October 03, 2005

TOUR of ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY SONGS

HERMINE HASELBÖCK, Mezzo soprano, Laureate of the International Zemlinsky Award and Florian Henschel, pian), will give a national tour featuring ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY SONGS. October 2, 2005: Annapolis /Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
October 3, 2005: Maryland /Salisbury University
October 5 & 6, 2005: New York /Austrian Cultural Forum
October 9, 2005: Los Angeles /Radio Live Broadcast in ‘KMozart’
October 11, 2005: Washington /Austrian Embassy
November 18, 2005: Wiener Musikverein

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MORE ABOUT HERMINE HASELBOCK:
After making a successful debut at styriarte Graz 2005 Hermine Haselböck is considered as one of the most promising Austrian mezzo-sopranos. Nikolaus Harnoncourt engaged the artist for the part of Mercedes in his highly acclaimed Carmen-production (staged by Andrea Breth). For the 2005/06 season, Hermine Haselböck will be able to refer to several important debuts: At Concertgebouw Amsterdam she will debut as Dorabella in a concert-performance of Cosi fan tutte and will later tour through other cities of the Netherlands with this production. Being laureate of the Zemlinsky-Award 2005 Hermine Haselböck will sing recitals in New York, Washington and Los Angeles as well as at Wiener Musikverein later. At Wiener Volksoper she will make her house-debut as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. Under the baton of Tomas Netopil she will sing two concerts (Schubert: Mass in e flat major) at Teatro San Carlo Naples. Afterwards she will start rehearsals at Theater an der Wien where she will make her debut in Schulhoff’s Flammen (conductor: Bertrand de Billy) during the Wiener Klangbogen 2006. At the end of the season Austrian mezzo-soprano will appear in Handel’s Jephta at St. Gallen Festival and prepare for her debuts in Vienna (Magic Flute under Fabio Luisi) and at Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg.
Pan Classics released Hermine Haselböck’s debut-solo-CD Songs by Zemlinsky(piano: Florian Henschel) that attracted international attention. The recording got excellent reviews in well-known European music-magazines and was presented in the Austrian, Bavarian and Hessian radio as well as in Deutschlandradio Berlin. In November 2005 Hermine Haselböck will be decorated with the Zemlinsky-Award during a ceremony at the Wiener Musikverein.
Hermine Haselböck worked together with conductors like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Elio Boncompagni, Martin Sieghart, Erwin Ortner, Martin Haselböck and Claudius Traunfellner. Her opera-repertoire includes parts like Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Zweite Dame in Magic Flute, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, Fiorilla in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, Miss Wordswoth in Britten’s Albert Herring, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Mrs. P. in Nyman’s The Man who mistook his wife for a hat and Amore in J.J. Fux’s Dafne.
After graduating from Stiftsgymnasium Melk Hermine Haselböck started her studies at Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (Teachers: Rita Streich and Hartmut Krones). She completed her studies with Ingeborg Ruß at Hochschule für Musik in Detmold / Germany passing her final artistic examination and attended master-classes with Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Widmer, Christa Ludwig, Edith Sélig-Papée, Sena Jurinac and Marjana Lipovsek.
Posted by jmwc at October 3, 2005 09:32 AM