Konstantin Krimmel

The German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel began his music training at the boys’ choir of St Georg‘s Church in Ulm. In 2020 he completed his singing studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Teru Yoshihara. Since then, he has worked with Tobias Truniger in Munich. He is a prize-winner of numerous singing competitions and from 2021 to 2023 was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme. In 2023 he was acclaimed as ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Oper! Awards, and was named ‘Newcomer of the Year’ by the critics’ jury of the magazine Opernwelt.

Concert and song repertory is a major part of his activity. He has appeared in song recitals at the Cologne Philharmonie, the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Frankfurt Opera, the Heidelberg Spring Music Festival, the Schubertíada in Vilabertran, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the Oxford International Song Festival.

In the 2023/24 season he has given more than twenty song recitals, including in Madrid, Dortmund, London, at Schloss Elmau, in Munich, Schwarzenberg and, for the first time, at the Vienna Konzerthaus. With the pianist Hélène Grimaud he has developed the programme Silent Songs, featuring songs by Johannes Brahms and Valentin Silvestrov, which they have presented at events and venues including the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.

On the concert platform Konstantin Krimmel has appeared in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle and in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe in Katowice, Milan, Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg, Munich and Innsbruck.

Since autumn 2021 he has been an ensemble member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he has recently sung roles including Figaro in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte). In 2024 he appeared at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden as Figaro.

In 2023 his recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with the pianist Daniel Heide for the Alpha label won the German Record Critics’ Award. For Deutsche Grammophon he has recorded the albums Silent Songs and For Clara (featuring Lieder by Brahms and Schumann) with the pianist Hélène Grimaud.

His other CD recordings include the Liszt programme Der du vom Himmel bist with Daniel Heide (Avi) and the album Zauberoper, featuring arias by composers including Gluck, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri with the Munich Hofkapelle under Rüdiger Lotter (Alpha).