Jörg Dürmüller
Jörg Dürmüller ( born August 28, 1959 in Bern ) is a Swiss tenor.
Life
Jörg Dürmüller first studied violin and singing at the Conservatory of Winterthur. The vocal studies, he continued at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg Naan Pöld and Hans Kagel. He attended master classes with Christa Ludwig and Hermann Prey.
His excellent reputation in the concert field earned Jörg Dürmüller especially with the evangelists lots of JS Bach. He sang in prestigious music centers at home and abroad such as the Royal Albert Hall in London ( BBC Proms ), the Vienna Musikverein, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Auditorio Nacional de España Madrid, Théâtre des Champs- Elysées in Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Philharmonic Sao Paulo, Tokyo Summer Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, the Epidaurus Festival Athens or Leipzig Bach Festival. In December 2006 he took under Ton Koopman part of a U.S. tour and sang among others at Carnegie Hall in New York. 2008, Jörg Dürmüller appeared with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in various concerts of Handel's Messiah.
His operatic career began in Bielefeld. He then sang for two years at the Braunschweig State Theatre under the directorship of Brigitte Fassbaender. He has appeared regularly at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where he worked in Cosi fan tutte or Bajazete in Handel's Tamerlano in roles such as Ferrando (directed by David Alden ) was heard. He was a member of the Vienna Volksoper, where he sang the role of Tamino, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola. In addition to his concert commitments he made guest appearances at the opera houses of Hamburg, Montpellier, Leipzig, Cologne, Strasbourg, Seville and at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2006 he took over at short notice at the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, the role of Belmonte under Alessandro De Marchi, which led to further cooperation in various projects in 2007. Also in 2007, he sang at the Herrenchiemsee Festival Don Ottavio (BR TV recording ) under Enoch zu Guttenberg, 2008, he has performed at the Teatro Regio di Torino as Narraboth and gave the theater Braunschweig his stage debut as Erik in The Flying Dutchman.
As an opera and concert singer, he has worked with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Bertrand De Billy, Dennis Russell Davies, Christoph Eschenbach, Diego Fasolis, Reinhard Goebel, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christopher Hogwood, Michael Hofstetter, René Jacobs, Robert King, clay Koopman, Vaclav Neumann, Christof Prick, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Sebastian Weigle, Bruno Weil, Simone Young and Hans Zender together.
Dürmüller as a singer has a great functional diversity and has appeared on numerous radio, TV, DVD and CD productions. So he worked under Bruno Weil with on a publicized in the trade press initial reception of the Flying Dutchman in the original version of Wagner from 1841, in which he sang the role of Georg (Erik ). In March 2005 Dürmüller sang the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach under the baton of Ton Koopman on a DVD and CD. 2007 CD recording of Krenek 's opera Sardakai was awarded Dürmüller in the male lead role of Carlo the ECHO Klassik. The CD production The beautiful Galathée ( Suppe ) under Bruno Weil with Dürmüller in the lead role of Pygmalion was awarded the German Record Critics.