Samuel Hasselhorn

Biography

Following his First Prize triumph at the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition, baritone Samuel Hasselhorn has quickly established himself internationally as a versatile artist who is equally at home in the genres of opera, Lied, and oratorio. The 2023/24 season was marked by high-profile projects, including three new productions at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, of which he is a member of the ensemble: his role debut in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (title role), Don Giovanni and Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Furthermore he made his house debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Wolfram (Tannhäuser) and sang the title role in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Berlin. Concerts in that season took him to the concert halls in Vienna (St. Matthew Passion) and Berlin (War Requiem), to the Alte Oper in Frankfurt (Mahler's Lied von der Erde) and to numerous European cities as part of a tour with the Collegium Vocale Gent and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Philippe Herreweghe (Mozart's Requiem). He will perform recitals in Jerusalem, Geneva, Oxford, Madrid and Berlin, among others. He just made his debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna with Britten's War Requiem and sang the Christmas Oratorio on tour in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Budapest.

Samuel Hasselhorn was a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera’s ensemble for two years, where he interpreted Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcore (L'elisir d'amore), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Schaunard (La Bohème)... Guest engagements have already taken him to the Berlin State Opera, La Scala Milan, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon and the Opéra national de Paris in a ballet production of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.

As a recitalist, he regularly works with Helmut Deutsch, Malcolm Martineau, Ammiel Bushakevitz, Julien Libeer, Philippe Cassard or Joseph Middleton.

Samuel Hasselhorn studied at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de la Musique et de Danse de Paris. His first two CDs "Nachtblicke" and "Dichterliebe" were released in 2014 and 2018 (GWK RECORDS). On the harmonia mundi label, "Stille Liebe" (2020) with songs by Robert Schumann and the Schubert program "Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe" (2022) are available, both titles with pianist Joseph Middleton. In September 2023 Die schöne Müllerin (‘Diapason d’Or of the Year’) was released, with Ammiel Bushakevitz as accompanist.