Björn Bürger

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Björn Bürger
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Björn Bürger in the title role in the 2017 premiere of Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt
Born (1985-10-10) 10 October 1985 (age 35)
Darmstadt, Hesse
EducationHochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Occupation
Organization
AwardsBundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin

Björn Bürger (born 10 October 1985) is a German operatic baritone.

Life[]

Born in Darmstadt, Bürger, son of two teachers and five years younger than his brother the actor and theater director Lars Bürger, spent his childhood and youth in Rodgau near Frankfurt am Main.[1]

School and university years[]

After primary school, Bürger first attended the Heinrich-Böll-Schule, an integrated comprehensive school, of his home town and changed in the middle of 2002 to the  [de].[1] Bürger obtained there the Abitur in 2005 and began first a study in the faculty of spoken theatre at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. In 2007 he moved there to the department of opera singing.

Musical development[]

Bürger, encouraged by his parents, received early piano lessons at the local free music school and taught himself how to play the guitar. His piano teacher Benjamin Schütze drew his attention to Rio Reiser, and Bürger began to interpret his music playfully and vocally. In addition to his piano training, he also took singing lessons with Gottfried Kärner, the leader of the Polyhymnia pop choir in his hometown, in which Bürger also sang.[1]

Still in his school days, Bürger was a singer of the band Up To Now, and later an active member of the South Hessian artist group Pro-these and the theatre group MomentMal. In 2000 he performed the musical Herr Fresssack und die Bremer Stadtmusikanten at the musical project of the music school Bad Nauheim, which is based on the radio play of the same name with Ton Steine Scherben from 1973.[1] Numerous solo performances as Rio-Reiser interpreter followed. In 2003 Bürger received the cultural award of his hometown "for his artistic work in the fields of singing, theatre and piano" in 2002.[2]

From 2007 to 2013 Bürger studied opera singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main in the class of Hedwig Fassbender.[3] During his studies he had four engagements in productions of the Oper Frankfurt besides further solo appearances as Rio-Reiser interpreter and guest roles as opera singer. He also took part in various annual productions at his university, such as the Höchster Opernsommer in the leading role of Osmin in Mozart's Singspiel Zaide and in the leading role of King Argante at the Handel Festival Karlsruhe. He also appeared in the leading role of Victor Hugo in the world premiere of Paul Leonard Schäffer's operetta Eine Kapitulation to a libretto by Richard Wagner at the  [de].[4]

In November 2012, at the age of 27, Bürger won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin finals at the Komische Oper Berlin against eleven other young artists and won the first prize, endowed with 10,000 euros.[5]

Three months later, together with the mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng, Bürger received the Emmerich Smola prize, one of the highest endowed prizes for young singers. After a concert with the competition finalists in the Festhalle of Landau the audience decided on the awarding of the prizes, which were associated with a concert engagement with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.[2]

Since the 2013/14 season Bürger has belonged to the permanent ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt.[3][5] In November 2017 he was able to achieve a great personal success in the title role of the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine he completed a vocal acting tour de force, which he mastered intensely, in many different ways most impressively.“[6]

In 2016 he debuted at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in the lead role Figaro and the following year played “Harlekin” in Ariadne auf Naxos.[7]

Scholarships, honours and prizes[]

  • 2003 – Culture Award of the City of Rodgau.[4]
  • 2010 – Scholarship of the  [de].[4]
  • 2011 – "MainCampus academicus-Stipendium" of the  [de] Frankfurt am Main.[4]
  • 2011 – Scholarship of the Da Ponte Foundation.[4]
  • 2012 – First prize of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Berlin).[4][3]
  • 2013 – Emmerich Smola Award (Landau).[2][3]

Performances and engagements[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Artikel der Offenbach Post vom 26. März 2003". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2019. Bericht zur Verleihung des Kulturförderpreises 2002 an Björn Bürger, retrieved on 13 October 2019
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "klassik.com : Emmerich Smola Förderpreise für Dorottya Láng und Björn Bürger". magazin.klassik.com. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Hedwig Fassbender: Erfolge Studierender". Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2019. Hedwig Fassbender about Björn Bürger, called on 22 February 2013
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "Home: HfMDK Frankfurt". www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b ""Gesang Berlin 2012": Bürger singt alle in Grund und Boden". 27 November 2012 – via www.welt.de.
  6. ^ Gerhard R. Koch: Es tropfen die Hähne, es klopfen die Nachbarn, Wenn Wohnen zum Albtraum wird: Arnulf Herrmanns Oper „Der Mieter“ nach dem Roman von Roland Topor erlebt ihre Uraufführung in Frankfurt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, aktualisiert am 14. November 2017
  7. ^ "About". Björn Bürger - Bariton.
  8. ^ Offenbach Post vom 14. Januar 2010 Bürger interprets Rio Reiser, Retrieved 24 February 2013.

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