Dennis Chmelensky

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Dennis   DE 74 03/27/2009 (2 weeks)

Dennis Chmelensky (* in August 1995 in Berlin ) is a German singer. As a boy soprano he sang in the children's choir of the Berlin State Opera and in the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir . He became known through his participation in the second season of the talent show Das Supertalent , which was broadcast in October and November 2008 by the German TV station RTL . Since September 2013 Chmelensky has been studying opera singing at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in the studio of Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen as a Guna S. Mundheim scholarship holder.

Life

Chmelensky was born the second of three children to Falk Thomas-Chmelensky and Andrea Chmelensky. His father works as a teacher, his mother is a social worker. Chmelensky's musical talent was already evident in his early childhood, so that his parents enrolled him in a music school for early musical education. At the age of five he learned the violin, at the age of seven the piano was added as a secondary instrument. At the age of eight he was accepted into the Berlin State Opera Choir, where his vocal talent was trained and he was given the opportunity to stand on stage as a soloist under the conductors Daniel Barenboim , Sir Simon Rattle and Kent Nagano . At the same time he attended the preparatory training at the Reinickendorf Music School and later at the Bela Bartok Music School.

From 2006 to 2012 he was a member of the Staats- und Domchor Berlin and found a mentor and teacher in its director Kai-Uwe Jirka , with whom he studied conducting as a young student at the University of the Arts from 2009 to 2013. He was a student at the Georg-Friedrich-Händel high school , where he graduated from high school in 2013 , and was concertmaster of the school's youth symphony orchestra during his school days.

In 2008, Chmelensky won the national competition Jugend musiziert with special prizes. In autumn of the same year he took part in the second season of the talent show Das Supertalent . With his interpretation of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria , he was eliminated in the semifinals of the show. Nevertheless, talent scouts from the record company Sony Music Entertainment noticed him and signed him. In March, the debut album was released under the title DENNIS with a mixture of classic songs and pop songs, which reached the German album charts in the same month.

Since September 2013 Chmelensky has been studying opera singing at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in the studio of Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen as a Guna S. Mundheim scholarship holder. In Philadelphia he was allowed to take part in opera productions as a baritone since the beginning of his studies and was part of national and international concert tours. His most important roles include Junior (A Quiet Place), Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La Bohème), Blansac (La Scala di Seta) as well as Paul in René Orth and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Campbell's Opera Empty the House , which premiered in 2016. He sang the opera's world premiere and will recreate the role on stage in a co-production with Opera Philadelphia in 2019.

In summer 2012 he attended the Chautauqua Music Festival and received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Verband Berlin, in summer 2014 the Kempinski Young Arts Festival in Berlin and again the Chautauqua Music Festival to make his debut as Papageno. In the summers of 2015 and 2017 he received a full scholarship and was an artist at the Schubertiaden in Baden near Vienna, where he studied at the Franz Schubert Institute under the direction of Deen Larsen and took part in numerous master classes and recitals with his piano accompanist.

In 2006 he worked as a supporting actor in the Sat.1 film The Mysterious Treasure of Troy . In the 2010 film UFO he played the lead role Wolfi and in the ZDF film Mörderische Jagd from 2012, he was seen as Mortiz Jäger at the side of Hinnerk Schönemann and Thomas Thieme.

Discography

• 2009: Dennis

Awards

• Winner of the Golden Snowflake Competition Serbia / Montenegro (2007)
• 1st prize at the national youth music competition in Saarbrücken (2008)
• Scholarship from Bärenreiter Verlag (2009)
• European Hope Prize of the European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa (2009)
• Engelbert Humperdinck Prize of the City of Siegburg (2009)
• Bayreuth Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association Berlin (2013)
• Scholarship holder of the Kempinski Young Artist Fellowship Program under the patronage of Marylea van Daalen (2013)
• Scholarship from the Gerda Lissner Liederkranz Foundation in New York City (2016)
• Scholarship from the Siegen Community Foundation under the patronage of Rolf H. Brunswig (since 2012)

Web links

• Homepage Dennis Chmelensky

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart tracking Dennis Chmelensky, album Dennis
2. ↑ Dennis Chmelensky: A classic super talent - city life - Berlin - Tagesspiegel. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Silke Böttcher: Strong Voices. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Frauke Lüpke-Narberhaus: The 13-year-old Dennis Chmelensky makes women cry and girls scream with classical music: child prodigy from Pankow. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Christine Ritzenhoff: First CD with 13 The Superstar from Pankow . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 14, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 25, 2015]).
6. ^ Faculty of Music. In: www.udk-berlin.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Part of a tightly woven network | Edition: 7/08 | nmz - new music newspaper. In: www.nmz.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Pierlane GmbH: Dennis Chmelensky - Music, News. In: artists.sonymusic.at. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Dennis Chmelensky. In: www.georghirsch.com. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Curtis on Tour. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 2, 2018 ; accessed on August 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Opera Philadelphia: A Quiet Place - A Quiet Place. Retrieved August 2, 2018 (American English). 
12. ^ Curtis Opera Theater Presents Impressions of Pelléas October 5–8. Retrieved August 2, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Chautauqua Wind Quintet features Mozart Mash-Up . In: The Chautauquan Daily . July 20, 2014 ( wordpress.com [accessed August 2, 2018]).
14. ↑ The Curtis Opera Theater presents La bohème by Giacomo Puccini at the Prince Theater October 3 and 4 - Created by Don - In category: Opera, Orchestra / Festivals / Schools, Performings Arts - Tagged with: - Don411.com Media :: Performing Arts News Unabridged -. Retrieved August 2, 2018 (American English). 
15. ^ A fun night at the opera with Curtis . In: Philly.com . ( philly.com [accessed August 2, 2018]).
16. ^ Opera Philadelphia: Empty the House - Empty the House. Retrieved August 2, 2018 (American English). 
17. ↑ Voice. In: ciweb.org. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
18. ^ Richard Wagner Association Berlin-Brandenburg eV - Wagner Association. In: www.wagnerverband-berlin.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
19. ↑ Kempinski: Kempinski young artist program celebrates its fifth anniversary with weekend of activities, Berlin, June 20–23 | Kempinski hotels. (No longer available online.) In: www.kempinski.com. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015 ; Retrieved July 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ FRANZ SCHUBERT INSTITUTE | Announcement. In: www.schubert-institut.at. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
21. ↑ Kult-Krimi, third edition: Between the Fronts - Media - Tagesspiegel. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
22. ^ Compost recording studio Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: compost-tonstudio-berlin.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015 ; Retrieved July 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ^ Deutscher Musikrat - Jugendmusiziert: The following special prizes were awarded in the 45th Federal Youth Music Competition: (No longer available online.) In: PDF on special prizes awarded - 45th National Youth Music Competition. Deutscher Musikrat - Jugendmusiziert, 23 June 2008, pp. 5–6 , archived from the original on 23 May 2011 ; accessed on June 23, 2008 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ^ European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa - Current Events - Karlsruhe, Center for Art and Media Technology ZMK, October 9, 2009. In: www.europaeische-kulturstiftung.eu. Retrieved July 25, 2015 . 
25. ↑ 2016 LIEDER / SONG. Retrieved August 2, 2018 (American English). 
26. ↑ From citizens for citizens Siegerland courier. (No longer available online.) In: www.siegerlandkurier.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015 ; Retrieved July 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.