Monika Mauch Explained

Monika Mauch (Geislingen an der Steige, Baden-Württemberg) is a German soprano.

Mauch specializes in early music,^[1] studied singing with Richard Wistreich at the Institute for Early Music of Trossingen conservatory where she obtained her diploma. She also studied with Jill Feldman in Paris and has been described as having a boyish^[2] agile voice.^[3]

Selected discography

• Dowland A Musical Banquet with lutenist Nigel North. ECM.
• Couperin, and others. Les Escapades du Roy – French baroque songs. Christophorus
• Handel. Neun deutsche Arien (Nine German Arias). With L'arpa festante/Rien Voskuilen. Carus

Notes and References

1. Gramophone. 2009. 86. 1042–1044. 96. A specialist 'early music' soprano in the Emma Kirkby mould, Monika Mauch has a pure, instrumental timbre, with bell-like high notes, and phrases neatly and intelligently..
2. Concerto: Das Magazin für Alte Musik, 2004, vol. 21, p. 37: "Monika Mauch ist ihr mit knabenhaftem Sopran eine schlichtweg ideale Interpretin."
3. Goldberg Magazine, 2005, issues 36–37, p. 91: "Soprano Monika Mauch is sublime, her agility and assurance matched by great expressive power."