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Wolfgang Holzmair

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Wolfgang Holzmair (born 1952 in Vöcklabruck) is an Austrian baritone.

Holzmair studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won 2nd prize in the baritone class of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in 1981, and a year later 1st prize in the Musikverein International Lieder Competition, Vienna.

Opera

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Holzmair spent about six years with opera companies in Bern (Bern Theatre) and Gelsenkirchen (Musiktheater im Revier) before successes in Udo Zimmermann's The White Rose and Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande brought him to general attention.[1] His repertoire includes rarely performed works such as Henze's Boulevard Solitude, Nigel Osborne’s The Electrification of the Soviet Union,[2] Hindemith's Neues vom Tage[3] and Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias.[4]

More standard works[5] include Richard Strauss's Capriccio (the Count), Ariadne auf Naxos (Harlequin and the Music Master), Der Rosenkavalier (Faninal); Mozart's The Magic Flute (Papageno and the Speaker) and Così fan tutte (Guglielmo and Don Alfonso); Wagner's Tannhäuser (Wolfram), and Meistersinger (Beckmesser). In the 2009/2010 season he sang Demetrius in the Canadian Opera Company's production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream,[6] the Father in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel on a tour in Japan, and the Sorceress in a concert performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas[7] in Vienna

Song recital and orchestral concerts

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Holzmair's high, rather light timbre is particularly suitable for song[8] and in 1989 a highly successful debut at the Wigmore Hall launched his international recital career.[9] His clear and expressive language embedded in a pure legato line,[10] and his dramatic commitment, have been especially commended. The English music critic Alan Blyth[11] was immediately struck by the baritone’s first recording of Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin[12] and remained a firm advocate;[13][14] more recently Richard Fairman referred to an exceptional ability to communicate the rhythms and meanings of poetry.[15]

He has worked with many pianists of note, a long-standing collaboration with Imogen Cooper being widely admired for its exceptionally close rapport;[16][17] other partners include Andreas Haefliger[18] and Philippe Cassard[19] as well as dedicated accompanists Gerard Wyss, Russell Ryan and Roger Vignoles. He also maintains a strong presence in the world of chamber music, where the Trio Wanderer,[20] the Nash Ensemble and the Rachmaninov Trio[21] are among his collaborators. Holzmair regularly appears in major centres in Europe and North America, and also travels to outlying venues where communities have fewer opportunities to hear live recitals.[22] Recent European Music Festivals include Risør, Kuhmo, Lockenhaus, Kyburgiade, the Oxford Lieder Festival and styriarte, and he has also participated in La Folle Journée's program for bringing classical music to new audiences. In 2010 Holzmair and the Departure Centre for Creative Design in Vienna collaborated in a bid to attract new listeners to lieder, by presenting concerts in which the baritone and 6 compatriots performed Wolf against visual backdrops. The experiment was deemed a success, and was repeated for Mahler’s lieder, with a slightly different cast of singers, in 2011.[23] The Wolf series is now available on 5 DVDs, which show the visuals but not the singers.[24]

Holzmair's wide-ranging repertoire includes melodies as well as lieder and extends from the 18th to the 21st century. He has long been committed to bringing to attention the "Entartete" composers who suffered under the Nazi regime and has recorded lieder by Hanns Eisler, Franz Mittler,[25] Erich Zeisl,[26] Ernst Krenek,[27] Franz Schreker[28] and composers from Theresienstadt;[29] in 2010 he joined the Nash Ensemble in a week-end show-casing music by the Theresienstadt composers, at the Wigmore Hall.[30][31]

He has performed orchestrated lieder with many leading orchestras, as in the 2010 Styriarte Festival;[32] other recent orchestral appearances have been in Britten's War Requiem, Brahms' Deutsches Requiem, Darius Milhaud's Les Choephores[33] and Schumann's[34] Scenes from Faust.

Song premieres and commissions

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Premieres since 2000 include Kurt Schwertsik's Die Welt eine Laute and Fioretti per San Francesco,[35] a chamber version of Hans Werner Henze's Five Neapolitan Songs[36] with the Nash Ensemble (as part of a 75th birthday tribute to the composer), Dmitry Smirnov's Eternal Refuge[37] with the Altenburg Trio Wien (recorded by Austrian Radio), Daniel Schnyder's one-act opera Mozart and Casanova[38] (at the Menuhin Festival, Gstaad), Helmut Schmidinger's solo cantata Mozart Briefe[39] (with the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz, as part of Mozart's 250th), and David Matthews' arrangements of Brahms' lieder[40] and of part of Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang[41] (commissioned by the Nash Ensemble); recent additions are Schmidinger's Wo der Bartl den Most holt[42] and the Austrian premiere of Lori Laitman's Seed of Dreams.[43] His Erich Zeisl disc marking the composer's 100th anniversary included unpublished songs, and he contributed to a recording of new settings of Eduard Mörike's poetry[44] commissioned by the Hugo Wolf Institute of Stuttgart, to celebrate the poet's 200th birthday. Holzmair has commissioned David Leisner to compose a new piece for baritone and string quartet[45] and the resulting work, A Timeless Procession, will be premiered in a future season.

