Tenor Hans Jörg Mammel trained as a chorister in the Stuttgart Hymnus boys’ choir. He studied music with Winfried Toll, Werner Hollweg and Ingeborg Most at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and participated in masterclasses with Barbara Schlick, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and James Wagner.
He has worked with conductors including Thomas Hengelbrock, Sigiswald Kuijken, Ivan Fischer, Hans Zender, Francois-Xavier Roth and Jordi Savall, and with orchestras and ensembles including La Cetra Basel, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Les Cornets Noirs, and Ricercar Consort. He can be heard on over a hundred recordings and broadcasts.
He won acclaim for his portrayal in the title role of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and has undertaken guest engagements at the state theatres of Freiburg, Darmstadt and Koblenz, and Berlin Unter den Linden State Opera. His Lieder repertoire spans the Second Berlin School and Romantic song cycles to less-familiar works by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz and Robert Franz. His interpretation of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin received critical praise, and he has recorded the Goethe settings of works by Zelter, Reichardt and Schubert, including Winterreise, and songs by Mendelssohn and Liszt, for Alpha, Naxos and Carus.
He has performed Lieder recitals in Europe and the Far East. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Cantus Cöln under artistic director Konrad Junghänel.