Julie Grutzka

The soprano Julie Grutzka was born in Aachen in 1993. She received private singing lessons from the age of seven and subsequently gained numerous musical experiences in solo and ensemble projects. She is still musically active in the chamber choir »Cappella Lacencis«. Since October 2012 she has been studying singing at the HfMDK Frankfurt, first with Prof. Ursula Targler-Sell, then with Prof. Hedwig Fassbender and currently with Prof. Klesie Kelly-Moog. At the Staatstheater Darmstadt she performed the role of Destino in F. Cavalli's »La Calisto« in 2016, and again in the 2016/17 season as Sandmann and Taumann in the revival of E. Humperdinck's »Hänsel und Gretel«. In 2018 she was heard in the »Opera for Children« series in »Rheingold« at Oper Frankfurt. As a concert and lieder singer, she pursues a busy concert schedule at home and abroad; as part of artist Lee Mingwei's »Sonic Blossom« project, she sang at the Centre Pompidou in Paris last autumn. In January this year she embodied the role of Poppea in C. Monteverdi's »L'incoronazione di Poppea« at the »Rossi Festival« at the National Theatre Belgrade. Julie Grutzka is a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Koblenz, as well as the Deutschland Stipendium and attended master classes with Helmut Deutsch, Kai Wessel, Thilo Dahlmann, Andreas Scholl and Franz Hawlata.