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Yvonne Friedli comes from Switzerland and studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Norma Sharp and Thomas Quasthoff. She was a member of Julia Varady's interpretation class and Wolfram Rieger's lied class. Masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Konwitschny and Irvin Cage completed her training.
Since her successful engagement at the Landestheater Neustrelitz as a lyric soprano (Gilda, Pamina, Lucia) and in the so-called intermediate repertoire (Donna Anna, Poulenc's La voix humaine, Undine), she has continuously expanded her range of parts with Kirsten Schötteldreier, Amsterdam and Berlin, and Professor Byron Knutson, Berlin. Byron Knutson, Berlin with the demanding roles of the youthful dramatic repertoire (Elsa, Lohengrin; Elisabeth and Venus, Tannhäuser; Agathe, Freischütz; Micaela, Carmen; Mariza, Countess Mariza; Rosalinde, Fledermaus; Salome, Salome).
At the same time, she regularly appears as a concert and oratorio singer in prestigious venues such as Zurich, Berlin, Oxford and Vienna, for example in Brahms' Requiem, Mahler's 8th Symphony, Honegger's Roi David, Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, Bruckner's Te Deum, the Bach Passions and others.
Her commitment to contemporary music came to the fore at the Konzerthaus Berlin with Paul Heinz Diettrich's Verwandlung, at the Berlin premiere of Alfred Felder's Atesh at the Philharmonie Berlin, at the intersonanzen festival in Potsdam with the world premiere of Andreas Staffel's
ÜBerLinien I and the world premiere of Cathy Millikan's alles was besteht at the Tonhalle Zurich. In 2013, NEOS MUSIC released a CD with songs by the Amberg composer H. E. E. Walter, and in 2022/23 Coviello Classics will release Das Marienleben by Paul Hindemith.
Lieder recitals (R. Strauss, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms) round off the artist's extensive repertoire.