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; Der Rosenkavalier, 2021)
- Royal Opera House, London (Die Zauberflöte 2003, 2019, 2021; Young Artists Programme since 2003: Phaedra 2019; Die Sieben Todsünden & Mahagonny Songspiel 2021; Pierrot Lunaire, Fledermaus (excerpt) 2022, Tannhäuser, Wozzeck 2022/23
- Welsh National Opera House (Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos)
- Stadttheater Freiburg (Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Oscar und die Dame in Rosa)
- Hampstead Garden Opera (Hänsel und Gretel)
- Recordings: EMI records, London (Collection of German Arias and Songs); Schubert/ Strauß songs (Brindley Sherratt, Julius Drake 2023); Donizetti song (Opera Rara: Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi 2023)
- BBC singers, London (Der Fliegende Holländer; sacred music)
- London City Orchestra (Johannes-Passion)
- Royal Academy of Music, London (German coach and teacher)
- Royal College of Music (German coach)
- Trinity College of Music, London (Phonetics teacher)
- City Literary Institute (Head of German)
- King’s College London (German teacher)
- City University (Examining speech therapy students)
- Goethe Institute, Freiburg (Phonetics trainer and German teacher)
- Sprachlehrinstitut of the University Freiburg (Phonetics trainer and German teacher)
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Katja is the primary editor of Jacquelyn Stucker’s translation and phonetic transcription of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck published by Pendragon Press, 2020
