Sopran

Maacha Deubner was born in Freiburg, Germany. She studied singing in Hamburg with Judith Beckmann and attended masterclasses with Ralph Gothoni, Dalton Baldwin, Kurt Widmer and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
Since then she is concertizing extensively all over Europe and in the USA (including guest performances in Philadelphia and at the Carnegie Hall in New York, together with Gidon Kremer in the world premiere of Giya Kancheli 's "Lament" for violin, soprano and orchestra).
She has been invited to numerous festivals such as the Göttingen Handel-Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria, Wien Modern, David-Oistrach Music festival in Pärnu, Estonia, West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland), as well as the Berlin Festwochen.
Collaboration with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, V. Ashkenazy, Kurt Masur, Michael Gielen and Valery Gergiev in guest appearances with leading european orchestras.
Recent opera engagements include the Konstanze in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" in Berlin with director George Tabori, Wanhilt in Siegfried Wagner's "The smith of Marienburg" in Gdansk, Poland,  the title role in Rudolf Kelterborn's opera "Julia", Donna Anna, and various others.
Together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin she recorded "Sardakai" , opera of Ernst Krenek, which was awarded the Echo Classical Award in 2007.
Her widely spread repertoire also underlines her specific interest for contemporary music and chamber music, documented on various CD-recordings on ECM New Series label, RCA Red Seal/Sony BMG Classics, Capriccio, Naxos (Marco Polo), edel classics and others (see discography).

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