Berthold Possemeyer

Berthold Clement Possemeyer ( born May 20, 1951 in Gladbeck ) is a German concert singer and high school teachers.

Life and education

Berthold Clement Possemeyer was born the son of a master baker in Gladbeck. After graduating from high school classical languages ​​Bottrop, today Heinrich -Heine high school, he studied school and church music, conducting and musicology, as well as singing at the Cologne Music Academy with Franz Müller- Heuser and Josef Metternich. He has won prizes in singing competitions in Berlin, 's- Hertogenbosch, the International Bach Competition in Leipzig and at the Mozart Festival Competition Würzburg. He also received the 1981 Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia for music. This was followed by master classes and private study with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on.

Work

His debut as an opera singer, he was as Papageno and Eugene Onegin at the Staatstheater Oldenburg. Later he worked at the opera houses of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Wiesbaden and Salzburg in productions by Ulrich Brecht, Marcel Bluwal, Hans Korte, Giancarlo del Monaco and Sir Peter Ustinov under conductors such as Marc Albrecht, Ernst Märzendorfer, Rolf Reuter and Heinz Wallberg parts of the lyric Cavalier Baritone times as Rossini's Barber and Dandini, Mozart Guglielmo, Figaro and Count Almaviva, Malatesta Donizetti, Leoncavallo Silvio, Lortzings Tsar and Britten Sid. Harry Kupfer signed him as Marcello in its production of Puccini's La Bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Volksoper Vienna.

Commitment as a concert singer who Berthold Possemeyer out in the music centers of Europe, the U.S. and Israel: Bachwochen Ansbach, Berlin Festival, May Festival in Wiesbaden, Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Mostly Mozart London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Lucerne Festival. He sang with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin, Frankfurt, Hannover and Stuttgart, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Academy of Ancient Music in London under conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Herbert Blomstedt, Claus -Peter Flor, Uwe Gronostay, Leopold Hager, Christopher Hogwood, Eliahu Inbal, Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Peter Neumann, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Possemeyer occurs with actor Till crab and other comedic on, for example, the Rheingau Music Festival. With Sabine Fischmann and pianist Marcus Neumeyer, called Holzhausen quartet after Holzhausenschlösschen, they played 2012 " And if they are not dead ... " All the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, in a chamber musical, with songs by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, both in Goethe House and in Wiesbaden as a benefit event for the africa action.

Since 1988 Possemeyer teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main, since 1990 as a professor. Here he first took over at the Department of Music Education in the vocal training of school and church musicians, choir directors and voice teachers. In 2003, he joined the Department of Music and Performing Arts Theatre and forms since there aspiring concert and opera singer. Among his students Björn citizens, Sabine Fischmann, Markus Flaig, Tobias Hiller, Philip Alexander More, Eberhard Metternich, Georg Poplutz, Mischa Schelomjanski and Harald Schmitt.

Founded with the chanson singer Sabine Fischmann, the actor Till crab and the pianist and composer Markus Neumeyer and it makes the music - literary " Holzhausen Quartet ", named after the seat of the Frankfurt community foundation, the Holzhausen- castle Frankfurt, where the premieres of their respective cross-over musical theater productions take place: THE RELIGIOUS HELENE. A Residential chamber musical based on Wilhelm Busch ( 2006), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. By Excessive chamber musical based on William Shakespeare ( 2010) AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE DIED. All 199 fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in a Chamber Musical ( 2012) WHAT YOU WANT. An unrestrained chamber musical based on William Shakespeare ( Premiere October 2014 ). With these productions, guest performances in Germany, Switzerland and Italy ( South Tyrol).