Götz Payer

Götz Payer has performed with more than 80 singers including Sarah Wegener, Mojca Erdmann, Sibylla Rubens, Esther Dierkes, Samantha Gaul, KS Helene Schneiderman, Angela Brower, Deniz Uzun, Thilo Dahlmann, Cornelius Hauptmann, Konrad Jarnot, Björn Bürger, Johannes Held, Julian Prégardien, Andreas Weller and James Wagner.

His chamber music partners have included the King's Singers, the Ensemble Cantissimo and the Amaryllis Quartet.

Concerts have taken him to festivals and concert halls in Europe, Asia and the USA. Among others the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Bach Festival Leipzig, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Atlanta Opera, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Oji Hall Tokyo, the Vladivostok Theatre, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart, the Shizuoka Hall, Schloss Leopoldskron Salzburg, Schloss Nymphenburg, Opera Lille, the Chigiana Siena, the Elbphilharmonie, the Frankfurt Opera and the Cologne Philharmonic.

With his participation, over 35 CD productions for various labels were created.

In 2013, a song composed by Götz Payer especially for the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Reichspogromnacht was premiered at a concert by the Atlanta Opera. He has also repeatedly arranged music, for example the songs for the CD "Makh tsu die Eygelech" by Helene Schneiderman.

As an official accompanist for numerous masterclasses, he has worked with artists such as Grace Bumbry, Ernst Haefliger, Kurt Moll, Matthias Goerne, Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Piernay, Rudolf Jansen, Alberto Zedda and Gerd Uecker.

Götz Payer taught Lied interpretation at the conservatories in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. In 2022, he was appointed professor for Lied at the Stuttgart University of Music. He was invited to give song master classes in France, Italy, Russia and Germany and is co-founder ofthe Liedakademie Sindelfingen.

An important concern of Götz Payer is his voluntary commitment to musical projects on the topics of "Music for people with dementia", "Singing with and for children" and "Remembering the victims of the Holocaust". He is the presenter of the talk show "Let's talk about Lied" and founder of the project "Eine Stimme geben".

Updated 22.7.24