Hanno Müller-Brachmann studied with Ingeborg Most in Freiburg and Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim, and attended the Lied class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin. His successes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh led him at an early stage to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where Daniel Barenboim engaged him while he was still a student. There, he performed his principal roles for thirteen years. This was followed by guest appearances at the state operas in Hamburg, Munich, and Vienna, as well as at La Scala in Milan.
The artist is also highly active on the concert stages. He has appeared with great success under the baton of Adam Fischer, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Andris Nelsons, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, and Bernard Haitink. In the current season, he can be heard in Mendelssohn’s Walpurgis Night in Madrid under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis at La Scala in Milan under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev, and as Fafner in Wagner’s Siegfried under Kent Nagano in, among others, Prague, Paris, Cologne, and Lucerne.
Besides his singing career, the bass-baritone is a professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, serves as a juror at international competitions, and is chairman of Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe e.V., a boys’ and girls’ choir that provides individual training to approximately 200 children and young people.