Stefanie Knorr
The German soprano Stefanie Knorr graduated in school music at the Universitiy of Music Freiburg in Germany and in mathematics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. She studied voice at the Academy of Music Basel in Switzerland with Marcel Boone and graduated with both a master’s degree in Music Pedagogy and a master’s degree in Musical Performance. 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.
In 2019, Stefanie Knorr 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 2019 and was selected as a Young Artist at the Leeds Lieder Festival 2020. In 2022, she won a spezial prize in the Stignani Competition in Imola (Italy).
Stefanie Knorr made her opera debut in 2016 at Theater Basel as the princess in the opera “Der Teufel mit den drei Goldenen Haaren” by Stefan Johannes Hanke. In the following seasons she sang several roles at Theater Basel, among them 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. In the season 2021/2022, she was a member of the ensemble at Theater Basel and performed Papagena in “Die Zauberflöte” (directed by Simon McBurney) and Minerva in “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” by Claudio Monteverdi, among others.
She was a guest singer at the Semperoper Dresden, the Chemnitz Theatre and the Lucerne Theatre. Recently she sang Solveig in Johan Inger’s ballet “Peer Gynt” at the Semperoper Dresden.
Contemporary chamber music is another focus of the soprano’s activities. Stefanie Knorr has sung with various contemporary music ensembles and performed at the Festival Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, the ZeitRäume Festival in Basel, the Festival Neue Musik Rümlingen (Switzerland) and NAK Festival in Pamplona (Spain). In 2023, she sang at the ISCM World New Music Days in Cape Town (South Africa).