Beata Heuer-Christen (born 27 February 1935) is a Swiss-German

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concert singer and voice teacher.

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Born in Bern, Heuer-Christen is the daughter of the violinist and member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Christen,August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: ''Heuer-Christen, Beate''. In ''Wer ist Wer'', ''The German Who's Who.'' Vol. 50. Schmidt-Römhild, 2011. and Greti Christen-Schiffmann, also violinist in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Primaria of the Schiffmann Quartet. Heuer-Christen studied singing in Bern with Maria Helbling, in Freiburg with

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and in Zurich with Dorothea Ammann-Goesch. After her studies, she first worked as a classical concert singer in oratorios, Lieder recitals, radio and television recordings in various countries. Her main focus was in the field of

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. She has performed world

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s under the direction of Arturo Tamayo, Hans Zender and Wolfgang Fortner. Since 1962, she was a

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and from 1980 to 2005 professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She also gave master classes in the fields of oratorio, opera and lied. Among her students are prize winners of national and international competitions as well as concert singers or singers with engagements at opera houses in Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, Bern, Geneva and Basel. Among them are Maria Bengtsson,

Rachel Harnisch Rachel Harnisch (born 1 August 1973) is a Swiss operatic soprano. Life Born in Brig, Harnisch studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Beata Heuer-Christen. In 2000, she made her debut as Pamina ''(The Magic Flute)'' at the Stadtth ...

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Clemens Morgenthaler Clemens Morgenthaler (born 1973) is a German operatic bass-baritone. Life Morgenthaler was born in Wertheim am Main. After graduating from high school, he studied church music and singing at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He completed his sub ...

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and Markus Flaig.

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