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The German baritone, Samuel Hasselhorn, earned his degree in Opera Performance from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Professor Marina Sandel (Classs of 2014) and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Malcolm Walker (2012-2013). He received further musical influences in master-classes with Kiri Te Kanawa, Kevin Murphy, Thomas Quasthoff, Helen Donath, Annette Dasch, Susan Manoff, Jan-Philip Schulze, Anne Le Bozec, and Martin Brauß. Samuel received grants from the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation, the Gundlach Music Award, and was recipient of the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He currently holds the Lindemann Vocal Chair of Young Concert Artists in NYC and works regularly with his voice teacher Patricia McCaffrey.
Samuel Hasselhorn is First Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018, recipient of the 2018 Emmerich Smola Prize, First Prize winner of the 2017 Das Lied International Song Competition in Heidelberg, First Prize winner of the 2015 Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York, and captured First Prize at the 2013 International Schubert Competition in Dortmund. Other notable prizes include Second Prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, Third Prize in the Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart in 2016, and the “Prix de Lied“ in the 2013 Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris.
In the 2015-2016 season, Samuel Hasselhorn sang the lead role in Der Kaiser von Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann with the Studio de l’Opéra de Lyon. In the 2016-2017 season , he appeared as Masetto in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni as a main stage member of l’Opéra de Lyon, and he made his debut at the Leipzig Opera in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Samuel Hasselhorn was a fellow at the Marlboro Festival in 2017 and was also invited both in 2014 and 2016 to be fellow at the Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute; as well as to sing at Carnegie Hall in Marilyn Horne’s “The Song Continues Series” in 2015. During his USA tour in 2017, he made recital debuts in Washington D.C., in New York City, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and with the Buffalo Chamber Music Society.
Highlights of his 2017-2018 season included debuts at the concert hall of the Münchner Philharmoniker, Wigmore Hall in London, in Frankfurt at the Hessischen Rundfunk, the Schubertiade Vilabertran in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, the Tonhalle Zürich and the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
Starting in the 2018-2019 season, Samuel Hasselhorn will join the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where he will appear in various roles and performances. Other highlights of his 2018-2019 season will include appearances at the Bozar in Brussels, the concert hall of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Theater an der Wien, DeSingel in Antwerp, and in the prestigious Camerata Musica concert series in Cambridge. Collaboration partners include pianists Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson, and Justus Zeyen. Since 2017, he lives in Hannover, Germany.
His first CD Nachtblicke, with lieder by Schubert, Pfitzner, and Reimann, was released in 2014 on the ClassicClips label (today: GWK Records). |
