Barbara Schlick

Soprano Barbara Schlick studied at the College of Music in Würzburg with Henriette Klink-Schneider and with Hilde Wesselmann in Essen, later with Gisela Rohmert and Rudolf Piernay.As an interpreter of baroque and classical music, Ms. Schlick enjoys an international reputation and has performed in nearly all of the important musical centres of Europe, Israel, Japan, Canada, America and Russia. At noted festivals of early music (Ansbach, Berlin, Bruges, Göttingen, Lisbon, London, Paris) she has worked together with directors such as Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Michel Corboz, Reinhard Goebel, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken and Karl-Friedrich Beringer.Her interpretations are comprehensively documented through radio, television, and CD-recordings, among others Georg Philipp Telemann's cantata “Ino” with Musica Antiqua Cologne (Archiv Produktion), Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, B-minor mass and Christmas Oratorio under Philippe Herreweghe, as well as Georg Friedrich Händel's opera “Giulio Cesare” under René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi France). Together with altus Kai Wessel she has recorded songs and duets of Max Reger (Cavalli-Records).Most recently, Barbara Schlick has devoted much of her energy to lied interpretation and gives frequent recitals with pianist Elzbieta Kalvelage. Since 1997 Barbara Schlick has been a professor at the College of Music in Cologne and guest instructor at the College of Music in Maastricht.