Marina Ber

While still a student, Marina Ber sang the title role in the operetta Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) under the direction of the famous director Philipp Himmelmann, where she fascinated the audience with her relaxed, slightly coarse acting. In the same year she was honored with the Music Award for Special Artistic Achievement at the Maritim Competition. She also won the 3rd Mozart Prize in singing from the Absalom Foundation.
Marina majored in both voice and piano at the State Conservatory of Music in her native Almaty. After graduating, she took up master's studies in opera singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with renowned professor Carolyn Grase James. She graduated in April 2016 with a role debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.
Marina Ber gained experience in numerous concerts, in which she participated already at the time of her diploma studies in Almaty. In Germany she sang arias and duets from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as a soloist in a live concert of Deutschlandradio Kultur, performed in Ein Abend der Schönen Stimmen in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and gave a solo concert in the Freimaurerloge Hamburg.
Marina will enter the international stage in December 2016 in Shanghai with the university production Opera Concisa - The Gala of the Opera Class.
Marina Ber received special musical impulses in collaboration with:
Willem Wentzel, Michaela Schuster, Bibigul Tulegenova (Almaty), Anatoli Safiulin (Moscow) and Vijay Upadhyaya.