Kammersänger Prof. Thomas Quasthoff

  • Voice studies with Prof. Charlotte Lehmann and Prof. Ernst Huber-Contwig in Hanover
  • Concerts with renowned orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic, Saxonian Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, performances with symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New York amongst others
  • Artistic collaboration with conductors Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst
  • Guest as Lied singer at renowned concert halls worldwide including Vienna Konzerthaus, Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin and in the philharmonic halls of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Paris, Rome and Madrid as well as at international music festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Schwetzingen, Schleswig-Holstein, Schwarzenberg and at Oregon Bach Festival, Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart Festival USA
  • Opera debut as Don Fernando in Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle at Salzburg Easter Festival 2003, debut at Vienna State Opera as Amfortas in Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” under Donald Runnicles 2004
  • Performances with the Belcea Quartet, Vienna Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and projects including the discussion series “Thomas Quasthoffs Nachtgespäche” at Konzerthaus Berlin
  • 2010, jazz program “Tell it like it is” with jazz, soul and blues songs
  • End of singing career in 2012, performances since then as recite, storyteller and speaker at readings and concerts
  • 2012, debut as actor in the role of Feste in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at the Berliner Ensemble
  • Numerous CD recordings with Lieder by Gustav Mahler (Grammy Award for “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” 1999), Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, six recordings receiving the German ECHO Prize
  • Numerous national and international awards including the ARD International Music Competition, receipt of the Shostakovich Prize in Moscow, Scotsman Festival Prize at Edinburgh International Festival 2004 (for best singing rendition in classical music for his interpretation of Schubert Lieder), European Cultural Prize 2006, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal 2009, Herbert von Karajan Music Prize and Wigmore Hall Medal 2011
  • In 2009, award of the Austrian Kammersänger title
  • Lecturer in master courses in Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall, Heidelberg Frühling International Music Festival, University of Music Detmold, Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, Academia Vocalis in Wörgl and at Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg
  • Initiator of “Das Lied – International Song Competition”
  • From 1996 to 2004, Professor for Voice at University of Music Detmold and since 2004 at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
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