Ludwig Mittelhammer studied singing with Frieder Lang at the Munich Music and Theatre Hochschule. He has appeared with a number of orchestras and conductors in Germany, with engagements at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at Bayreuth. In 2014 he won a Special Prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition for his interpretation of Wolfgang Rihm’s Goethe Songs and first prize, with the pianist Jonathan Ware, at the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Academy Lieder Competition. Since autumn 2015 he has been a member of the Frankfurt Opera Studio.