Isolde Kittel-Zerer (conductor)

Isolde Kittel-Zerer's first musical teacher was Prof. Rolf Schweizer, Pforzheim. There she got a solid basic education in organ playing, continuo playing and singing. She studied church music in Stuttgart (organ with Prof. Jon Laukvik, choir direction with Prof. Dieter Kurz), then organ in Vienna with Prof. Michael Radulescu, where she made her Konzertexamen. She won prizes in the Brügge and Innsbruck competitions in 1985 and 1986. She has been the harpsichord player of the baroque orchestra "Arpa festante" in Munich in the years 1986-91. Since then she is working as a harpsichord and organ player, solo or in ensembles. Besides, she is director of the choir "Fontana d'Israel", with whom she has been working on music of the Renaissance and baroque period and also on modern repertoire since 1989. At Hamburg Musikhochschule she is teaching Continuo playing, harpsichord and ensemble with Basso continuo and is leading the Vokalensemble Alte Musik. During the last years she has directed concerts with choir and orchestra (among other things several times "Matthäuspassion" by J.S.Bach) and orchestra projects with different orchestras. In 2021 she was awarded the title of Professor.