M. Harer, A. Bierwirth, T. Hunger, M. Flaig, Voktett Hannover, la festa musicale & Lajos Rovatkay
Biography M. Harer, A. Bierwirth, T. Hunger, M. Flaig, Voktett Hannover, la festa musicale & Lajos Rovatkay
Magdalene Harer
German-born Soprano Magdelene Harer excels in a variety of music styles. She appears on the international stage performing repertoire spanning seven centuries, in oratorio, song and chamber music.
Under the baton of Konrad Junghänel, Jarosław Thiel, Raphaël Pichon, Alexander Liebreich, Paul van Nevel, Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Neumann, Hermann Max and Jörg Straube, she has given concerts in many of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including Koelner Philharmonie, International House of Music (Moscow), National Forum of Music (Wroclaw), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), and National Theatre (Sarajevo).
Magdalene’s current focus is ensemble and consort singing and she regularly appears with some of Europe’s most celebrated period ensembles, such as Cantus Coelln, Collegium Vocale Gent, Huelgas Ensemble, Ensemble Pygmalion and ensemble polyharmonique.
Equally at home on the solo platform, she has appeared with numerous orchestras, among them Concerto Köln, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Göttinger Symphonieorchestrer, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Münchener Kammerorchester and others.
Anne Bierwirth
studied singing and historical interpretation practice with Professor Heidrun Kordes at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. She is a sought-after concert and oratorio singer. Her repertoire ranges from Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic works to contemporary compositions. Concert engagements have taken the contralto to numerous cities in Germany and Europe as well as on concert tours to Brazil, China, Russia and South Africa. She has worked with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Thomas Hengelbrock, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hermann Max, Wolfgang Schäfer, Michael Schneider and Florian Heyerick. She is a regular guest at numerous festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Telemann Festival Magdeburg, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Zermatt Festival and the Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival. Various CD recordings and radio recordings document her work.
Tobias Hunger
began his musical training in the Dresden Kreuzchor and studied singing with Professor Hermann Christian Polster at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig. As an internationally sought-after concert and oratorio singer, he regularly travels to countries such as the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Finland.
He is particularly focussed on the interpretation of 17th and 18th century music. He repeatedly works with renowned ensembles, orchestras and conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Andreas Spering, Adam Viktora, Václav Luks, Peter Schreier, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Hermann Max, Wolfgang Katschner, Ludwig Güttler, Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile and Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz. Performances have taken him to outstanding concert halls such as the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Gasteig in Munich, the Glocke in Bremen, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Numerous CD and radio recordings document his extensive oeuvre. In addition to the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his repertoire ranges from works from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods to music from the 1920s and 1930s as well as modern music. He made a successful guest appearance at the Munich Biennale in the stage play L'Abcence by Sarah Nemtsov as RABBINER.
In opera, he has also sung roles such as PAOLINO (Il matrimonio segreto), CARAMELLO (Eine Nacht in Venedig), DON OTTAVIO (Don Giovanni), FERRANDO (Così fan tutte), ACIS (Acis and Galatea) and BASILIO/DON CURZIO (Le nozze di Figaro). Most recently, he sang TRIQUET in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden. Tobias Hunger has completed masterclasses with Peter Schreier, Scot Weir, Gerd Türk, Eva Randová and the King's Singers.
