About
Born in Innsbruck tenor Bernhard Berchtold studied with Horiana Branisteanu at the Mozarteum Salzburg singing and attended the song class of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll.
In Salzburg in 1999 he won the Landes-Kulturauswahl-Preis with a concert at the Salzburg Festival. The following year he was one of the winners of the International Competition "Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity" in Graz, and was also awarded the "Special Prize" for the "Best Interpretation of a Work by Franz Schubert".
Bernhard Berchtold is equally in demand as a song, oratorio and opera singer. In his career so far, he has appeared at the Handel Festival Karlsruhe, the Kasseler Musiktage, the Köthener Bachfesttagen, the Central European Music Festival Zilina / Slovakia - winner of the 2002 Jury Prize, the Operettenfestspiele Bad Ischl, the Salzburg Culture Days, the Styriarte-Graz and the Wiener Festwochen , This year Bernhard Berchtold is "Lied artist of the season" of the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart with his own series in the Liederhalle.
His concert tours took him to Germany, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Lebanon, Switzerland and Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic and the USA.
Future engagements bring him to the Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg, to the Salzburg Landestheater, to the Wiener Musikverein, and as a member of the ensemble to the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.