Stefanie iranyi biography

The German mezzo-soprano, Stefanie Irányi, grew up in the Chiemgau area of Bavaria.
The German mezzo-soprano, Stefanie Irányi, after a period abroad, began vocal studies in 1997 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
The mezzo-soprano Stefanie Irányi was born in the Chiemgau.

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This month we celebrated International Women’s Day so I thought it would be interesting to feature Bavarian mezzo soprano Stefanie Iranyi who will be collaborating with her partner Asher Fisch in concerts with the WA Symphony Orchestra this week. Stefanie balances her role as a mother with her international singing career (she has sung under the batons of conductors Zubin Mehta, Helmut Rilling, Jeffrey Tate and Bruno Bartoletti).

Stefanie shares with us her love for drama (on and off the stage!), the privileged moments of mothering and her seriously impressed reaction to the WA Symphony Orchestra.

What music gets your heart racing?

Siegfried’s funeral march

What calms you down?

My daughter falling asleep on me

What do you sing along to?

Whatever gets stuck in my ears – sometimes not very much to my liking

What are your impressions of the WA Symphony Orchestra?

I had the great pleasure to hear the Beethoven cycle. It is just amazing that an orchestra far away from the famous orchestras spread out in Europe or the US plays on such a high an

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The mezzo-soprano Stefanie Irányi was born in the Chiemgau. After a period abroad she began vocal studies in 1997 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater, completing her training there with distinction in 2006. She was a student in the Lieder masterclass of Helmut Deutsch in Munich, and participated in masterclasses with Sarah Walker, Sena Jurinac and Christa Ludwig.

She was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and in 2000 prizewinner of the German Bühnenverein. In 2004 she was prizewinner in the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and in the Romantic Song section of the International Promotion Prize Competition in Munich. In autumn 2004 she took first prize in the National Singing Competition in Berlin. Stefanie Irányi gives Lieder recitals at home and abroad, with, among others, Helmut Deutsch. She sang the alto solos of the St Matthew Passion in Japan under Peter Schreier, Bach’s Magnificat under Helmuth Rilling and a leading rôle in Agostino Steffani’s opera Alarico il Baltha at the Prince Regent

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The German mezzo-soprano, Stefanie Irányi, after a period abroad, began vocal studies in 1997 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater, completing her training there with distinction in 2006. She was a student in the Lieder master-class of Helmut Deutsch in Munich, and participated in master-classes with Sarah Walker, Sena Jurinac and Christa Ludwig. She was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and in 2000 prize-winner of the German Bühnenverein. In 2004 she was prize-winner in the Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, and in the Romantic Song section of the International Promotion Prize Competition in Munich. In autumn 2004 she took first prize in the National Singing Competition in Berlin.

Stefanie Irányi, is establishing her reputation both on the opera and concert stages, as well as an outstanding interpreter of art song. For a recent Lieder recital with pianist Helmut Deutsch in Basel Switzerland, she was praised as “a young singer with a winning vocal radiance and performing intelligence”. The Israeli newspape