
Hanno Müller-Brachmann
bass-baritone
Hanno Müller-Brachmann was trained by Ingeborg Most in Freiburg and Rudolf Piernay in
Mannheim, and attended the Lied class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin. His successes
at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh led
Hanno Müller-Brachmann early on to the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, where Daniel
Barenboim engaged him while he was still a student. Here, he sang his central roles for 13
years. This was followed by guest performances at the state operas in Hamburg, Munich,
and Vienna, as well as at La Scala in Milan.
The artist is also very active in the concert field. Among others, he has had great successes
in performances under the baton of Adam Fischer, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda,
Andris Nelsons, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, and Bernard Haitink. In
the current season, he can be heard in Mendelssohn's Walpurgis Night in Madrid under the
baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at La Scala in Milan under
the baton of Tugan Sokhiev, and as Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried under the baton of Kent
Nagano in Prague, Paris, Cologne, and Lucerne, among other locations.
In addition to his singing career, the bass-baritone now teaches as a professor of singing at
the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, serves as a juror for international competitions, and is
chairman of Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe e.V., a boys' and girls' choir that provides individual
training to approximately 200 children and young people.