Tareq Nazmi

Renowned bass Tareq Nazmi studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich under Edith Wiens and Christian Gerhaher, and received private instruction from Hartmut Elbert. He began his career at the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he remained a member of the ensemble until 2016.

Milestones in his career include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), King Heinrich (Lohengrin), Alvise (La Gioconda), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Banquo (Macbeth), Ferrando (Il trovatore), the Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Rocco (Fidelio), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Oroveso (Norma) and Gremin (Eugene Onegin). He has appeared in these roles, among others, at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera and the Theater an der Wien, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Tokyo Spring Festival, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Semperoper Dresden.

Tareq Nazmi is also a highly sought after concert soloist, with a repertoire ranging from Bach through Haydn, Mozart and Dvořák to Brahms and Mahler. Recent highlights include appearances as soloist in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (US tour), Haydn’s The Creation, Schmidt’s The Book with Seven Seals and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, under conductors such as Joana Mallwitz, Manfred Honeck, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Thomas Hengelbrock, Teodor Currentzis, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Barenboim, Kirill Petrenko, Philippe Herreweghe and Vladimir Jurowski.

He has collaborated with leading orchestras including the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Vienna and Munich Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich.