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The German baritone, Roman Grübner, began his artistic career with an intensive piano, singing and ballet education at the Staatstheater Schwerin, already at the age of 7. At the age of 16, he won the second prize at the Gesamt-Deutschen Jugendwettbewerbs. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hans Eissler" in Berlin with Kammersänger Reiner Goldberg (1997-2006), before he was a junior student at the Carl-Phillip-Emanuel-Bach-Gymnasiums für Musik in Berlin. He is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Stiftung and regularly attended the singing class of Julia Varady. He attended successful master-classes with Inge Borkh, George Fortune, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff.
Roman Grübner has proven himself over the years as an outstanding opera and oratorio singer. For example, he sang Rossini's Stabat Mater and Puccini's Messe di Gloria as well as Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus at the Philharmonie in Berlin. In 2009, for the first time, he sang J.S. Bach's entire Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) under the direction of Roy Goodman with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. In March 2010 he again sang the bass part in J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He gave Lieder recitals at the Palais am Festungsgraben Unter den Linden, for the German Ambassador to Malta, at the Moselfestspiele, in Bad Urach (Schubertiade), etc.
His repertoire includes more than 350 Lieder by Schubert, Wolf and Strauss as well as Gustav Mahler and Grieg. Roman Grübner also worked as a Lied singer at the European Music Summer on Usedom and sang in Verdi's Rigoletto, at the Internationalen Schlossfestspielen Schwerin, the "Marullo". From 2007 to 2009, he was a member of the ensemble at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, where he was among others, as Tolomeo in George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Mercutio in Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Papageno in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Morales in Georges Bizet's Carmen. From 2007 to 2013, he was a regular guest at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, where he performed the roles of Sciarrone in Tosca, Fiorello and Ufficiale in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Morales in Carmen, as well as 2nd Nazarene and Kappadozier in Salome (available on DVD). Most recently, he celebrated a great success in the Festspielhaus in the new production Ariadne auf Naxos (with Renée Fleming) under the baton of Christian Thielemann (also available on DVD on Decca. From 2012 to 2013,he was a member of the ensemble of the Stadttheater St. Gallen in Switzerland. From 2013 to 2016, he sang at Allee Theater - Hamburger Kammeroper. Since 2014 he works as a freelance opera singer in Hamburg.
Roman Grübner's concert repertoire includes, among others: J.S. Bach: Cantatas (about 50), Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248), Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244), Mass in B minor (BWV 232); George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, Alexander Feast; J. Haydn: Creation, Seasons, Nelson Mass; W.A. Mozart: Requiem, Coronation Mass, Mass in C Minor, funeral music; Rossini: Stabat Mater, Petite messe solennelle; Felix Mendelssohn: Paulus, Walpurgisnacht; Johannes Brahms: Requiem; Puccini: Messa di gloria. His Lied repertoire consists of about 450 Lieder from almost all eras (including Winterreise, An die ferne Geliebte, Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe).
In the course of his singing career Roman Grübner has already sung as a soloist under renowned conductors, such as Eivind Gulberg Jensen, Thomas Hengelbrock, Michele Laus, Stefan Soltez and Christian Thielemann. He currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. |
