Biography

Katharina Nell is a soprano specialising in early music, oratorio and sacred music. Raised in a family of church musicians in Herzogenrath, she gained experience from an early age in choirs, vocal ensembles and solo performance.

After completing vocational training as a hearing-aid acoustician, she studied Hearing Technology and Audiology at Jade University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg, graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in 2025. During her studies, she received voice lessons from Veronika Winter. Since the winter semester of 2025/26, she has been studying early music with voice as her principal subject at the Trossingen University of Music under Jan van Elsacker.

Her recent projects include performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, in Trossingen and Lucerne, as well as appearances as a soloist and ensemble singer at the 55th International Heinrich Schütz Festival in Freudenstadt. At the end of 2025, she sang the soprano part in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle under the direction of Manuel Uhing, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl singing the alto part. At the 2026 International Winter Academy of Early Music in Bremen, she worked with Bettina Pahn on solo parts in Vivaldi’s Magnificat, RV 611, and Bach’s Suscepit Israel from the Magnificat, BWV 243, performing them in the final concert.