As a guest artist in the world's leading concert halls and opera houses, Thomas Hampson works with the best-known singers, conductors and orchestras, and in addition is a dedicated adherent of every technical innovation that supports music as a means of human communication. Having moved from the United States to Europe, he studied under Horst Günter and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, among others. He possesses an extraordinarily rich repertoire and, in addition to his opera roles, is recognised on the music scene as one of the master interpreters of the song repertoire - primarily the works of Schumann, Mahler and Wolf. The baritone ranks among the finest representatives of the song genre, an art that requires exceptional intelligence, adaptability, sensitivity, musical culture and refinement.