Serafin Heusser (Baritone)

Born: Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland,

The Swiss baritone, Serafin Heusser, studied with Professor Peter Brechbühler at the Hochschule Luzern, graduating in Master Performance with Minor Early Music; and at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Professor Scot Weir, raduating the Master's vocal pedagogy with honors. Singing master-classes with Robert Dean Smith, Karlheinz Hanser & Margreet Honig and stylistic master-classes with Barthold Kuijken, Anton Steck and Ton Koopman complemented his previous training in addition to various Lied duo courses. He is the recipient of the Edwin Fischer-Gedenkpreises, Migros-Kulturprozent scholarship holder and Wagner scholarship holder.

Because the chamber music repertoire is very important to Serafin Heusser, he works with various vocal ensembles, including the Schweizer Vokalconsort and Lied duo partners: currently with Edward Rushton, Elio Coria and the guitarist Aljaz Cvirn.

Since the beginning of his training Serafin Heusser has dealt intensively with the romantic Lied repertoire and has already performed Schubert's Winterreise & Schöne Müllerin, Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe & Liederkreis and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, among others. Another repertoire focus of his work is Baroque music. Among other things, he is in the Chor der J.S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen (Director: Rudolf Lutz) and also has a lively concert activity as a soloist in masses, cantatas and oratorios.

In addition to his artistic work, Serafin Heusser has been employed as a solo singing teacher at the Musikschule Würenlos since 2014 and gives private solo and choral vocal training in individual and group lessons.

Sources:
Serafin Heusser Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (November 2021)
Photo 01: Miriam Elias; Photo 02: Bettina Bucher
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (November 2021)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Javier Ulises Illán

Bass

[VV-1] (2020, Audio): BWV 245 [Pilatus]

Rudolf Lutz

Bass

Member of Chor der J.S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen:
BSSG [D15-1] (2021, Video/CD): BWV 65
BSSG [D15-2] (2021, Video): BWV 3
BSSG [D15-8] (2021, Video): BWV 77
BSSG [D15-9] (2021, Video): BWV 120
BSSG [D15-11] (2021, Video): BWV 45
BSSG [D16-2] (2022, Video): BWV 39
BSSG [D16-3] (2022, Video): BWV 31
BSSG [D16-4] (2022, Video): BWV 41
BSSG [D16-5] (2022, Video): BWV 11
BSSG [D17-1] (2023, Video): BWV 153
BSSG [D17-4] (2023, Video): BWV 134
BSSG [D17-7] (2023, Video): BWV 178

Links to other Sites

Serafin Heusser - Baritone (Official Website) [German]