Kerstin Dietl studied Ancient Music at the Bremen College of Arts between 2011 and 2018, initially with Tanya Aspelmeier and Harry van der Kamp, and later with Gemma Bertagnolli and Peter Kooij. Masterclasses with Gerd Türk and Emma Kirkby followed and she continues to receive important musical impulses through regular work with Jörg Straube.
Her solo work has seen this soprano, born in 1989, on stage with well-known ensembles such as Musica Alta Ripa, Schirokko, the Arp Schnittger Ensemble and Das kleine Konzert. She has been active on the international stage and has been performing in operatic works since 2016. As part of the Young Artist Gloger Academy, with Olof Boman, she gave her debut as Cupid in John Blow’s opera Venus and Adonis in Norway. In the summer of 2017 she took part in a number of performances of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Paul Agnew and the European Baroque Academy, at a series of well-known festivals in France, Spain, Slovenia and Switzerland. She has also sung the roles of Belinda and Second Witch in France, Portugal, Belgium and Italy.
Although her primary focus is Early Music, Classical and Romantic works also feature in her repertoire, as well as the great oratorios of Handel and Bach and a number of works, less well-known in Germany, from the English, French and Italian Baroque repertoire.