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Dominik Wörner (Bass-Baritone) |
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Born: 1970 - Grünstadt/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
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The German bass-baritone, Dominik Wörner, studied church music in Stuttgart (A-exam), with a DAAD-scholarship music science and harpsichord in Fribourg, and as a Warlomont-Meadow-Scholarship holder organ and singing (both soloist diploma) in Berne with Professor Jakob Stämpfli. He has also participated in master-classes with Julia Hamari, Klaus-Dieter Kern, Horst Günther and Rudolf Piernay. Already during his studies he gave concerts in Switzerland, Poland, UK and Germany. He was finalist at the Bund Singing Competition 2000. In 2002 he won the 1st Prize for singing and a special prize of the Leipziger Baroque Orchestra at the XIII International Bach Competition in Leipzig.
With the great oratorio parts as Dominik Wörner’s subject he arose in his homeland and abroad. Invitations to different Festivals (Flanders-Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, London Proms, Händel-Tage Halle, Tanglewood, Tokyo Suntory Hall, etc.) he has co-operated with various conductors (such as Philippe Herreweghe, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christophe Coin, Carl Saint Clair) and orchestras (such as Orchester des Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Bamberger Symphoniker, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Capella Istropolitana).
In this year (2003) Dominik Wörner performed Marienvesper by Monteverdi for the Belgian television with the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, J.S. Bach’s Peasant (BWV 212) & Coffee (BWV 211) Cantatas with Ensemble Baroque de Limoges under Christophe Coin in Milan for RAI 3, and W.A. Mozart’s C minor Mass with the Orchestre of the Champs of Élysées Paris in a European tour, which included London, Edinburgh, Rome, Lisbon and Porto.
Further Dominik Wörner was invited to the opening concert of Bachfest Leipzig with the Thomanerchor under George Christoph Biller, sang Haydn's Schöpfung with the Berliner Bachakademie at the Berlin’s Philharmonie, appeared at the Göttinger Händelfestspiele in a rediscovered Bach Cantata, and gave at Bachwoche Ansbach a solo recital with works of J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
With the Baroque ensemble Gli Scarlattistihe Dominik Wörner recorded Marienvesper by Monteverdi and Schütz’ Exequien, and only recently he took up a further production with Rosenmüller program. With Capriccio he produced Bußpsalmen Lassos with the Tölzer Knabenchor. The performance of contemporary music is an important request for him, about which witness several premieres of works composers wrote for him, such as Canticum Canticorum by Marco Sofianopoulo and Lamentatio and Triptychon by Werner Jacob with Sebalder Nachtkonzert Nürnberg as a production the Bavarian Broadcast.
Dominik Wörner dedicates himself passionately to the singing of Lieder. Past year he made a tour of Schubert’s Winterreise interpreted with hammerflügel. To celebrate the 200th birthday of Franz Lachne he sang Lieder by the composer for bass, violoncello and Hammerflügel, Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Berner Symphonieorchester in Casino Bern, and a cycle of Turrini songs of Arthur Dangel.
