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Daniel Johannsen

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Regine Dierse

Phone: +49 40 35719380
E-Mail: info@kulturkontor.de

Austrian tenor Daniel Johannsen is one of the most sought-after Evangelists and Bach interpreters of his generation. Since his debut, performances as a concert, lieder and opera singer with works from all eras have taken him to the major music centers of Europe, North America, Japan and the Middle East. In addition to his regular concerts at the Wiener Musikverein and the Berliner Philharmonie, he is a guest at numerous festivals (Styriarte Graz, Rheingau Music Festival, Israel Festival, La Folle Journée, international Bach festivals).

Daniel Johannsen – Tenor

Der österreichische Tenor, geboren 1978 in Wien, gehört zu den meistgefragten Evangelisten und Bach-Interpreten unserer Tage. Nach der Ausbildung zum Kirchenmusiker studierte Daniel Johannsen Gesang bei Margit Klaushofer und Robert Holl in Wien; er war Meisterschüler von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda sowie Christa Ludwig und ist Preisträger des Bach-, Schumann-, Mozart-, Hilde-Zadek- und Wigmore-Hall-Wettbewerbs.

nce his debut in 1998, performances as a concert, lieder and opera singer with works from all eras have taken him to the major music centers of Europe, North America, Japan and the Middle East. In addition to his regular concerts at the Wiener Musikverein and the Berliner Philharmonie, he is a guest at numerous festivals (Styriarte Graz, Rheingau Music Festival, Israel Festival, La Folle Journée, international Bach festivals). He has sung under the baton of renowned conductors including Sir Neville Marriner, Bertrand de Billy, Jordi Savall, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Dennis Russell Davies, Trevor Pinnock, Michael Hofstetter, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Hansjörg Albrecht and Michel Corboz for instance with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, the Academy for Early Music Berlin (Akamus), the Vienna Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden. He had a particularly close artistic friendship with Enoch zu Guttenberg. Appearances in New York's Carnegie Hall, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal and in the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory give testimony to this. Daniel Johannsen is also involved in a number of large-scale Bach cantata projects, particularly at the J. S. Bach Foundation St. Gallen (Rudolf Lutz).

In the 2020/21 season Daniel Johannsen is one of the main soloists of the Netherlands Bach Society: in December (all-of-Bach production of the "Christmas Oratorio") under the musical direction of Shunske Sato, in March and April at the great St. Matthew Passion concert series under the baton of René Jacobs. He can be experienced at the Leipzig Bach Festival (as every year since 2011) as well as at the Halle Handel Festival (together with Wolfgang Katschner) and at the Stuttgart Music Festival. The Bach Festival Montréal signed him for a series of concerts under Ton Koopman.

In 2019/20 - in the Beethoven anniversary season - the singer had several important hall premieres: joint with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard he made his debut as Jaquino in a semi-staged production of "Fidelio" (alongside Nina Stemme), among others in the concert halls of Stockholm and Brussels (BOZAR) and the Parisian Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. As well under the musical direction of Thomas Dausgaard, Daniel Johannsen would have performed for the first time in the Glasgow City Halls with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. However, the COVID lockdown prevented this, as well as appearances in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and at the (completely cancelled) Bachfest Leipzig. However, Daniel Johannsen could be heard in the Wiener Musikverein, at the "Resonanzen" in the Wiener Konzerthaus and several times with the Styriarte Graz (as Don Ottavio in "Don Giovanni" as well as Schubert interpreter).

The lyrical tenor -who appeared at venues including the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz, the Leipzig Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, the Bonn Theater, the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Styriarte Graz- is to be heard on stage with roles by Mozart, with works from the Baroque, of the 20th century and the modernity, but also to experience in some operetta roles.

Recitals with the full range of the German repertoire (but also with English and French compositions) form a focus in the work of the singer, who performs with pianists including Simon Bucher, Charles Spencer, Burkhard Kehring, Graham Johnson and Helmut Deutsch. Daniel Johannsen recorded solo CDs with Schumann's "Dichterliebe", "Tenore & Traverso" (arias by J. S. Bach) and the recently released CD "Lieder ohnegleichen. Franz Schubert" (with Christoph Hammer on the historical Graf grand piano from 1826). In addition, numerous other recordings, which have been published by Carus, Sony, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and NAXOS, as well as radio and television recordings document his artistic work.

B. Britten

Albert Herring

Albert

The Little Sweep / Let’s Make an Opera!

