Doerthe Maria Sandmann

Doerthe Maria Sandmann trained as a soprano at the Hanns Eisler Academy in her native Berlin, graduating in both Vocal and Opera Studies. She also took master-classes with both Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Eberhard Büchner.Her countless concert engagements and various operatic roles have since taken her to the Salzburg Whitsuntide Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Styriarte in Graz, the Carinthian Summer Festival, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Dresden Music Festival, the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci, the Bachtagen Berlin, the Mozartfest Würzburg, Bayreuth Baroque and to festivals in Italy, the Netherlands and the USA as well. There, she has appeared in numerous roles in works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Georg Friedrich Handel, Johann Adolf Hasse, Florian Leopold Gassmann and Carlo Pallavicino, as well as singing the soprano parts in cantatas and oratorios by various composers from Monteverdi to Mendelssohn.A specialist in Ancient Music, Doerthe Maria Sandmann has sung with ensembles and orchestras of renown, such as the Berliner Barock Compagney, the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the Armonia Tributo Austria, the Viennese Academy, Joshua Rifkin’s Bach Ensemble, the Rheinische Kantorei, the Thomaner Choir Leipzig, the Windsbacher Knabenchor, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.Her extensive repertoire ranges from sacred works of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Ernst Pepping.