ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY ERWIN 

E R W I N  S C H M I E D E L , Bariton

He has started his vocal studies at the musicschool of Vienna with the French soprano

Monique Muth and later on with the Russian soprano Ela Malkin. Than he has cotinued his

studies with the mezzo - soprano Elfriede Obrowsky - Zimmermann ( all singing teachers at the

musicschools/Conservatory in Vienna. During the time his training has been completed through

the cooperation with other renowned artists ( also in The REINHARD - SEMINAR ).

The revival of those lieder and ballads which have been nearly forgotten during the last

decades is a great intention of the baritone Erwin Schmiedel. This is the field for his

voice, which he uses powerful and of course also with the so important piano, both necessary

in the lied interpretation.

In particular he is setting a high value on a profound creation in the art of singing of former

years.

Above all Erwin Schmiedel has a very large lied repertoire which is completed through a wide

spectrum of opera, operetta and sacred music. In the last years he sang in nearly all important

churches in Austria especially in the Schubert-, Piaristen-, Malteser-, Reindorf- and very often

in the Karlskirche in Vienna.
 
Concerts of the music schools and of the Conservatory in Vienna, performances of the “Wiener

Festwochen”, various lieder recitals (for example with the renowned lied accompanist Margit

Fussi). His Stageexperience includes also the role of the Graf in Lortzings " Waffenschmied "or

his faszinated interpretation from a very bad "Knight Hadubrand" in a rarelly performed Opera

from H.I. Biber. 

Opera as well as church concerts at home and abroad are building the background for the

large field of activities of the singer. 

With great success the artist has engaged in the music of Robert Stolz.
 
In the course of the great “Robert Stolz Gala” in May, 2001 in the presence of Mrs. Einzi Stolz,

president of the “Internationale Robert Stolz Gesellschaft”, she has honoured Erwin Schmiedel

by the award of the “Ehrenurkunde der Internationalen Robert Stolz Gesellschaft”.