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BONNIE WAGNER
Voice Artist-Faculty, vocal coach Komische Oper Berlin Bonnie Wagner is a Solorepetitorin at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she enjoys working on a diverse and award-winning repertoire under the direction of Barrie Kosky. She has toured internationally with the Komische Oper’s cult hit Die Zauberflöte (2012), as well as played 20th century pillars such as Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten and Schönberg’s Moses und Aron. The Komische Oper has also afforded her experience in baroque style, with the opportunity to play harpsichord under the direction of Christian Curnyn on Rameau’s Castor et Pollux. Bonnie also coaches singers and plays chamber music in Berlin in her spare time. She has made an appearance with the Kiez Oper and hopes to do more independent projects like this in the future.
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Before moving to Berlin, Bonnie worked as a vocal coach and chamber musician in Philadelphia. For seven years, she played in Mikael Eliasen’s vocal program at the Curtis Institute of Music, coaching students and working on multiple operas per year. She cultivated a relationship with Opera Philadelphia, playing for the chorus and then as Rehearsal Accompanist/Assistant Conductor under Corrado Rovaris. A favorite job in Philly was her work with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Sound All Around program, concocting programs for small children with musicians from the orchestra and professional story-teller Charlotte Blake Alston. At every opportunity, Bonnie has performed in art song recitals with Philadelphia artists such as Randall Scarlata and Elizabeth Weigle. She even founded a chamber music festival in Philly in the summer of 2005 called Center City Chamber Recitals, which proved to be too great an effort to repeat. Bonnie managed to keep her work diverse in Philadelphia; she has taught an art song class at Westminster Choir College, coached and played student recitals at West Chester University, taught piano at Settlement Music School, and was the accompanist of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus under Joseph Buches for three years, where she played every conceivable kind of repertoire, including “It’s Raining Men”.
Bonnie holds a Master of Music in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Martin Katz. Her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance is from the same institution, where she studied with Logan Skelton, Katherine Collier, Anton Nel, and Louis Nagel. Always eager to play more art song, she spent summer of 2008 studying German Lieder with Helmut Deutsch in Munich.
Bonnie has worked at the summer festivals in Chautauqua under the direction of Marlena Malas and Belle-Île-en-Mer in France under Richard Cowan, and has participated in festivals such as Tanglewood under James Levine, Music Academy of the West with Anne Epperson, and a piano seminar in St.-Malo, France with William Wellborn. She is originally from Los Altos, California, where she studied piano with Janet Smith, actively sang in choir, and accompanied the Cantabile Children’s Chorus under Signe Boyer.
Bonnie holds a Master of Music in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Martin Katz. Her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance is from the same institution, where she studied with Logan Skelton, Katherine Collier, Anton Nel, and Louis Nagel. Always eager to play more art song, she spent summer of 2008 studying German Lieder with Helmut Deutsch in Munich.
Bonnie has worked at the summer festivals in Chautauqua under the direction of Marlena Malas and Belle-Île-en-Mer in France under Richard Cowan, and has participated in festivals such as Tanglewood under James Levine, Music Academy of the West with Anne Epperson, and a piano seminar in St.-Malo, France with William Wellborn. She is originally from Los Altos, California, where she studied piano with Janet Smith, actively sang in choir, and accompanied the Cantabile Children’s Chorus under Signe Boyer.