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During his studies under Paul Kuen and Raimund Grumbach in Munich, German baritone Christian Gerhaher also attended the Opera School of the Hochschule für Musik. Together with his regular piano partner Gerold Huber he took part in Helmut Deutsch’s lied class and perfected his vocal training in master-classes given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Inge Borkh. Meanwhile Christian Gerhaher has himself taken up a teaching appointment at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Gerhaher’s exemplary lied interpretations with Gerold Huber have been highly acclaimed: their recording of Schubert’s Winterreise received the Echo Klassik Prize in 2002 – the “Oscar” of the German recording industry – and, in autumn 2003, was given the highest distinction by the most important Japanese music magazine, the Record Geijutsu Magazine Award. Their CD of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (on the Arte Nova label) was awarded the Echo Klassik Prize in 2004 as the best recording of lied. Their Schubert album Abendbilder received the famous Gramophone Award in 2006.
After completing his medical studies in 1998 Christian Gerhaher was able to concentrate fully on singing. In the same year he won the Prix International Pro Musicis in Paris / New York and subsequently gave his debut recital in Carnegie Hall’s chamber music hall in New York. He has since appeared in all major lied centres such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and is a regular guest at such renowned festivals as the Schwetzingen Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Klangbogen Festival, Maggio musicale Fiorentino, Edinburgh Festival and Lucerne Festival, as well as the Aspen Festival in the USA. In 2006 he received the prestigious Music Prize of North German Radio during a recital at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
Besides his extensive activity giving concerts and recitals, Christian Gerhaher also performs in opera. He sang the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo as well as Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, both at the Frankfurt Opera. Under Riccardo Muti, he was Papageno in a production of The Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival in 2006. Future opera productions include the title role in Henze’s Prinz von Homburg at the Theater an der Wien, Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Teatro Real Madrid, at the Vienna State Opera and Munich State Opera, and at Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
Milestones of his concert career include performances in the world’s major concert halls with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Heinz Holliger, Fabio Lusi, Ingo Metzmacher, Lothar Zagrosek, Riccardo Muti, Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons and Christian Thielemann. Christian Gerhaher performs regularly with renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Concentus Musicus Wien, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He also gives concerts with major orchestras outside Europe, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Montreal, Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. In the coming season Christian Gerhaher is “Artist in Residence” of the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra where he will be able to show his great versatility in three different orchestral projects as well as in a chamber concert.
Christian Gerhaher has an exclusive recording contract with RCA Red Seal. His first CD on this label was a recording of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and selected songs. In the meantime the label has issued Mendelssohn’s Elias with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and his Schubert CD Abendbilder. All his previous CDs have also been re-issued by BMG. For Arte Nova, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber have recorded all the Schubert cycles. Other CDs include Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesänge and Frank Martin’s Jedermann Monologe as well as Mahler’s Kindertotenliederand Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. For Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Christian Gerhaher recorded Haydn’s Creation and Orlando Paladino as well as Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (RCA Red Seal) conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom further recordings are planned, including Bach’s A Christmas Oratorio and Haydn’s The Seasons (both Deutsche Harmonia Mundi). Deutsche Grammophon has issued the disc Terezín Theresienstadt with Anne Sophie von Otter. RCA Red Seal recently released Christian Gerhaher’s new Schumann CD Melancholie. Unitel will issue a DVD of Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Christian Thielemann.
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