Chilean-born soprano Carolina Ullrich won the Alice Rosner Foundation First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, also winning the Princeton University Concerts Prize, an engagement at Princeton University, and the Usedom Music Festival Prize, to perform at the Usedom Music Festival in Germany.  Previously, Ms. Ullrich won First Prize at the 2008 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig which are co-sponsored by Young Concert Artists and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.”

During the 2009-10 season, Ms. Ullrich makes her recital debuts in the Young Concert Artists Series at Merkin Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, along with performances at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (MI), The Paramount Theatre (VT), and in Germany at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and in the Herrenchiemsee Festival.  Also this season, Ms. Ullrich will record a CD of songs of Joaquín Turina for the Naxos label.

Ms. Ullrich began singing opera in Chile in Santiago’s Teatro Municipal, where she performed the roles of Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Despina in Cosí fan tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Soeur Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.  She has appeared in concert as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Ännchen in Weber’s Der Freischütz, and Hannchen in Lortzing’s Die Opernprobe.  Ms. Ullrich has sung in Bavaria’s Bayerische Theater and at the Prinzregenten Theater in Munich.  Her oratorio appearances include Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Stuttgart Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling in Germany and Italy.  Other solo appearances include Haydn’s The Seasons and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio throughout Europe, as well as Mozart concert arias in Japan.

Ms. Ullrich graduated summa cum laude from the Universidad Católica in Santiago, where she studied with Ahlke Scheffelt.  Since 2005 she has been working with Edith Wiens at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, on scholarships from the Fundación Andes and the Freunde Junger Musiker in Berlin.  In 2006 she won Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

YCA Artists are continually adding to their repertoire.  Please contact the artist management staff at Young Concert Artists if you are interested in a work which does not appear on this list.

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