Austrian Benno Schollum studied at the Vienna University of Music and has taught there since 1983. He is the co-author of the highly successful book German for Singers (Schirmer, New York). His repertoire extends from the great oratorios to opera, operetta, musicals, lieder, chansons, and Viennese music. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, the Spanish National Orchestra, RSO Madrid, Sinfonia Varsovia, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow, among others, with conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Philippe Entremont, Adam Fischer, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamas Vasary, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Jesús Lopez Cobos, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. His CD recordings include: Wilhelm Busch in Wort und Ton (with Stephan Paryla and Russell Ryan, Preiser Records), Schubert’s Winterreise (Graham Johnson, piano). Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and various Schubert Masses (Sinfonia Varsovia, Yehudi Menuhin, Warner Classics), Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev).