Children's concert "Hänsel und Gretel"

Children's concert "Hansel and Gretel - a fairy tale opera to play along"
Music: Engelbert Humperdinck, concept: Susanne Flück

Admission prices: CHF 15 for children, CHF 25 for adults, unnumbered seats

Program:
Do you know the fairy tale of the two children who got lost in the forest while picking strawberries and ended up at the house of the crispy witch? Certainly! The composer Humperdinck invented new parts and wrote many beautiful songs about them. And the ending is a big surprise!

Would you like to decorate a large paper gingerbread before the concert? We'll glue it to the witch's house so it looks real. You can take it home after the concert. But that's not all. You can always help out in the concert: singing, dancing, witchcraft and finally eating!

Ensemble bonus jocus
Amanda Schweri, Mezzosopran (Hänsel)
Rachel Maria Kessler, Sopran (Gretel und Sandmännchen)
Christine Thöni, Klavier
Susanne Flück, Konzept, Regie, Erzählerin
Marcel Flück, Bühnenbild

Susanne Katharina Flück comes from Unterseen. First musical lessons with the instruments recorder and violin. Training as a primary school teacher, later additional training for a music school. Singing lessons and participation in various chamber choirs such as Oberwalliser Vokalensemble, Cantemus, No-vantiqua. Studied music and movement at the Musikhochschule Luzern, followed by singing studies SMPV with Rachel Kessler and Anneliese Kohler, Bern.
Susanne Katharina Flück is still working as a music teacher with children and in adult education (guest lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts in CAS early instrumental lessons). She also appears as a freelance musician. In recent years, as a music educator, she has conceived and implemented numerous interactive family concerts and projects. She regularly performs at the Thun Bach Festival and the Klangantric Festival and gives concerts with various ensembles and musicians.

The mezzo-soprano Amanda Schweri, who comes from Aargau, studied singing at the Bern University of the Arts with Marianne Kohler and with Krisztina Laki at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Already during her studies she won prizes in various competitions, e.g. of the Swiss Association of Musicians and the Friedl-Wald-Competition. She obtained both her teaching and soloist diplomas with distinction. She made her opera role debut at the Biel-Solothurn Theater as Aminta in Mozart's Il Re Pastore. Other major opera roles in her field followed: In the role of Aurelio in Anfossi's “Il curioso indiscreto” (Bienne-Solothurn Theater) she graduated from the Swiss Opera Studio with distinction. In 2015 she performed as Nancy in Flotow's “Martha” at the Volksoper Zurich. She made her debut as Dorabella in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" in 2017 in Küssnacht with the Canton Schwyz Symphony Orchestra. The mezzo-soprano is also on the road on the concert stage: from J. S. Bach's oratorios to contemporary works, she is engaged as a soloist at home and abroad. As an active member of the professional ensemble Les Voc-à-lises, she cultivates singing in the ensemble. Amanda Schweri lives in Bern.

Rachel Maria Kessler completed her studies in Biel with M. Kohler with a teaching diploma. She trained as a functional voice pedagogue with E. Rabine and from then on teaches at a music school and privately in Bern. From lute songs to today's pop songs, from church music to languorous love songs, as a soloist or in the ensemble Les Voc-à-Lises... the singing of epochs and styles reflects her love of music and performance. Rachel Maria Kessler is co-founder of Spielraum7.
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Christine Thöni, born in 1964, grew up in Interlaken. After training as a primary school teacher in Spiez, she studied piano in Lucerne with Hubert Harry, graduating with a teaching diploma. Master classes with Gérard Wyss (song accompaniment) and Ivan Klansky. She has been a piano teacher at the Oberland-Ost music school since 1990 and has taught music as an elective subject at the Interlaken West primary school since 1992. Further training with a certificate course “Elective subject music 2.-6. Great". Since 1999 deputy conductor of the mixed choir Frohsinn-Cäcilia Interlaken. 2014-2016 Further training as a choir director at the church music department of the HKB. Since then, assistant to Helmut Freitag in the Interlaken choir. Conductor of the baroque ensemble of the Interlaken Castle Chapel.