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Hartmut Höll is a Lied (Liedbegleiter) accompaniment teacher at the Karlsruhe music school. He has been giving recitals around the world with Mitsuko Shirai since 1973, and was Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's partner between 1982 and 1992. This Lieder recitalist has taken part in the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, and has performed in Florence, Munich and Berlin as well as at New York's Carnegie Hall.
When it comes to chamber music, Hartmut Höll has been accompanying the alto Tabea Zimmermann since 1985. Together, the pair have given concerts throughout Europe, in Israel, the States and Canada. They have also recorded pieces by Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich and Britten for the label Capriccio.
Hartmut Höll has been accompanying Renée Fleming in concerts in Europe, Australia, Asia and the States since 2001. Other singing partners of note include Urszula Kryger, Yvonne Naef, Jochen Kowalski, René Pape, Christoph Prégardien, Hermann Prey, Jadwiga Rappé, Peter Schreier and Roman Trekel.
He has recorded around sixty albums, many of which have received international acclaim.
As a music professor at Karlsruhe's Music University, Hartmut Höll enjoys close ties with former teachers in Frankfurt and Cologne, as well as with the upcoming generation of musicians. He runs Lied master classes in Finland, during the Weimar International Music Seminar, during the Schleswig-Holstei music festival, at Salzburg's Mozarteum, in Jerusalem and in the States. Hartmut Höll was a guest professor in Finland from 1998 to 1999, and at the Mozarteum from 1994 to 2003. He has also been guest Lied professor at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich) since October 2004 and was appointed the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe's director in October 2007.
In 1990, Hartmut Höll was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize by the town of Zwickau. He is an honorary member of Zwickau's Robert Schumann Society and the Philharmonic Society of Saint Petersburg. He was awarded the ABC International Music Award alongside Mitsuko Shirai in 1997.
He has sat on or chaired the panel for the Robert Schumann competition in Zwickau, the Naumburg competition in New York, and the ARD's International Music Competition in Munich.
Hartmut Höll was artistic director for the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie für Gesang – Dichtung – Liedkunst (singing, poetry and Lied art) in Stuttgart from 1985 to 2007.
He teaches at the Académie musicale de Villecroze in 2001.