Vita

was born in the countryside of Austria, where she received her first musical education in piano and flute. After finishing music high school, she studied at the Bruckner-Konservatorium in Linz, Austria, majoring in Flute Performance. She continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in Flute and Voice, covering both pedagogy and performance studies with Barbara Gisler-Haase (Flute), Annamaria Rott (Voice) and Walter Moore (Lied). Masterclasses and private courses completed her musical education.

As an opera singer, she specialised in both contemporary and baroque opera.

Important roles were Sesto in Giulio Cesare by G. F. Händel, Dido in Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell, and different roles in operas from contemporary composers such as Lukas Haselböck, Tristan Schulze, Jury Everhartz, Iannis Xenakis and Peter Androsch.

Another focus in her artistic work is Lied and oratory: Lied recitals, chamber music as well as oratory performances. She sang with ensembles such as the Ensemble Novantique, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, CrossNova Ensemble and Company of Music, and has performed in concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Luxemburg and Kyrgyzstan.

She can be heard on a CD production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with the NÖ Tonkünstler directed by Kristjan Järvi and the CD Dichterliebe Reloaded with the CrossNova Ensemble, released in 2013 by the national broadcasting network of Austria.

As a pedagogue she is teaching singing and flute at the Musikschule Meidling Vienna and has been mentoring students in teaching practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. During a 3,5 year stay in Germany she taught singing at the Musikschule Oberursel, and during a 2,5 stay in Kyrgyzstan she worked as music teacher at the Bishkek International School. 

Since October 2021 Heidemaria Oberthür is Senior Lecturer at the Antonio Salieri Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.