- Piano
Götz Payer has given concerts with more than 80 singers, including Sarah Wegener, Mojca Erdmann, Sibylla Rubens, Esther Dierkes, Samantha Gaul, KS Helene Schneiderman, Angela Brower, Deniz Uzun, Thilo Dahlmann, Cornelius Hauptmann, Konrad Jarnot, Björn Bürger, Johannes Held, Julian Prégardien, Andreas Weller and James Wagner.
His chamber music partners include the King's Singers, the Cantissimo ensemble and the Amaryllis Quartet.
Concerts have taken him to festivals and concert halls in Europe, Asia and the United States. He plays at the Schleswig-Holstein-Musik-Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Atlanta Opera, the Tonhalle Zurich, the 'Oji Hall Tokyo, the Vladivostock Theater, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Academy Hugo-Wolf Akademie Stuttgart, Shizuoka Hall, Schloss Leopoldskron Salzburg Nymphenburg, Lille Opera, Chigiana Siena, Elbphilharmonie, Frankfurt Opera and Cologne Philharmonie.
More than 35 CD productions have been produced with his participation under different labels.
In 2013, a song specially composed by Götz Payer for the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht was performed for the first time during a concert at the Atlanta Opera.
In addition, he is an arranger for the songs for the CD “Makh tsu die Eygelech” by Helene Schneiderman.
As official accompanist of numerous master classes, he has worked with artists such as Grace Bumbry, Ernst Haefliger, Kurt Moll, Matthias Goerne, Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Piernay, Rudolf Jansen, Alberto Zedda and Gerd Uecker.
Götz Payer taught lieder performance at the conservatories of Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. In 2022 he was appointed professor of Lied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart.
He is invited to give masterclasses in France, Italy, Russia and Germany and is co-founder of the Liedakademie Sindelfingen.
An important concern of Götz Payer is his voluntary involvement in musical projects on the themes of “music for people with dementia”, “singing with children”, “music for children”, and “Commemoration of victims of the Holocaust”.
He is the host of the “Let's talk about Lied” discussion group and the founder of the “Eine Stimme geben” project.
Crédit photo : © Simon-David Tschan