Christian Hilz, baritone

The baritone Christian Hilz is internationally renowned as a versatile performer in the fields of classical song and opera.  He regularly appears in the principal musical venues of Europe and America, such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburger Pfingstfestspielen, the Lucerne Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Würzburger Mozartfest, the London Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Kunstfest Weimar, the Prague Spring, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, in the Auditorio Nacional de la Musica in Madrid, at Ansbacher Bachwochen, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen and the Ruhrtriennale.

Hilz is equally sought after in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire and works regularly with directors such as Andrew Parrott, Martin Haselböck, Nicolas McGegan, Joshua Rifkin, Ton Koopman, Ivor Bolton, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmuth Froschauer and Juan Pons and with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, Kölner Rundfunkorchester, London Mozart Players, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Camerata Salzburg, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, New York Bach Ensemble, Ensemble Tafelmusik Toronto, Wiener Akademie, Norwegian Baroque Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony.

Alongside classical roles his opera repertoire encompasses a variety of parts in baroque and contemporary opera which he among others maintained in productions in Vienna, Amsterdam, Madrid and Potsdam.

His recordings include works by Bach, Händel, Telemann, Homilius, Mattheson, Meder, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Lortzing, Klemmstein, Sterk and Kleiberg.

Christian Hilz teaches classes in Voice at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern.