Klemens Sander

Klemens Sander (* before 1980 in Steyr , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian baritone .

Life

education

Klemens Sander (married name and stage name, born as Klemens Geyrhofer) was initially a St. Florian Choir Boy before studying solo singing , lied and oratorio with Helena Łazarska , Robert Holl and David Lutz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . In 2000/2001 he was a fellow of the Tokyo Foundation and 2001/2002 of the Thyll-Dürr-Foundation. He graduated with distinction in 2003. He received further artistic impulses in master classes from Gundula Janowitz , Dagmar Pecková , Hartmut Höll and Thomas Hampson . During his studies he sang at the Vienna Volksoper .

Engagements

From 2003 to 2006 he was a member of the ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , where he played the roles of Papageno ( Die Zauberflöte ), Count Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Belcore ( L'elisir d'amore ), Marcello ( La Bohème ), Ping ( Turandot ), Donner ( Rheingold ) and Onegin ( Eugen Onegin ) sang.

Guest engagements have led him since 2005 a. a. to the Neue Oper Wien (Seikyo in Tan Dun's opera Tea, Sokrates in Krenek's Pallas Athene weeping as well as the title role in the Austrian premiere of Manfred Trojahn's Orest) to the Salzburg Festival ( Schreker : The Drawn ), to the Grand Theater Luxembourg (Papageno in Die Zauberflöte ) , to the Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Donner in Das Rheingold ), to the Theater an der Wien ( GF Handel : Giulio Cesare in Egitto , Poulenc : Dialogues des Carmèlites and Strauss : Intermezzo ), to the Klosterneuburg Opera (title role in Don Giovanni , Escamillo in Carmen and Silvio in Pagliacci) as well as to the opera houses of Dijon, Caen and Limoges ( Papageno in Die Zauberflöte) .

From 2008/2009 he was connected to the Vienna Volksoper with residency contracts, where he sang a. a. Parts like Papageno ( Die Zauberflöte ), Dr. Falcon ( Die Fledermaus ), Lord Kookburn ( Fra Diavolo ) and Harlequin ( Ariadne auf Naxos ).

In 2018/19, Klemens Sander performed, among other things, as Papageno in Romeo Castellucci's internationally acclaimed reinterpretation of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Opéra de Lille.

In addition to the opera, Sander is also active in the concert sector. In 2005 he made his recital debut with Charles Spencer (piano) at London's Wigmore Hall . Concert invitations have taken him through Europe, Japan and the USA, including the Berlin Philharmonic , the London Wigmore Hall, the Suntory Hall Tokyo , the Gewandhaus Leipzig , the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Laeisz-Halle Hamburg, the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Carinthian Summer , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Oxford Lieder Festival. He worked with the conductors Kent Nagano , Bertrand de Billy , Georges Prêtre , Franz Welser-Möst , Leopold Hager , Helmuth Rilling , René Jacobs , Martin Haselböck , Christopher Molds , Christian Arming , Andrés Oroczco-Estrada, Thomas Dausgaard, Christophe Rousset, Stefan Vladar , Eivind Gullberg Jensen, HK Gruber, Andreas Spering and Jérémie Rhorer.

Concert highlights were u. a. Gabriel Fauré's Requiem under Georges Prêtre in the Berlin Philharmonie and Schubert 's Mass in E flat major under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst. He was also with Fauré's Requiem at the MDR in Leipzig, Handel's Judas Maccabäus and Messiah in the Wiener Konzerthaus, Beethoven's Missa solemnis in the Wiener Musikverein, Orff's Carmina Burana in Tokyo, Taipei and Madrid, Haydn's Creation in the Brucknerhaus Linz, Szymanowski's Stabat Mater at the Festival for Polish music in Krakow as well as Brahms ' Ein German Requiem in the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Vienna Konzerthaus and Frank Martins Golgotha in the Stefaniensaal in Graz .

Prizes and awards

Klemens Sander is the winner of the Richard Tauber Prize (London 2003) and was awarded the song prize at the International Singing Competition in s'Hertogenbosch in 2002. He is also the winner of the International Ada Sari Competition in Poland in 2001 and the International Robert Schumann Competition (Zwickau 2000).

Discography

Various CDs have been released by Klemens Sander (Mahler:  Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen , Beethoven:  IX. Symphony , Fauré:  Requiem , Handel:  Judas Maccabaeus , Verdi:  Requiem , Bach: Cantata I have enough ). In 2013, together with the pianist Justus Zeyen, he published his debut solo album with Schubert's  Schwanengesang  and the  Seidl Lieder op.105 . Another CD was released in 2016 with Schubert's  Die Schöne Müllerin ( with Sander's wife Uta Sander at the piano), which received the Supersonic Award and was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards. His album Das Lyrische Intermezzo , released in 2017 (together with the actors Cornelius Obonya and Uta Sander), was also nominated for the International Classical Music Awards, selected for the Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa on-board program and awarded the Bank Austria Art Prize.

Teaching

In addition to his active artistic career, Klemens Sander teaches singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is a sought-after lecturer for master classes (including New England Conservatory Boston, University of Cartagena / Colombia) and a juror at singing competitions (Ada Sari Competition Nowy Sacz / Poland). From 2020/21 Klemens Sander will take over a professor for solo singing at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden.

family

Klemens Sander lives with his wife, the pianist and cultural manager Uta Sander, and their two children in Vienna.

Web links

• Klemens Sander at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Klemens Sander homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Richard Tauber Prize"