Markus Hollop (Germany)
Masterclasses and Voice
The Berlin bass Markus Hollop received his basic musical training as a boy soprano in the Staats- und Domchor Berlin and as solo horn player in various Berlin youth orchestras. He studied concert and opera singing at the Munich University of Music with Prof. Josef Loibl and started an international career at an early age, which took him to the largest European opera houses and festivals, such as the Bavarian State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. He has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Donald Runnicles and Zubin Mehta, as well as directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki, Damiano Michieletti, Nicolas Joel, Peter Stein and Robert Carsen. His repertoire includes all the great romantic roles of the German, French and Italian bass repertoire, as well as a lot of contemporary music, which has been a special concern of his since the beginning of his career (for example, he made his debut as a singer at the 1st Munich Biennale for Modern Music Theatre in 1988) as well as a lot of song and concert repertoire. For the CD recording of "Doktor Faust" (Ferruccio Busoni) under the direction of Kent Nagano he was awarded a Gramophone Award ("Grammy") in 2001.
After completing a master's degree in cultural management at the University of Zurich, Markus Hollop has been working at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as "Chargé de production artistique et casting" since the 2016/17 season.