Ute Kehrer has been a member of Rundfunkchor Berlin since 1985.
Serving as a model for the Leipzig native was her grandfather Willy Kehrer (1902-1976), composer, conductor and long-time artistic associate of the famous dancer and pedagogue Gret Palucca; see www.kehrer.org. Ute Kehrer sang from 1978 to 1982 in the Radio Youth Choir of Wernigerode, and in connection with this endeavour earned her diploma as choral director for folk ensembles. At the same time she received organ instruction from Dietmar Damm, the Wernigerode cantor. In 1982 she undertook a course of vocal studies with Marion Lukowsky at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule. Since 1988 she has worked continuously with her vocal coach Fred Nahr.
Ute Kehrer’s solo appearances include Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron under Kent Nagano in Berlin, Vienna and Los Angeles. She is also active as a soloist in the sphere of church and domestic music. Among her most memorable experiences with Rundfunkchor Berlin to date have been the staged performances of Rossini’s Viaggio a Reims under Claudio Abbado and Beethoven’s Fidelio under Sir Simon Rattle in Tokyo.
