Jörg Dürmüller
tenor
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Swiss tenor Jörg Dürmüller studied violin and voice at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland, and continued his voice studies at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, attending master classes with Christa Ludwig and Hermann Prey.
Jörg Dürmüller has gained an outstanding reputation as a concert singer, particularly through the role of Evangelist in the J. S. Bach passions. He has performed in the major concert halls and most renowned festivals of the world, including the Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms), the Vienna Musikverein, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Auditorio Nacional de España in Madrid, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Filarmonia São Paulo, the Summer Festival Tokyo, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Bach-Fest in Leipzig and the Epidaurus Festival in Athens, to name but a few.
Jörg's first operatic engagements led him to Bielefeld and Brunswick under the artistic directorship of Brigitte Fassbaender; he subsequently became a member of the Vienna Volksoper ensemble, where he enjoyed great success in various roles including Tamino ("The Magic Flute"), Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni"), and Don Ramiro ("La Cenerentola"). As a freelance artist, Jörg Dürmüller has appeared frequently as guest soloist at the Opera Comique Berlin, in roles such as Ferrando in Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" and Bajazete in Handel's "Tamerlano", directed by David Alden. Other guest appearances led him to the opera houses of Hamburg, Montpellier, Leipzig, Cologne, Sevilla, Strasbourg and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
In the field opera and concert work, Jörg Dürmüller has performed under well-renowned conductors such as Howard Arman, Herbert Blomstedt, Bertrand De Billy, Dennis Russell Davies, Christoph Eschenbach, Diego Fasolis, Reinhard Goebel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christopher Hogwood, Michael Hofstetter, René Jacobs, Vaclav Neumann, Christof Prick, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Jan Willem de Vriend, Sebastian Weigle, Bruno Weil, Simone Young and Hans Zender.
Jörg Dürmüller has gained an outstanding reputation as a concert singer, particularly through the role of Evangelist in the J. S. Bach passions. He has performed in the major concert halls and most renowned festivals of the world, including the Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms), the Vienna Musikverein, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Auditorio Nacional de España in Madrid, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Filarmonia São Paulo, the Summer Festival Tokyo, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Bach-Fest in Leipzig and the Epidaurus Festival in Athens, to name but a few.
Jörg's first operatic engagements led him to Bielefeld and Brunswick under the artistic directorship of Brigitte Fassbaender; he subsequently became a member of the Vienna Volksoper ensemble, where he enjoyed great success in various roles including Tamino ("The Magic Flute"), Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni"), and Don Ramiro ("La Cenerentola"). As a freelance artist, Jörg Dürmüller has appeared frequently as guest soloist at the Opera Comique Berlin, in roles such as Ferrando in Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" and Bajazete in Handel's "Tamerlano", directed by David Alden. Other guest appearances led him to the opera houses of Hamburg, Montpellier, Leipzig, Cologne, Sevilla, Strasbourg and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
In the field opera and concert work, Jörg Dürmüller has performed under well-renowned conductors such as Howard Arman, Herbert Blomstedt, Bertrand De Billy, Dennis Russell Davies, Christoph Eschenbach, Diego Fasolis, Reinhard Goebel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christopher Hogwood, Michael Hofstetter, René Jacobs, Vaclav Neumann, Christof Prick, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Jan Willem de Vriend, Sebastian Weigle, Bruno Weil, Simone Young and Hans Zender.
