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The German tenor, Gerhard Nennemann, received from 1967 his first vocal training as a boy soprano; then studied music education at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart (1981-1986) with the performance and singing as main subjects (Professor Georg Jelden, Professor Sandor Konya) and violoncello. Inter alia, he attended Methodological seminar for singers with Professor August Messthaler (1982-1984); 1984 - 1986 Lied class with Professor Konrad Richter (1984-1986); Vocal Studies (Opera School) in Frankfurt with Professor Mc Lane (1986-1989). In the following 5 years he had further studies with Professor Eugen Rabine at the Vervollkommnung der gesangstheoretischen Grundlagen. Perfection of the fundamentals of singing theory. Continuing education: u.a. Eutonie lessons and study with Albert Jaton in Geneva, at the Lichtenberger Institut für Gesang with Gisela Rohmert and Eva Marguerre. Since 2003 he studies with with Jon Buzea in Zürich. He also attended master-classes with Nicolai Gedda and Carlo Bergonzi.
Gerhard Nennemann is a freelance singer since 1982, first as a member of the Kammerchor Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius. He has been working as a freelance singer for the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and NDR-Chor Hamburg since 1985. Later soloist duties increased in the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor Freiburg (Director: Thomas Hengelbrock) Freiburg and especially in the Coro della RTSI Lugano under Diego Fasolis. From the 2017-2018 season, he is the principal choir member of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie under Florian Helgath.
In the further course of the solo career, Gerhard Nennemann has participated in important festivals, such as the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, the Flanders Festival in Bruges, and the Settimane Bach in Milano. He has sung under conductors such as Andrew Parrott, Robert King, Frieder Bernius, Thomas Hengelbrock, Diego Fasolis and Ton Koopman. In 2008, he made his debut in the Tonhalle Zürich in Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ under Charles Dutoit. In 2012, he sang for the first time under Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a much-acclaimed J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) in Rotterdam.
In addition, concert tours have taken him Gerhard Nennemann all over Europe, as well as to Israel, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Taiwan, China and Japan. Numerous recordings at various European radio and television stations as well as CD recordings.
Since 2004 Gerhard Nennemann has been a guest at the Zürcher Opernhaus; with the season 2010-2011 season at the Theater Basel. Among other things, he was heard in the "Meistersinger of Nuremberg" under Philipp Jordan, in Tannhäuser under Ingo Metzmacher or in La Fedeltà Premiata under Adam Fischer. 2011 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival. In recent years, increased leading roles in free opera productions, such as the role of Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, that of the Count in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, or the broom-maker in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel.
From 1990 with the British pianist Helen Yorke, the Swiss pianist Rahel Sohn, as well as the German pianist Andreas Kersten, Gerhard Nennemann has developed of various Lieder and operetta programmes (including " F. Schubert's Schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, Robert Schumann's Liedkreis Op. 24, Dichterliebe Op. 48). He currently lives in Remetschwiel, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. |
