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Stefan Berghammer studied piano, trombone, vocal pedagogics and
secondary school music teaching, gaining a first-class
honours degree at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In
1998 he received a Master of Music Degree in Vocal
Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He
has since studied with
Karl-Heinz Jarius in Frankfurt, Paula de Wit in Amsterdam,
Barbara Pearson in The Hague, Ron Murdock in Amsterdam,
Cathy Pope in London and Janet Williams in Berlin.
At
present he is completing his studies with Maestro David
Jones in New York.
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| He has followed masterclasses with John Mark Ainsley, Franzisco Araiza,
Robert Tear, Nicolai Gedda, Diane Forlano, Barbara Bonney,
Wolfgang Holzmair, Nigel Rogers, Kurt Widmer, Jessica
Cash, Phillip Langridge and Paul Esswood (Baroque).
In 1997 the young tenor won
the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize in London and was prize winner at
the "The
Croft Original Trophy for Early Music". He was also a
finalist at the Flora Nielsen Prize for
English, French and German Lieder at the Royal Academy of
Music and a prize winner at the St. John Festival Choir
Oratorio Singing Competition in London.
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| Stefan Berghammer has collaborated with the ensembles Les solistes de
Lyon (Bernard Tétu), Basler Madrigalisten (Fritz Näf),
Schweizer Kammerchor, Collegium Vocale of the
Salzburger Bachgesellschaft (Albert Hartinger), Salzburger
Vokalsolisten, Studio Vocale Karlsruhe (Werner Pfaff),
Keplerconsort Linz,
the English Brandenburg Ensemble, the Egidius Quartet, and
with the solo ensemble of De Nederlandse Bachvereniging,
Capella Figuralis (Jos van Veldhoven). In London he held
the post of tenor in the professional vocal quartet at St.
Steven’s Church (Gloucester Road) and was a deputy for
Ealing Abbey Cathedral Choir and for the Choirs of St.
Michael’s Cornhill and The Grosvenor Chapel. He also
made a very successful appearance in the Young Artists
Showcase on BBC Radio 3.
Since the year 2000 he has
been a permanent member of the renowned Nederlands
Kamerkoor. He also works regularly with the
internationally famous Huelgas Ensemble (Paul van Nevel),
specialised in Renaissance music, with whom he performs at
many international music festivals.
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| He is much in demand as a soloist in the oratorios of J.S. Bach. Solo
and ensemble appearances have brought him to most
countries in Europe and several elsewhere. He has sung at
festivals and cities such as Pfingsten Barock (Salzburg,
where he also appears as a soloist at the cathedral),
Edinburgh Music Festival, London Bach Festival, Festival für
Alte Musik (Innsbruck), Brucknerfest (Linz),
Festival van Vlaanderen,
Enschede Muziek Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Zürcher
Festspiele, Musikfestival Luzern, Festival d'Ile de
France, Les Opéras d'Été (Dinard), Festival Oude Muziek
(Utrecht), Holland Festival, Festival Saintes, Rome, (Academia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia), Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Lyon, Antwerp (De Singel), Bruges, Ghent,
Basel, London (Royal Festival Hall), Paris (Cité
de la Musique and La Bastille), Baden-Baden
(Festspielhaus), Düsseldorf (Tonhalle), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Brussels (Palais
de Beaux-Arts), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Vienna (Musikverein and
Konzerthaus) and New York (Carnegie Hall and Columbia
University).
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| Thanks to his busy concert schedule as both solo and ensemble singer he
has worked with many conductors such as Frans Brüggen,
Philippe Herreweghe, Sir Simon Rattle, Andrew Litton, Sir
Colin Davis, Jan Willem de Vriend, Marcus Creed, Klaas
Stok, Ed Spanjaard, Peter Dijkstra, Paul van Nevel,
Stephen Layton, Ivor Bolton, James MacMillan, Roger
Norrington, Tonu Kaljuste, Reinbert de Leeuw, Bernard Tétu,
Roland Hayrabedian, Eric Ericson, Mark Foster, Peter Eötvös,
Michael Schneider, Bo Holten, Uwe Gronostay, Micha Hamel,
Jaap van Zweden, Ludwig Güttler, Jos van Veldhoven, Marek
Janowski, Hans-Joachim Rotsch and many more.
Stefan
Berghammer is a sought after soloist in the oratorios and cantatas
of J.S.Bach.
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also in opera, operetta and musicals the lyric tenor is activ. In
March 2004 he made his debut as a soloist in the opera
"Memories of the Taiping Lake" by the Chinese
composer Xu Shuya (sung in Chinese) at the "Zaterdag
Matinee" series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He
has also sung various roles in Die Zauberflöte (Europäische
Komödienspiele München), Die Fledermaus, Bastien und
Bastienne, Fairy Queen (Barockopera Amsterdam),
L’incoronazione di Anima e di corpo (Landestheater Linz,
Brucknerfest), Venus and Adonis, Im Weissen Rőssl,
The Sound of Music, and in My Fair Lady, and sang a main
role in the contemporary opera "Dantes Inferno"
at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg.
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