Christian Gerhaher

Christian Gerhaher (born 1969 in Straubing, Lower Bavaria ) is a German singer ( baritone) and examinierter doctor. Gerhaher has been a professor for voice and oratory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

Biography

During his studies with Paul Kuen and Raimund Grumbach Christian Gerhaher attended the Opera School of the Munich Academy of Music. Together with his regular accompanist Gerold Huber he also studied lieder with Helmut German and rounded off his vocal training in master classes with Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Inge Borkh from. Meanwhile he himself is a passionate teacher and taught in selected master classes or are under an honorary professorship workshops at the Munich Academy of Music.

Like no other he puts together with Gerold Huber standards in song interpretation: Her recording of Winterreise was awarded the Echo Klassik 2002 for the best song recording and was in the fall of 2003, awarded by the most important Japanese journal with the record Geijutsu Magazine Award. Your CD with Schubert's " The Beautiful Miller " (Arte Nova ) was awarded the Echo Klassik 2004, also for the best song recording. Your CD " Abendbilder " received the Gramophone Award 2006.

In 1998, Christian Gerhaher his medical studies and in the same year won the Prix International Pro Musicis Paris / New York. Shortly thereafter, he already gave his first solo debuts, among others the Chamber Music Hall at Carnegie Hall. Since then he has performed in all the major international recital centers, including London's Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musée d' Orsay, the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and is a welcome guest at such prestigious festivals such as the Schwetzingen Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Vienna Festival and Klangbogen Festival, the Edinburgh Festival and the Lucerne Festival. In 2006 he made ​​his debut at the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival with a recital in which he NDR Music Prize was awarded in 2006.

In addition to his extensive work in concert and recitals, he is to experience in selected opera productions: In 2005 he took the title role in Monteverdi's L' Orfeo at the Frankfurt Opera, for which he received rave reviews. In 2006, he was experiencing for the first time at the Salzburg Festival, as Papageno under Riccardo Muti. In January 2007, year he celebrated his triumphant debut as Wolfram in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg at the Frankfurt Opera: (: " a flexible timbre baritone finely -shaded expression intensity noble of rare, to event of the evening, the tungsten of Christian Gerhaher was. " Frankfurter Rundschau, January 30, 2007). Shortly thereafter, in April 2007, he made his debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in a staged production of Bach's St. John Passion Robert Wilson under Emmanuelle Haim. As Wolfram von Eschenbach, he was in 2009 at the Teatro Real in Madrid and experience at the Vienna State Opera in 2010.

His collaboration with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Heinz Holliger, Trevor Pinnock, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons, Christian Thielemann, Daniel Harding or Gustavo Dudamel leads him to the major concert halls in the world. Among the important orchestras, the Christian Gerhaher regularly invite include the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Concentus Musicus Wien, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic or the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Outside of Europe, he is with the with major orchestras, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With the latter he led in May 2007 to Brahms German Requiem under Kent Nagano.

Christian Gerhaher is an exclusive artist with Sony Music (before August 2008 RCA Red Seal). His debut CD at this label includes Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and selected songs. In July 2005, Mendelssohn's Elijah appeared with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt and came in January 2006, then his CD with mixed Schubert songs under the title Abendbilder on the market. Also, all his previous CDs have been released by BMG labels: When Arte Nova all Schubert cycles are available as CD box before. Other recordings in this label include Brahms ' Four Serious Songs and Frank Martin Anyone Monologues, as well as Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Lieder of a Wayfarer. For the German Harmonia Mundi Christian Gerhaher Haydn's Creation and Orlando Paladino played under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, which also recordings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, The Seasons by Haydn (both German Harmonia Mundi ) and Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with RCA Red Seal have appeared. At Deutsche Grammophon in August 2007, a duo CD with Anne Sofie von Otter has appeared with music that was written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In Unitel " A German Requiem " by Johannes Brahms with the Munich Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann is planned as a DVD. In March 2008, another song CD with Schumann settings of appeared under the title melancholy. In September of the same year Haenssler Benjamin Britten's War Requiem released under Helmuth Rilling, with Annette Dasch, James Taylor and Christian Gerhaher. 2009 recordings were presented by Haydn seasons under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in April of Mahler's Song of the Earth with Kent Nagano.

