Hans Christoph Begemann

Hans Christoph Begemann (born February 4, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German singer with the baritone voice and university lecturer .

Life

Begemann made his first singing appearances in the local parish hall as early as 1968 and has since received violin lessons . From 1972 to 1976 he sang the Third Boy in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte at the Hamburg State Opera . He had been taking piano lessons since 1977 and joined the Hamburg Youth Orchestra (HJO) as a violinist. From 1980 to 1983 he was concertmaster with the HJO, with whom he also went on tour to Canada .

After high school and community service , he completed a vocal study with Claus Ocker from 1983 to 1986 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg , which he completed with a diploma as a music teacher. From 1986 to 1988 he studied singing with Ernst Haefliger at the Munich University of Music and at the Opera School at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich . There Begemann obtained his singing diploma. From 1988 to 1991 he went on to study with Aldo Baldin at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe , where he passed the concert exam with distinction. In 1994 he won first prize at the International Competition of the Japanese Schubert Society in Osaka .

Begemann made his debut at the Stadttheater Gießen in 1992 with the role of the robber in the operetta Gasparone by Karl Millöcker . He took part in the world premiere of Alfred Schnittke's Life with an Idiot at the Musiktheater Amsterdam under the direction of Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch . From 1994 to 1997 Begemann had a permanent engagement at the Wuppertaler Bühnen . From 1997 to 2005 another permanent engagement followed at the Staatstheater Darmstadt .

Begemann gave guest appearances at the opera houses of Hanover, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Mönchengladbach, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Basel, Enschede and Helsinki. Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance singer with opera productions at the opera houses of Helsinki, Nuremberg, Cologne, Braunschweig, Chemnitz and at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival. Since 2007 he can be heard regularly in the song workshop at the Kissinger Sommer . In 2007 he sang in the world premiere of Cosima by Siegfried Matthus at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . He also brought the Goethe songs by Wolfgang Rihm premiered.

Hans Christoph Begemann is married and has lived with his family in Mainz since 2009 .

Opera specialist roles

Mozart: Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro , Leporello Don Giovanni , narrator, formerly also Papageno, in Die Zauberflöte .
German: Wolfram in Tannhäuser , Heerrufer in Lohengrin , Peter I in Tsar and Zimmermann , Orest in Elektra , music teacher in Ariadne on Naxos , Peter Besenbinder in Hansel and Gretel .
Italian: Giorgio Germont in La traviata , Orlando in Orlando furioso , Marcello in La Bohème , Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville .
French: Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto in Hoffmann's stories , Escamillo in Carmen , Zurga in Die Perlenfischer , Jaufré Rudel in L'amour de loin .
English: Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress .

Guest productions

Finnish National Opera Helsinki: L'amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho (Jaufré pack)
Leipzig Opera: Hoffmann's stories by Jacques Offenbach (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto).
State Theater Nuremberg: Prospero by Luca Lombardi (title role), world premiere.
Ludwigsburg Palace Festival: Les Danaïdes by Antonio Salieri (Danaus)
Cologne Opera: Lohengrin by Richard Wagner (Heerrufer)
State Theater Braunschweig: Cosima by Siegfried Matthus , world premiere.
Chemnitz Opera: Il templario by Otto Nicolai (title role) (German premiere), La traviata (Giorgio Germont).
Opera houses in Essen, Mannheim and Wiesbaden: Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (father, Peter Besenbinder).

Musical work

Song singing

Accompanied on the piano by Helmut Deutsch and regularly for 20 years by his duo partner Thomas Seyboldt , Begemann has sung over 300 Schubert songs on the concert podium . The SWR presented a series of Schubert evenings broadcast live and some of them on CD, including Die Winterreise . At the age of 60 , the lied duo introduced themselves to WDR's songs from Theresienstadt by Viktor Ullmann and Pavel Haas . Wolfgang Rihm , Manfred Trojahn , Juan Allende Blin, Wilhelm Killmayer , Moritz Eggert and Peter Ruzicka wrote songs for Begemann, which premiered at the Schubertiade in Ettlinger Schloss and at the Kissinger Sommer .

Concert and oratorio

Hans Christoph Begemann sang in the Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Wiener Musikverein , the Auditorio Nacional Madrid, the Palau de la musica in Barcelona , the Tonhalle Zurich and in the major concert halls in Germany. In 2009 he took part in performances of Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio The Messiah under the direction of the conductor Marc Andreae in Estonia , which were also broadcast on Estonian radio.

School project

The Schubertiade.de school project initiated by Hans Christoph Begemann and Thomas Seyboldt is very popular . Under the patronage of the Minister of Culture of Baden-Württemberg, the lied duo conducts lecture concerts for schoolchildren nationwide in the respective city concert halls.

Teaching

Since the summer semester 2006, Hans Christoph Begemann has been a lecturer in singing (major and minor) at the University of Music Rhineland-Palatinate at the University of Mainz , where he teaches a singing class. In March 2020 he was appointed adjunct professor.

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personal data
SURNAME	Begemann, Hans Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German singer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg