Dorothe Ingenfeld was born and raised in Xanten, on the Lower Rhine in Germany. After first receiving tuition on flute and piano, she had her first singing lessions at the age of 15 with Gabriele Schepers-Wittig. One of the first songs which her teacher worked on with her was Liebestreu by Brahms. She went on to study singing at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She was awarded a prize at the International Competition of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg, received a scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and attended master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who intensified her love of the works of Schumann, Brahms, Schubert and Wolf. She writes of this release: “How did I come to make a CD just with songs about mothers and daughters? My daughter was away for three weeks during the summer holidays and I wanted to use the time creatively to record a CD. I looked at my favorite songs and discovered that three of them had this thematic connection. The obvious thing to do was to take this as a theme, so I sat down with both of my pianists and we looked for other such songs. We found over thirty of them, from which we chose the most beautiful songs and those we found the most fitting… It was a source of infinite joy for me to slip into the roles of all these mothers and daughters and I wish you just as much joy while listening!”
