Michael Dahmen

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Michael Dahmen (born March 9, 1981 in Linnich ) is a German opera and concert singer with the baritone voice .

Career

Dahmen grew up in the rural Jülich district of Barmen . After graduating from high school in Haus Overbach and then doing community service in a Jülich nursing home, he first started a teaching degree at the Technical University of Dortmund (music and English). His teachers here included Martin Geck , Michael Stegemann and Walter Grünzweig . From 2004 to 2005 he completed two semesters abroad at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. From 2006 Michael Dahmen studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Christoph Prégardien .

Since his student days Michael Dahmen has performed as an opera and concert singer a. a. in Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Brazil and Mexico.

His concert activities with Christoph Prégardien, Michael Gees , Christophe Coin , the conductors Gerhard Jenemann , Peter Neumann , Marcus Creed , Emil Tabakov, Steven Sloane , Heribert Beissel , Julia Jones and Hermann Bäumer are documented on radio and on sound carriers. Dahmen sang in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, in the Konzerthaus Dortmund , the small and large broadcasting hall in the WDR-Funkhaus and the Cologne Philharmonic .

Dahmens discography includes a. Robert Schumann's Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (Carus) or the world premiere recording of some songs by Johann Benjamin Groß (LaBorie).

On the opera stage, he worked with the directors Igor Folwill, Pierre Audi , Roland Schwab , Elisabeth Stöppler , Alexander von Pfeil and old master Dietrich Hilsdorf and was nominated several times by critics of the specialist magazine theater pur as “Newcomer NRW”. He embodied opera roles such as Papageno ( Die Zauberflöte ) , Conte d'Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ) or Tsar Peter in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann , operetta characters like Dr. Falke in Strauss' Die Fledermaus or Dr. Siedler in Benatzkys Im Weißen Rößl and developed the role of Paul in Philip Glass ' Les enfants terribles in the field of new music as well as the title role in the world premiere of Sidney Corbett's opera Ubu, for which he was awarded the Gelsenkirchen Theater Prize in 2012. He received special attention from the public and the press through his impersonation of Count Danilo Danilowitsch in Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow .

Dahmen has an intensive and longstanding artistic relationship with his accompanist Christoph Schnackertz. The duo presented at the WDR 3 Open Auditions in November 2010 and has since been engaged several times for contributions to the WDR 3 radio program. B. for the Easter Schubertiade 2012 and for Hugo Wolf's Italian songbook (together with the soprano Anna Lucia Richter). In the summer of 2013, Richard Farber's Heine lieder were recorded for the first time , and in spring 2015 a recital as part of the NRW chamber concerts, Johannes Brahms Die Schöne Magelone , with Klaus Brantzen as speaker, in spring 2017.

Dahmen was a guest at the International Bach Festival Schaffhausen , the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Festival Mitte Europa and the Ruhrtriennale , where he performed at the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Gisela! Hanspeter sang. In November 2017, he traveled to Israel for the first time with concerts and master classes . Accompanied by the Israeli pianist Timor Shapira, he performed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among others .

Michael Dahmen was under contract at the Musiktheater im Revier (MiR) in Gelsenkirchen from 2011 to 2018 , as a guest or as a substitute he sang at the Solingen / Remscheid Theater (Masetto in Don Giovanni 2009), at the Hagen Theater (in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen 2010 ), at the Osnabrück Theater (Schaunard in La Bohème , 2013/14 season), at the Hanover State Opera (Harry Easter in Street Scene by Kurt Weill 2013) and at the Dortmund Theater (Graf Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro 2016). Dahmen made his debut at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in December 2017 with the role of Gunther in Oscar Straus ' operetta Die lustigen Nibelungen . In the same season he was invited to sing Papageno there and to appear in Carl Orff's Carmina burana .

Since the 2018/2019 season the baritone has been part of the ensemble of the Staatstheater Mainz , where he appeared on stage for the first time as Albert in the German premiere of Paul Abraham's comedy operetta Märchen in the Grand Hotel in November 2018 .

Awards

  • 2005: Nelson Clark Dale, Jr Prize in Music
  • 2007: Finalist in the song competition of the Dr. Kirschbaum Foundation, Cologne
  • 2008: Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association in Dortmund
  • 2012: Gelsenkirchen Theater Prize

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reporting on the awarding of the Gelsenkirchen Theater Prize 2012
  2. ↑ Gelsenkirchen: The Merry Widow. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Open Auditions series with Michael Dahmen ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Michael Dahmen at the Hanover State Opera
  5. ^ Michael Dahmen at the Karlsruhe State Theater
  6. ↑ Nelson Clark Dale, Jr Prize in Music PDF file (103kB)
personal data
SURNAME Dahmen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnich