Background
Romy Gundermann was born in 1933 in Aschaffenburg to a family that encouraged her musical talent.
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Romy Gundermann
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After her retirement from the concert stage, she began working as a concert promoter and charity event organizer. At the age of 13, she began appearing in productions such as a film on the fairy tale Hänsel und Gretel. Her husband, Alfred Kalb, was a pianist, but gave up a career in music to run his family"s shirt company.
Her official debut was in 1959 at the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg (municipal theatre), where "critics praised her unique timbre, the softness of her singing and her high luminosity".
Gundermann performed throughout Germany as well as in neighboring countries and as a representative of the Goethe-Institut made tours in India and Egypt. She appeared in the Berliner Philharmonie over 30 times and sang in Mozart"s Coronation Mass at the Salzburg Festival.
Charity concerts
Beginning in the 1980s Gundermann began to organize charity concerts, including the "ECCO - Help through Art" project which is an innovative program that promotes local talent and uses revenues from the concerts they perform to complete public works projects. She retired from the concert stage in the early 1990s but has continued as a concert organizer, with such events as the Advent concert series for Aschaffenburg and spring concerts which have included Wenn die Magnolien blüh"n.
Public Service Medal
Retirement
Gundermann retired from the concert stage in the early 1990s but remains active as a concert organizer.
