Esther Dierkes

From 2009 to 2015, she studied opera singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Hedwig Fassbender's class.

[1][2][3] In the autumn of 2014 Dierkes toured Poland with the Landesjugendorchester [de] of North Rhine-Westphalia, conducted by Hubert Buchberger with concerts in the Filharmonia Wrocławska [pl], the Kraków Philharmonic and in the University of Warsaw.

[4] The concert with works by Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Alban Berg and Max Reger was broadcast by WDR 3.

[5] Dierkes attended master classes with Gerd Uecker, Rudolf Piernay, Edith Wiens and Helmut Deutsch.

She has worked with conductors such as Hartmut Haenchen, Sylvain Cambreling, Risto Joost, Marc Soustrot, Andrew Manze, Ulf Schirmer and Bertrand de Billy.