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JOCHEN KUPFER, baritone

Jochen Kupfer was born in Grimma, Germany, and has been studying voice regularly since the age of ten.

He began his conservatory studies in 1990 with Prof. Helga Forner at the MusikhochschuleLeipzig.
Study with Elio Battaglia, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf completed his training.

Mr. Kupfer has sung with such distinguished conductors as Rene Jacobs, Krzysztof
Penderecki, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Mark Soustrot, Hartmut Hähnchen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki and Trevor Pinnock.

Concert tours have taken him to various European cities and to Japan. He has also worked at many international music festivals, most notably Nuits Romantiques in Aix-les-Bains, lle de France Paris, Festival International de Musique et d'Art Lyrique Montreux, the Rossini Festival and the Salzburg Festival.

Among his operatic repertoire are such roles as Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Olivier in Strauss´ Capriccio and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos.He is currently engaged at the Semper Oper in Dresden, where he sings roles such as the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. A recent guest engagement has taken him to the Staatsoper 'Unter den Linden' in Berlin and to the Bayrische Staatsoper in Munich.In addition to his work in the fields of opera and concert singing, Mr. Kupfer has a special preference for the art of Lieder singing. In 1996 he sang Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen for the first time with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, under the baton of Kurt Masur.
His discography includes Konstabel in Strauss´ Friedenstag for Deutsche Grammophon and a CD of Schumann songs for Channel Classics as well as the complete songs of Franz Schreker.

● RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949):

6 Lieder op.19 (1888) (von Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack)
Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es frommen	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Breit’ über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Hoffen und wieder verzagen	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Mein Herz ist stumm, mein Herz ist kalt	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
4 Lieder op.31 (1895)
Blauer Sommer (Busse)	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Wenn (Busse)	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Weißer Jasmin (Busse)	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Stiller Gang (Dehmel)	MP3	POEM	Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Krämerspiegel (op.66) (Alfred Kerr)		POEM
Es war einmal ein Bock	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Einst kam der Bock als Bote	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Es liebte einst ein Hase	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Drei Masken sah ich am Himmel stehn	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Hast du ein Tongedicht vollbracht	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
O lieber Künstler sei ermahnt	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Unser Feind	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Von Händlern wird die Kunst bedroht	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Es war einmal eine Wanze	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Die Künstler sind die Schöpfer	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
Die Händler und die Macher	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)
O Schöpferschwarm, o Händlerkreis	MP3		Susanne Giesa, piano (1999)