Anton Haupt
Born in Leipzig, baritone Anton Haupt studied in his hometown at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” with Prof. Berthold Schmid, completing his Master’s degree in opera performance with distinction. Since 2022, his
Biography
Born in Leipzig, baritone Anton Haupt studied in his hometown at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” with Prof. Berthold Schmid, completing his Master’s degree in opera performance with distinction. Since 2022, his vocal training has been complemented by Michael Volle, and he is a student of the master class of Kammersänger Prof. Roland Schubert.
Concert engagements with repertoire from the Baroque to the Romantic period have taken Anton Haupt to festivals such as the Lübeck Buxtehude Days, the Greifswald Bach Week, the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival, the Thuringian Bach Festival, the Stuttgart Bach Week, and the Leipzig Bach Festival. Well established within Leipzig’s musical scene, he performs regularly with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, the St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig (dir. Andreas Reize), and the Gewandhaus Choir (dir. Gregor Meyer). Further musical partners have included the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart under Hans-Christoph Rademann, La Banda, la festa musicale, and ensemble reflektor.
Anton Haupt was awarded second prize at the International Bach Competition Leipzig 2024 and first prizes at the International Vocal Competition “cantateBach!” Greifswald 2022 and at the Albert Lortzing Competition 2019. He has received important artistic inspiration from Johannes Martin Kränzle, Kammersänger Prof. Bernd Weikl, Andreas Scholl, and Patrick Grahl, among others.