Vanessa Barkowski

Vanessa Barkowski is a freelance singer living in Berlin. She studied in Detmold, Hamburg and Berlin, including with Gerhild Romberger and Uta Trekel-Burckhardt. Master classes with Kurt Moll, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Ingeborg Danz completed her training. The mezzo-soprano is a regular guest singer at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera and the Opéra Bastille in Paris. Barkowski was awarded the Youth Promotion Prize of the City of Berlin in 2005. The young singer has also made a name for herself in the interpretation of “Lieder” in the area of New Music.