Cornelius Hauptmann

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Cornelius Hauptmann
(Photo: AC Freifrau von Halm, 2011)

Cornelius Hauptmann (born June 14, 1951 in Stuttgart ) is a German opera and concert singer ( bass ).

Life

Hauptmann studied at the Stuttgart University of Music . There he passed his stage maturity examination in 1982 and, as a student of Jakob Stämpfli , obtained the soloist diploma at the Bern University of Music. Masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Hans Hotter , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , who looked after him for 24 years, and Eric Tappy contributed significantly to his artistic development - numerous prizes and awards at international singing competitions are evidence of this. He was also a scholarship holder of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.

Hauptmann made his debut at the Stuttgart State Theater in 1982 and was a member of the opera houses in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe until 1989.

As a freelance concert and opera singer, he has made guest appearances - primarily in Mozart operas - in Munich, Leipzig, Orléans, Paris (Bastille and Châtelet), Lisbon, Madrid, Lyon, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Amsterdam, Zurich, Vienna (Volksoper) etc. Conductors like Gardiner , Hollreiser , Mehta , Haenchen , Nagano , Piollet , Marriner and others.

Hauptmann made a name for himself especially in the concert sector among conductors such as Bernius , Bernstein , Bertini , Boulez , Corboz , Gardiner , Rilling , Harnoncourt , Hogwood , Masur , V. Neumann , Tilson Thomas , Welser-Möst , Sigiswald Kuijken , Cao and others.

In addition to private students, Cornelius Hauptmann teaches singing in master classes and is a member of the jury for various singing competitions.

As a member of the board of directors of the International Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, Cornelius Hauptmann initiated the lullaby project, in which 52 singers with German roots sing 52 lullabies and lullabies . This project has been produced by Stuttgart-based Carus-Verlag and SWR since October 2008 and is supervised by Hauptmann as artistic director. From December 2009 on, the SWR and other affiliated radio stations broadcast a new lullaby every week for one year, 2 CDs and accompanying books were released. This charity project (“Herzenssache” foundation) is supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel as patron and by the publishers Reclam and Die Zeit . The project has been continued with folk songs since 2010 and with children's songs since 2011 . Christmas carols were published in autumn 2012. For this project, Cornelius Hauptmann was awarded the “Countess Sonja Memorial Prize” by Count Christian Bernadotte on the island of Mainau in December 2011 from the “Singing with Children” foundation.

Cornelius Hauptmann has been Chairman of the Board of the German Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg since August 2012 and President of the German Tonkünstlerverband DTKV since April 2014.

Discography

Hauptmann has published numerous CDs: Passions by Bach, masses and operas by Mozart, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (Gardiner / DG), Monteverdi, Mendelssohn, Schütz, Schubert (Bernius / Carus); Haydn's Stabat mater ( Pinnock / DG); Oedipe von Enescu ( Foster / EMI); Mozart's Magic Flute ( Norrington / EMI and Kuijken / Bayer); Beethoven's Missa solemnis ( Herreweghe / harmonia mundi); Mozart's Requiem and C minor Mass (Bernstein / DG), as well as numerous other recordings.

He is particularly interested in the German song with recordings of songs by Loewe, Schubert, Silcher, Mozart and Hoffmeister.

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