Monika Frimmer
Monika Frimmer (* 1955 in Marburg ) is a German singer of the vocal range soprano.
Life
Monika Frimmer studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. She won in 1980 at the National Singing Competition in Berlin. From 1980 to 1993 she was engaged at the Lower Saxony State Theatre in Hanover as a lyric soprano. She went there in 1982 as Anima Anima di rappresentazione in a di Corpo by Emilio de ' Cavalieri. The performances in the Market Church headed by Hans-Martin Linde. In Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, she sang Naiad. In the opera, Sly Ermann of Wolf-Ferrari, which was revived by the Opera Hannover, took over, she sang the role of Rosalina. Since 1993 she works as a freelance singer in opera, oratorio and song.
Monika Frimmer appeared in 1987 with a recording of Buxtehude Membra Jesu nostri, led by Ton Koopman, Barbara Schlick, Michael Chance, Christoph Prégardien, Peter Kooij, the Hannover Boys Choir and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. In the New Town Church, Hanover, she sang in the choir concerts, 1996 A German Requiem and Stravinsky 's Cantata 1988 and Mozart's Great Mass in C Moll.1991 sang it there in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the last concert of Kantor Erhard Egidi, with Dante Diwiak as an evangelist, Anselm judge as Vox Christi, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. In 1998 she took over the St. Matthew Passion at the St. Thomas Boys Choir and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, conducted by Georg Christoph Biller. She appeared in the cycles of Bach cantatas by both Gustav Leonhardt and Masaaki Suzuki. With Suzuki, she mentioned Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
In 2002 she founded together with Christa Bonhoff, Dante Diwiak and Peter Kooij the quartet Tanto Canto, the rare songs lists both a cappella and with piano or ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 Excerpts from ear vergnügendes and mind - ergötzendes panel Confect (also Augsburger Tafel Confect called ) the composer Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert on, led by Jürgen Sonnentheil. She works regularly with the Trio di Clarone and the Ensemble Incanto. Your accompanist is Liese Klahn.