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Wolfgang Holzmair - Baritone

Wolfgang Holzmair was born in Vöcklabruck, Austria, and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with Hilde Rössel-Majdan (voice) and Erik Werba (lied).
The singer performs in recital throughout the world, including London, Lisbon, New York, Washington, at the Risör Festival (Norway), Bath Festival (UK), Menuhin Festival (Switzerland), Bregenz Festival and Carinthian Summer Festival (Austria), and in 2010/11 again in London, New York and at the Carinthian Summer Festival, as well as in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Liverpool, Oxford, Linz and Vienna (where he curates and sings in a Mahler project). Alongside his outstanding artistic relationship with the British pianist Imogen Cooper and his collaboration with a number of well-versed accompanists, he performs with some of the leading pianists of our time, most recently with Andreas Haefliger.

Holzmair is also active in the opera world. He recently appeared as Papageno (Magic Flute) and Eisenstein (Fledermaus) in Dallas under Graeme Jenkins, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier in Seattle under Asher Fish and in Hong Kong under Edo deWaart, Don Alfonso (Cosi) in Lyon under William Christie and in Toronto under Richard Bradshaw, the Music Master in Ariadne in Madrid under Jesús López-Cobos, Wolfram (Tannhäuser) in Erfurt under Gugerbauer, Eduard (Neues vom Tage by Hindemith) in Ancona, Demetrius (A Midsummernight’s Dream, Britten) in Toronto under Anne Manson and the Father (Hansel and Gretel) on a Japan tour under Ozawa.

In 2010/11 he will resume the role of Don Alfonso (Cosi) under William Christie, this time at the Met, and sing Masino in Haydn’s La vera costanza in concertante performances in Cologne. Future plans include Beckmesser (Meistersinger) in Japan and Agamemnon (Iphigenie in Aulis by Gluck/Wagner) in Bayreuth.

Equally in demand on the concert platform, he has sung with leading European and American orchestras, such as the Israel Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland and Concertgebouw Orchestras and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, under eminent conductors including Blomstedt, Boulez, Chailly, Frühbeck de Burgos, Haitink, Harnoncourt, Kreizberg, Norrington, Ozawa. This season Wolfgang Holzmair’s concert appearances include Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Klangforum Wien in Vienna and Amsterdam, orchestrated Wolf songs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in Budapest, Brahms Requiem under Friedrich Haider in Oviedo, etc.

Mr. Holzmair has an extensive discography, and his recordings have met with critical acclaim. His numerous recordings include lieder by Clara and Robert Schumann and Eichendorff songs by various composers, all with Imogen Cooper (Philips), various Schubert recordings with Gérard Wyss (Tudor), the Austrian Pasticcio Award winning Songs from the British Isles with Trio Wanderer (Cyprés), Wolf Songs with Imogen Cooper (Wigmore Hall Live Series), Pelléas et Mélisande with Haitink and the Orchestre National de France (Naive), and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with Herbert Blomstedt, which won a Grammy award. For years he has also been a committed advocate of works, especially lieder, by formerly persecuted composers as is evidenced by his Krenek, Mittler, Zeisl, Schreker and Terezin/Theresienstadt CDs (ORF, cpo, Bridge Records). Other recordings (lieder, opera, and operetta) are being planned.

Since 1998 he has taught lied and oratorio at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and given master classes in Europe and North America. He is also a visiting professor and fellow of the Royal College of Music (London).

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