Biography
German mezzo-soprano Antje Lohse began her musical training at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf and pursued her graduate studies with Margreet Honig at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, during which time she was also a member of the Nieuwe Opera Academie. In addition to her studies at the conservatory, she refined her skills in song interpretation at the Conservatoire de Metz in France with baritone Udo Reinemann. She has participated in masterclasses with renowned artists Elly Ameling, Sarah Walker, Maarten Koningsberger, Rudolf Jansen and Jard van Nes.
Her diverse repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. In recent seasons, she has performed Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire and Lied der Waldtaube, Ton de Leeuw's Three Shakespeare Songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Berio's Folksongs (ao in the series Amici-Concerts with members of the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra) and Sequenza III, Walton's Façade, Louis Andriessen's Hadewijch (from the opera De Materie) and G. Bovet's Versammlung der Tiere with the Kammer Sinfonie Bremen. As vocal soloist she frequently performs music of the 20th century and new pieces with several chamber music ensembles, and composers as Guus Janssen, Gerard Beljon and Toek Numan have written music for her. She premiered Beljon's Morgen with the Orkest de Volharding under Jussi Jaatinen, performed Weill and Zemlinsky songs with the chamber music series of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and sang in this season with the Nieuw Ensemble under Celso Antunes.
Antje Lohse appeared in such oratorios as Bach's St. Matthew's, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Tippett's A Child of Our Time. She frequently presents song recitals and has performed Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn under Hans Leenders.
Operatic performances include Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Volupia in Cavalli's L'Egisto under Kenneth Montgomery, Mazet in Gounod's La Colombe with Opera Trionfo under Robbert van Steijn (Grachtenfestival Amsterdam), Castor in Patzelt's opera cantata Castor et Pollux and Lisinga in Gluck's Le Cinesi at the Schouwburg Haarlem, Sally in Barber's A Hand of Bridge, Dorabella in Mozart's Così Fan Tutte, and a featured role in John Adams' Nixon in China under the direction of Elsina Jansen in the Theaterfabriek Amsterdam.
Recent engagements include performances of M is for Medicine 2 (music and film by L.Andriessen and P. Greeneway) with the Orkest de Volharding under Ernst van Tiel, directed by Saskia Boddeke, the role of Ernestina in Rossini's L' occasione fa il ladro, and the première of Guus Janssen' s chamberopera Faust's Licht with the Zephyr Kwartet.
At the Kameroperafestival in Zwolle she presented the Dutch première of Peter Maxwell Davies' The Medium, a monodrama for mezzosoprano solo, in co-operation with director Miranda Lakerveld, later also performed at the Theaterfestival in Amsterdam.
Last year she appeared as Versace in Hôtel de Pékin by Willem Jeths at the Nationale Reisopera under Ed Spanjaard, directed by Amir Hosseinpour.
Upcoming projects are two title roles in new musictheatre pieces, Blue by Guus Janssen/Friso Haverkamp and Princess Mammalia by Ivana Kis, as well as songs by Milhaud and Weill with the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble.
"De voorstelling als geheel drijft op de geweldig zingende èn acterende Antje Lohse en het sfeervolle live-schilderwerk van Norman Perryman. Lohse mag alle lagen van Faust's onderbewuste spelen: een hond, een jongetje, een vrouw met de naam Marguerite Ida en Helena Annabel. Ze weet te voorkomen dat de hond een karikatuur wordt, en zorgt als jongetje voor het enige echte operamoment tijdens zijn sterfscene." Review Faust's Licht, NRC Handelsblad
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