One of today's highly sought-after lieder and oratorio interpreters, German
tenor Hans Peter Blochwitz was born in 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
and studied in Mainz and Frankfurt. He made his United States debut as the Evangelist
in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir
Georg Solti, and he has appeared in a wide range of works - from early Baroque
masses to Frank Martin's oratorio Golgotha and Henze's opera Der junge
Lord. Although he is also well known for his Mozart roles and performances
of the Requiem, Blochwitz's greatest personal affinity is for lieder, as evidenced
by his award-winning recordings of song cycles by Schubert and Schumann. In
1993 his world premiere performance and subsequent recording of Hans Zender's
work based on Schubert's Winterreise met with great success.