Ludwig Mittelhammer

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Ludwig Mittelhammer (* 1988 in Munich ) is a German opera and concert singer ( baritone ).

biography

Mittelhammer studied singing at the Munich University of Music and Drama from 2009 to 2015 . From September 2011 to 2014 he was a member of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding . Master courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Brigitte Fassbaender , Ann Murray and Edith Wiens complemented his training.

Together with the pianist Jonathan Ware , he won first prize at the International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart in 2014 . At the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition of the Berlin University of the Arts , he was previously awarded a special prize for the best interpretation of a Goethe song by Wolfgang Rihm .

Mittelhammer has been a member of the Frankfurt Opera Studio since the 2015/16 season . Mittelhammer can be heard at Oper Frankfurt in the 2016/17 season in the roles of Marullo in Rigoletto and Schaunard in La Bohème . In the 2017/18 season he will take on various leading roles as a guest at the State Theater in Nuremberg .

As a concert soloist, Mittelhammer has performed with the Orchester de Paris , Munich Radio Orchestra , Concerto Köln , Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Munich Chamber Orchestra . He worked with the conductors Jaap van Zweden , Michael Hofstetter, Alexander Liebreich and Ulf Schirmer. The highlights of 2017 include concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding in Stockholm's Berwaldhallen , Bruckner masses with the RIAS Chamber Choir , Telemann cantatas with the NDR Choir and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , as well as several recitals, including in the Wigmore Hall in London and in the Muziekgebouw of Eindhoven.

Awards

  • 2014: First prize at the International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart
  • 2015: Bavarian Art Prize in the Performing Arts category

Web links

  • [1] Homepage of the artist
  • [2] Homepage of the agency

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hugo-wolf-akademie.de/wettbewerb/gewinner
personal data
SURNAME Mittelhammer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich