Stefanie Knorr
The German soprano Stefanie Knorr first graduated in school music and mathematics in Freiburg and then studied voice at the Academy of Music Basel in Switzerland with Marcel Boone, where she completed a master’s degree in music pedagogy and a master’s degree in musical performance with summa cum laude. During her studies she took baroque singing lessons at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Rosa Domínguez. She received further important impulses in masterclasses with Margreet Honig, Christine Schäfer, Dorothea Röschmann, Hedwig Fassbender and Sarah Maria Sun, among others.
While still a student, Stefanie Knorr made her opera debut in 2016 at Theater Basel in a children’s opera. In the following seasons she sang several roles at Theater Basel, including the Grille (Cricket) in “Die Genesung der Grille” (“The Cricket Recovers”) by Richard Ayres,
Bubikopf in “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” by Viktor Ullmann and the Älteste Meerschwester (Oldest Seasister) in “Andersens Erzählungen” by Jherek Bischoff (directed by Philipp Stölzl). In the season 2020/2021, the soprano joined the opera studio OperAvenir at Theater Basel. As a member of the ensemble she performed Papagena in “Die Zauberflöte” (directed by Simon McBurney), Nella in “Gianni Schicchi” and Minerva in “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” by Claudio Monteverdi during the season 2021/2022.
She was a guest singer at the Semperoper Dresden, the Chemnitz Theatre and the Lucerne Theatre. In the summer of 2026, she will make her debut as Pamina at the Immling Festival.
Stefanie Knorr has won multiple prizes at international competitions. In 2019, she won the 2nd prize in the Competition of the Stiftung Basler Orchester-Gesellschaft, a scholarship in the singing competition Migros-Kulturprozent in Zürich and a special award at the Paula Salomon-Lindberg-Competition “Das Lied” in Berlin. The soprano was a scholarship holder of the LIEDBasel festival in 2019 and was selected as a Young Artist at the Leeds Lieder Festival in 2020. In 2022, she won a spezial prize in the Stignani Competition in Imola (Italy).
Her concert repertoire includes works ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. She has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In the field of contemporary chamber music, she has sung in various ensembles for contemporary music and performed at the Festival Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, the ZeitRäume Festival in Basel, the Festival Neue Musik Rümlingen (Switzerland) and the NAK Festival in Pamplona (Spain). In 2023, she sang at the ISCM World New Music Days in Cape Town (South Africa).