Born in West Berlin, Isabelle Vosskühler began to play the piano at age five and to take flute lessons with Martin Ullrich Senn, principal flute of the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester (now Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester), at the age of 14. Two years later she took private singing lessons with Prof. Herbert Brauer. Having passed her school-leaving examinations she first studied musicology and French at Berlin’s Freie Universität, but then enrolled at the Hanns Eisler College of Music to study solo voice as her main subject with Prof. Jutta Schlegel.
During this period of study the soprano was also a member of the Ernst- Senff-Chor in Berlin from 1989 to 1997, where she repeatedly appeared as a soloist, and acted as a stand-in for the RIAS Kammerchor, the NDR Chor in Hamburg, Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale Gent and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Since 1997 she has been a regular member of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, repeatedly being chosen for solo appearances. For several years she took part in concerts of the Ensembles Intégrales, devoted exclusively to contemporary music.
Vosskühler not only enjoys the good climate surrounding her work at the Rundfunkchor Berlin, but also the opportunity to sing with the world’s best orchestras under the best conductors and in the world’s most famous concert halls. The performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Parsifal, both conducted by Claudio Abbado, will remain firmly engraven on her mind. Incidentally, Wagner and Mahler are her favourite composers. She also likes to work with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir Simon Rattle.
Isabelle Vosskühler relishes the feeling of floating on mighty waves of sound. Therefore, she is glad to be part of a large ensemble where you can sing at the top of your voice but also very softly. Then, too, the Rundfunkchor is a constant reminder of how the division of Germany was overcome. Immediately after the fall of the Wall she visited East Berlin every day of the week to attend performances of the Komische Oper, the Staatsoper and the Deutsches Theater.
She enjoys reading as a pastime, but devotes much of her spare time to her two-year-old son, Benjamin.
