Pia Viola Buchert & Tatjana Dravenau
Biography Pia Viola Buchert & Tatjana Dravenau
Pia Viola Buchert
The Würzburg mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert completed her vocal studies with Lars Woldt at the Detmold University of Music, the University of Music and Theatre Munich, and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. Already during her studies, she was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium and was a scholarship holder with Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich and the German Music Council.
The focus of her artistic work is chamber music. She pursues her love of art song in various ensembles, for example with the pianist Tatjana Dravenau or the harpist Jenny Meyer. Lied recitals have taken her to the Philharmonie Essen, the Orchesterzentrum|NRW in Dortmund, and the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau. As a soloist, she is also a regular guest with ensembles of Early and New Music, including Ensemble Horizonte, the Bremer Barockorchester, and the Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein, as well as at festivals such as the Haller Bachtage, Musik 21, the Munich Biennale, and the Hörfest Neue Musik.
Her opera and concert activity includes numerous performances with ensembles such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Northwest German Philharmonic, the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, and the baroque orchestra Accademia di Monaco. In doing so, she has worked with conductors such as Ulf Schirmer, Ernst Theis, Paul Goodwin, and Eva Pons.
The wide-ranging artistic work of the mezzo-soprano is documented in numerous recordings and radio broadcasts.
Tatjana Dravenau
began her solo piano studies with Till Engel at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and graduated with distinction from Richard McMahon's class at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. She deepened her repertoire as an accompanist with Friedemann Berger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Parallel to her artistic training, she obtained a Diploma in Music Education in Essen and a Master of Arts/Music Education at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Her doctoral studies in music education are supervised by Peter Röbke at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and supported by a scholarship from the Gisela and Peter W. Schatt Foundation.
Her piano playing has been honored with the German Schubert Society Prize for Lied Accompaniment, the Prize for Piano Accompaniment and for Piano Solo of the John Ireland Society London as well as the Lawrence Davies Memorial and the Julian Jacobson Award.
As top of her year, she represented her college in a concert with Simon Rattle at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Since 2016, she has been the official piano accompanist for the vocal participants in the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice in Zwickau.
Tatjana Dravenau develops, performs and conducts concert programs in which songs and solo works as well as poetry and prose are linked by a common theme. She has performed at the Schumann Houses in Zwickau, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Bonn, the Bürgermeisterhaus in Essen, the Mendelssohn House in Leipzig and the “im zentrum lied” series in Cologne. Other concert venues include the Thürmer-Saal Bochum, the Erbdrostenhof in Münster, the Palais Wittgenstein Düsseldorf, the VOICES festival and the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. Her concert partners include Daniel Johannsen, Hagar Sharvit, Jeeyoung Lim, Pia Buchert and Julian Orlishausen. The readings in her programs are given by Corinna Kirchhoff, Ralf Spengler, Constantin Gerhards and Anna Jörgens, among others.
