Biography

The soprano Marie Luise Werneburg grew up in a vicarage full of art, music and literature in Dresden.

Whilst studying church music and singing in Dresden and Bremen, she deepened her love for the music of the 17th and 18th centuries; the musical heart of her repertoire remains the works of Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Marie Luise performs as a soloist all over the world and enjoys collaborations with the Bachstiftung St. Gallen / Ruedi Lutz (solo cantatas BWV 210&204), Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (St. Johns Passion Tournee 2023&2025), Constellation Choir / John Eliot Gardiner (Christmas Cantatas Tournee 2024), Nederlandse Bachvereniging/Shunske Sato (St. Matthews Passion Tournee 2022), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (Bach - Magnificat / Montreal 2022), Abendmusiken Basel/Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Continuum/Elina Albach and Weser Renaissance/Manfred Cordes.

Her extensive discography also includes her own projects centred around Lieder. Most recently she recorded songs by the Dresden composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann with the fortepianist Sebastian Knebel for the record label cpo (2025). 

Marie Luise lives with her husband and three children on a farm near Berlin. In the odd moment of spare time she loves reading the novels of Haruki Murakami, poetry and fairy tales, as well as taking particular delight in the designs of William Morris and the paintings of John Singer Sargent.