Silke Kaiser

Silke Kaiser has been teaching the didactics/methodology of singing at the HMDK Stuttgart since 2012. Her current pedagogical focus is also on preparing students for their studies and accompanying aspiring professional singers. At the Berufsfachschule für Musik des Bezirks Schwaben in Krumbach, she teaches singing, vocal methodology, educational science in music and works with the school's solo vocal ensemble. Until 2018, Silke Kaiser was a member of the academic staff at the Musikhochschule Trossingen with her own singing class as well as a lecturer in vocal physiology and vocal methodology; until 2014, she was also a lecturer in singing and vocal methodology at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Rottenburg. She regularly teaches at workshops on song composition (e.g. in 2003 at the "Robert Schumann Study Week" at the Winterthur/Zurich Academy of Music). 
Silke Kaiser's wide-ranging concert repertoire has taken her to festivals such as the Schlossfestspiele Brühl or the Bodenseefestival, and to concert halls such as Beethovensaal Stuttgart, Musikhalle Hamburg, Victoria Hall Geneva and Tonhalle Zurich. She has worked with the NDR Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the baroque orchestras l'arpa festante and La Banda, and the Hassler Consort. She has sung under conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Nikolaus Henseler, Armin Jordan, Franz Raml, Helmuth Rilling, Christoph Spering and Andreas Spering. As part of a guest contract Silke Kaiser performed on the stage of the Schlosstheater Sanssouci in Potsdam (baroque opera). Lieder recitals form the central part of her concert activity. Her special love is the work of Robert Schumann and the French repertoire. A CD with songs by Gabriel Fauré was released by arpeggio brioso.

Silke Kaiser grew up in Nürtingen (Baden-Württemberg) and received her first singing lessons there from Lydia Weller. After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the HMDK in Stuttgart and literature at the university there. Together with her piano accompanist Jens Fuhr, she completed studies in the master class for song interpretation at the Zurich Academy of Music with Irwin Gage. She supplemented her vocal training in master classes with Elly Ameling and Hermann Prey, among others.