Master Class

Hermine Haselböck

Austrian mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck began her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) under the guidance of Rita Streich. She continued her training at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Ingeborg Ruß, earning diplomas in Artistic Excellence and Vocal Pedagogy. Masterclasses with renowned artists such as Christa Ludwig, Sena Jurinac, Marjana Lipovšek, and Brigitte Fassbaender provided her with significant artistic inspiration.
Her international career is marked by exceptional versatility, spanning opera, concert, and art song from the Baroque to contemporary repertoire. Her extensive concert repertoire includes nearly all major works for her voice type. She has performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vienna Musikverein, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Operatic engagements have taken her to the Theater an der Wien, Volksoper Wien, Opera Graz, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Beijing Music Festival. She has collaborated with celebrated conductors including Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Christian Thielemann, and Franz Welser-Möst. Her acclaimed solo recordings, Songs by Zemlinsky and Mahler Lieder, have received several awards.
A dedicated and experienced vocal pedagogue, Hermine Haselböck has been a faculty member at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) since 2017 to the present. In 2021, she earned her habilitation and was awarded the Venia Docendi in Vocal Studies. From 2022 to 2024, she also held a professorship in voice at the MDW in Vienna. Her students have excelled in international competitions such as the Ferruccio Tagliavini Singing Competition, Grandi Voci Competition Salzburg and the Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna and have been engaged by leading institutions, including the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Operahouse Graz, Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and the Salzburg Festival.
With her innovative teaching methods and extensive pedagogical experience, Hermine Haselböck continues to shape the next generation of singers.

www.hermine-haselboeck.com

Languages: German, English