Hartmut Höll

Hartmut Höll (born November 24, 1952 in Heilbronn ) is a German pianist and professor of song design at the Karlsruhe University of Music .

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Hartmut Höll is the son of a pastor. He attended the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Heilbronn .

Hartmut Höll has been giving recitals with Mitsuko Shirai all over the world since 1973 . From 1982 to 1992 he was a partner of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Recitals at the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh, Florence, Munich and Berlin festivals as well as in New York's Carnegie Hall established the collaboration.

Hartmut Höll has been closely associated with violist Tabea Zimmermann in chamber music since 1985. Concerts have taken them all over Europe, Israel, the USA and Canada. Together they recorded CDs with works by Schumann, Brahms, Shostakowitsch and Britten for the Capriccio label.

Since 2001 Hartmut Höll has also accompanied Renée Fleming at concerts in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA. Other singing partners were and are u. a. Urszula Kryger, Yvonne Naef , Jochen Kowalski , René Pape , Christoph Prégardien , Hermann Prey , Jadwiga Rappé, Peter Schreier , Roman Trekel .

Around sixty CD productions have been made, many of which have received international awards.

After previous professorships in Frankfurt and Cologne, Hartmut Höll is now professor at the Karlsruhe University of Music. He gave master classes for song in Finland, at the International Music Seminar in Weimar, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, at the Mozarteum Salzburg, in Jerusalem and in the USA. 1998/1999 Höll was visiting professor in Helsinki, from 1994 to 2003 visiting professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since October 2004 he has also been a visiting professor for song composition at the Zurich University of the Arts . Since October 2007 he has been the rector of the Karlsruhe University of Music .

In 1990 Hartmut Höll received the Robert Schumann Prize from the city of Zwickau. He is an honorary member of the Robert Schumann Society in Zwickau and the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg. In 1997 he and Mitsuko Shirai received the ABC International Music Award.

As a juror or jury chairman, he was invited to the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, the Naumburg Competition New York and the International ARD Music Competition in Munich. From 1985 to 2007 Hartmut Höll was the artistic director of the Hugo Wolf Academy for Singing - Sealing - Liedkunst e. V. Stuttgart.

Fonts

• WordMusic. Staccato, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-932976-44-5 .

Web links

• Page about Hartmut Höll at the Karlsruhe University of Music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Maier and Jürgen Schedler: Grew up in Heilbronn in the 50s and 60s . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8313-2863-5 , p. 51.