Monika Mauch began her studies in voice with Richard Wistreich at the Institute of Ancient Music in the Trossingen Music Academy, followed by an academic year in Paris with Jill Feldman. She then developed a passion for working with larger ensembles as well as for her career as a soloist. Together with Cantus Coelln she has recorded CDs with Harmonia Mundi France. Furthermore, she has manifested the qualities of her voice in concerts and recordings of Carissimi, Buxtehude and Biber with La Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata (conducted by Roland Wilson) as well as with Double Band (René Jacobs). The Collegium Vocale Gent (Philip Herreweghe) invited her to perform as a soloist. There is also extensive working with Bruce Dickey‘s and Charles Toet‘s Concerto Palatino. Monika Mauch finds both the character and the variety of these small ensembles with their contrasting repertoire highly stimulating as a soloist. Meanwhile, work as a solo performer and with the most diverse ensembles have taken such a prominent place that hardly any time remains for her teaching assignments (Trossingen Music Academy, summer courses in Jerusalem, Lisbon, Innsbruck, et al.). Monika Mauch considers her close collaboration with the Hilliard Ensemble as one of her most notable achievements. Together with the lutanist Nigel North she has recently produced several concert programmes, which have resulted in an ECM New Series recording of the Musical Banquet by Robert Dowland.
