Julia Kleiter was born in 1980 in Limburg a.d. Lahn, Germany. Throughout her childhood, she was a member of the Dome Choir of Limburg. As a teenager, she took voice and singing lessons with Elisabeth Scholl and later Alison Browner. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Professor William Workman from 1999 to 2002, and since October 2002, has studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne with Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog. In 2000, Ms. Kleiter was awarded second prize at the Bundesgesangswettbewerb (national singing competition) Berlin. Since then she has pursued an active singing career at home and abroad. She has soloed with the Mainzer Bachchor and the Mainzer Domchor, among others, and has given several solo recitals and collaborated with Helmuth Rilling in concert. She has also sung roles in several opera productions of the conservatories in Hamburg and Cologne, including Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff and Gretel in Humperdink’s Hänsel und Gretel. Ms. Kleiter was the recipient of a grant from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes in March 2002. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Kleiter">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.