Christa Bonhoff

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Christa Bonhoff
Born
Westphalia
Other namesChrista Diwiak
EducationMusikhochschule Hamburg
OccupationClassical contralto
Organizations

Christa Bonhoff is a German contralto and mezzo-soprano singer.

Early life

Bonhoff was born in Westphalia.

Education

Bonhoff studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg with Annie Schoonus.[1]

Career

Already as a student she joined the choir

Hamburgische Staatsoper.[2] She has concentrated on singing in oratorios
.

She was the soloist in recordings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (2002) and St John Passion (2006) with the conductor Michaela Prentl, the SebastianChor, Hubert Nettinger as the Evangelist, Gerlinde Sämann, Thomas Hamberger and Tim Hennis.

In 2002, she founded together with Monika Frimmer, Dantes Diwiak and Peter Kooy a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert.[3][4]

Bonhoff recorded

Universität Hamburg in the oratorio Die Glocke of Max Bruch.[2] In November 2010 she was the mezzo-soprano soloist in Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein.[10]

Christa Bonhoff is married to the tenor Dantes Diwiak.

References

  1. ^ "Christa Bonhoff (Contralto)". bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  2. ^
    Universität Hamburg. 2010. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Rathgeber: Tafel-confect". arkivmusic.com. 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Rathgeber (1682-1750) Augsburgisches Tafel-Confect". musicweb-international.com. 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Hasse: Laudate pueri. Psalmen, Antiphonen, Concerto per due flauti". Carus-Verlag. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Charles Gounod Musica sacra". rondomagazin.de. 2004. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Terminplan 2007" (in German). Matthias Zangerle. 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  8. ^ "Aus der Zeitung" (in German). Nordschleswigsche Musikvereinigung. 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Termin-Archiv" (in German). Hamburger Bachchor. 2010. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  10. ^ Richard Hörnicke (16 November 2010). "Anspruchsvolle Aufgabe" (in German). Wiesbadener Tagblatt. Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 16 November 2010.

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