Valentin Lanzrein - Voice

Baritone Valentin Lanzrein is an active performer, a passionate vocal pedagogue, and a distinguished scholar. His extensive repertoire encompasses nine languages ​​and all classical styles from the Renaissance to the 21st century. With nearly 20 years of experience as a vocal instructor, his expertise extends beyond singing instruction to include diction, song interpretation, vocal pedagogy, vocal literature, and opera direction. He is a published author with Oxford University Press, and his book *The Singer's Guide to German Diction*, also published by Oxford University Press, has been hailed as "the most important work on diction in the last twenty years."

Lanzrein has twice been awarded the Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize for Music by the Swiss Association of Musicians and has since toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the USA. His passion for art song has led to appearances at the Rheingau Music Festival (Germany), the Aimez Vous Brahms Festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), and the Wednesday at One concert series at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Recent engagements include the baritone part in Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes in the Shanghai Symphony Hall's chamber music series, the baritone solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the NUS Symphony and Choir in Singapore, Bach's Magnificat as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, collaborations with the Ciompi Quartet at Barbers Dover Beach, Stravinsky's Pulcinella as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and the role of Bobby in Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel at Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. There, he also performed as a soloist in Stephen Jaffe's Songs of Turning at the Milestones Festival gala concert and as a soloist with the Carolina Choir in Bach's Mass in B Minor and Brahms's A German Requiem.

Valentin Lanzrein studied at the Bern University of the Arts (Switzerland) and holds an Artist Diploma from Oberlin College, a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the Juilliard School, New York (USA), and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA). His teachers include Richard Miller, W. Stephen Smith, and Elisabeth Glauser, and he received further inspiration through masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, and Warren Jones. Valentin Lanzrein is currently a visiting lecturer at the Tianjin Juilliard School and an associate professor at the School of Music of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen, China.

Course Description

This course is designed for professional singers, aspiring singers, those currently in training, and interested amateur singers with prior experience.

Participants must have singing experience, which must be demonstrated by submitting an audio sample by April 15th at the latest. Please send your audio sample by email to sommerakademie@neuburg-donau.de