Clara Maria Kastenholz is a young lyric soprano based in Freiburg.

In 2021, she performed the world premiere of Neue Szenen V on the stage of the Deutsche Oper, where she was already heard as a soloist in 2019. As a member of the Bad Orb Opera Academy, she sang the role of Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in summer 2019. Other important specialist roles in past opera productions include Romilda in Händel's Serse, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Ännchen in Weber's Freischütz. In 2021 she was also seen as the novice Elisabeth in the Swedish opera Dein ist das Reich by Jonas Forssell at the Franciscan monastery in Angermünde.

She received her first musical education as a member of Mädchenkatorei am Freiburger Münster. Clara Maria Kastenholz completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin under Prof. Sebastian Noack and Prof. Dr. KS Ewa Wolak. She received and continues to receive further artistic and musical inspiration from Sami Kustaloglu, Lisandro Abadie, Peter Berne and Prof. Elisabeth Glauser, among others. In the field of ensemble singing, she was a member of the Singers' Academy of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble in 2023 and attended courses with Björn Schmelzer and Andrés Locatelli as part of the AVES program Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Basel in 2024.

She is a four-time Germany and two-time PROMOS scholarship holder, a former scholarship holder of the Ottilie Seelbach Redslob Foundation, as well as a scholarship holder of the vielklang Festival Academy and first prize winner of the International Online Singing Competition Basel 2021.

Clara now devotes herself increasingly to concert singing as a soloist and maintains a busy concert schedule throughout Germany. She can also be heard as a singer in various chamber choir formations, including as a member of the LauschWerk and Atlas Vokalensemble.