Claudia Barainsky

Soprano Claudia Barainsky is a skillful interpreter of 20th and 21st century music, both in performance and on recordings. Her repertory also includes mainstream works in German and Italian, stretching back as far as Handel. Barainsky's recording catalog inclines heavily toward modern and contemporary works. In 2024, she released the album Im wachen Traume on the contemporary-oriented ECM label. Barainsky was born on September 30, 1965, in West Berlin and was raised there. She attended the city's Hochschule der Künste, studying with Ingrid Figur, and went on to take master cl...