Ludwig Mittelhammer

Career

Ludwig Mittelhammer studied with Prof. Frieder Lang at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and with Hartmut Elbert. He was a member of the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding. Masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Ann Murray, and Edith Wiens complemented his education.

Awards

The artist is the prizewinner of numerous competitions; among other distinctions, he won first prize at the Hugo Wolf Academy International Art Song Competition in Stuttgart in 2014 and received the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize in 2015.

Opera

His operatic career has taken him to the opera houses of Frankfurt and Nuremberg, where Ludwig Mittelhammer sang, among other roles, Marullo in Rigoletto, Schaunard in La Bohème, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Danilo in The Merry Widow. In 2019 he made his Cleveland debut as Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos with The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, and in 2020 he appeared at the New National Theatre Tokyo as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. As a Munich native, Ludwig Mittelhammer maintains a close relationship with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where in the 2025/26 season he can be heard, among other roles, as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Alfred Ill in The Visit of the Old Lady. His repertoire there has also included Papageno and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 2025 Ludwig Mittelhammer made his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Papageno in a new production.

Concert

As a sought-after concert singer, he has appeared with the Bamberg Symphony, performed Mahler songs with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden, and taken part in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding. He sang Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Spanish National Orchestra and David Afkham, toured Europe with Collegium Vocale Gent and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and performed in Germany with Concerto Köln in Bach’s St Matthew Passion. On Good Friday 2022 he presented a solo program of works by Mendelssohn and Schubert with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin at the Konzerthaus under the direction of Clemens Schuldt. In April 2023 Ludwig Mittelhammer sang the bass arias in two performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein. In August 2025 he returned to the Schubertiade with a song recital, this time in Schwarzenberg.

Recitals

Ludwig Mittelhammer has given recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, the Cologne and Essen Philharmonies, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Boulez Saal Berlin, the Brucknerhaus Linz, at Bavarian Radio in Munich, the Auditorium in Barcelona, at the Kissinger Sommer festival, and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg. Together with pianist Helmut Deutsch, he presented an exceptional recital program featuring works by Weigl, Wellesz, Marx, Wetz, Zemlinsky, and Mahler.

Recordings

Ludwig Mittelhammer’s first solo album together with Jonathan Ware, featuring songs by Schubert, Medtner, and Wolf, was released by Berlin Classics in June 2019.

In March 2021, he took part in the streaming production of Haydn's ‘Creation’, a 70-minute highlights version conducted by Andreas Stoehr, available in the Styriarte Mediathek.