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The Swiss baritone, Michael Schwarze, obtained his Bachelor degree in Evangelical Theology from the Universität Bern (2014-2017); his Bachelor of Arts Music in Classical Singing from the Musikakademie Basel, Hochschule für Musik (2017-2020); and his Master of Arts degree in Pedagogy, Singing and Opera from the ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (2020-2022), where he studied under Professor Scot Weir. He received important musical and artistic inspiration from Kurt Widmer, Marcel Boone, Jan Schultzs, Margreet Honig, Michael Richter, Takeshi Moriuchi, Ekaterina Tarnopolskaja and Marcin Koziel. He is currently being supervised by Sandra Trattnigg. In 2023, he was a scholarship holder at the Lotte-Lehmann-Opernakademie and could be seen there as Conte in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
Michael Schwarze will soon make his debut as Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the New Israeli Opera in Tel-Aviv (November 2024), as well as his debut as Fiorillo at the Munot Opera Festival. In 2023 he sang his first Don Giovanni in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni very successfully at the Vienna Musikverein. In 2019 he appeared as Leporello in the Basel university production Mille Tre 1001. In 2021 he played the role of Nardo in the ZHdK production W.A. Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera and in 2022 he was seen as Satan in the Martinū opera Messertränen.
Michael Schwarze has a busy concert schedule throughout German-speaking Switzerland. He has been seen as bass soloist in W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Camille Saint-Saëns' Oratoire de Noël in Zürich. Since 2019, the intensive duo work with the Spanish pianist Claudia Fernandez-Parrondo has continued. They were scholarship holders at LiedBasel and the Görlitz Bolko von Hochberg song competition. |
