Klaus Ocker (Bass)

Born: December 20, 1923 - Verden an der Aller, Lower Saxony, Germany,
Died: November 25, 2015

The German bass, Klaus [Claus] Ocker, studied music from 1946 to 1951 at the 'Musikhochschule Hamburg'.

After finishing his studies, Klaus Ocker was many years active as an independent concert singer.

From 1969 Klaus Ocker started teaching at the 'Bremer Konservatorium'. In 1975 he started as a teacher at 'my' 'Hamburger Musikhochschule'. After his retirement in 1989, he has been several times visiting professor in the USA and China, and from 1991 to 1997 he was a teacher in Japan at the Music High Schools in Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka.

Sources:
The Artist (January 2003)
Contributed by: Huib Spoorenberg (February 2005) Die Schöne Müllerein

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Liselore Bräuniger-Freitag

Bass

[CR-99] (1963, Radio recording): BWV 99

Lothar Gast

Bass

[CR-20] (1966, Radio recording): BWV 20

Rudolf Ewerhart

Bass

BWV 203, BWV 211, BWV 212

Hans Heintze

Bass

[CR-29] (1959, Radio recording): BWV 29

Wolfgang Herbst

Bass

[CR-153] (1964, Radio recording): BWV 153

Gerhard Kaiser

Bass

[CR-73] (1960, Radio recording): BWV 73
[CR-87] (1960, Radio recording): BWV 87

Max Thurn

Bass

Radio: BWV 2, BWV 8, BWV 10, BWV 11, BWV 25, BWV 42, BWV 66, BWV 97, BWV 104, BWV 146, BWV 159, BWV 174

Links to other Sites

Claus Ocker (Wikipedia) [German]