Cornelia Samuelis

Who is Cornelia Samuelis?

Cornelia Samuelis is a German Soprano.

She began her musical training at the age of six by studying violin and singing in various choirs. From 1991 she studied school music and violin with Heiner Eckels at the Musikhochschule in Detmold.

In 1996 she took up singing studies with and Mechthild Böhme at the same school, finishing them in 2000. She supplemented her formal studies with master-classes with Klesie Kelly and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as private lessons with Peter Jacoby, Thomas Quasthoff and Ulla Groenewold.

After the studies Cornelia Samuelis was active for some time as a free-lance in the choir of the NDR Hamburg and in the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.

The Deutscher Musikrat promoted her concerts with the Trio "Tagore" at the International Festival Bitola 2001. Numerous concert engagements in her homeland and abroad followed, with Kay Johannsen, the Nomos-Quartett Hanover and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn led by Ruben Gazarian among others. She has also co-operated with Ton Koopman, Max Pommer and Ulf Schirmer as well as the Arhus Symphonie-Orchester and the Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.