Clem

L. v. Beethoven

Fidelio

Jaquino

J.C. de Arriaga

The Arabian Princess

Jamil

G. Donizetti

L`Elisir d`Amore

Nemorino

G. F. Handel

Ariodante

Lurcanio

Jephta

Jephta

E. Humperdinck

Königskinder (original version)

Königssohn

L. Janáček

The Cunning Little Vixen

Schoolmaster

E. Künneke

The Cousin from Nowhere

Egon

F. Lehár

Der Graf von Luxemburg

Sergej Mentschikoff

E. L. Leitner

Die Sennenpuppe (WP)

Hirtenjunge (shepherd boy)

C. Monteverdi

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Testo

W. A. Mozart

Cosi fan tutte

Don Ferrando

Don Giovanni

Don Ottavio

The Abduction from the Seraglio

Belmonte, Pedrillo

Zaide

Gomatz, Soliman

The Magic Flute

Tamino

Der Stein der Weisen (Pasticcio by Mozart et al.)

Nadir

G. Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Conte d`Almaviva,Fiorello

W. Sauseng

Das Staunen des Ezechiel

Die Allegorie der Bewegung

I. Stravinsky

The Rake’s Progress

Tom Rakewell

J. Strauss

Die Fledermaus / The Bat

Dr. Blind

Eine Nacht in Venedig

Caramello

P.I. Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

Monsieur Triquet

A. Vivaldi

Serenata a tre

Alcindo

C. Ph. E. Bach
Magnificat
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus
The Israelites in the Desert
J. S. Bach
More than 100 cantatas, including some secular cantatas;
all passions
Christmas Oratorio
Easter Oratorio
Mass in B minor
Magnificat
S. Barber
Hermit Songs
L. v. Beethoven
Mass in C major
An die ferne Geliebte
J. Brahms
Liebeslieder-Walzer
B. Britten
Rejoice in the Lamb
Les Illuminations de Rimbaud
Six Hölderlin-Fragments
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
S. de Brossard
Quemadmodum desiderat cervus
A. Bruckner
Te Deum
N. Bruhns
Various sacred concerts (e.g. "Jauchzet dem Herren")
F. Büchtger
Christmas Oratorio
D. Buxtehude
Membra Jesu nostri
Various cantatas and sacred works
A. Campra
O dulcis amor
M. A. Charpentier
Various sacred concerts
A. Copland
Old American Folksongs
H. Distler
Choral Passion (Evangelist)
Christmas Story (Evangelist)
A. Dvořák
Stabat Mater
Mass in D major
C. Franck
Mass in A major
G. F. Handel
Messiah
Israel in Egyp
Judas Maccabaeus
Utrecht Te Deum
J. Haydn
The Creation
The Seasons
All Masses
M. Haydn
Requiem
Vesperae solennes
Various Masses
A. Honegger
Le Roi David
L. Janáček
Otčenáš
E. Křenek
Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen
B. Marcello
Joaz
F. Mendelssohn
Hymn of Praise
Paulus
Elijah
Christ (all tenor parts)
Soli in various Psalms
M. P. de Montéclair
Various secular cantatas
C. Monteverdi
Vespro della beata vergine (all tenor parts)
W. A. Mozart
All Masses
Davide penitente
Requiem
Vesperae solennes de confessore
Konzertarie „Misero! O sogno – Aura che intorno spiri“
J. Mysliveček
La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
P. Planyavsky
Der zufriedengestellte Autobus
Cactus tragicus
G. Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle
F. Salmhofer
Heiteres Herbarium
W. Sauseng
Passio Iesu secundum Ioannem (Evangelist; WP 2003)
S. Scheidt
Various sacred concerts
J. H. Schein
Various sacred concerts
F. Schubert
All Masses
Intende voci
Die schöne Müllerin
Winterreise
Schwanengesang
R. Schumann
Das Paradies und die Peri (Jüngling)
Dichterliebe
Liederkreis nach Heinrich Heine Op. 24
H. Schütz
Christmas Story
St John Passion
St. Matthew Passion
Selection of secular works and Symphoniae sacrae
G. P. Telemann
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus
Various cantatas from the 'Harmonischer Gottesdienst'
M. Weckmann
Various sacred concerts
H. Zender
Winterreise (on Schubert)
Hinzu kommen zahlreiche geistliche Konzerte und Messen sogenannter „barocker Kleinmeister“

More than 300 Songs by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Strauss,
Schoeck, including the song-cycles by Schubert and Schumann,
songs by Britten, Barber and Copland and mélodies francaises by Fauré, Duparc and others.


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16 and 17 March 2023
Evangelist, Tenor „Matthäus-Passion“ (J. S. Bach)
Nidaros Dom, Trondheim (NO)
Ensemblet Oslo415, Nidarosdomens Oratoriekor, Nidaros Domkor, ML: Karen Haugom Olsen
07 April 2023
Evangelist „Matthäuspassion“
Isarphilharmonie Munich
Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Conductor: Hansjörg Albrecht
04 May 2023
Schubert: „Lieder ohne gleichen“
Bibliotheksaal Polling
Christoph Hammer, Piano