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The German baritone, Florian Schmitt-Bohn, began his career as a soprano soloist with the Freiburger Domsingknaben. He studied at Kolleg St.Sebastian Gymnasium in Stegen. This was followed by a preliminary study with Professor B. Heuer-Christen at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and Professor Locky Chung in Karlsruhe. After studying music, German studies and English studies, he studied Lied and concert singing as well as singing education with Professor S. Stamenkovic at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (University of Music) in Mannheim. He was a multiple national and federal award winner of the Jugend musiziert competition and a scholar of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene (USA). He received additional artistic impulses by attending master-classes with Cornelius Reid, Helmuth Rilling, Klaus Häger, Rudolf Piernay and Maria Venuti.
Florian Schmitt-Bohn's wide-ranging repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to modern times and includes the parts of the concert and oratorios as well as, for example, the Papageno in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, with which he made his operatic debut.
In addition to Florian Schmitt-Bohn's solo career, where he collaborated with artists such as Kammersänger Peter Schreier, Sibylla Rubens, Ingeborg Danz or Helmuth Rilling, he performs in ensembles such as the Staatsopernchor Stuttgart or the London Philharmonic Choir under the direction of conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniele Gatti, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta or Ton Koopman. A particularly long-standing and close co-operation connects him with Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart and its founder Helmuth Rilling and his successor Hans-Christoph Rademann (as Gaechinger Cantorey). Here he is entrusted repeatedly with solo tasks. Concert tours with well-known ensembles and conductors have taken him all over Europe, to the USA, Canada, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Venezuela, China, Korea and Japan.
In addition, Florian Schmitt-Bohn has been involved as a presenter and music mediator at children's and youth concerts for several years, including for the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. But he also has great success as a master of ceremonies at gala events, i.e. at the German convention of Lions Clubs 2016 or the Stuttgarter Liedermarkt 2018. |
