Christine Mothes

Christine Mothes studied singing and recorder at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig as well as at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She then continued her studies in singing with Gundula Anders and Marek Rzepka in Leipzig, focusing on early music and historical performance. Numerous master classes and further courses in the performance of medieval music with Pedro Memelsdorff, Benjamin Bagby, Kees Boeke, Jill Feldman, Pierre Hamon, Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky rounded out her training. Together with the ensemble Metro Marina, Christine Mothes won the early music sponsorship prize of the Saarland Broadcasting Company and the Fritz Neumeyer Academy in 2009. Christine Mothes has performed at numerous music festivals in Germany and abroad together with, among others, Benjamin Bagby (Sequentia), Helmut Rilling (Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart), Reinhard Göbel, Michael Schönheit (Merseburger Hofmusik). As a singer and co-founder of La Mouvance, she has focused on the music of the 12th–15th century.

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