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. 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
Karl Friedrich Beringer, Frieder Bernius, Ivor Bolton, Sylvain Cambreling, Pierre Cao,
Jesús López Cobos, Michel Corboz, Marcus Creed, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Leopold Hager,
Sir Neville Marriner, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Christoph Poppen, Hans-Christoph
Rademann, and Jörg Peter Weigle. 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.
For more information, please go to http://www.marcus-ullmann.de.
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