Reinet Behncke - Soprano: "There's an academic as well as a musical quality to Baroque music."

The South African-Argentine soprano Reinet Behncke studied voice and vocal pedagogy in the United States at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Vienna. She graduated from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, where she received her Master of Arts in Lied and Oratorio, studying with KS Birgid Steinberger, KS Angelika Kirchschlager, and Carolyn Hague, as well as studying voice with Michele Friedman, and early and Baroque music with Nicholas Parle and Reinhard Führer. During her studies, she also participated in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake, and Susan Manoff.