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The German baritone and voice teacher, Rudolf [Rudolph] Piernay, commenced musical studies at an early age at the Städt. Konservatorium and Staatl. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Berlin. From there he was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Excange Service (DAAD) which brought him to the Royal Academy of Music and then to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. He studied voice, piano and conducting and won several major awards while still at college. His principal voice teachers have included Professor Harry Gottschalk in Berlin, Joy Mammen, Walther Gruner and Lucie Manén in London, Cornelius L. Reid in New York and Pierre Bernac in England and France, with whom he studied the French repertoire.
Rudolf Piernay has appeared in recitals and oratorios in Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, USA, Canada, South America, Egypt, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Siberia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Australia. In England he has worked with the Chelsea Opera Group, the New Opera Company, the Park Lane Group and has done broadcasts for the BBC. Abroad, he has recorded for Radio France, Radio Vaticano, RIAS Berlin, Radio Bremen, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Südfunk Stuttgart, Iceland Radio, Radio Telefis Éireann and Radio New Zealand.
Rudolf Piernay sings in eight languages. His oratorio repertoire includes all major bass parts and his operatic repertoire is extensive. His recital work, in which he specialises, spans the entire repertoire. He has also had considerable experience as a choral conductor.
Since 1974, Rudolf Piernay has been a Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he has also conducted classes in German repertoire and vocal pedagogy. He is in great demand as a teacher both in Europe and abroad and has given masterclasses as far afield as Alaska and New Zealand. He was made a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (FGS) in 1981 and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 1990. Since 1991 he has been dividing his time between Germany, where he has been made a Professor of Singing at the Hochschule für Musik Mannheim, and London. From 1992 until 1993, he also held a guest-professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
During recent years, Rudolf Piernay has been extending his teaching activities to include regular visits to the USA and is now a frequent guest teacher at some prominent summer schools and operatic apprenticeship programs including the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and the Lindemann Young Artist Development program (Metropolitan Opera New York) a.o. Many present and past students of his now hold important soloist positions at opera houses around the world and also prominent teaching appointments. He also teaches master classes.
For many years Professor Piernay’s pupils have been prize winners at the most prestigious international competitions. Among the many singers who have studied with him and/or attended his master-classes are: Benjamin Appl (Baritone), Laura C. Atkinson (Mezzo-soprano), Tobias Berndt (Baritone), Martin Berner (Baritone), Mareike Braun (Mezzo-soprano), Rafael Bruck (Baritone), Yves Brühwiler (Bass-Baritone), Markus Brutscher (Tenor), Bożena Bujnicka (Soprano), Joachim Buhrmann (Tenor), Lucy De Butts (Soprano), Jenny Carlstedt (Mezzo-soprano), Stephen Connolly (Bass), Lars Conrad (Baritone), Thomas Cooley (Tenor), Claudia Couwenbergh (Soprano), Daniela Denschlag (Mezzo-soprano), Melanie Diener (Soprano), Christian Eberl (Baritone), Steven Eddy (Baritone), Robert Elibay-Hartog (Baritone), Clemens Flämig (Tenor), Georg Gädker (Baritone), Leonhard Geiger (Baritone), Andreas Goetze (Bass-Baritone), Anna Haase (Mezzo-soprano), Julian Habermann (Tenor), Jens Hamann (Baritone), Stephanie Hampl (Mezzo-soprano), Martin Häßler (Bass-Baritone), Violetta Hellwig (Sprano), Matthias Helm (Baritone), Johannes Hill (Baritone), Jasmin Maria Hörner (Soprano), Christian Immler (Bass-Baritone), Dorothe Ingenfeld (Mezzo-soprano), Konrad Jarnot (Baritone), Margarete Joswig (Mezzo-soprano), Johannes Kammler (Baritone), Dominik Köninger (Baritone), Rabea Kramp (Soprano), Susanne Kraus-Hornung (Contralto), Steffen Kubach (Baritone), David Dong Qyu Lee (Counter-tenor), Leon van Liere (Tenor), Stephan Loges (Bass), Katharina Magiera (Contralto), Ulrike Malotta (Mezzo-soprano), Peter Maruhn (Bass), Caroline Melzer (Soprano), Howard Milner (Tenor), Johannes Mooser (Baritone), Clemens Morgenthaler (Bass-Baritone), Mareike Morr (Mezzo-soprano), Hannah Morrison (Soprano), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Soprano), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Bass-Baritone), Michael Nagy (Baritone), Tareq Nazmi (Bass), Philip Niederberger (Baritone), Daniel Ochoa (Baritone), Josep-Ramon Olivé (Baritone), Dora Pavlíková (Soprano), René Perler (Bass-Baritone), Gundula Peyerl (Soprano), Burkhard von Puttkamer (Baritone), Roy Rashbrook (Tenor), Christian Rathgeber (Bass-Baritone), Richard Resch (Tenor), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Baritone), Sören Richter (Tenor), Gabriel Rollinson (Bass), Marek Rzepka (Bass), Thomas Scharr (Baritone), Anja Scherg (Soprano), Barbara Schlick (Soprano), Florian Schmitt-Bohn (Baritone), Arndt Schumacher (Baritone), Christoph Schweizer (Baritone), Milan Siljanov (Bass-Baritone), Raimonds Spogis (Baritone), Debra Stanley (Soprano), Michael Terada (Baritone), Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone), Lydia Teuscher (Soprano), Anneka Ulmer (Mezzo-soprano), Matthias Vieweg (Baritone), Christian Villiger (Bass-Baritone), Michael Volle (Bass), Anke Vondung (Mezzo-soprano), Corby Welch (Tenor), Hubert Wild (Baritone, Counter-tenor), Matthias Winckhler (Baritone), Christoph Wittmann (Tenor), Dominik Wörner (Bass-Baritone). |
