Bio

Born in Neustadt in Holstein, Lisa Ziehm is a versatile soprano who performs in operas, oratorios and concerts.

She completed her vocal training at the Lübeck University of Music with I. Schaarschmidt, at the renowned Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with T. Goble, and in the class of Prof. C. Höhn at the Berlin University of the Arts. In addition to her training, she refined her technique in masterclasses with artists such as Margreet Honig, Franz Grundheber, Doreen DeFeis, Michaela Schuster and Simone Kermes.

Born in Schleswig-Holstein, Lisa Ziehm is an active concert soloist, performing on numerous international stages. She has appeared at the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Handel Festival, the Cap Ferret Music Festival in France, the Bazylika katedralna św. Jakuba w Olsztynie in Poland, the Merseburg Organ Days, and the Lübeck Brahms Festival. Her passion and expertise lie especially in the music of the Romantic period.

Lisa Ziehm has already sung important roles in her field in musical theatre. In 2024, she appeared as Sharon Graham in Terrence McNally's Master Class in a production by Komödie am Ku'damm (director: Harald Weiler). At the Opernloft Hamburg, she appeared as the Feldmarschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier in 2023. In 2023, she shone in the title role of Paul Abraham's operetta Viktoria und ihr Husar at the Neustrelitz Summer Festival. Other notable engagements in 2022 included the world premiere of Bernhard Gander's opera Lieder von Vertreibung und Nimmerwiederkehr at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Munich Biennale, and in 2021 her role as "Venus" in Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Frankenfestspiele in Röttingen.
2024 war sie als „Sharon Graham“ in Terrence McNallys Meisterklasse in einer Produktion der Komödie am Ku’damm (Regie: Harald Weiler) zu sehen.
Am Opernloft Hamburg war sie 2023 als Feldmarschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier zu erleben. 2023 brillierte sie in der Titelpartie von Paul Abrahams Operette Viktoria und ihr Husar bei den Neustrelitzer Sommerfestspielen. Weitere bedeutende Engagements waren 2022 die Uraufführung von Bernhard Ganders Oper Lieder von Vertreibung und Nimmerwiederkehr an der Deutschen Oper Berlin und der Münchener Biennale sowie 2021 ihre Rolle als „Venus“ in Jaques Offenbachs Orpheus in der Unterwelt bei den Frankenfestspielen in Röttingen.

Further important opera roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Opernakademie Bad Orb 2019), First Lady in The Magic Flute, Rosalinde in Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus and The Voice/The Angel in Peter Eötvös' Angels in America. She has also sung at venues such as the Theater Lübeck, the Musikfestival Oper Oder-Spree, the Brandenburger Theater and the Neue Eutiner Festspiele. There she worked with directors such as Kerstin Steeb, Michael Wallner, Lars Franke and Eva-Maria Höckmayr.

Für ihre künstlerische Arbeit erhielt Lisa Ziehm zahlreiche Auszeichnungen und Stipendien, darunter das Deutschlandstipendium, die Förderung der Yehudi-Menuhin-Stiftung „Live Music Now“ sowie der Possehl-Stiftung Lübeck. 2023 wurde sie zudem von der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gefördert.

Since 2015, Lisa Ziehm has been passionately dedicated to song repertoire alongside pianist Hyelee Clara Chang as the duo “Klangkomplizinnen.” In 2024, they were finalists in the Bolko von Hochberg Song Competition in Görlitz.