Daniel Gloger
Like no other singer in his field, the countertenor Daniel Gloger inspires today’s composers to create new sounds and works. He always searches for the ideal interpretation, both in contemporary repertory and in historical music reaching to the Classical period.
He enjoys long-term collaborations with Lucia Ronchetti, Jennifer Walshe, Adriana Hölszky, Georg Friedrich Haas, Oscar Strasnoy, Bernhard Lang and Enno Poppe. He has already sung in over 200 world premieres, and is a regular guest at new music festivals, among them the Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik, the Berlin Festspiele, musica viva, the Wiener Festwochen, Klangspuren Schwaz, the Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, the South Tyrol Transart Festival, the Milano Musica Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He performed Olga Neuwirth’s Hommage à Klaus Nomi with Ensemble Modern at the Kasseler Musiktage and the same composer’s The Outcast with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Since 1993 Daniel Gloger has been a member of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, with which group he has given premieres of a wide range of works. He also appears regularly on stage with his solo project NACKT. At the invitation of the Munich Biennale, he performed the solo show Up Close and Personal by Kaj Duncan David, which went on to be staged at the ECLAT Festival, the Aarhus Festival and the Musica Festival Strasbourg. He has also had solo works dedicated to him by Aureliano Cattaneo, Manuel Hidalgo, Mischa Kaeser, Eunyoung Kim, Sergej Nevski, Martin Schüttler and Jörg Widmann.
His music theatre repertory includes Hölszky’s Der gute Gott von Manhattan, Lang’s Montezuma — Fallender Adler and Mondparsifal, Kampe’s Gefährliche Operette. Eine Wiederbelebung, Czernowin’s Pnima, Ronchetti’s Lezioni di tenebra, Strasnoy’s Geschichte and Haas’s Melancholia. Daniel Gloger performed at the Schwetzingen Festival in the world premieres of Georg Friedrich Haas and librettist Händl Klaus’s opera trilogy Bluthaus, Thomas and Koma. He made his Salzburg debut in 2009 in Judith after Vivaldi’s opera.
Daniel Gloger was born in Stuttgart and studied at the University of Music in Karlsruhe with Donald Litaker. Since 2019 he has taught singing at the University of the Arts in Bern.