Martin Wistinghausen
Artist in Residence Lower Austria: September-October 2025
Nationalität: Germany
Martin Wistinghausen (born in Düsseldorf in 1979) studied singing and composition in Cologne, Mannheim and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Parallel to his musical studies, he completed a master's degree in German language and literature and history at Heinrich Heine University in his hometown of Düsseldorf. He has participated in numerous master classes and received many awards. He has performed his bass solo program “De Profundis” in Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Vienna, and since 2019 he has been presenting new works for soprano and bass a capella together with Irene Kurka. His works have been performed at various festivals, on radio (SWR, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Espace 2), and by renowned ensembles such as the Stuttgart-based “Neue Vocalsolisten,” AuditivVokal Dresden, the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, and the Vocalconsort Berlin. He has received a number of composition commissions, for example from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Heidelberg Theater, and in 2020/21 from Chorwerk Ruhr and the Konzerthaus Dortmund. During his stay in Krems, he plans to devote himself to composing two pieces: one is a cycle for bass voice and shruti box based on short texts in various languages, including German-language short poems and traditional haikus, which he intends to set to music in the original Japanese, and the other a work for soprano, bass, and two shruti boxes, based on texts by Christine Lavant (1915-1973).