Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone

Following his First Prize triumph at the 2018 Queen-Elisabeth-Competition, Samuel Hasselhorn has quickly established himself internationally as a versatile artist who is equally at home in the genres of opera, Lied, and oratorio. He was a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera‘s ensemble for two years, where he interpreted the title role in Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos) or Schaunard (La Bohème). At the Staatstheater Nuremberg, he made his role debuts as Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Ford (Falstaff). He is esteemed internationally as a lied recitalist, and regularly works with renowned pianists such as Helmut Deutsch, Malcolm Martineau, Ammiel Bushakevitz or Joseph Middleton. Recitals have taken him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, the Theater an der Wien, the Schubertíada or the Wigmore Hall.