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„As an interpreter she risks a point of view, not hiding behind the neutrality of the score.“
- Abendzeitung
The versatility of Johanna Soller's artistic work is reflected in her activities as a conductor, harpsichordist, organist and university teacher.
Rooted in historical performance practice, her passion for words and musical speech in particular forms the basis of her musical work.
In May 2025 she took up her appointment as Artistic Leader of the Netherlands Bach Society, whose tour of Bach's St Matthew Passion she conducted in 2024.
She also established the baroque ensemble capella sollertia, consisting of a professional vocal ensemble and an orchestra on period instruments, with whom she published a complete recording of Johann Ludwig Bach's cantatas with the label Ricercar in 2026, which won in the Alte Musik category as part of the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics’ Award).
From season 2023/24, she has been Artistic Director of the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra.
„Harnoncourt’s Music as speech - here it becomes an event “
- concerti
Johanna Soller is a regular guest conductor both with period ensembles and modern orchestras, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the B’Rock Orchestra, the Dunedin Consort, the Bachstiftung St. Gallen, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
Upcoming highlights include the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Anima Eterna Brugge. Soller is also in demand in the field of opera, where she has made a name for herself as Maestra al cembalo. In 2025 she conducted Handel’s Susanna at Opera North, in 2026 Johann Christian Bach’s Zanaida with Kammerakademie Potsdam. An accomplished basso continuo player, both on harpsichord and organ, she has performed with ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Vox Luminis.
„(...) Johanna Soller played the harpsichord in a heart-rending way. With her movements, it was as if she carried her feelings into the sounds: she brought the harpsichord to new life. “
- Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine
Soller was a faculty member of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 2018 to 2026, teaching her own oratorio class as well as basso continuo playing and sight reading. She also gives masterclasses and workshops with regularity and has enjoyed working with Det Norske Solist Kor Ung in Oslo and Talent Norge for a conducting masterclass with the Swedish Radio Choir. In 2027 she will lead guest projects at the CNSMD Paris, the Royal Academy o Music in London and the Julliard School in New York..
From 2016 to 2025, Soller held the position of main organist at Munich's oldest parish church St. Peter. Solo concerts have taken her to major organ concert series, including the cathedrals of Riga, Passau, St. Gallen, Paderborn, Stuttgart's Stiftskirche, St. Lorenz Nuremberg, the Philharmonie im Münchener Gasteig, Munich's St. Michael and St. Jacobi Hamburg.
„(...) her stylistic range and her unique combination of emotion, focused energy and intelligent probing of the score “
- Bavarian Arts Award 2020
Soller studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München harpsichord and performance practice with Christine Schornsheim, conducting, church music and organ. She is a prizewinner of the Prague Spring International Music Competition and a scholarship holder of the German „Forum Dirigieren“ and the German Music Competition. She was awarded the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize and the Eugen Jochum Prize for Conductors.
Stand 2026