Gerwita Hees
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Choir

Gerwita Hees

Gerwita Hees was born in Dortmund. She took piano and singing lessons while still at school. After graduating from high school, she initially trained as a nurse. During her training and subsequent work as a nurse, she studied singing at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz. This was followed by engagements as an alto in the choir of the Stadttheater Koblenz, the Theater und Philharmonie Essen GmbH and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg. She has worked with C. Kaiser-Brehme, Celina Lindsley, H. Blaschke and Valerie Girard, among others, to further develop her vocal skills. She regularly gives concerts at home and abroad in the fields of song, oratorio and opera in the dramatic mezzo-soprano and alto repertoire. She is currently engaged as 2nd alto in the chorus of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.