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Press Kit
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 Swiss baritone Martin Bruns has won much acclaim for his concert, oratorio, and
opera appearances at major concert halls and festivals in, among others,
Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Geneva, Aldeburgh,
Salzburg, New York, Seattle, San Diego, Ottawa. Garnering praise for his "warm,
open voice" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and "magnificent interpre
tation" (Le Temp), he has been a
soloist with major European orchestras; with Scharoun-Ensemble
(Berlin Phil); Academy for Early Music, Berlin; Israel's Kibbutz Orchestra;
and the NY Chamber Symphony, under conductors such as Viotti,
Schwarz, Bolton, Ericson, Holliger
and Ostrowsky. A "superior lieder singer"
(Wiesbadener Tagblatt),
Bruns regularly appears with pianists Ulrich Eisenlohr, Brian Zeger and Kolja Lessing, fortepianist Christoph Hammer,
and guitarist Matts Bergström.
Of his 92nd St Y debut, The New York Times wrote:
"the work of a fresh young baritone and an inquiring mind."
Besides his Baroque and Romantic repertoire, Bruns
performs lesser-known 20th century works by Busoni, Jarnach,
Strasfogel, Diamond and others. World premieres of
contemporary works at the Luzern and Salzburg Easter
Festivals were great successes: the press praised his "fabulous
security" and his "beautiful voice." For the Petrarca 700-year anniversary, he offered recitals
with works by composers such as Lalo, Cornelius, Pfitzner,
Schubert, Liszt to Petrarca texts in major halls of
e.g. Berlin, Dresden, Bonn, Augsburg, Basel and Stuttgart. Recent recitals were e.g. 3
different Schumann recitals at the Rheinische Musikfest Bonn, a
David Diamond program at the Ottawa Chamber Music Fest, performances at the Bayrische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste Muenchen, Musikhalle Hamburg, Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" with Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse and a “Winterreise” program in Munich.. Of his recent collaboration
with the Vienna Piano Trio in Beethoven's "Scottish Songs" and the world
premiere of a work by Paul Engel at the Munich Gasteig, the Munich Merkur
writes..."equipped with a powerful voice, Bruns still succeeds in
offering a masterful play with shadings and colors... It's fantastic how he
moves toward dramatic highlights...there is nothing that this voice cannot
do..."
His career began at Wiesbaden's Opera in leading roles as Papageno, Guglielmo, Figaro (Barbiere), Donner (Rheingold)
and Silvio. His Figaro was "simply fabulous
coloraturic agility, lyrical, melting warmth and
power." Guest appearances include the opera houses of Düsseldorf (Dandini) and Munich (Elviro,
Xerxes). His recording of Schubert/Schiller songs with U. Eisenlohr
for Naxos prompted Opera News to write: "Bruns
and Eisenlohr are hardly household names, but maybe
they should be." His Busoni recording for Naxos was
released in the fall of 2006.
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