Gala concert HELMUT WILDHABER

Since 1987 worldwide concert activity as a soloist and chamber musician. 1988 debut at the Musikverein Vienna with the RSO Vienna (soloist/piano concerto); since 1988 concerts with the Moscow Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra; since 1996 chamber music cycle with the Jess Trio Vienna at the Vienna Konzerthaus/Mozart Hall; since 1990 soloist at the Musikverein - 24 Etudes by F. Chopin; 1996 soloist at the Vienna Konzerthaus - 48 Preludes and Fugues by J. S. Bach; since 2002 in Italy 32 piano sonatas by L. v. Beethoven. Teaching activities (piano concert subject): 1985 University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; 1992-1999 Klagenfurt Conservatory; master classes: 1992-1997 Viktring Music Forum, 2002 Trieste Conservatory (Italy), 2003 East-West Music Festival and Shenandoah University (USA) (piano and chamber music). 1993 Foundation of the Brahms Competition in Pörtschach. 1994-1999 Chairman of the Klagenfurt Music Association. As part of his research activities, 1986 rediscovery of Franz Liszt's trio and 1982 premiere of the Transfigured night for trio (Schönberg/Steuermann).

The Austrian bass studied cello, solo singing, song and oratorio as well as opera at the university in his home city of Vienna and is a two-time prizewinner of the Francisco Vinas Competition in Barcelona. During his studies, he was already engaged as a guest at the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg and has since performed at the Ulmer Theater, the Staatstheater Meiningen and the theaters in Karlsruhe, Trier, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Altenburg-Gera, Tyrol, Baden and the Landestheater Linz, where he has been a member of the ensemble since 2010. The Viennese-born singer, who has always been praised by music critics for his strong musical creativity, great vocal versatility and charismatic stage presence, has built up a steadily growing repertoire that now includes around 45 roles. In the German repertoire, it ranges from Mozart with Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Bartolo (The Marriage of Figaro) and Osmin (The Abduction from the Seraglio) to Richard Strauss with Ochs von Lerchenau (Der Rosenkavalier) and Orest (Elektra), to Wagner with Hunding (Die Walküre), Fasolt and Fafner (Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Landgraf (Tannhäuser), Marke (Tristan und Isolde) and Gurnemanz (Parsifal). In the Italian repertoire he has sung Verdi roles such as Ramphis (Aida), Pater Guardian (La forza del destino), Ferrando (Il trovatore) and Sparafucile (Rigoletto) as well as the following French roles: Zacharie (Le Prophète), Un vieillard hébreu (Samson et Dalila) and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande). He has also celebrated and continues to celebrate great success in the buffo repertoire in roles such as Don Pasquale, Sir John Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor) and Mamma Agata (Viva la Mamma). Dominik Nekel has worked with renowned conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Franz Welser Möst, Nicholas Milton, Alan Buribayev, Emil Tabakov, James Allan Gähres and Hans Urbanek, and with renowned directors such as Christine Mielitz, Andrea Moses, Achim Freyer, Olivier Tambosi, Anthony Pilavachi, Gerd Heinz, Ansgar Haag, Amon Miyamoto, Robert Wilson and David Pountney. He has also performed as a soloist in national and international projects in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Japan and in productions at the Wiener Festwochen, the Bregenz Festival, the Mozartfest Würzburg and the Carinthian Summer. He has performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the Bulgaria Concert Hall (Sofia), the Nymphenburg Palace (Munich), St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna), Wartburg Castle (Eisenach) and the Brucknerhaus Linz. Since in the 2019/2020 season, Dominik Nekel was at the Landestheater Linz as Zacharie in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, as Osmin in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, as Tumi Jonson in Michael Obst's world premiere Unter dem Gletscher, as Ferrando in Verdi's Il trovatore, as Colline in "La Boheme", as Ramphis in "Aida" and as Tumi Jonson in the revival of the world premiere of "Unter dem Gletscher".