Salome Kammer
Salome Kammer's talent transcends musical boundaries. Her repertoire defies categorization and is comprised of a mix of avant-garde music, virtuoso voice experiments, classical melodrama, Lieder recitals, dada poetry, jazz, and Broadway songs. Numerous contemporary music works have been dedicated to and premiered by her, both nationally and internationally. Composers such as Helmut Oehring, Wolfgang Rihm, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Lang, Luca Lombardi, and Jörg Widmann have written for Salome Kammer, inspired by the manifold facets of her voice as well as her exceptional expressiveness.
Salome Kammer studied music from 1977 to 1984, majoring in cello and studying under Maria Kliegel and Janos Starker in Essen. In 1983, she was hired by the Heidelberg Theatre. She remained at the theatre for five years, appearing in countless plays, musicals, and operettas. In 1988, she moved to Munich to begin filming "Die zweite Heimat" with director Edgar Reitz. While working on this monumental film project, Salome Kammer began her formal vocal training, taking lessons from teachers such as Yaron Windmüller. She has been performing as a vocal soloist in contemporary music concerts since 1990. "Heimat 3", the next part of the Heimat series which was premiered in Venice in 2004 and broadcast throughout Europe, also allowed Salome Kammer to exhibit the breadth of her abilities in the role of Clarissa.
Her wide-ranging repertoire includes classics of modern music such as Schönberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" and "String Quartet No. 2", "Die sieben Todsünden" by Weill, "La fabricca illuminata" by Nono, works by composers such as Cage, Berio, Zender, Rihm and Kurtag, Brecht and Eisler Lieder, and the role of Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady". In 2008 she performed Peter Eötvös's "Lady Sarashina" at the Opéra National de Lyon and the Opéra Comique Paris, and in Munich she sang in Liegti's "Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures". She regularly performs Kurtágs "Kafka-Fragmente" with the violinist Carolin Widmann in a staging by Antoine Gindt. Most recently performed in Paris, Strasbourg and Berlin, the production will travel to the Ultima Festival in Oslo, the Slazburg Biennale, and the Megaron in Athens in the coming season.
Because of her expertise in interpreting Kurt Weill's music, Salome Kammer has been invited to perform at the Rheingau Music Festival and to be a resident artist at the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau. Following her residency in Dessau last season, Kammer teamed up with Ensemble Modern to put on Kurt Weill's "Mahagonny-Songspiel" as well as the world premiere of Helmuth Oehring's work "Die WUNDE Heine". Another highlight from the 2009/2010 season was her New Year's Eve performance with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Ingo Metzmacher, put on by Circus Roncalli.
Numerous radio and CD productions document Salome Kammer's exceptional talent, among them a recording of Schönberg's "Jakobsleiter" (Harmonia Mundi) as well as Lachenmann's "Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" (Kairos).
Her recent CDs "I hate music, but I like to sing" (Capriccio) with works by Schönberg, Weill, Bernstein and Britten amongst others, and salomix-max (wergo) received rave reviews. Salome Kammer teaches Theory and Performance of Contemporary Music at the Munich Conservatory.
Her recent CDs "I hate music, but I like to sing" (Capriccio) with works by Schönberg, Weill, Bernstein and Britten amongst others, and salomix-max (wergo) received rave reviews. Salome Kammer teaches Theory and Performance of Contemporary Music at the Munich Conservatory.