Kammersänger Prof. Roman Trekel
- Born in Pirna, Germany
- From 1980 to 1986, voice studies with Kammersänger Prof. Heinz Reeh at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
- Subsequently member of the opera studio at Staatsoper Berlin, since 1988, permanent ensemble member
- Guest performances at La Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, State Operas in Munich, Dresden and Hamburg, opera houses in Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Florence, Vienna, Madrid and Zurich, New National Theatre Tokyo and at Bayreuth Festival
- Roles of specialization including Wolfram, Conte, Posa, Valentin and Don Alfonso, and increasingly dramatic and character roles including Beckmesser in “Meistersinger”, Amfortas in “Parsifal” and Faust
- Collaboration as concert singer with notable orchestras such as Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Munich Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann and Kent Nagano
- Collaborative artistic activities with piano accompanists Oliver Pohl, Burkhard Kehring, Hartmut Höll, Malcolm Martineau, Hideyo Harda, Elena Bashkirova, Helmut Deutsch and Daniel Barenboim
- Comprehensive discography including “Orpheus” by Georg Philipp Telemann (German Record Prize 1998) and "Szenen und Arien für Bariton" by Siegfried Wagner (German Record Critics' Prize 2001)
- 1st prize at Walter Gruner International Lieder Competition in London 1989
- Appointed Kammersänger in 2000
- Leading master classes and jury member at international competitions
- Since 1989, teacher for voice at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, appointed Honorary Professor in 2007