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Thomas Quasthoff
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
For half a century, Thomas Quasthoff has set the benchmark internationally as a singer, reaching and moving countless people with his artistry. In January 2012, he rounded off his unrivalled career as a classical singer, yet has remained closely associated with singing and the arts as a teacher, as a reciter and narrator at concerts, giving readings, and now increasingly as a jazz singer in collaboration with Wolfgang Haffner (drums), Dieter Ilg (double bass) and Simon Oslender (keyboards).
Throughout his extensive career, Thomas Quasthoff has performed with the world's leading orchestras and called the lieder and concert stage his home, having sung at the most prominent halls and festivals. His close collaborations with conductors include names such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst.
Thomas Quasthoff has been "Artist in Residence" at the Vienna Musikverein, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, London's Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre.
He has proven time and again just how much he enjoys taking on new challenges. In recent years, he has performed various jazz programmes at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Prinzregententheater in Munich, in Dresden, at the festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier, Leverkusen, Heidelberg, the Jazzfest in Bonn and the Rheingau Festival.
In 2024, Thomas Quasthoff celebrates his 50th anniversary on stage. To mark the occasion, he will be performing in various jazz formats at the Dortmund Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Bonn Jazz Festival, Wigmore Hall, the Rheingau Festival, the Verbier Festival, at the Edinburgh Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Frankfurt Opera, the Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Die Glocke in Bremen, and the Admiralspalast in Berlin. Alongside the Amatis Trio, he will perform as a reciter in the programme entitled "Humanity in War", which takes him to Blaibach, Basel, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, to Utrecht and to the Musikfest in Dresden. In honour of the 150th Arnold Schönberg anniversary year, he will appear as the narrator in the Gurre-Lieder with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle and with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Alan Gilbert.
Thomas Quasthoff has received numerous national and international honours to date, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Three of his recordings have been awarded Grammys and six have received the Echo Prize. From 1996-2004, Thomas Quasthoff held a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold. Since then he has taught at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, while also giving regular masterclasses, including at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival and the Hochschule in Detmold, as well as at the Verbier Festival and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. His passionate commitment to young singers also motivated the artist to found the international competition "Das Lied" in 2009, an event which takes place every two years as part of the Heidelberg Frühling festival.
2024 | 2025
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DISCOGRAPHY
Thomas Quasthoff: Nice ‘n’ Easy
Vocals: Thomas Quasthoff | Piano: Frank Chastenier | Bass: Dieter Ilg | Drums: Wolfgang Haffner
NDR Bigband
Arrangement: Jörg Achim Keller
Label: Sony Music | 2018
Thomas Quasthoff: Tell it like it is
Vocals: Thomas Quasthoff | Klavier: Frank Chastenier | Gitarre: Bruno Müller | Bass: Dieter Ilg | Drums: Wolfgang Haffner
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 2010
Thomas Quasthoff: The Jazz Album – Watch what happens
Arrangement: Alan Broadbent, Nan Schwartz
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 2007
Thomas Quasthoff: Mein Weihnachten
Vocals: Thomas Quasthoff | Piano: Frank Chastenier | guitar: Bruno Müller | Bass: Dieter Ilg | Drums: Wolfgang Haffner
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 2014
VIDEOS
CALENDAR
Thomas Quasthoff, vocals
Jakob Manz, saxophone
Nils Landgren, trombone
Simon Oslender, piano
Dieter Ilg, double bass
Wolfgang Haffner, drums
Thomas Quasthoff, vocals
Jakob Manz, saxophone
Nils Landgren, trombone
Simon Oslender, piano
Dieter Ilg, double bass
Wolfgang Haffner, drums
Nils Landgren Funk Unit,
Wolfgang Haffner Trio and special guest Thomas Quasthoff
The Grand Closing concludes the 41st Ingolstadt Jazz Days with a concert of superlatives in the hall of the Maritim Kongress Centum. The legendary Nils Landgren Funk Unit from Sweden and the excellent Wolfgang Haffner Trio with special guest Thomas Quasthoff will perform the finale of the festival. This evening with a brilliant program is a must for funk lovers on the one hand and a highlight for all fans of first-class jazz music paired with exceptional vocals on the other. This is what bassist Thomas Stieger, drummer Wolfgang Haffner, pianist and organist Simon Oslender and one of Germany's most versatile and versatile singers, bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, stand for.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETS»Die Menschlichkeit im Krieg«
Thomas Quasthoff | Rezitation
Amatis Trio
Lea Hausmann | Violine
Samuel Shepherd | Violoncello
Mengjie Han | Klavier
History often reduces wars to a collection of statistics. It is easy to forget that behind every number, every flag, every battle, there is a person who is someone's child, parent or lover. During the First World War, pen and paper was often all that many had to keep in touch with their distant loved ones. Based on these field post letters, Quasthoff and the Amatis Trio trace the humanity of wartime and the personal struggle of the people behind the statistics.
Nikola Hillebrand, Soprano
Emily D’Angelo, Mezzosoprano
Thomas Quasthoff, Bassbaritone
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Kammerchor der Frauenkirche
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Riccardo Minasi, Musical Direction
CONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
