Hubert Mayer
Hubert Mayer was born in Hüfingen in the Black Forest. He studied at the Freiburg University of Music and was taught by Richard Miller, Aldo Baldin, and Nicolai Gedda. Engagements have taken the tenor to the stages of Freiburg, Biel, Lüneburg, and Karlsruhe, to the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich, the Stuttgart Staatstheater, and the Cologne Opera. Among the nearly forty roles he has performed are Tamino (The Magic Flute), Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), and Tony (West Side Story). He has sung under renowned conductors such as Hans Zender, Gabriele Ferro, Heinz Holliger, Ingo Metzmacher, Roberto Abbado, and Sylvain Cambreling. He has appeared as a guest at the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin Festival Weeks, and other prestigious festivals, as well as at traditional houses such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. From 1989 to 2023, he was a member of SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart. Hubert Mayer possesses a wide and stylistically diverse repertoire. He has collaborated with leading instrumental ensembles specializing in early music as well as with outstanding contemporary music ensembles such as the Musikfabrik Cologne, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Ensemble Recherche Freiburg. In recent years, Hubert Mayer has particularly distinguished himself as an interpreter of contemporary works. In 2003, for example, he sang the tenor part in the Spanish premiere of Luigi Nono's Prometeo. In this role, he also performed at the Salzburg Festival and the Berlin Musical Festival in 2011 under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher. In 2013, he performed Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso at the opening concert of the Vienna Modern Festival under Cornelius Meister, and in 2015, he also performed Il canto sospeso at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.
Hubert Mayer has particularly distinguished himself in the interpretation of the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Since 1999, he has regularly participated in world premieres, CD productions, and as a lecturer at the Stockhausen-Kurse Kürten. In 2011, he took on the leading role in the premiere of Stockhausen's opera Sonntag aus Licht at the Cologne Opera. With Le Balcon, he played Michaël in Donnerstag aus Licht in 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall in London and Michaël in Dienstag aus Licht in 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris. In November 2023, he performed Sonntag aus Licht, also at the Philharmonie de Paris.