Regina Prasser
MA
The German singer Regina Prasser performs a broad repertoire for lyric mezzo-soprano and contralto, encompassing opera, oratorio, Lied and contemporary music. She has been a member of the Voice Department faculty at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1994, where she leads a voice studio, teaches elocution and rhetoric, supervises teaching practice students, and is recognised as a leading expert in children’s and youth voices. Since 2025 she has served as Chair of the University Teaching Staff Council.
Regina Prasser completed her artistic and pedagogical training at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, undertaking undergraduate studies in voice (performance) and postgraduate studies in Lied and oratorio, as well as training in vocal pedagogy. Masterclasses further enriched her musical education. She subsequently completed studies in elocution and rhetoric at the HMDK Stuttgart, as well as in professional teaching and training and educational management at Danube University Krems.
Opera engagements have taken her to theatres in Nuremberg, Heidelberg, Flensburg and Limoges, among others. Her extensive activity in oratorio and concert repertoire has led to collaborations with conductors such as Norbert Balatsch, Wolfgang Riedelbauch and Helmuth Rilling, and appearances at international festivals including the Ansbacher Bachwochen, the Tage Alter Musik Nürnberg, and the Easter Festivals in Salzburg and Lourdes.
Further focal points of her artistic work include recitals with predominantly musical-literary programmes and a sustained engagement with contemporary music, including world premieres by Rupert Huber, Irmfried Radauer, Joseph Maria Horváth and Wolfgang Sauseng. She was a long-standing member of Ensemble Spinario, the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festival Choruses, and the former Nuremberg Meistersinger Ensemble.
In addition to her artistic and pedagogical work in higher education, she is actively engaged in the development of children’s and youth voices. For many years, she taught classes in the pedagogy of children’s and youth voice training at the Mozarteum, and regularly initiates projects with school choirs, children’s theatre choirs, and boys’ and girls’ choirs such as the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the Piccolo Coro dell’Antoniano Bologna. She developed a highly successful university course in children's and youth choir conducting, a cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the Vienna Boys Choir, which she coordinated and taught in for over ten years.
Regina Prasser is regularly invited to serve as a juror, lecturer and artistic director at competitions, international choir festivals, choir seminars and courses in solo singing and Lied interpretation. Further teaching engagements have taken her to the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, the Universities of Education in Salzburg and Vorarlberg, and the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg.
As a speech and rhetoric trainer, she is active through her company perSonare in leadership training and personnel development, as well as in the training and continuing education of radio and television presenters.