Katja Vanessa Parmar is a qualified native German language teacher/coach/editor with a BA in Literature and Linguistics and an MA in Phonetics from UCL. She is also a trained singer and specialises in German for singers.

Katja has been teaching and coaching German to individuals and groups since 1995.

Organisations where she has worked include:

• Garsington Opera (Die Zauberflöte, 2018; Fidelio, 2020)
• Royal Opera House, London (Die Zauberflöte; Young Artists Programme since 2003)
• Welsh National Opera House (Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos)
• Stadttheater Freiburg (Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Oscar und die Dame in Rosa)
• EMI records, London (Collection of German Arias and Songs)
• BBC singers, London (Der Fliegende Holländer)
• Royal Academy of Music, London
• Trinity College of Music, London
• City Literary Institute (Head of German)
• King’s College London
• Goethe Institute, Freiburg ( Phonetics trainer and German teacher) 
• Sprachlehrinstitut of the University Freiburg
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Katja is the primary editor of Jacquelyn Stucker’s translation and phonetic transcription of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck which is due to be published by Pendragon Press, in 2020