Artistic Career
SEASON 26/27
During the 26/27 season, Natalie Beck is a member of the Opera Studio at the Theater Lübeck and is also performing internationally as a concert singer. At the Theater Lübeck, she can be seen, amongst other roles, as the Sandman/Dewman in Hänsel and Gretel by E. Humperdinck, as Anne Frank in Anne Frank by Grigory Frid, and as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss. In concert, she will perform, amongst other works, J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio under the baton of Henrik Schäfer on a tour of Denmark with the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Neumeyer Consort in Mainz under the baton of Prof. Felix Koch. She will perform C. Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary twice, both as a soloist and as part of the ensemble, in Regensburg and Nürnberg under the baton of Prof. Markus Utz.
In addition, she will make her debut at Berlin Cathedral with Bach’s Cantatas BWV 98 and 99, conducted by Adrian Büttemeier, and at St Thomas’ Church in Leipzig with the 6th Cantata from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, alongside the Gewandhausorchester and the St Thomas Choir, conducted by Andreas Reize.
OPERA
During the 25/26 season, Natalie Beck sang the roles of the Sandman and the Dewman in Hänsel und Gretel and Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Theater Lübeck. In January 2023, she played the role of Gretchen in A. Lortzing’s Wildschütz at the Freiburg University of Music under the baton of Marius Stieghorst. In 2022, she played the lead role of Lisaura at the E.T.A. Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg in G.F. Händel’s opera Alessandro. She appeared as Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the Kammerphilharmonie Europa in Brühl, conducted by Michael Wülker. In the same year, she appeared as Queen Françoise in Arthur Honegger’s operetta Le Roi Pausole. In 2019, under the direction of Friederike Scheunchen, she sang the soprano solo in the performance ‘als wir ich sagten – Stimmen im Raum und andere Dinge’ by N. Berge, C. K. Thomas and L. Kilge at the Kunstverein Freiburg. In 2019, she made her debut in the title role of Otellino in the opera Der Kleine und Otello by Aurélien Bello at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Raphel Haeger.
CONCERT
Her repertoire includes key works for the soprano voice, amongst them Bach’s Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, numerous Bach cantatas, Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Virgin Mary and Schütz’s Christmas Story. She has collaborated with a number of renowned ensembles and conductors, including the Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO), the Philharmonisches Orchester Lübeck and the Stiftsphilharmonie Stuttgart. Conductors with whom she has worked include Kay Johannsen, Lars Schwarze, Markus Mackowiak, Frank Markowitsch and Morten Schuldt-Jensen.
AWARDS & MASTERCLASSES
In 2026, she was a finalist at the international ‘cantateBach!’ competition in Greifswald. She won third prize at the 27th International Louis Spohr Vocal Competition in 2025 and was a prize-winner at the ‘Young Voices Alpe Adria’ international vocal competition organised by the Musikverein Graz in 2024. She was a semi-finalist at the Concours de chant international d’Opera Clermont-Ferrand in 2025 and at the 12th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg in 2023. She is a scholarship holder of the Early Music Programme of Excellence at the 2nd Baroque Vocal Academy under the direction of Prof. Elisabeth Scholl. Whilst at the academy, she worked with the Neumeyer Consort (conducted by Paul Goodwin) and the Ensemble Cydonia Barocca (Florian Heyerick).
She furthered her training through masterclasses with Miriam Feuersinger, Emma Kirkby, Prof. Ulrike Hofbauer, Gudrun Bär, Barthold Kuijken, Lynne Dawson, Prof. Andreas Karasiak, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Prof. Noelle Turner, Prof. Juliane Banse, Prof. Thomas Heyer and Prof. Wolfgang Schäfer.
ENSEMBLE
She is a freelance member of the RIAS Kammerchor and the SWR Vokalensemble.
EDUCATION
She received her training at the Freiburg University of Music. From 2017 to 2021, she studied for a Bachelor’s degree in Voice (Opera, Concert, Pedagogy) under Prof. Torsten Meyer and completed her Master’s degree in Voice (Opera and Concert) under Prof. Mareike Morr and Julia Rempe in the summer of 2024, graduating with a ‘very good’ grade. In addition, she studied the multi-disciplinary dual-major Bachelor’s degree in Teacher Training (Music and Sport) at the Freiburg University of Music and at the University of Freiburg, as well as a Master of Education (major in jazz singing).
Any abridgement of this CV is only possible in consultation with the artist.
13 August 2026