Coming from a musical family, Katharina Hohlfeld-Redmond began playing the piano at the age of 5. At the age of 8, she began voice training and singing in the Rundfunkkinderchor Berlin, where she began performing as a soloist at the tender age of 10. After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the idyllic Detmold University of Music with Prof. Martin Christian Vogel. While still a student, Katharina Hohlfeld-Redmond mastered the oratorios and cantatas of Handel and Bach as well as Mozart’s masses, performing them in church services and concerts alongside her studies. She also enjoyed stage work, but missed ensemble singing, which is why, after two years of freelance opera and concert work and having received a “very good” diploma, she decided to audition for the RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin. Since then, she has been a happy member of this ensemble, whose varied daily work with lots of travel, an endless concert repertoire from all eras, solo tasks, and the constant refinement of vocal and human skills presents a positive challenge.

What fascinates you about singing?

The daily, very physical work and the intellectual engagement with the works—these are the most essential elements of singing for me. And finding a musical family in the RIAS Chamber Choir is a stroke of luck for which I am grateful every day.