Christian Gerhaher | |
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 The baritone in 2004, receiving the Echo award | |
| Born | 24 July 1969 |
| Education | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
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Christian Gerhaher (born 24 July 1969, in Straubing) is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer. [1]
Christian Gerhaher studied with Paul Kuën and Raimund Grumbach at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and Lied with Friedemann Berger, already together with his accompanist for decades to come, Gerold Huber. He took master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (whose voice Gerhaher's remarkably resembles), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Inge Borkh. [2]
He was a member of the opera in Würzburg from 1998 to 2000, performing in Thomas Hengelbrock's production of Così fan tutte , in Weber's Der Freischütz with the Cappella Coloniensis, and Papageno in Achim Freyer's staging of The Magic Flute . a role that he sang as his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2006. In 2005 he portrayed the title role of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt [2] where he appeared as Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser in 2007.
In concert he has collaborated with Helmuth Rilling, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner, Philippe Herreweghe, Heinz Holliger and Trevor Pinnock, among others. [2]
Gerhaher has performed and recorded Lieder with pianist Gerold Huber, such as Schubert's Winterreise , Die schöne Müllerin , Schwanengesang and Gesänge des Harfners. His Schubert album Abendbilder with Gerold Huber won a Gramophone Award for Solo vocal in 2006. More songs with piano or chamber ensemble have included Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge and Martin's Jedermann Monologues, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Kindertotenlieder . [2] He participated in the project Terezín / Theresienstadt of Anne Sofie von Otter to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. [3] Supported by her pianist Bengt Forsberg (also accordion, guitar and double bass) and his, Gerold Huber, Bebe Risenfors (accordion, guitar), Ib Hausmann (clarinet), Philip Dukes (viola), Josephine Knight (cello) and Daniel Hope (violin) they perform music written in the concentration camp by the artists Ilse Weber, Karel Švenk, Adolf Strauss, Martin Roman, Hans Krása, Carlo S. Taube, Viktor Ullmann and Pavel Haas. [4]
With Rilling and his Gächinger Kantorei he appeared at the 70th birthday concert in 2003 [5] and recorded Bach's Mass in B minor and Christmas Oratorio and Britten's War Requiem , among others. [6]
In 2009, he was awarded the Rheingau Musik Preis of the Rheingau Musik Festival. [7] [8] [9] He appeared at the festival in 2010 with Gerold Huber to celebrate Gustav Mahler's 150th birthday, singing Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit (Seven Songs of Latter Days) and from Das Lied von der Erde the movements Der Einsame im Herbst (The lonely one in Autumn) and Der Abschied (The Farewell). In 2011 they performed the composer's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen , Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Kindertotenlieder . [10]
In 2010, he was awarded the Midem special prize "male vocalist". [11]
He had his debut at Covent Garden London in 2010 in Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser and received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for his performance as Wolfram in March 2011. [12]
He is a professor in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, München. [8]
| Year | Title | Label |
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| 2017 | Brahms: Die Schöne Magelone [19] | Sony Classical |
| 2017 | Debussy: Pelléas et Melisand [20] | Sony Classical |
| 2017 | Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795 | Sony Classical |
| 2018 | Schumann: Frage [21] | Sony Classical |
| 2021 | Schumann: Alle Lieder [22] | Sony Classical |
| 2022 | Othmar Schoeck: Elegie, Op. 36 [17] | Sony Classical |
| 2023 | Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde [18] | Sony Classical |
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