Soloist

Cornelia Horak

Cornelia Horak studied recorder at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna with Ernst Kölz from the age of 12 and with Hans Maria Kneihs at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. The singer completed her vocal studies with Hilde Rössel-Majdan at the Goethean Conservatory in Vienna. Baroque singing courses with Cristina Miatello in Padua complemented her musical training.

In the course of her permanent engagements, the artist developed a repertoire of over 50 roles in opera, operetta and musical ‒ at the Tyrolean Landestheater Innsbruck, at the Volksoper Vienna and at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. She was the winner of the international song competition in s’Hertogenbosch and was twice nominated for the »Merkur Theatre Prize« in Munich. Guest performances and concerts have taken Cornelia Horak to several festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Ultraschall Festival 2014 Berlin, the Carinthian Summer, the Musica Viva Festival of the Bavarian Radio, the Styriarte Graz, the Bregenz Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Festival L’Arte salva L’Arte in Rome and the Bach Festival in Lausanne.

In concert, Cornelia Horak has worked with the Concentus Musicus Wien, the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, Barucco, the Ensemble Phoenix Baroque, the Baroque Ensemble of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Arnold Schönberg Choir and the Chorus sine nomine. Her versatility manifests itself not least in her collaboration with the most diverse chamber music formations of early and new music.

Guest engagements have taken the soprano to numerous European opera houses, including the Theater an der Wien, the Stadttheater Baden, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Langenlois Festival, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the Nationaltheater Weimar, the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy and the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, and repeatedly to the Volksoper Wien and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. She has sung under conductors such as Ulf Schirmer, Christian Thielemann, Sir Neville Marriner, Franz Bauer-Theussl, Adam Fischer, Ivor Bolton and Friedrich Cerha and worked with directors such as Claus Guth, Robert Carsen, Michael Sturminger, Brigitte Fassbaender, Helmuth Matiasek and Josef E. Köpplinger.