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The German bass, Clemens Joswig, gained his first musical experience at an early age in the church choir in his hometown of Ottobrunn. After joining the Bayerische Singakademie, he took singing lessons from Hartmut Elbert. From 2011 to 2016 he studied singing at the Musikhochschule München with Professor Marilyn Schmiege and Professor Ingrid Kaiserfeld. He then began a master's degree at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Professor Christoph Strehl, which he successfully completed in 2019. From the winter semester of 2020 to the summer of 2022 he studied again in his hometown of Munich in the master's degree in Lied interpretation with Professor Donald Sulzen and Professor Fritz Schwinghammer as well as with Professor Lars Woldt. He was a scholarship holder of the Vera-und-Volker-Doppelfeld Stiftung and the Richard Wagner Verbandes München.
Clemens Joswig has already performed as Paris in Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette at the Isny Opera Festival and was heard as Uberto in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva Padrona with the Musikwerkstatt Icking. He also took part in the summer productions of Kaspar Hauser and W.A. Mozart's La finta semplice at the Kammeroper München. As part of his studies, he has already been heard as Johann in A. Lortzing's Die Opernprobe, as Sir John Falstaff in O. Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and as Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In 2015 he sang Figaro in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim. He also played this role again in 2017 in a production at the Mozarteum. In the summer of 2018 he was heard there as Simone in W.A. Mozart's youth opera La finta semplice and as Theseus in Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, and in the year of his graduation he also played Crespel in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann. In opera productions by the Gemeinde Oberhaching he was seen as Kaspar in C.M.v. Weber's Der Freischütz in 2019 and as Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 2022. At the beginning of 2020 he embodied Death in a performance of Viktor Ullman's opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis in Detmold.
Clemens Joswig is also in demand as a Lied and concert singer; while still a student, he gave his first recital with F. Schubert's Winterreise and has already taken on several bass parts in major masses and oratorios, such as W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, George Frideric Handel's Messiah or Rossini's Petite messe solennelle as well as J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 and Joseph Haydn's The Creation.
In addition to singing as a soloist, Clemens Joswig also devotes himself to choral singing and has performed with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Zürcher Sing-Akademie and the ChorWerk Ruhr (Director: Florian Helgath) under well-known conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Mariss Jansons, Ivan Repusic and Riccardo Muti. Since the 2022-2023 season, he has been a permanent member of the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln. |
