From the age of ten, continuing up to her second year of studies at the “Mozarteum” in Salzburg, she studied oboe and participated in numerous ensembles and orchestras, gathering valuable experience.

She studied singing at the “Mozarteum” Salzburg , the “Musikhochschule Karlsruhe” and at the opera-school of the “Musikhochschule Würzburg" and had master-classes with KS Hilde Zadek, Professor Curt Widmer, Ingeborg Most and Professor Hanna Ludwig.

She succeeded in various singing-contests as for example:

Finalist at the international singing contest “Debut in Meran”1998

Finalist at the singing contest “Erster deutscher Operettenpreis” 2001

Second jury-prize and first prize of the audience at the

“Internationaler Robert Stolz-Gesangswettbewerb Wiener Operette” 2004.

Susanna Risch made her stage-debut in 1997 at the Theatre Erfurt with the part of “Rosalinde” in J.Strauss' operetta “Die Fledermaus”, a role she also interpreted with maestro Gustav Kuhn at the “Tiroler Festspiele Erl” in 2002.

She was invited for performances at other renowned festivals including the “Moselfestwochen” in 2003 and 2005 as well as the “Antikenfestspiele Trier” and the “Carl Orff-FestspieleAndechs” in 2004.

International appearances include a tour in 2004 with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Seoul, Korea, a production of Mozart's "Così fan tutte" (singing the part of Fiordiligi) in Milano, Italy, in 2006 and a New Zealand- tour with a programme dedicated to Mozart, performing with Piper's Sinfonia in Auckland.

In summer 2006, she had her TV-debut at the "Elbland Festival Wittenberge", singing two grand Open-Air-Gala-Concerts with well-known singers as René Kollo or Eva Lind.

In 2007, she interpreted Sieglinde in Wagner's “Die Walküre”, part of Loriot's adaption of Wagners “Ring” (“Der Ring an einem Abend”) in the Munich Philharmony with the Staatskapelle Weimar.

In 2013, she performed in several german cities (including Bayreuth), interpreting Wagner's “Wesendonck-Lieder” as well as parts of "The flying dutchman" with the “Thüringer Symphoniker”.

She has been involved in several CD and radio productions as well as in some world premieres and sings concerts in the great and renowned concert-halls and theatres in Germany and abroad, with a wide repertoire from the baroque up to the avantgarde in opera, operetta, Lied , sacred music and also musical-, broadway- and jazz-songs.

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