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... studied singing and music theatre with Renate Faltin and Carola Höhn at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She still works regularly with Sami Kustaloglu and Deborah York.
The soprano is a freelance singer with a varied repertoire. She is just as much a guest at festivals and open-air stages as she is in concert halls, opera houses and recording studios. Dana Hoffmann sings the soprano parts of the great masses and oratorios. She has sung in Bach's St John Passion, St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, in Carmina Burana and Catulli Carmina by Carl Orff and in numerous works by Monteverdi, Charpentier, Handel and Mozart at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, the Philharmonie Berlin and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche.
Dana Hoffmann has worked with the Berlin Concert Choir and its director Jan Olberg for many years. During her second diploma programme in vocal pedagogy at the Hanns Eisler University of Music, she supported the Berlin Concert Choir as a vocal coach and later sang many concerts together. Under the patronage of KMD Helmut Hoeft, Dana Hoffmann founded the quintet "DIE VOKALSOLISTEN der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche" in 2013 and has since organised radio and festival services as well as concerts with guest musicians.
Dana Hoffmann sang Poppea in L'Incoronazione di Poppea by C. Monteverdi with the Lautten Compagney (conductor: Wolfgang Katschner) as part of the Weimar Masterclasses in 2013 and later sang Euridice at the Aequinox Festival in Neuruppin.
With the symphony orchestra Collegium Musicum Potsdam under the direction of Knut Andreas, she was heard as Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, as well as at "Klassik am Weberplatz" and Open Air in the "World of Opera".
Dana Hoffmann is a regular guest in many independent ensembles, e.g. the Vocalconsort Berlin. She danced and sang with this renowned soloist ensemble in West Side Story at the Komische Oper, in Orpheus at the Salzburg Festival and in Traumspiel at the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Barrie Kosky, this year in l'Orfeo under the musical direction of David Bates. She has also appeared at the Innsbruck Festival, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, the Telemann Festival in Magdeburg and the Potsdam-Sanssouci Music Festival under the direction of Dorothee Oberlinger, as well as a soloist at the Handel Festival in Halle.