Opern- und Liederabend - für Soli und Piano mit dem TRIO QUINTESSENZA
Opern- und Liederabend
for Soli and Piano with the
TRIO QUINTESSENZA
Victoria Kunze (Soprano)
Kai Preußker (Baritone)
Jorrit van den Ham (Piano)
Victoria Kunze and Kai Preußker, both professional opera singers with their extraordinary program, which consists of neither just songs nor pure opera. They dare to mix!
It is a versatile evening, semi-scenic, moving, and also humorously amusing. The performers Jorrit van den Ham, Victoria Kunze, and Kai Preußker will demonstrate how the stories of small songs and themes from major operas can be intertwined in one evening, how bittersweet the searching and finding of two lovers can be, and what it demands of them to wander through all emotional tides...
Victoria Kunze – Soprano
Victoria Kunze studied singing and music theater at the Hochschule für Musik Saarbrücken and in the Master's program at the Opera School Stuttgart. She was a finalist in the Federal Competition Singing Berlin (2014, 2016) and a prizewinner of the International Competition of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg. As a scholarship holder, among others, of the German National Academic Foundation and the Richard Wagner Association, she performed, among others, for the Federal President in Schloss Bellevue. Engagements led her to the Stuttgart State Opera and to the Easter Festival Baden-Baden with members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Since 2018/19, she has been a member of the ensemble at the Bremerhaven City Theater, where she was awarded the Herzlieb-Kohut Prize in 2022.
Kai Preußker – Baritone
The Dresden baritone Kai Preußker was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and took on solo roles early on at the Semperoper Dresden. He completed a master's degree and soloist class at the HMDK Stuttgart with honors and was a prizewinner, among others, of the Rudolf Mauersberger Scholarship. After studying opera and a permanent engagement at the Stuttgart State Opera, he has been working as a freelance artist and guesting at renowned opera houses in Germany and abroad. In addition, he is an established song and oratorio singer and has collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the Württemberg State Orchestra Stuttgart.
Jorrit van den Ham – Piano
The Dutch pianist Jorrit van den Ham has been permanently engaged as a répétiteur and pianist at the Bremerhaven City Theater since 2018. He studied piano at the Amsterdam Academy of Music and deepened his training, among others, with Peter Feuchtwanger. As a versatile musician, he performs solo, in chamber music, and in musical theater, and has worked for the Opera Amsterdam and the Chamber Opera Rheinsberg, among others. In 2013, he was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Foundation. Solo highlights include performances with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven.
Doors open: 5:00 PM