Ingrid Schmithüsen
The German soprano Ingrid Schmithüsen has had a long career as a lieder singer, in a stable creative partnership with pianist Thomas Palm. She has also been a versatile performer who has sung music in a wide range of genres and from various periods.
Schmithüsen was born in Aachen, in what was then West Germany, in 1960. She started voice lessons early and gave her debut recital when she was 18, even before beginning serious studies at the Cologne University of Music. Among her teachers was the dean of German lieder singers at the time, baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and her career has always emphasized art song. She began a long creative partnership with Palm in 1982 but has also performed with other pianists including Brigitte Poulin and with several harpsichordists in Baroque repertory; her repertory ranges from Monteverdi to Messiaen and contemporary music, and she is one of the few non-Anglophone singers to specialize in the music of Charles Ives. Schmithüsen has been widely heard in oratorio and in orchestral-vocal music generally, appearing with, among other ensembles, the Dresden Philharmonic, La Petite Bande, and the Bach Collegium Japan. With the latter group, she appeared on several installments of conductor Masaaki Suzuki's complete cycle of Bach cantatas on the BIS label.
Schmithüsen has had a varied recording career that has included German Romantic composer Johanna Kinkel's An Imaginary Voyage Through Europe and, in 2018, Italian Baroque composer Pietro Torri's La Vanità del Mundo. She has recorded for multiple labels including Wergo, Harmonia Mundi, and Canada's Analekta. Schmithüsen is the organizer of the Cologne concert series Im Zentrum LIED, which since its founding in 2006 has featured a different thematic subject each year. She has been a frequent guest at European festivals including the Wiener Festwochen, Ars Musica Brussels, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Vivier: Wo Bist Du Licht! / Greeting Music / Bouchara / Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire
Ensemble de la Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, Walter Boudreau, Marie-Annick Beliveau, Marie-Danielle Parent, Ingrid Schmithüsen
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on Oct 1, 2001
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Graun: Weihnachtsoratorium
Classical - Released by CPO on Dec 21, 1999
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Rosenmuller: Solo Cantatas & Trio Sonatas
Ingrid Schmithüsen, Parnassi Musici
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by CPO on Oct 1, 1997
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Le recueil de chansons de Sophie Erdmuthe de Nassau-Saarbruck (Mon cœur charmé)
Classical - Released by Christophorus on Jan 1, 2004
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Kinkel: An Imaginary Voyage Through Europe — 32 Songs
Ingrid Schmithüsen, Thomas Palm
Classical - Released by CPO on Oct 1, 2006
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Weill, K.: Zaubernacht [Ballet]
Ingrid Schmithüsen, Ensemble Contrasts Cologne, Celso Antunes
Ballets - Released by CapriccioNR on Jan 1, 2002
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Schoenberg & Kowalski: Pierrot Lunaire
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on May 1, 2016
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Bouliane: Une Soiree Vian (Digitally Remastered)
Michael Niesemann, Michael Riessler, Ingrid Schmithüsen, Klaus Hager, Klaus Konig
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on Jan 20, 2004
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Telemann, G.P.: Cantatas
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by CapriccioNR on Jan 1, 2000
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