With a voice of “warm, noble timbre and great flexibility” (Forum Opéra), German bass-baritone Christian Immler is a multifaceted artist whose career ranges widely across the worlds of lieder, oratorio and opera, “a technically, musically and stylistically consummate interpreter, with exemplary diction and emotional urgency coupled with a deep intellectual textual understanding” (Klassik Heute). He studied with Rudolf Piernay in London and won the International Nadia et Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris.
His operatic experience ranges from Seneca in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Jupiter in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, the Commendatore and Masetto in Don Giovanni, Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, Don Fernando and Rocco in Beethoven’s Leonore, the Hermit in Weber’s Der Freischütz and the Musiklehrer in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos to Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland. In concert, he has performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Kindertotenlieder with Hungarian National Philharmonic, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with Orchestre National de France, Detlev Glanert's Prager Sinphonie with the Czech Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Montreal Symphony, as well as the Requiems of Dvořák, Brahms, Mozart, Fauré and Verdi. He also loves coming back to key works by Bach and Handel. Immler has worked with such conductors as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert Blomstedt, René Jacobs, Semyon Bychkov, Marc Minkowski, Masaaki Suzuki, Raphaël Pichon, Ivor Bolton, Christophe Rousset, Daniel Harding, Kent Nagano, Leonardo Alarcón, Laurence Equilbey, Philippe Herreweghe and William Christie.
A keen recitalist, Immler has been invited by Wigmore Hall in London, the Frick Collection in New York, the Paris Philharmonie and the Salzburg Mozarteum, with pianists including Helmut Deutsch, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Danny Driver. His more than 60 recordings have been awarded prizes such as a 2016 Grammy nomination, a Diamant d’Opéra, several Diapasons d’Or, the Echo Klassik, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Gramophone Award, and France Musique’s Enregistrement de l’année. Immler loves teaching and is much in demand for worldwide masterclasses.