Byoungho Kang

Wolf Matthias Friedrich studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig with Prof. Eva Schubert. The bass singer has performed under Kurt Masur, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Fabio Luisi, Michel Corboz, Jan Willem de Vriend, Konrad Junghänel and Thomas Hengelbrock, amongst others, as well as at numerous European festivals and in Israel. In 2003 he sang the role of Licomede in Handel’s Deidamia at the Handel Festival in Halle under Alessandro De Marchi. Last season saw him taking the stage as Publio in La clemenza di Tito at the National Theatre in Prague, likewise under de Marchi. In the genre of Lieder he has worked with Norman Shetler and he recorded a Schubert CD with Ulrich Eisenlohr in 2002. Also in that year he was one of the founders of the “Kerll-Rosenmüller-Fest” which until 2006 took place annually to cultivate the musical heritage of the composers Johann Caspar Kerll, Johann Rosenmüller and Sebastian Knüpfer, all of whom had their roots in Friedrich’s home region of the Vogtland.