Teaching

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Since 1998 Holzmair has taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum and given master classes in Europe and North America; 2011 finds him participating in the annual Schubert Institute Master Course in Baden bei Wien[46] for the 7th time. In 2008 the Royal College of Music made him a Fellow in recognition of services to the college and to music, and in 2009 he was a juror for the Wigmore Hall Song competition.[47] He is an advisor to the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, and contributed to the foundation's first CD.

Selected recordings

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  • Schubert Die schöne Müllerin with Jörg Demus, 1983 Preiser
  • Ein deutsches Requiem with Herbert Blomstedt, 1996 Decca Grammy Award
  • Brahms Die Schone Magelone with Gerard Wyss and Will Quadfleg, 1986 Tudor
  • Braunfels Die Vögel with Lothar Zagrosek, 1992 Decca
  • Schubert lieder to texts by Mayrhofer with Gerard Wyss, 1993 Tudor
  • Schumann Heine Lieder with Imogen Cooper, 1996 Philips
  • Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart Lieder with Imogen Cooper, 2000 Philips
  • Krenek and Schubert Lieder with Russell Ryan, 2003 Orf
  • Beethoven, Pleyel, Haydn, Songs from the British Isles with the Trio Wanderer, 2008 Cypres
  • Wolf Songs with Imogen Cooper, 2009 Wigmore Live
  • Songs from Theresienstadt with Russell Ryan, 2009 Bridge
  • Ravel Melodies and Trio with Ensemble Musique Oblique, 2009 Alphee

References

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  1. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair - Biography, Albums, Streaming Links - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. ^ David M. Cummings in International Who's Who in Music and Musicians Directory [1]
  3. ^ "Ancona, Hindemith: Neues vom Tage". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  4. ^ "SAITO KINEN FESTIVAL MATSUMOTO : About SAITO KINEN FESTIVAL MATSUMOTO". Archived from the original on 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  5. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair". 26 August 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  6. ^ Opera News review of A Midsummer Night's Dream
  7. ^ m.b.H., STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft. "Amors messerscharfe Pfeile". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  8. ^ Nick Kimberley The Anatomy of Melancholy 1993[dead link‍]
  9. ^ Michael White Sing a Song of Silence 1993
  10. ^ "Barrymore Laurence Scherer Letter from America 1993". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  11. ^ Reed, Philip (15 August 2007). "Alan Blyth". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Review of Die Schone Mullerin". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  13. ^ "Review of Schubert's Mayrhofer lieder". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Review of Schubert's Goethe lieder". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair, Wigmore Hall". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  16. ^ Colin Clarke on the Holzmair/Cooper partnership in Wolf, in Musicweb International 2011 [2]
  17. ^ Review of re-issue of Holzmair/Cooper Schubert song cycles, 2005
  18. ^ Rob Pennock on Holzmair/Haefliger's Winterreise, in Classical Source 2009 [3]
  19. ^ " Philippe Cassard Web site
  20. ^ "Performance with Trio Wanderer 2009". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  21. ^ New initiative between Russian and Western musicians
  22. ^ Centre, Wiltshire Music. "Wolfgang Holzmair and Russell Ryan". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  23. ^ Mahler lieder with visuals
  24. ^ "Lieder: Collector's Edition (DVD) WOLF, HUGO". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  25. ^ Web(UK), Music on the. "MITTLER Lieder PREISER PR90567 [AO]: Classical CD Reviews- August 2004 MusicWeb(UK)". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  26. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  27. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (4 November 2000). "MUSIC REVIEW; From High in the Austrian Alps, A Bracing Whiff of Forgotten Glories". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  28. ^ England, Classical Voice of New. "Music Worcester Presents the Israel Ballet in Don Quixote". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  29. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair and Russell Ryan: Spiritual Resistance: Music From Theresiendstadt > Opera News > The Met Opera Guild". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  30. ^ Ashley, Tim (22 June 2010). "Theresienstadt weekend". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  31. ^ "Week-end to Terezin I. Music from a lost generation". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  32. ^ Heute, Klassik. "CDs, Tipps, News, Termine bei Klassik Heute – Fehlermeldung". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  33. ^ Review of Les Choephores
  34. ^ Dahlgreen, Camilla Marie (29 January 2010). "Brav kamp for at formidle 'Fausts' spraglede helhed". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  35. ^ "Kurt Schwertsik - Die Welt eine Laute". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  36. ^ "Henze: voice for today @www.classicalsource.com". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  37. ^ Online from Sibelius music
  38. ^ "Biography. — Daniel Schnyder. composer. saxophonist". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  39. ^ Schmidinger's Mozart Briefe
  40. ^ "Nash Ensemble @www.classicalsource.com". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  41. ^ "Wolfgang Holzmair/Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, London". 4 December 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  42. ^ Schmidinger's Wo Bartl den Most holt
  43. ^ "LSM Newswire: Baritone HOLZMAIR performs Laitman's The Seed of Dream in Native Austria". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  44. ^ "Bayer Music Group :: Klassik Labels :: Online-Shop". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  45. ^ David Leisner biography
  46. ^ "FRANZ-SCHUBERT-INSTITUT - Roster of Teachers". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  47. ^ "Song Competition > 2009 Competition > The Jury". Wigmore Hall. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009.
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