The Bern’s press wrote of Dominik Wörner’s interpretation of Christ role in J.S. Bach’s Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) in Berner Münster this year: ‘Meanwhile Dominik Wörner left the lasting impression: With his warming, contentful and sovereign Christ he sang himself to the public in the heart”
In addition Dominik Wörner is founder and artistic director of his own concert series, the Kirchheimer Konzertwinters, in his homeland. |
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Sources:
Christuskirche Mannheim - Kirchenmusik Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (December 2003)
Liner notes to the 2-CD album’ ‘XIII Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb’ (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, 2002), English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2004)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (December 2003, May 2004) |
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Dominik Wörner : Short Biography | Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works under his name |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Works |
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Jochen M. Arnold |
Bass |
BWV 227 |
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Alfredo Bernardini |
Bass |
BWV 71
C-4 (2016): BWV 58, BWV 32, BWV 57
[C-5] (2019): BWV 82, BWV 158, BWV 56; Arias BWV 20/5, BWV 26/4, BWV 101/4
AOB Video: BWV 132, BWV 185 |
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Konstanze Beyer |
Bass |
Aria from BWV 56 |
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Benoît Haller |
Bass |
BWV 245 |
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Philippe Herreweghe |
Bass |
BWV 244 [2nd], BWV 245 [2nd] |
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Florian Heyerick |
Bass |
[CV-2] (2021, Video): BWV 173a/Mvt. 7 |
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Yasunori Imamura [lute] |
Bass |
[S-3] (2016): CD-2: BWV 245/19, BWV 244b/56+57 |
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Kay Johannsen |
Bass |
Video: BWV 127, BWV 153
[C17-2] (Bach:vokal 2017, Video): BWV 203
[C19-5] (Bach:vokal 2019, Video): BWV 105, BWV 168, BWV 94
[V-1] (Bach:vokal 2017, Video): BWV 244 [Jesus] |
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Kay Johannsen |
Bass |
Member of Solistenensemble Stimmkunst:
Bach:vokal 2014/1 Video: BWV 153, BWV 123
Bach:vokal 2014/2 Video: BWV 233, BWV 65
Bach:vokal 2014/4 Video: BWV 22, BWV 23
Bach:vokal 2014/5 Video: BWV 159, BWV 127 |
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Peter Kooy |
Bass |
BWV 225-230, BWV Anh 159 |
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Fritz Krämer |
Bass |
Member of BERNVOCAL:
[CV-1] (2018,Video): BWV 106 [Solo] |
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Sigiswald Kuijken |
Bass |
BWV 17, BWV 55, BWV 56, BWV 98, BWV 164, BWV 179, BWV 180 |
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Rudolf Lutz |
Bass |
DVD/CD: BWV 7, BWV 18, BWV 24 [2016], BWV 66, BWV 67, BWV 69a [2017], BWV 89, BWV 94, BWV 175, BWV 187 [2017]
DVD/CD (2018): BWV 212
DVD/CD (2019): BWV 126, BWV 248/3
BSSG [D15-3] (2021, Video): BWV 165
BSSG [D16-1] (2022, Video): BWV 14
BSSG [D16-6] (2022, Video): BWV 211
BSSG [D16-7] (2022, Video): BWV 203
BSSG [D17-10] (2023, Video): BWV 130
BSSG [D17-11] (2023, Video): BWV 199 |
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Johannes-Matthias Michel |
Bass |
BWV 232 [2nd], BWV 244, BWV 245 [Jesus] |
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Rainer Oster |
Bass |
BWV 56 |
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Marcel Ponseele |
Bass |
BWV 27, BWV 55; Aria from BWV 159 |
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Andreas Reize |
Bass |
[V-5] (2009, 3-CD): BWV 244 [1st recording] |
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Oleg Romanenko |
Bass |
[VV-1] (2015, Video): BWV 248/1 |
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Masaaki Suzuki |
Bass |
BWV 6, BWV 41, BWV 42, BWV 92, BWV 103, BWV 108, BWV 130, BWV 198, BWV 203, BWV 212, BWV 213, BWV 214
Secular Cantatas Vol. 9 (2016): BWV 201, BWV 207a
Secular Cantatas Vol. 10 (2017): BWV 30a
BWV 118 [2nd version], BWV 225-230, BWV Anh 159
M.G. Peranda: Missa in A minor |
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Masaaki Suzuki |
Bass |
Member of Bach Collegium Japan:
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 33:: BWV 41, BWV 92, BWV 130
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 36: BWV 42, BWV 103, BWV 108, BWV 6
Secular Cantatas Vol. 5: BWV 213, BWV 214
Secular Cantatas Vol. 6: BWV 198
Secular Cantatas Vol. 9 (2016): BWV 201, BWV 207a
Secular Cantatas Vol. 10 (2017): BWV 30a
Lutheran Masses Vol. 1 (2013/2014): BWV 235, BWV 236, BWV 240, BWV 241, F. Durante-J.S. Bach: BWV Anh 26, BWV 242, BWV 238, BWV 237
Lutheran Masses Vol. 2 (2014/2015): BWV 234, BWV 233, M.G. Peranda: Missa in A minor |
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Ryo Terakado |
Bass |
BWV 56, BWV 82, BWV 158, BWV 203 |
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Jochen Woll |
Bass |
BWV 110, BWV 140, BWV 243 |
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Links to other Sites |
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Christuskirche Mannheim - Kirchenmusik: Dominik Wörner |
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