Born in Switzerland, Tobias Truniger completed his piano studies with professors Boris Bloch and Till Engel at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. He continued to study song interpretation and accompaniment at the Leipzig University of Music under Professor Karl-Peter Kammerlander, and participated in masterclasses led by Brigitte Fassbaender, Norman Shetler, and Roger Vignoles.
Truniger has worked as a répétiteur with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, where he was also a lecturer at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music. In 2000 he took over as the head of the vocal performance programme at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music and continues to lead a lied class at the Munich University of Music. As an accompanist, he has performed with singers such as Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Moser, and Edith Wiens. He has also been a vocal coach to numerous singers at leading European opera houses and festivals. Since the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Tobias Truniger has been the director of the Bavarian State Opera's Opera Studio.
(photo: Wilfried Hösl)
