Isabelle Viola Taege
About Isabelle Viola Taege
Isabelle Viola Taege was born in Dormagen and studied Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Musicology, and English Studies at the Musikhochschule Münster, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and the University of Cologne. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University Mozarteum Salzburg on the topic of Co-Conducting in Choral Pedagogy.
Isabelle gained her first stage experience during her bachelor’s studies, performing as Venus in the university production of King Arthur by Henry Purcell and as Sophie in the chamber operetta Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppè at Theater Münster.
Her concert activities have taken her to Montepulciano, Bolzano, Sabbioneta, Bonn, and Halberstadt. A particularly memorable experience for the young singer was participating as a soloist in the ECHY project “Labor Europa – Music in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp” at the Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück.
In addition to her opera and concert work, the soprano has a strong interest in art song and collaborates in the chamber music field with guitarist Daniel Rogozhnikov. Together, they competed in the 15th Wuppertal Music Competition in 2020, winning first prize. A significant part of their program featured works by contemporary composers such as Onutė Narbutaitė and Gerhard Müller-Hornbach.
Isabelle Viola Taege has been a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Münsterland e.V. (2018), the Richard Wagner Association Münster e.V. (2019), and the Kurt and Silvia Huser-Oesch Foundation (2021). In 2017, the Junge Musiker Stiftung enabled her to participate in a masterclass with alto Renée Morloc.
She has also received valuable artistic impulses through masterclasses with Barbara Locher, Emma Kirkby, Christiane Iven, Sarah Maria Sun, Ingeborg Danz, Kurt Widmer, Katharina Hagopian, and actor Peter Mustafa Daniels.
Alongside her solo career, teaching plays an important role in her professional life. From 2016 to 2020, she taught voice at Musikschule Karussell in Münster and from 2020 to 2023 privately in Lucerne. She then worked from 2023 to 2025 as a university assistant (maternity leave replacement) in Music Education (IGP) at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Currently, she is a university assistant for Music Education (ME) and Instrumental Music Education (IME) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and a lecturer at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
Isabelle Viola Taege is also part of the leadership team of the doctoral network of the Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung (AMPF) and of Musikpädagogische Forschung in Österreich (MFÖ). Additionally, she is a member of other vocal pedagogy associations, such as EVTA.CH – the Swiss Association of Singing Teachers – and EVTA-Austria, the professional association for vocal pedagogy in Austria and South Tyrol.