Hans Christoph Begemann
Hamburg-born Hans Christoph Begemann is one of today’s most versatile and adventurous singers of Lieder, and has been part of a Lied duo with pianist Thomas Seyboldt for 30 years. A Mozart specialist, he was an ensemble member at the opera houses of Wuppertal and Darmstadt, and appeared in Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin in Helsinki.
He has had songs written for him by numerous composers including Detlev Glanert, Manfred Trojahn, Wilhelm Killmayer and Moritz Eggert. Alongside pianist Klaus Simon, Begemann premiered the Lieder of Erwin Schulhoff at the Konzerthaus Berlin and, at the invitation of the Elbphilharmonie and NDR, the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg. Begemann has sung as a guest at Kissinger Sommer, Rheingau Musik Festival and Lucerne Festival, and worked with conductors Manfred Honeck, Ulf Schirmer and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, among others.
His discography, which features songs by Schubert, Pfitzner, Schulhoff and Rihm as well as the complete Lieder of Cornelius on Naxos, has garnered numerous accolades, including the Choc de Classica and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Begemann is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz.
