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For half a century, Thomas Quasthoff has set the benchmark internationally as a singer, reaching and moving countless people with his artistry. In January 2012, he rounded off his unrivalled career as a classical singer, yet has remained closely associated with singing and the arts as a teacher, as a reciter and narrator at concerts, giving readings, and now increasingly as a jazz singer in collaboration with Wolfgang Haffner (drums), Dieter Ilg (double bass), Simon Oslender (keyboards), and together with the Duo Shawn and the Wolf.

Throughout his extensive career, Thomas Quasthoff has performed with the world's leading orchestras and called the lieder and concert stage his home, having sung at the most prominent halls and festivals. His close collaborations with conductors include names such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst. Thomas Quasthoff has been "Artist in Residence" at the Vienna Musikverein, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, London's Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre.

Time and again Thomas Quasthoff has proven just how much he enjoys taking on new challenges. In recent years, he has performed various jazz programmes at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin State Opera, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Prinzregententheater in Munich, in Dresden, Leverkusen, Heidelberg, and the Rheingau Festival.

In 2024, Thomas Quasthoff celebrated his 50th anniversary on stage. To mark the occasion, he performed in various jazz formats at the Dortmund Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Bonn Jazz Festival, Wigmore Hall, Rheingau Festival, Verbier Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Frankfurt Opera, the Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Die Glocke in Bremen, and the Admiralspalast in Berlin. Since January 2025, he has been performing regularly throughout Germany with trumpeter Rüdiger Baldauf and his various ensembles. At the Vienna Prater Picnic in June 2025, he debuted Frank Sinatra songs accompanied by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In August 2025, he will perform a Sinatra programme at the Rheingau Festival where he will also be presented with the Rheingau Prize. For several years now, Thomas Quasthoff has performed during the Christmas period at the Atrane jazz club in Berlin, and in December 2025, he and his trio take a Christmas programme to Nuremberg for the first time.

In honour of the 150th Arnold Schönberg anniversary year in 2023, he appeared as the narrator in the Gurre-Lieder with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle and with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. A highlight of the past season was his participation in the ZDF Advent concert in the Frauenkirche in Dresen. Moreover, Thomas Quasthoff has appeared alongside the Amatis Trio in a programme entitled ‘Humanity in War’ in Blaibach, Basel, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, in Utrecht, Copenhagen and at the Dresden Music Festival. Further concerts will follow in autumn 2025 at Corvey Abbey and in Switzerland.

Thomas Quasthoff has received numerous national and international honours to date, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Three of his recordings have been awarded Grammys and six have received the Echo Prize. From 1996-2004, Thomas Quasthoff held a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold. Since then he has taught at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, while also giving regular masterclasses, including at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival and the Hochschule in Detmold, as well as at the Verbier Festival and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. His passionate commitment to young singers also motivated the artist to found the international competition "Das Lied" in 2009, an event which takes place every two years as part of the Heidelberg Frühling festival.

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Thomas Quasthoff: Nice ‘n’ Easy
Vocals: Thomas Quasthoff | Piano: Frank Chastenier | Bass: Dieter Ilg | Drums: Wolfgang Haffner
NDR Bigband
Arrangement: Jörg Achim Keller
Label: Sony Music | 2018

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THOMAS QUASTHOFF with Christmas jazz concerts in Nürnberg and Berlin

THOMAS QUASTHOFF receives the Rheingau Musik Prize

THOMAS QUASTHOFF | a summer filled with jazz