followed, with Kay Johannsen, the Nomos-Quartett Hanover and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn led by Ruben Gazarian among others. She has also co-operated with Ton Koopman, Max Pommer and Ulf Schirmer as well as the Arhus Symphonie-Orchester and the Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Cornelia Samuelis' extensive repertoire, which covers operas, oratorios, Lieder and chamber music, range of works of all music eras, has already led her to numerous international music festivals. She appeared as a guest at the chamber-music festival "Interfest Bitola", the festival for early music "La folle journée" in Nantes, Bilbao and Lisbon (with Monteverdi's Orfeo), the "Feste musicali" Köln (with Georg Frideric Handel's La Resurrezione), and the Bach Festivals in Köthen and Hamburg.
In 2003 Cornelia Samuelis co-operated for the first time with Peter Neumann, Jörg Straube and Helmuth Rilling (International Bach Academy Stuttgart). In addition she appeared in this year as a guest at the Niedersächsischen Musikfestival, and they also can be heard at the Lower Saxony Music Festival 2004 at the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in "Ariadne auf Naxos."