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The German mezzo-soprano and voice teacher, Hedwig Fassbender, was initially trained as a pianist and a music teacher. She later studied singing in Munich with Ernst Haefliger. While still a student she was a prize-winner in the Hugo Wolf Lieder Competition in Vienna, the Mozart Festival Competition in Würzburg and the ‘nation’s choice’ concerts for young artists.
Hedwig Fassbender made guest appearances at the opera houses in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, Lyon and Vienna. In the concert hall, her favourite works are by J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart and Gustav Mahler, whose Kindertotenlieder and Lied von der Erde she has recorded with Armin Jordan. Her broadly-based musical education and interpretative gifts make Hedwig Fassbender a much sought-after interpreter of 20th-century music, as evidenced by CD’s of music by Heinz Holliger, Arnold Schoenberg, Schoeck and Zemlinsky.
Hedwig Fassbender was Professor of Voice at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt (1999-2017) and is an acclaimed voice teacher. Among her pupils and/or singers who have attended her master-classes: Nohad Becker (Mezzo-soprano), Catalina Bertucci (Soprano), Anne Bierwirth (Contralto), Rafael Bruck (Baritone), Jennifer Gleinig (Mezzo-soprano), Julie Grutzka (Soprano), Julian Habermann (Tenor), Anna Hofmann (Soprano), Kateryna Kasper (Soprano) Sebastian Kohlhepp (Tenor), Katharina Kutsch (Soprano), Katharina Magiera (Contralto), Ulrike Malotta (Mezzo-soprano), Brynne McLeod (Mezzo-soprano), Melina Meschkat (Mezzo-soprano), Ludwig Mittelhammer (Baritone), Marian Müller (Baritone), Anna-Maria Palii (Soprano), Sofia Pavone (Mezzo-soprano), Marie Seidler (Mezzo-soprano), Michaela Wehrum (Mezzo-soprano), Johannes Weiss (Tenor), Melissa Zgouridi (Mezzo-soprano). |
