Music Department Faculty

Valentin Lanzrein
Lecturer

Office: 210
Email: vl@unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-1039

Valentin Lanzrein (Lecturer, Voice) is an active performer with broad repertoire covering nine languages and a large versatility of styles ranging from baroque to the avant-garde. He was the winner of the Association des Suisse Musiciens & Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung Competition and has toured Europe, Asia, and the US. His passion for the art song has led him to appearances at the Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Aimez Vous Brahms? Festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and in the Wednesday at One series at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. Most recently, Lanzrein performed the title role in Telemann’s Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and the count in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Staller Center for the Performing Arts, SUNY Stony Brook.

Upcoming performances feature the world premier of Gordon Chin’s Summer Grasses as soloist with the International Sejong Soloists, J. S. Bach’s B-minor mass as soloist with the Carolina Choir and Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel at UNC Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. Highlights of recent concert appearances include Faure’s requiem as soloist with the Stony Brook Choral Union, Raphael in Haydn's Creation as soloist with the Oberlin Musical Union, J. S. Bach's Solo Cantatas “Ich habe genug” and “Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen” with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble and a program of Mozart arias with the BMC-Orchestra. Previous operatic engagements include Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola.

Valentin Lanzrein holds an artist diploma from Oberlin College, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from SUNY Stony Brook. He has been an active participant in master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Warren Jones, Christine Brandes, and Richard Miller at the Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and the Aspen Music Festival (U.S.). Dr. Lanzrein joined the voice faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2006.