BABETTE DORN

Babette Dorn was born in Brunswick and divides her time between Italy and Germany. She studied with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer in Detmold and was a laureate of the International Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund in 1991. She performs as a soloist, chamber musician and Lieder pianist, appearing in festivals including the Moselfestwochen, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Mai Musical d’Aÿ (France), Ravello (Italy), and Frutillar (Chile), and in concert halls including the Konzerthaus Berlin and Bruchsal Palace. She has taught in Germany, Italy and in the United States. Many of her concerts have been broadcast. Her première recording of the piano works of Ilse Fromm-Michaels (Tacet 1999) was highly acclaimed by the press and followed by a series of musicological papers, radio broadcasts, interviews and lecture-concerts, in 2008/09 in Venice, Palermo and Bremen. She has recorded two CDs with piano compositions on Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro (Genuin 2006), and The Magic Flute will conclude the cycle. Babette Dorn is co-author of the Heine Liederbuch (Hoffmann & Campe 2005).