Rudolf Piernay (born 8 December 1943 in Berlin) is a German vocal teacher and university lecturer.

Biography

Piernay spent his childhood, youth, and first studied in Berlin, then began the study of singing, piano, song accompaniment and conducting in London. He has been teaching since 1974 at the

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and has also been a professor at the Musikhochschule Mannheim since 1991. His pupils include, among others,

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, Ema Nikolovska, Markus Brutscher,

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, Caroline Melzer,

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,Michael Volle on Opéra de Paris
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, Jens Hamann, James Martin,

Martin Wistinghausen Martin Wistinghausen (born 22 February 1979) is a German composer and bass singer. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Wistinghausen studied singing (Kurt Moll, Rudolf Piernay), voice pedagogy, musical composition ( Ernst Bechert, Ulrich Leyendecker), ...

and

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as a concert and

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er singer. He is a lecturer for master classes.

References

External links

Rudolf Piernay
on Bach Cantatas Website
Rudolf Piernay
on European Music Institute Vienna

on Académie Internationale d'Été de Nice

on Bayerische Staatsoper {{DEFAULTSORT:Piernay, Rudolf Voice teachers German operatic baritones Musicians from Berlin 1943 births Living people