Born in Meran (South Tyrol) to a family of musicians, Ulrike Haller has lived music and choral singing since she was a child. She studied piano and organ at the music school and sang in various choirs, later studying piano, harpsichord and singing at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien where she graduated with the highest qualifications.

Choral singing has always accompanied her and during her time in Vienna, Ulrike was a member of the Wiener Kammerchor (under the direction of Johannes Prinz) and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor (under the direction of Erwin Ortner) as a singer and soloist, where she had the opportunity to sing with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Roger Norrington, Adam Fischer, Peter Schreier or Giovanni Antonini.

Ulrike has continued her singing studies in Barcelona with Mª Dolors Aldea, Àngel Soler, Marta Pujol and Francisco Poyato and receives advice from Ana Luisa Chova, Eliane Coelho, José van Dam, Erik Halfvarson, Mark Hastings, Wolfgang Holzmair, Wolfram Rieger, Kurt Widmer, among others. She won the Extraordinary Prize of the Conservatori Superior del Liceu and the First Prize of the Lied master course of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain.

She specializes as an oratorio singer and liederist and performs around fifty oratorio works and symphonic Works like Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Requiem, the Coronation Mass and the Great Mass in C-minor by W. A. Mozart, the Magnificat, the St. John’s Passion and the Mass in B-minor by J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Symphony no. 2 “Lobgesang”, Hymn and Psalm 42 or Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations.

She has offered Lied recitals accompanied by the pianists Jordi Armengol, Josep Buforn, Mark Hastings, Josep Surinyac, Èric Varas and the organist Michael König in Catalonia, Italy and Austria. She has also recorded several CDs for La Mà de Guido, Ficta, Columna Música and for Catalunya Música, the Austrian broadcast ORF and TV3-Televisió de Catalunya.

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