Falko Hönisch, baritone (Germany)
Art song interpretation and applied German diction.
SGIMFA executive director and co-founder.

As opera singer, baritone Falko Hönisch has sung over several years at various opera houses. His repertoire now comprises important roles including Il Conte di Almaviva, Papageno and Wolfram von Eschenbach , as well as baroque and modern operas. His international career has taken him to Austria (Theater an der Wien), Italy (Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste), The Netherlands (Nationale Reisopera) and France (Opéra de Lyon) under the baton of Niksa Bareza, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Cornelius Meister, Roberto Paternostro, Siegfried Köhler, et. al. Amongst the stage directors with whom he has worked, Michiel Dijkema, Christine Mielitz, Vera Nemirova, Gabriele Rech or La Fura dels Baus stand out.

As concert singer, Falko Hönisch has sung both baritone and bass roles. He has sung under the baton of Ton Koopman, Frieder Bernius, Ed Spanjaard and Raphaël Pichon in such renowned concert houses as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf and the Händel Festival in Halle, amongst others, singing works ranging from Bach’s Passions and Cantatas, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung·and Mendelssohn’s Oratorios, through Frank Martin’s In Terra Pax and Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw as well as many contemporary works.

As a recitalist, Falko Hönisch has collaborated with numerous pianists working on both most of the major song cycles by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, and lesser known works by relatively unknown composers and also by contemporary living composers whose works he has premiered.

In all of these three genres Falko Hönisch has established himself as a versatile singer and has been the recipient of numerous awards in international singing competitions including the 58th ARD Competition in Munich, the Lauritz Melchior Competition for Wagnerian Voices in Aalborg, Denmark, the “New Wagnerian Voices” competition in Karlsruhe, the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich and the IVC Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

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