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Würzburg mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert studied singing with Prof. Lars Woldt at the Detmold University of Music, the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and the August Everding Theater Academy. During her studies, she was already a German scholarship holder and a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich and the German Music Council.
The focus of her artistic work is chamber music. She pursues her love of lieder singing in various ensembles, for example with the pianist Tatjana Dravenau or the harpist Jenny Meyer. Lieder recitals have taken her to the Philharmonie Essen, the Orchesterzentrum Dortmund and the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau. She is also a regular guest soloist with early and contemporary music ensembles, including the Ensemble Horizonte, the Bremen Baroque Orchestra, the Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein and at festivals such as the Haller Bachtage, Musik 21, the Munich Biennale and the Hörfest Neue Musik.
Her opera and concert activities include numerous appearances with orchestras such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, the Detmold Chamber Orchestra and the baroque orchestra Accademia di Monaco. She has worked with conductors such as Ulf Schirmer, Ernst Theis, Paul Goodwin and Eva Pons.
The mezzo-soprano’s wide-ranging artistic output is documented in numerous CD and radio recordings.
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Tatjana Dravenau is committed to the new discovery and rediscovery of rarely heard compositions. She regularly records premiere recordings for WDR Cologne, including works by Evelyn Faltis, Mathilde von Kralik, Hildegard Quiel, Bertha Wegener-Koopman, Alwine Feist and Max Reger. Othmar Schoeck and Conrad Ansorge are the focus of a 2021 concert film with Daniel Johannsen.
It also draws attention to the wealth of meaning created by the combination of music and language. For example, the CD Kannst Du das Lied verstehn? produced for Genuin in 2025 with Catalina Bertucci and Georg Poplutz is accompanied by a book published by Waxmann-Verlag, which contains contextual information on the symbolic meanings of the songs about flowers and trees collected on the CD.
With a fellowship for innovations in digital university teaching from the Ministry of Art and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the song pianist, who teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, has set up the Liedinterpretation online website, which combines musicological and literary analyses with song accompaniments; she was awarded the NRW 2023 State Teaching Prize in the category of art and music colleges for her work. She has won the Julian Jacobson Award and the John Ireland Competition London, among others, and is a permanent accompanist at the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau.
