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The American baritone, Harrison Hintzsche, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College (2012-2016), where he toured with the St. Olaf Choir (Dr. Anton Armstrong) and studied voice with Dr. Robert C. Smith. He obtained his Master of Music degree in Early Music Voice from the Yale School of Music, as well as a certificate from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (2018-2020). There, he studied voice with tenor James Taylor and sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum with conductors David Hill and Masaaki Suzuki, and was awarded the Margot Fassler Prize in the Performance of Sacred Music. Other educational credits include the Tafelmusik Summer Baroque Institute, Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bach Akademie Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina (Vocal Fellow), SongFest in Los Angeles (Colburn Fellow); and The Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy in Sankt Goar, Germany. He has had the immense pleasure of working with several notable musicians such as Graham Johnson, Peter Kooy, Peter Harvey, Masaaki Suzuki, Sanford Sylvan, David Hill, Scott Allen Jarrett, Peter Oundjian, Martin Katz, Håkan Hagegård, Julius Drake, Arlene Shrut, François le Roux, Roger Vignoles, and Patricia Caicedo.
“Sonorous” (Opera News) and “Suave” (parterre box) Harrison Hintzsche, is a recitalist, concert singer, and ensemble musician. He has been praised for his warm lyric tone, musical subtlety, and dedication to text. In January 2018, he made his international debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in a collaborative art song recital with pianist and scholar Graham Johnson as a part of Johnson's recital series, "Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs," and was noted by Opera Today for displaying a “strong sense of narrative” and “gentle poignancy” in his interpretations of Schubert’s work. He is the first-place winner of the 2020 Colorado Bach Ensemble Young Artist Competition, as well as the first-place winner of the Edvard Grieg Society of Minnesota's 2018 Voice Competition. He was the first-ever recipient of the William H. Halverson Award, presented by the Edvard Greig Society of America for an outstanding performance of Grieg’s music.
Recent performance highlights include the world-premiere of Matthew Cooper’s The Passion According to St. Luke, an oratorio written for chamber orchestra and five socially-distant singers, in March of 2021, as well as a guest performance with Alkemie Medieval Ensemble, J.S. Bach’s solo cantata for bass, BWV 82, Ich habe genung with Bálint Karosi, as well as BWV 93, Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, and BWV 85, Ich bin ein guter Hirt, with The Cantata Collective, the roles of Der Unglaube and Jesus in Georg Philipp Telemann’s final oratorio, Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki, W.A. Mozart’s Requiem with David Hill, and the baritone soloist in Gerald Finzi’s advent oratorio In Terra Pax with Marguerite Brooks.
A sought-after ensemble musician, Harrison Hintzsche has performed with a variety of vocal ensembles such as The Handel and Haydn Society, The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers (since September 2016; Directors: Philip Brunelle, G. Phillip Shoultz, III.), The Minnesota Chorale (Director: Kathy Saltzman Romey), the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart JSB Ensemble (Directors: Kathy Saltzman Romey, Hans-Christoph Rademann), and Bach Ensemble Helmuth Rilling, among others. |
