Dominik Wörner (born 1970) is a German classicalbass singer in concert,Lied and opera. He is a specialist inBaroque music, especially works by Bach, but is open to music of other eras including contemporary music.
Born inGrünstadt, Wörner studied music at theState University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, in Fribourg, Bern and Zürich. He studiedchurch music, voice andmusicology, voice withJakob Stämpfli andLied withIrwin Gage.[1][2]
Wörner has performed with conductors such asCarl St.Clair,Christophe Coin,Thomas Hengelbrock,Philippe Herreweghe,Tõnu Kaljuste,Sigiswald Kuijken andHelmuth Rilling.[2] He has recorded especially music byJohann Sebastian Bach, such as thevox Christi in hisSt John Passion and theMass in B minor. He recorded several cantatas in the project conducted byMasaaki Suzuki with theBach Collegium Japan to record all sacred Bach cantatas, including volume 33 in 2005 and volume 36 in 2006. He took part inSigiswald Kuijken's project to recordCantatas through the Liturgical Year with the ensembleLa Petite Bande on period instruments and one voice per part (OVPP). He recorded Bach's solo cantatas for bass such asIch will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, for example in 2013 withRyo Terakado conducting the ensembleil Gardellino.[1] In 2009 Wörner recorded Lieder byHans Rott, a contemporary ofGustav Mahler.[3] In 2006 he recorded Lieder from Vienna written in thefin de siècle period, titled "Hugo Wolf und der Wiener Jugendstil", by composers such asAlban Berg,Arnold Schoenberg,Franz Schreker andHugo Wolf, writing the program notes himself.[4] A review of the "ambitious project" noted: "Wörner's quiet but colorful bass-baritone and reflective attitude toward the text are evocative of the small gatherings in which the music of the Second Viennese School took shape".[4] Wörner recorded with his own Ensemble Kirchheimer BachConsortChristoph Graupner's cantatas for epiphany and also Bach's Dialog-cantatas withHana Blazikova.
Wörner appeared on the opera stage at theSolothurn theatre in the title role ofJean-Jacques Rousseau'sLe devin du village, which was recorded conducted byAndreas Reize. He premiered works composed for him, such asCanticum Canticorum byMarco Sofianopoulo, first performed in theTrieste Cathedral, andWerner Jacob'sLamentatio andTriptychon inSt. Sebald in Nuremberg, for the broadcasterBayerischer Rundfunk.[5]
In 2002 he was awarded first prize at the 13thInternational Johann Sebastian Bach Competition ofLeipzig and a special prize from the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra.[1]
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