Soloist
Annemarie Pfahler
Soprano Annemarie Pfahler studied concert and opera singing with Thilo Dahlmann at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and with Marina Sandel at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, as well as song interpretation with Jan Philip Schulze and new music with Claudia Barainsky. She attended masterclasses at the Bach Academy Stuttgart with Emma Kirkby, Lothar Odinius and Hans-Christoph Rademann, with Christiane Iven and at the Oberstdorf Music Summer. As a scholarship holder at the Ton Koopman Academy in The Hague, she worked with Peter Kooij. She is a prize winner of the international song competition »Schubert and Modernism« (2nd prize and special prize for the best Schubert interpretation), the Haydn Competition in Austria (3rd prize), the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition (special prize) and the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation Opera Competition (audience prize).
In her still young career, Annemarie Pfahler has already sung in numerous concerts and recitals as a soloist and ensemble singer. In addition to her membership in Ensemble 1684 (Gregor Meyer) and the newly founded Ensemble Misenos, concerts have taken her as a soloist to venues such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz, the Hofkirche in Dresden, the cathedrals in Limburg, Wetzlar and Speyer, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg and various concert churches in Frankfurt. The scholarship holder of Bachkonzerte Frankfurt e. V. has regularly participated in CD productions, including as a soprano in the first recordings of numerous Telemann cantatas.
From the 2025/2026 season onwards, Annemarie Pfahler is part of the soloist ensemble of the Gärtnerplatztheater.