Bele Kumberger

            Born in Straubing 1986, soprano Bele Kumberger received her first voice instruction 
from Margret Fierlbeck in 2000. Under scholarship at the Bayerische Singakademie, 
she received further voice instruction from Manuela Dill in Munich from 2001-2005. 
At the end of 2005, she began studying music under Professor Anneliese Fried at the  Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Additional, she's studying with the soprano Dagmar schellenberger.

Her course of studies included master classes led by Willy Decker, Thomas Quasthoff, Irwin Gage, Malcolm Martineau, Ulrike Sonntag and Wolfgang Katschner. She has been taking Wolfram Rieger’s song analysis class since 2007 and Julia Varadys opera interpretation analysis class since 2010. 

Bele Kumberger’s past roles include the Second Boy in W. A. Mozarts “Zauberflöte” at the Theater Brandenburg, Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell at the small arena of the  Tempodrom Berlin, Cantadora in Ruperto Chapís “La Revolosa” and Soledad in Thomás Bretóns “La Verbena de la Paloma” as part of the K.O. 6 programme at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Titania in Purcells „The Fairy Queen“ in Straubing, Lauretta in Puccinis "Gianni Schicchi" and Poppea in “L‘Incoronazione di Poppea” at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. 

She sang with the “Lautten Compagney Berlin” under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner
at the Konzerthaus Berlin in 2008 and performed in the “3. Encuentro de Música Religiosa de Caja Canarias“.  She was also heard in  two song recitals at the Kulturforum Oberalteich. 
In October 2010, Bele Kumberger sang the part of Ariene in Scarlattis opera "Penelope la Casta" at the Wdr in Köln with the Lautten Compagney Berlin and following Cd recording.
 
In 2005 Bele Kumberger got the “Kulturförderpreis“ from the city of Straubing 
and has been a scholarship recipient of the Yehudi Menuhin foundation since 2009 and the Juetting foundation since 2010.