Aeneas Humm

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Äneas Damian Humm (born April 11, 1995 in Richterswil ) is a Swiss song and opera singer ( baritone ). He also has Hungarian citizenship.

Life

Äneas Humm comes from an artistic family. He was born in 1995 as the only son of a teacher and a ceramist, Tobias Humm, and grew up in Wädenswil . His uncle is the actor Imanuel Humm . His mother's family is of Hungarian-Jewish origin. His grandfather Ambrosius Humm was a set designer, painter and draftsman and his grandmother is an artist. His great-grandparents were already artistically active; so was Lili Humm Crawford (1896-1979) painter and her husband Rudolf Jakob Humm (1895-1977) writer. Humm took violin lessons at the age of four. At the age of six he sang in the choir of the Zurich Boys' Choir . In his youth he received singing lessons at the Winterthur Conservatory. In 2009 Humm won first prize at the Swiss Youth Music Competition; he also won the Zurich singing competition. At the age of 15 he switched to the boarding school of the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch ( Austria ). His singing teacher there was Dora Kutschi. Humm finished school without a high school diploma in order to pursue a professional singing career.

At the age of 18 he moved to Bremen . Despite the lack of an Abitur, he studied at the Bremen University of the Arts ; his teachers included u. a. Thomas Albert and Krisztina Laki . During this time he performed at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven under the direction of Ulrich Mokrusch.

He sang his first title role in the operetta Chief Evening Wind by Jacques Offenbach (director: Gregor Horres ). From 2016 to 2017 he was a guest at the Osnabrück Opera House, where he sang in 30 performances as Sancho in Telemann's opera “Don Quichotte”.

From 2017 to 2019 Humm attended the Juilliard School in New York City in Edith Wiens' class, with whom he still works intensively to this day. He performed at Carnegie Hall in the 2017/18 season .

He recorded his first album with songs by Alban Berg , Hugo Wolf , Richard Strauss and Viktor Ullmann with the pianist Judit Polgar. It was released in 2017; Der Spiegel called it a "brilliant start". In 2018 he was awarded the Deutschlandfunk advancement award at the Bremen Music Festival .

He appears at festivals and concerts around the world. Humm regularly gives recitals with Hartmut Höll . As an interpreter of oratorios he is in demand all over Europe and is increasingly devoting himself to work on this repertoire. Humm made his debut with Bach's St. Matthew Passion in April 2019 under the conductor Peter Dijkstra . He lives in Düsseldorf , Weimar and New York.

Since September 2019, Äneas Humm has signed a two-year contract with the German National Theater Weimar . There he sings roles such as Masetto from Don Giovanni, Guglielmo from Cosí fan tutte, Harlequin in Ariadne on Naxos and the world premiere of the opera Electric Saint by Stewart Copeland at the Kunstfest Weimar.

Discography

  • 2017: Awakening. With Judit Polgar (piano). Label: Rondeau Production
  • 2020: Martha von Castelberg, songs. With Judit Polgar (piano). Label: Solo Musica

Awards

documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrange the chaos. NZZ accessed on May 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ What a vocal debut. Review in: Der Spiegel from October 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ Äneas Humm - a singer's life between New York and Düsseldorf. WZ-Online from September 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Humm, Aeneas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humm, Aeneas Damian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Richterswil