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Bartolo Musil is an Austrian baritone singer and composer, born in
Klagenfurt Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually ...
. Trained as a composer, pianist, and singer, he has been working as a musician from his early childhood. He studied at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Detmold with teachers such as Walter Berry and Thomas Quasthoff. Additionally he attended private tuition and masterclasses with
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, Edith Mathis,
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, Rudolph Piernay, and others. At present he is coached by the belcanto experts Michael Aspinall and Gioacchino Zarrelli. Already as a student he started receiving awards and grants, and was recently awarded the First Prize at the International Competition “Concours de la Mélodie française” in Toulouse. Bartolo Musil's repertoire reaches from Renaissance and early Baroque up to contemporary experimental opera. As a concert and opera singer he has sung important parts at the Chigiana Festival in Siena (''
Atenaide ''Atenaide'' ( RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.
'' by Vivaldi, broadcast by the RAI) in the Vienna Musikverein (e.g. staged Monteverdi madrigals in the Great Hall) and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival, the Berlin Philharmonie (''Messiah'' and ''The Creation''), the Holland Belcanto Festival, the Festival of Early Music in Innsbruck, the festival
Carinthischer Sommer The Carinthian Summer is a music and cultural festival in the Austrian province of Carinthia. It was founded in 1969 in Ossiach
festival, the Stephaniensaal Graz, the Cathedrals of Berlin and Vienna, the Vienna Kammeroper, Neue Oper Wien (''Le Balcon'' by Eötvös), and many others. When he, after only two weeks of preparation, took on the title role of
Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is conside ...
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L'Orfeo ''L'Orfeo'' ( SV 318) (), sometimes called ''La favola d'Orfeo'' , is a late Renaissance/early Baroque ''favola in musica'', or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, ...
in a big production of the German festival “
Antikenfestspiele Antikenfestspiele was a summer theatre and opera festival that ran from 1998 to 2010 in Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the ...
” in Trier, he achieved a particular success with the audience and press, and was listed in “Who’s Hot” in the magazine “Opera Now”. Bartolo Musil has worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Wiener Klangforum, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the SWR-Orchester, the Orpheus Kammerorchester, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Armonio Tributo, conducted by Lorenz Duftschmid, and directors such as Pet Halmen and Achim Freyer. Song recitals, radio and CD productions and his cabaret duo "" complete his activities. In 2006 his first solo recital CD "Virtuosity - il Baritono Barocco" was published by the Italian label Bongiovanni. As a composer Bartolo Musil has written commissioned works for several important venues, such as the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the festival Carinthischer Sommer, the Jeunesses Musicales, etc., and was also awarded several prizes.


Research and Teaching

Bartolo Musil is an artistic researcher and has completed an artistic doctorate at the
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', whic ...
. In 2015 he was appointed as a University Professor for Voice by the university Mozarteum in Salzburg.


Trivia

Twentieth century writer
Robert Musil Robert Musil (; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, '' The Man Without Qualities'' (german: link=no, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most importan ...
and Austrian orientalist Alois Musil are relatives of Bartolo Musil.


External links



(official website as a singer)

(documentation of his work as a composer) Living people 20th-century Austrian male singers 21st-century Austrian male singers Austrian male composers Austrian composers Musicians from Klagenfurt Year of birth missing (living people) {{Austria-singer-stub