{"id":179269,"date":"2026-05-13T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lionel-meylan.ch\/actualite\/exclusive-interview-barbara-hendricks-a-voice-from-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:45:27","slug":"exclusive-interview-barbara-hendricks-a-voice-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/lionel-meylan.ch\/en\/actualite\/exclusive-interview-barbara-hendricks-a-voice-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW &#8211; Barbara Hendricks, a voice from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did your vocation as a singer come about?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a long story&#8230; I was born with a gift, a talent. I&#8217;ve always loved to sing. When I was a child, I used to sing in the church where my father was pastor. I sang a lot at school too. But later I chose to study mathematics and science at university. I had the opportunity to take part in a singing course. I entered my first competition and won. People around me urged me to continue. I then went on a nine-week training course to study classical music, chamber music and recital.        <\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you feel then?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was an amazing, unknown world, but I was no stranger to it. I really didn&#8217;t know anything about music. I was just 20, totally ignorant and naive. And at the same time, I loved the feeling of singing, of sharing music, without any pressure or ambition. I went off to study at the Juilliard School in New York. That&#8217;s when I met my destiny.     <\/p>\n<p><strong>What models have inspired your artistic work?<br \/>\n<\/strong>One person, Jennie Tourel, my voice teacher for four years at the Juilliard School. As a pastor&#8217;s daughter, it troubled me greatly to learn a profession that gave me so much pleasure. To become like my teacher, to be at the service of music, seemed to me to be something very noble. Without this example, I couldn&#8217;t have imagined pursuing such a career.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>What qualities are required to achieve a level and <\/strong><strong>career like yours?<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery artist is different. What I see in common between all of them is passion, the desire to transmit something greater than oneself. The message isn&#8217;t mine, I&#8217;m just the instrument that plays&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a favorite repertoire? A favorite composer? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, there&#8217;s one composer who&#8217;s always followed me. It&#8217;s Mozart. For a very long time, not a single year went by without my singing Mozart. His music is divine, because it&#8217;s even greater than Mozart himself.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>What else can you dream of when you&#8217;ve had a career like yours?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Since 1994, I&#8217;ve added jazz and blues* to my repertoire. When I was a child, my father considered blues to be the devil&#8217;s music. I&#8217;m educating myself today! I&#8217;m very curious, I like to learn new things. Even if today I spend a lot of time in my vegetable garden, with my grandson&#8230;    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you live on the Riviera?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lived here for 30 years. This is where my children grew up. It&#8217;s impossible to explain to someone the beauty of the Riviera, the majesty of the mountains falling into the water. How lucky we are! And then there&#8217;s the kindness of my neighbors. Here, people let me be myself. I&#8217;ve never needed a bodyguard. I&#8217;ve always felt at home here, welcomed and loved.       <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you enjoy watchmaking?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m fascinated by the work of watchmakers. It&#8217;s all so tiny&#8230; We need watchmaking, but I also really enjoy not knowing what time it is, forgetting about it to do things in the time they need to be done. 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