ULLMANN, MARCUS (b 1967 )The tenor Marcus Ullmann was born in 1967 in Olbernhau near Dresden, and started singing as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor at the age of ten, thereafter studying with Hartmut Zabel and Margaret Trappe-Wiel at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. He also worked with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin and with Marga Schiml in Karlsruhe. Graduating with distinction, he began singing with various opera houses in Germany and abroad, including the State Operas in Dresden and Mainz, Teatro La Fenice, the Rome Opera, Teatro Comunale Florence and Los Angeles Opera. On stage he has appeared successfully in most of the major Mozart rôles, in addition to staged versions of Bach’s St John’s Passion and B Minor Mass and Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons. He has appeared in concert as a soloist in North and South America and throughout Europe, and has worked together with leading conductors, often performing with the Dresden Kreuzchor, the Windsbach Knabenchor and the Thomanerchor Leipzig. He made his début recital at the Wigmore Hall in London with the pianist Alexander Schmalcz, and as a recitalist has also been a guest at such festivals as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, European Music Festival Stuttgart, Kuhmo in Finland and many others both in Germany and internationally. He has participated in recordings of major works by Bach, Mozart, Telemann, and Schubert, as well as in the première recording of Rautavaara’s The Lovers.
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