Jochen Kupfer Bass-Baritone         Discography   S 108 048 W. A. Mozart: Requiem SACD     Click on the title of the recording to get further information.           > Homepage and concert dates Jochen Kupfer		BIOGRAPHY Jochen Kupfer was born in Grimma, Germany, and has been studying voice regularly since the age of ten. He began his conservatory studies with Prof. Helga Forner at the Musikhochschule Leipzig. Study with Elio Battaglia, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf completed his training. Mr. Kupfer has sung with such distinguished conductors as René Jacobs, Jeffrey Tate, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Fabio Luisi, Gary Bertini, Peter Schreier, Philippe Herreweghe, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling and Trevor Pinnock. Concert tours have taken him to the important European cities and to Japan and USA: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Carnegie Hall New York. He has also worked at many international music festivals, most notably Nuits Romantiques in Aix-les-Bains, lle de France Paris, Ravenna-Festival, Festival International de Musique et d'Art Lyrique Montreux 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 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 Munich. In 2006/07 he will sing Mozart Don Giovanni, Posa in Don Carlos and Silvio in Pagliacci on the Operahouse Nuernberg. 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 CDs of Schumann songs for Channel Classics as well as the complete songs of Franz Schreker and "Die schöne Müllerin of Franz Schubert.