Biography

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

"The bass-baritone Hanno Mueller-Brachmann is an ideal Figaro: a youthful appealing actor, a singer with a firm, dark and exciting voice."

The New York Times 12.8.2013

„Müller-Brachmann is a rising star in Germany, and with good reason; his sonouros, flexible bass-baritone communicated every single word.”

"The Guardian" writes about his interpretation of Gustav Mahler’s “Lieder aus des Knaben Wunderhorn” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.

„Refined, text-related and differentiated and vocally affected by interesting interpretation options”

"Die Presse" comments his song debut in the big hall of the Viennese Concert Hall together with Andreas Schiff.

The bass-baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann works as a lied, concert and opera singer. He has worked as a lied, concert and opera singer with many influential musical personalities of our time, including Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Iván Fischer, Andris Nelsons, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Daniel Harding, Charles Dutoit, Andrés Orozco-Estrada or Christian Thielemann and in the past with Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez, Michael Gielen, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner or Sir Charles Mackerras.

Today, the bass-baritone can look back on musical highlights with the leading orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, New York, Boston, Chicago, London, San Francisco, Madrid, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Munich, Lisbon, Cleveland, Paris, Zurich, Rome, Los Angeles, Milan, Dresden and many others. He has been a guest at several international festivals in Salzburg, Florence, Aix, Munich, Berlin, Beijing or Edinburgh, at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and the BBC Proms. Award-winning CD and DVD productions document his work. Most recently, a CD with works by Rudi Stephan, released by Sony, was awarded the "Opus Klassik" in 2018. He is a professor of singing at the HfM Karlsruhe, a juror of international competitions and is passionately committed to improving musical education, among other things as chairman of the boys' and girls' choir "Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe".