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Contralto Marion Eckstein was born in Bernkastel-Kues. After having graduated her studies of music teaching at the University of Music in Stuttgart she began her vocal training with Julia Hamari and continued her vocal studies with Dunja Vejzovic and passed with distinction. She gained additional information by working with Grace Bumbry, Klesie Kelly, Anna Reynolds and Luana de Vol.
Marion in her singing has always focused on concert singing. Key aspects of her work are recitals with a wide variety of topics and her engagement with contemporary music. This singer´s astonishing extensive repertoire covers all major contralto and mezzo-soprano parts of oratorios and concerts from the Baroque era, the Classical and Romantic periods as well as 20th century literature. She is especially devoted to the works of Mahler and performed and recorded his Kindertotenlieder with the Linos-Ensemble in the Konzerthaus Berlin. She is a sought-after soloist on international concert stages and a regular guest performer at seminal festivals, such as the Bachfest Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, as well as at the Salzburger Festspiele, Tonhalle Zürich, Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus Wien. Marion Eckstein has worked with conductors including Kazem Abdullah, Ivor Bolton, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Kay Johannsen, Ludger Rémy, Helmuth Rilling and Christoph Spering. She performed with the European Chamber Orchestra, the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart. A regular cooperation closely connects Marion Eckstein to Thomas Hengelbrock - with him as conductor she has sung "Stimme von oben" and "Blumenmädchen" in Wagner´s Parsifal in the Teatro Real Madrid and also in July 2013, giving her debut at the Salzburg Festival with W. A. Mozart´s Requiem. Her artistic work has been documented by numerous CD releases and live concert recordings, such as G. Mahler´s "Kindertotenlieder" and A. Berg´s "Altenberg-Lieder" with the Linos-Ensemble (Capriccio) and "Lotti-Zelenka-Bach"(deutsche harmonia mundi ), conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock, which received a Gramophone Award in the category “Baroque-vocal”. © Marion Eckstein
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