Henryk Böhm

The German baritone Henryk Böhm was born in Dresden. He started singing at the age of nine at the Dresdner Kreuzchor and studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden and further in master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Peter Schreier, Werner Hollweg and with Brigitte Fassbaender during her two-year tenure as director of the State Theater Braunschweig . He is winner of the 12th International Robert-Schumann-Competition in Zwickau and the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin1996. The lyric baritone was invited to join the State Theater Braunschweig. His repertoire includes amongst other roles Papageno in Mozarts Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Cos? fan tutte, Figaro and the Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni, Danilo in Léhar's Merry Widow, Harlekin in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Valentin in Gounods Faust, Silvio in Leoncavallos Pagliacci, Frank/Fritz in Korngolds Die Tote Stadt, Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, Donner in Wagners Rheingold, Heerrufer in Lohengrin, Onegin in Ewgeny Onegin, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus. Guest performances led him to the Leipzig Opera, the State Theater Hannover, the State Theater Darmstadt, the Theater Essen and to the well-known austrian festival Seefestspiele Mörbisch. In 2013/14 he was invited to join the Cologne Opera, where he performed the role of Josef in the world premiere production MUSIK by Michael Langemann. Further projects will lead him in season 2014/15 to the Tchaikowski-Hall in Moscow with Haydns „Die Schöpfung“ and the Theater Bremerhaven with Schönbergs „A survivor from Warsaw“. In 2015 he will also give concerts in Leipzig, Dresden and with the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover, and furthermore recitals with songs by Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven and Gustav Mahler. Mr. Böhm is also much in demand as a concert soloist and appears with the Salzburg Festival, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Midem classique Cannes, the Settimane Bach Milano, the Herbstliche Musiktage Bad Urach, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Händelfestspiele Halle and Göttingen and the Rheingau-Musikfestival. Among others, Mr. Böhm has performed with orchestras such as the Sächsische Staatskapelle, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Bach Collegium Leipzig, the National Symphonie Orchestra of Korea, the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, the Dresdner Keuzchor, the RIAS chamber chorus, the chorus of the Bavarian Radio in Munich, the Accentus Paris and the National Chorus of Korea. He works regularly with conductors such as Peter Schreier, Julia Jones, Friedrich Haider, Daniele Callegari, Phillipe Augin, Alexander Joel, Helmuth Rilling, Laurence Equilbey, Carl St. Clair and Hans-Christoph Rademann. Recently concert tours have taken Mr. Böhm to USA, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Israel, Italy, Spain and South Korea. Recitals are an important part of his musical life and he gives concerts with pianists like Phillip Moll, Justus Zeyen, Alexander Schmalcz, Hendrik Bräunlich and Pauliina Tukiainen. Henryk Böhm is founding director of the noted series of recitals DAS LIED IN DRESDEN. In 2014 he was appointed to a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Broadcasts from Deutschland Radio Berlin, Middle German Radio (MDR Kultur), North German Radio (NDR), FAI and Radio France have given him an European exposure. His recordings include the first ever of Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th symphony conducted by Carl St. Clair (cpo label), the complete recording of the opera "Ekkehard" by Johann Joseph Abert (Capriccio) and the recording of songs by the German composer Georg Göhler.