Anke Hájková Endres

Anke Hájková Endres is a voice lecturer at the University of Music Würzburg, where she teaches singing in the Singing Department within the School of Music. She also coaches the male voices of the Würzburg Boys' Choir at the Würzburg Cathedral Music.

She studied singing with Prof. M. Bürgener at the Würzburg University of Music and Performing Arts, graduating with an opera and concert diploma. Her education was further enhanced through master classes with E. Kirkby, A. Rooley, H. Hotter, and Prof. I. Hallstein.

As a lyric coloratura soprano, her performance interests focus on classical singing, opera, choral music, and new music. She maintains a repertoire of over 30 operatic roles and performs major works of oratorio literature. Her artistic work increasingly explores contemporary compositions, and she regularly collaborates with the Zeiher Quartet in chamber music settings.

• Finalist, Belvedere Vienna Competition in operetta (2000)
• Award from the local theater's association (2002)
• Scholarship from the Würzburg Wagner Association

Prior to her current teaching position, she was a permanent member of the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg from 2000 to 2007, where she performed roles including Olympia, Gilda, Gretel, Queen of the Night, and Donna Anna. Since 2007, she has worked as a freelance singer while maintaining her teaching position. In 2012, she performed the role of "Monnica" in R. Hiller's "Augustinus" at the Würzburg Cathedral Music's birthday concert for Pope Benedict XVI at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Rome.