Konrad Jarnot

Education

Since 1998 he has completed his musical training with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Career

He is a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. He also took masterclasses at London"s Wigmore Hall and at Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling. Since then he has been invited to sing at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, the Benaroya Hall, Seattle, the Wigmore Hall, London, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the gebouw, Amsterdam, and many other major venues.

He has appeared at dozens of festivals, such as the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Savonlinna Festival.

Jarnot has worked with most important conductors, including Ralf Gothoni, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jesús López-Cobos, Jonathan Nott, Andrew Parrott, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schreier, Pinchas Steinberg, Martin Turnovský, Marcello Viotti, Bruno Weil, and David Willcocks. He has given masterclasses in Europe and Japan.

Among his students is Ulrich Cordes. In his main career, Jarnot has sung Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas in a London production, Onegin in Eugene Onegin in Baden-Baden, Yeletzky in Tchaikovsky"s The Queen of Spades in Glasgow, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Amfortas in Parsifal at Monte Carlo, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Savonlinna, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande at Innsbruck, the Narrator in Gerhard Konzelmann"s Die Legende von der schönen Lau at Blaubeuren, and Madhavia in Schubert"s Sakontala at Urach.

In 2006, he appeared as Leporello in Mozart"s Don Giovanni, with Thomas Hengelbrock conducting the Balthasar Neumann ensembles at the Feldkirch Festival.

In 2007, Jarnot performed Bach"s solo cantatas Kreuzstabkantate and Ich habe genug, BWV 82, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, conducted by Christoph Poppen. In 2005, Jarnot recorded er of Richard Strauss, including piano arrangements of his Four Last Songs, typically sung by sopranos, with accompanist Helmut Deutsch. In 2011, he performed the Liebesliederwalzer of Brahms and Spanische Liebeslieder operation

138 of Schumann with Ruth Ziesak, Anke Vondung and Werner Güra at Schloss Johannisberg for the Rheingau Musik Festival.

Jarnot also champions Erich Wolfgang Korngold"s er, which he performed and recorded with pianist Reinild Mees.

Achievements

• Born at Brighton, Jarnot studied voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, with Rudolf Piernay, and was awarded the school"s Gold Meda In April 1996 he won a Kathleen Ferrier Award, the Decca Prize. The singer came to international attention in 2000, when he won the First Prize at the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator International Music Competition in Munich.