Carmen Buchert

Carmen Buchert was born in Heidelberg in 1992 and discovered her love of music at an early age through singing in a choir and learning to play the flute, piano, and organ.

She studied Protestant church music in Heidelberg (including voice with Heidrun Luchterhandt, choral conducting with KMD Prof. Bernd Stegmann, and organ (improvisation) with Stefan Viegelahn and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Luchterhandt) and subsequently voice with Prof. Holger Speck in Karlsruhe, graduating with top honors in 2022. She gained valuable inspiration through masterclasses with Dorothea Röschmann, Gerd Türk, Daniel Fueter, and Liv Solveig Wagner, among others, as well as through concert tours.

She was successful at the national level in the 2012 “Jugendmusiziert” competition and is the first-prize winner of the Inge-Pittler-Competition in the category of singing.

She has already collaborated with renowned conductors and orchestras such as Simon Halsey, Yuval Weinberg, Marcus Creed, Michael Alexander Willens, L’arpa festante, the Karlsruhe Baroque Orchestra, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and the Ensemble Resonanz. Performances have taken her to major festivals in Germany and abroad, such as Heidelberger Frühling, the Rheingau Musikfestival, as well as the Osterfestspielen Hall in Tirol.

As a soprano, her focus is on oratorio, with a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to major oratorios, Passions, and cantatas.

In addition, she is also dedicated to ensemble singing, including with the SWR Vocal Ensemble, the Vocalensemble Rastatt, and SCHOLA HEIDELBERG. In 2022, she founded the Karlsruhe Vocal Octet.

Since 2022, she has been collaborating with pianist Miriam Schulze in the duo “Liedeslust.” In addition to her concert activities, she works as a choir director, voice teacher, and organist.