Biography
Gotthold Schwarz (born 12 August 1952 in Zwickau) is a German bass-baritone singer and conductor.
Based in Leipzig, he started as a member of the Thomanerchor and has conducted the Gewandhausorchester.[
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Gotthold Schwarz, son of a cantor from Zwickau (Saxony), began his musical career as a member of the Thomanerchor Leipzig.
At the Hochschule für Musik there he studied singing (Gerda Schriever) and organ (Professor Wolfgang Schetelich and Professor Hannes Kästner).
Later he continued private singing studies with, among others, Professor Peter Schreier.
Since 1986 Gotthold Schwarz has been a lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig.
Extensive international engagements as soloist have taken him, interalia, to the USA, Finland and Japan.
In Germany he has been a guest at all famous festivals.
His repertoire embraces a wide spectrum of concert and oratorio literature. He has taken part in numerous radio and record productions.
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