Bartolo Musil

Bartolo Musil (* 1974 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian opera singer (baritone), composer, artistic researcher and university professor.

Life

Family & Education

The Austrian writer Robert Musil and the orientalist Alois Musil are ancestors of Bartolo Musil.

As a child he was active as a musician and received piano, singing and composition lessons. He then studied at the music academies in Salzburg , Vienna and Detmold with teachers such as Walter Berry , Thomas Quasthoff , Erich Urbanner , Iván Eröd and Gerhard Wimberger .

Activity as a singer

As a concert and opera singer - with a repertoire from early baroque to experimental contemporary music theater - Bartolo Musil has appeared in the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Opera, at the Carinthian Summer and at other important European organizers and has performed with important orchestras , Conductors and directors worked together.

With the title role in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , which he took over in a large production at the German Antikenfestspiele in Trier with only two weeks of preparation , he achieved particular success with audiences and critics and was recognized by Opera Now magazine as one of the discoveries of the year listed. In 2007 the Italian record company Bongiovanni released his first solo CD Virtuosity - il Baritono Barocco .

Bartolo Musil sang Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute and Pluto in Georg Philipp Telemann's Orpheus at the Magdeburg Theater, as well as numerous world premieres by contemporary composers in operas and concerts. During the Carinthian Summer 2017, he was engaged as a singer and composer in the Signs of Life program . At the Musiktage Mondsee 2017 he interpreted the Ode to Napoleon by Arnold Schönberg . In 2019, Bartolo Musil is engaged, among other things, as a speaker in Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern at the Zurich Opera House .

Bartolo Musil is a multiple international award winner.

Activity as a composer

As a composer, Bartolo Musil has written commissioned works in large cast for organizers such as the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna and a commissioned opera for the Carinthian Summer. Some of his works were produced for radio and phonograms. At the Carinthian Summer 2008 he premiered his new song cycle based on Peter Turrini and was invited back as a composer and singer in 2017 (see above). The Radiokulturhaus Wien dedicated a portrait concert as a singer and composer to Bartolo Musil.

Activity as researcher and educator

Bartolo Musil conducts artistic research in the field of music and received his doctorate in 2014 from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

His book “Wie ein Desire” - language and music in the interpretation of vocal music (not only) of the fin de siècle was published in autumn 2018 by [transcript] Verlag .

He works internationally as a singing teacher and coach. Since 2015 he has held a full university professorship for singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum .

literature

• Alexander Rausch : Musil, Bartolo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Bartolo Musil: “Like a desire” - language and music in the interpretation of vocal music (not only) of the fin de siècle. Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4309-1 . (Abstract)

Web links

• Bartolo Musil homepage
• Bartolo Musil at Opera Musica
• Bartolo Musil on the website of the Mozarteum University