Günther Groissböck
studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, first with Robert Holl and later with José van Dam. He is a regular guest at all leading houses worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala Milan, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Vienna State Opera, Opéra de Paris, the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals. His operatic repertory includes Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Boris Godunov, Fasolt, Hunding (Die Walküre), Landgraf Herrmann (Tannhäuser), Veit Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Caspar (Der Freischütz), Vodník (Rusalka), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Kecal (Die verkaufte Braut), Rocco (Fidelio), Wotan and Wanderer (Ring), Banco (Macbeth), Filippo (Don Carlo) and Zaccaria (Nabucco).

Günther Groissböck is also an active concert artist, performing at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Munich and Berlin Philharmonies, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and Boston’s Symphony Hall. Among the conductors with whom he collaborated are Philippe Jordan, James Levine, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Zubin Mehta, John Eliot Gardiner, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko and Andris Nelsons.

His latest DVD releases include Der Rosenkavalier from Salzburg (2015) and the Metropolitan Opera (2017) and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Philippe Jordan. He is also represented on several CDs, such as Das Rheingold and Lohengrin with Marek Janowski, Mahler 8th Symphony and Anton Bruckner’s Mass No. 3. As an exclusive DECCA Classic recording artist, he released 2017 his double album of Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang and 2018 the new CD Herz-Tod which includes Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder and Brahm’s Vier Ernste Gesänge.

Many engagements of the 2020/21 season fell victim to Covid-19-related closures of the opera houses, but he was heard as Hunding in a concert performance at the Paris Opera, and in streaming of Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera; he made his debut as a director in Tristan und Isolde at the Theater an der Wien, where he also sang the role of König Marke. At the Bayreuth Festival in 2021 he debuted as Wotan in Walküre and Landgraf in Tannhäuser.

In the 2021-2022 season, Mr Groissböck sings Daland in The Flying Dutchman at Opera Bastille, Banquo in Macbeth at the Covent Garden, title role in Giulio Cesare at Theater an der Wien, König Heinrich in Lohengrin at the Bolshoi in Moscow Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni at La Scala in Milan, in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin at Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Bayreuth Festival in 2022, Günther Groissböck will sing Wotan and Wanderer in a new production of the Ring. At the International May Festival 2022 of the at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Günther Groissböck will appear as Filippo II in Don Carlos.

Malcolm Martineau
was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and studied at the Royal College of Music, London. Recognized as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča, Dorothea Röschmann, Dame Sarah Connolly, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Dame Ann Murray, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Sir Bryn Terfel.

Martineau has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall and the Edinburgh International Festival. He has appeared throughout Europe including London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican; La Scala, Milan; The Châtelet, Paris; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein; North America including both New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall; Australia including the Sydney Opera House; and at the Aix-en-Provence, Vienna, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals.

Recording projects have included the complete Beethoven folk songs and Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Sir Bryn Terfel; Schubert and Strauss recitals with Sir Simon Keenlyside plus the Grammy Award-winning Songs of War; recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu, Barbara Bonney, Magdalena Kožená, Della Jones, Susan Bullock, Solveig Kringelborn, Anne Schwanewilms, Dorothea Röschmann and Christiane Karg; the complete Fauré songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause; the complete Britten folk songs; the complete Poulenc songs and Britten song cycles as well as Schubert with Florian Boesch, Reger with Sophie Bevan and the complete Mendelssohn songs.

Martineau was given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. He was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder Festival. He was made an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours.