Ute WASSERMANN
mezzo-soprano
Vocal artist Ute Wassermann is a composer/performer,
improviser and interpreter of contemporary music.
She studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts with
Henning CHRISTIANSEN, specializing in sound installation and vocal
performance, and studied classical singing with Carol PLANTAMURA
(San Diego) and Arnold van MILL (Hamburg). Since 1984 she has
developed many special multivoiced vocal techniques, catalogued by register,
timbre and articulative sequences, which may be deconstructed and/or
superimposed and used to explore spatial resonance phenomena. In 1993-94
she received a scholarship for a year at Akademie Schloss Solitude
in Stuttgart.
She has given numerous performances of her own solo work and performs
regularly with many improvising musicians including duos with
Richard BARRETT (live electronics) and with Birgit ULHER (trumpet),
also with Jaap BLONK (voice), Matthias KAUL and
Sven Åke JOHANSSON (percussion), Peter KOWALD
(contrabass) and Aleksander KOLKOWSKI (violin) in venues ranging from
international festivals (Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires) to lofts.
Ute has collaborated frequently with composers who have created works
especially for her voice, including Henning CHRISTIANSEN,
Richard BARRETT (Opening of the Mouth), Chaya CZERNOWIN (Shu Hai),
Hans-Joachim HESPOS (ballati and flio),
Ana Maria RODRIGUEZ (codeswitching) and
Sven Åke JOHANSSON, and has performed with numerous ensembles
and orchestras including ASKO, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ELISION Ensemble,
the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta and
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
She has performed in music theatre works by Chaya CZERNOWIN
(Pnima Munich Biennale 2000), Matthias KAUL
and Salvatore SCIARRINO among others. She has taken part in CD
productions from Radio Bremen, BBC and SWR which have been
released on Mode, Creative Sources and other labels. In the Wittener Tage
für neue Kammermusik in 2006 she will take part in six performances by the
composition/performance collective Les Femmes Savantes.
March 2006
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