Baritone Andreas Burkhart was born in Munich and received his early musical training as an alto soloist in the Tölzer Knabenchor before attending the Bavarian Academy of Singing. While at the Academy, he worked with Hartmut Elbert who has remained a valued vocal mentor. Burkhart subsequently went on to pursue voice studies with Frieder Lang at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, with additional instruction from Helmut Deutsch, Fritz Schwinghammer, Siegfried Mauser, and Celine Dutilly. Burkhard has also worked intensively with Andreas Schmidt, and has participated in further masterclasses with Matthias Goerne, Christian Gerhaher, and Graham Johnson.
Andreas Brukhart is the recipient of scholarships from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation and the Deutscher Bühnenverein, and since 2009 has enjoyed the support of Live Music Now. He has been a prize winner at the National Vocal Competition (Bundeswettbewerb) in Berlin, the Lieder Competition of the Gasteig Kulturkreis, and Leipzig’s Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre Competition.
He has taken part in many performances with the August Everding Academy of Theatre, often appearing in productions with Ulf Schirmer and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. With them, he has taken on the role of Andrej in Tri Sestri by Peter Eötvös, and has repeated that role with the Berlin State Opera at Schiller Theatre. He has appeared as Trinidad in Untreue lohnt sich! Oder auch nicht and as Truffaldino in Der Diener zweier Herren in the staging by Dominik Wilgenbus.
Burkhart’s concert repertoire ranges from Bach’s oratorios and cantatas to Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Among his credits are regular performances with oratorio choirs in Munich and Ulm as well as solo work with the Bachakademie in Stuttgart under Hans-Jörg Albrecht, with whom he sang in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Moscow. Burkhart made his debut at the Munich Philharmonie with Handel’s Israel in Egypt.
As an interpreter of lieder, Burkhart has made guest appearances at various music festivals including the Heidelberger Frühling and the Beethovenfest in Bonn with pianistic collaborators such as Eric Schneider and Alexander Fleischer. Since 2011 he has been performing as a duo partner with Akemi Murakami. Together, they have amassed an ever-widening repertoire that includes Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Liederkreis, and Myrten, as well as many songs by Brahms, Liszt, and Wolf.
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