Bass-baritone Stephan Loges appointed Professor of Voice
The Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin has appointed the German-British bass-baritone Stephan Loges to a professorship in voice for the 2026/27 winter semester. The Dresden-born singer (53) is an experienced vocal teacher and previously held a professorship at the Lübeck University of Music. From 2013 to 2025, Stephan Loges taught voice and art song at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Prof. Stephan Loges began his musical and vocal career as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor, where he received his first formative singing lessons from Karin Mitzscherling. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. In 1999, he won the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and embarked on an outstanding international career as a lieder, concert and opera singer.
Stephan Loges has collaborated with numerous international orchestras and conductors, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Trevor Pinnock, Vladimir Jurowski, Justin Doyle, Robin Ticciati and Philippe Herreweghe. As well as performing with many renowned early music ensembles, he has appeared with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Northern Sinfonia, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. He is a regular guest on major opera stages, including the Staatsoper Berlin, the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Theater an der Wien, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
Stephan Loges gives recitals worldwide, including at Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Oxford International Song Festival – with pianists such as Imogen Cooper, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Simone Dinnerstein, Roger Vignoles, Christoph Berner, Marcelo Amaral, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton and Sholto Kynoch.