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The German-Austrian baritone, Michael Roman, initially received his musical training on the violin, later switching to singing. He began his singing studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Heidelberg-Mannheim, and continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, which he completed with a concert exam after postgraduate studies. There he studied singing with Professor Christiane Junghanns, Lied with Professor Gertraud Geißler and early music with Professor Ludger Rémy. In addition to master-classes with Barbara Schlick and Brigitte Fassbaender, the master-classes with Kurt Widmer were particularly influential in his artistic work. He was a scholarship holder at the Internationalen Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe and the nternationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt.
In recent years, Michael Roman has made a name for himself as a concert singer with a large repertoire. In addition to numerous concert activities in Germany, performances of the great oratorios of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods have taken him to Europe and South America. He has performed at the Ludwigsburg Festival under the direction of Michael Hofstetter, among others.
Michael Roman has performed as a soloist in numerous contemporary works and premieres. On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism, he was heard in the premiere of Dietrich Lohff's oratorio Das Spiel von der Schnur Christi. On the anniversary of the Council of Constance, he sang in the premiere of Ulrich Gasser's oratorio Imperiamarie I and II with the Südwestdeutschen Philharmonie Konstanz. At the International Music Days in Speyer Cathedral, he sang in Martin Wistingshausen's Lux in tenebris.
Michael Roman is particularly interested in German romantic Lieder, and has performed Schubert's Winterreise in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, among other things. He performed Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin together with guitarist Volker Höh in the rarely heard version for baritone and guitar. In addition to the great Lieder cycles of the Romantic era, his recitals regularly introduce audiences to lesser-known songs and ballads by Franz Schubert, Carl Loewe, Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Robert Schumann, among others.
His musical work is documented in radio broadcasts and CD recordings.
Michael Roman taught singing at the Justus- Liebig-Universität in Gießen. |
