Bibiana Nwobilo

Born 1980 in Owerri, Nigeria, and raised in Carinthia, Bibiana Nwobilo studied singing at the Konservatorium Klagenfurt, and from 2002 at the Konservatorium - Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with Gabrielle Sima and Hilda DeGroote.

In 1997 Bibiana Nwobilo began her musical career in the choir at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. In 1999 she not only sang in several gospel concedrts all over Austria, but also in Kirk Franklin's Handels New Messias. She gave many concerts, e.g. with the Imperial Klassik Orchester, and sang Euridice in Offenbach's Orpheus in der Unterwelt, Amahl in Menotti's Amahl und die nächtlichen Besucher, Madame Herz in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, Ernestina in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro, or in Mendelssohn's Elias. Furthermore she gave concerts in Belgium (Brussels, Mecheln and Antwerp) and appeared in Porgy and Bess in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. In 2007 she won the Heinrich-Strecker-Wettbewerb, in 2008 the prize of the Prof. Armin Weltner-Stiftung in Swizzerland.