Bartolo Musil is an Austrian

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singer and composer, born in Klagenfurt.

Career

Trained as a composer, pianist, and singer, he has been working as a musician from childhood. He studied at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Detmold. As a student he received awards and grants. He was 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 parts at the Chigiana Festival in Siena ('' Atenaide'' 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

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 and Neue Oper Wien (''Le Balcon'' by Eötvös). When he, after only two weeks of preparation, took on the title role of

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in a production of the German festival “ Antikenfestspiele” in Trier, he was listed in “Who’s Hot” in the magazine ''Opera Now''. Musil has worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the Wiener Klangforum, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the SWR-Orchester, the Orpheus Kammerorchester, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Armonio Tributo, and directors such as

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. 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 Musil has written commissioned works for several venues, such as the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the festival Carinthischer Sommer, the Jeunesses Musicales, etc., and has been awarded prizes.

Research and Teaching

Musil is an artistic researcher and has completed a doctorate at the

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. In 2015 he was appointed as a professor for Voice by the university

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in Salzburg.

Books

* ''"Wie ein Begehren": Sprache und Musik in der Interpretation von Vokalmusik (nicht nur) des Fin de Siècle'' (2018, Transcript-Verlag)

References

External links

Official website as a singer

Profile at Mozarteum University
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