Discography (selection)

  • Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Concentus Musicus Wien; Arnold Schoenberg Choir, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( German harmonia mundi 88,697,112,252, November 2007)
  • Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling, cond ( hänssler classic 098 274 000, 2007)
  • Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Op 121 Schubert: Songs of the harper, Op 12, D 478 and mixed songs, Martin: Six Monologues from Everyman, Mixed - song CD, Piano: Gerold Huber (Arte Nova 743 219 2771 2, August 2002)
  • Brahms: A German Requiem, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Christian Thielemann (DV, Unitel Classica A05016413, April 2007 )
  • Britten: War Requiem, Op 66, conductor Helmuth Rilling ( hänssler classic 098 507 000, September 2008 )
  • Distant Beloved, songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg, Piano: Gerold Huber (Sony classical, 0886919354324, June 2012)
  • Hartmann: Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Youth, Munich Radio Orchestra, conducted by Ulf Schirmer (BRW 4035719003017, September 2009 )
  • Haydn: The Creation, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Dorothea Rosch, Michael Schade, Christian Gerhaher, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( German Harmonia Mundi 82876 58340 2, February 2004)
  • Haydn: Orlando Paladino, match: Rodomonte, Concentus Musicus, conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( German Harmonia Mundi 82876 73370 2, May 2006)
  • Haydn: The Seasons, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Choir ( Einstud. Erwin Ortner ), Genia Kühmeier, Werner Güra, Christian Gerhaher, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ( German harmonia mundi 8697281262, March 2009)
  • Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Piano: Gerold Huber, Songs of a Wayfarer, Hyperion Ensemble (Arte Nova 74321 87818 2, February 2003)
  • Mahler: The Song of the Earth, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Klaus Florian Vogt, Christian Gerhaher, conductor Kent Nagano ( Sony Music 8697508212, April 2009 )
  • Mahler: Songs, Piano: Gerold Huber ( Sony Music 88,697,567,732, October 2009)
  • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, The Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez ( German Grammophon 28,947,790,600, September 2010)
  • Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano (Sony classical 88,883,701,332, August 2013)
  • Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op 70, Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt (RCA RED SEAL 82876 65793 2, July 2005)
  • Mendelssohn: Son and Stranger, RSO Stuttgart SWR, conducted Helmuth Rilling ( hänssler classic 98 487, 2006)
  • Mozart: The Magic Flute, Vienna Philharmonic Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, conducted by Riccardo Muti ( Decca 00440 074 3159 | DVD video, 2006 )
  • Orff: Carmina Burana, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, cond Simon Rattle (EMI 2435578882, 2005)
  • Orff: Carmina Burana, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding ( German Grammophon 2894778778, 2010)
  • Romantic arias, opera arias from works by Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Weber and Nicolai, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding, Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Sony classical, 088 725 422 952, November 2012 )
  • Schoeck: Notturno, Rosamunde Quartett (ECM 2061, September 2009 )
  • Schubert: The Beautiful Miller, piano: Gerold Huber (Arte Nova 82876 53172 2 RCA RED SEAL and 88,697,194,892 )
  • Schubert: Winterreise, Piano: Gerold Huber (Arte Nova 74321 80777 2 RCA RED SEAL and 88,697,194,862 )
  • Schubert Swan Song and mixed songs, piano: Gerold Huber (Arte Nova 74321 75075 2)
  • Schubert: The Beautiful Miller, Winterreise, swan song, songs of the harper, Piano: Gerold Huber (Arte Nova 82876 57747 2 3 CD Box)
  • Schubert: Abendbilder (mixed songs), Piano: Gerold Huber (RCA RED SEAL 82876 77716 2, January 2006)
  • Schumann: Dichterliebe and mixed songs, piano: Gerold Huber (RCA RED SEAL 82876 58995 2, October 2004)
  • Schumann: Melancholy - Circle of Songs, Op 39 and mixed songs, piano: Gerold Huber (RCA Red Seal 88,697,168,172, March 2008)
  • Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, op 50, Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt (RCA RED SEAL 88697271552, March 2008)
  • Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust, Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, CD live at RCO (July 2009)
  • " Terezín | Theresienstadt", duo plate with Anne Sofie von Otter, songs of Victor Ullmann and others ( German Grammophon 00289 477 6546, 2007)
  • Weber: Der Freischütz, games: Kilian, Ottokar, conductor Bruno Weil ( German Harmonia Mundi 05472 77536 2, November 2001)
  • Wolf: Italian Songbook, Mojca Erdmann with, soprano, Gerold Huber, piano ( RCA RED SEAL 88697727202, April 2011 )

Awards

Helmut Deutsch Berliner Philharmonie Rheingau Musik Festival Robert Wilson (director) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Elijah (oratorio) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Paradise and the Peri Frank Martin (composer) Karl Amadeus Hartmann The Seasons (Haydn) Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler) Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde Carl Orff Carmina Burana (Orff) Othmar Schoeck Schwanengesang Liederkreis, Op. 39 opernwelt Gasteig Norddeutscher Rundfunk Integrated Authority File
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