18th July to 18th August 2012

Wieland Satter

Schmidt (bass)

Wieland Satter studied musical education at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After graduating he began his voice studies at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar. His teachers included Karl-Heinz Jarius, Sebastian Vittucci and Gregory Lamar, and he attended masterclasses with Hans Hotter, Walter Berry, Kurt Moll and Cornelius Read. From 2005 to 2008 he was a member of the ensemble at Nuremberg State Theatre and additionally performed at theatres in Passau, Hof, Kaiserslautern, Linz, Augsburg, Kassel and at the Opéra de Lyon. His repertoire consists of roles like Orest (Elektra), Klingsor (Parsifal), Phillip II (Don Carlos), Zaccharias (Nabucco), Escamillo (Carmen), Kaspar (Der Freischütz), Mephisto (Faust) and Pizarro (Fidelio), the title role in Ruslan and Lyudmila as well as the character roles Leporello (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) and Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia). Wieland Satter furthermore has a wide repertoire as a concert singer, including the song cycles Winterreise, Schwanengesang and Dichterliebe, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and the 9th Symphony, Mendelssohn's Elijah and St Paul, Bach's St John Passion, St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, as well as early Baroque and Renaissance music with specialized ensembles. Wieland Satter was the recipient of a scholarship from the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden near Vienna, was a prizewinner in the Gottlob Frick competition and a finalist in the second International Hilde Zadek Competition.