Martha Harreiter

Soprano

Versatile, with a shimmering warm voice and compelling stage presence Austrian Soprano Martha Harreiter instantly captivates her listeners. From angelic spheres to melancholic dreams and dramatic scenes Martha Harreiter exudes beauty and excitement from the very first note. Specialized in Lied repertoire, the colourful soprano is Fellow of the Heidelberg Lied Academy with Thomas Hampson and holds scholarships of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg with Wolfgang Holzmair and the Music Academy Tyrol with Stephan Matthias Lademann.

Upcoming concerts include the 3rd edition of the Chamber Music Festival “Joie de vivre” in Vienna. Also, Martha Harreiter will premiere her new Lied program with works by W.A. Mozart together with the Swedish Pianist Daniel Beskow in Sweden and Austria. Solo masses and oratorio concerts complete the current concert season.

Recently, she presented a performance about "Voicing the Unvoiced in Song Cycles" together with Emily Gallagher (Voice) and Donna Chan (Piano) re-discovering the present meaning in art song. In 2022, Martha Harreiter worked together with Joseph Avila and Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg for Chamber Music Programs, sang at the 2nd edition of the Chamber Music Festival “Joie de vivre” and made her debut as soloist in several works by W.A. Mozart (such as Exsultate, jubilate and Mozart’s Requiem) in Vienna. During the great intermission caused by the COVID19 pandemic Martha Harreiter stayed in touch with her audience by hosting live stream concerts from her living room. She also dedicated herself to promoting the works of female composers at Thomas Hampson’s World of Song on IDAGIO. In addition, she designed new Lied programs and engaged in the development of interdisciplinary art projects.

Martha Harreiter made her debut on stage 2017 in Offenbach’s operetta Pariser Leben at Theater an der Rott (GER). With her versatile soprano she sang at the world premiere of Larry Coryell's jazz opera Anna Karenina with the Russian Philharmonic and already performed several oratorio pieces, including a staged version of Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Mozart’s Great Mass in c with Erwin Ortner. Her debut at the International Baroque Festival Melk 2020 in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” had to be postponed.

Calling Lied a matter very close to her heart, Martha Harreiter has been singing recitals in Vienna, Salzburg, Heidelberg, Berlin and many more places with repertoire from the Early Baroque up to contemporary music. She has been working, amongst others, with Lied pianists Stephan Matthias Lademann, Markus Hadulla, Ammiel Bushakevitz, Yuto Kiguchi, Joseph Avila, Stephen Delaney and Daniel Beskow. Martha Harreiter studied at Mozarteum Salzburg, at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and completed her studies at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Rannveig Braga-Postl.

Since then she has been working with Julie Kaufmann in Berlin and Tanya Aspelmeier in Vienna. Additional Master Classes and a specialization in Historical Performance Practice complement her education. In 2022 she attended the Margreet Honig Summer Academy in Schloss Weinberg, Austria.

The young soprano is also a graduate of Salzburg Law School. In her free time she enjoys working on her family’s farm. Also, she loves reading Rilke poems – ideally in the summers lying underneath a calm, widespread treetop.