Varda Kotler - Career

Career

Kotler is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music (now known as Buchmann-Mehta School of Music), Tel Aviv University. She began her professional career at the New Israeli Opera, and continued in the opera houses of Zürich, Monte Carlo, Lausanne, Messina and the Wiener Operntheatre in Vienna, performing operas and concerts with the conductors Pinchas Steinberg, Siegfried Köhler, Lawrence Foster, Kees Bakels, Arthur Fægen, Steven Sloane, Mendy Rodan, and Hugo Weisgall with the New York Chamber Symphony Orchestra. Among the opera roles she has performed are Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Siebel in Gounod's Faust, Stéphano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and Flora in La traviata.

In recent years Kotler has turned to the genres of oratorio, lieder and chamber music of various ensambles, including piano, harpsichord, flute, cello, violin and guitar. Among the works she has performed are:

• Bach's Magnificat, in Israel with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra and at the Église française in Zürich.
• Mozart's Requiem, at the Madlen Church in Paris
• Mozart's Great Mass, at various churches in Paris and Zürich.
• Handel's cantatas.
• Berlioz' Les Nuits d'Ete (Summer Nights).
• Luciano Berio's Folk Songs.

Kotler has also performed, among other places, at The Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, the opera house of Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Conservatoire de musique de Genève in Geneva, and at The Y Hall in New York City with the New York Chamber Symphony orchestra.