- Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Huttenlocher, Arleen Auger, Bach Ensemble, The, Kathrin Graf, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Adalbert Kraus, Wolfgang Schöne, Júlia Hamari, Indiana University Chamber Singers, Stuttgart Figuralchor der Gedachtniskirche, Walter Heldwein, Niklaus Tüller, Frankfurt Kantorei, Erika Schmidt-Valentin, Aldo Baldin, Helen Watts, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Uta Spreckelsen
- Bavarian Radio Chorus, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adolf Dallapozza, Wolfram Gehring, Günter Wand, Brigitte Durrler, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Margaret Marshall, Kunizaku Ohashi, Werner Krenn, Júlia Hamari, Karl Ridderbusch, Cornelia Wulkopf, Koln Radio Choir
- Hartje Mueller, Carlo Bergonzi, John Newton, Laura Londi, Corinne Vozza, Arturo Basile, Júlia Hamari, Shirley Verrett, Robert Merrill, Erich Leinsdorf, Thomas Schippers, Robert El Hage, Reri Grist, RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Fernando Iacopucci, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Ezio Flagello, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Daniel Guss, Mario Sereni, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Giorgio Tozzi, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Leontyne Price
Júlia Hamari
Biography
Julia Hamari is one of the leading oratorio and Lieder performers of her generation, known for her musicality and rich, full tone. She is particularly admired for her Bach performances and has taken the alto part in almost 30 of Rilling's recordings of the complete Bach cantata. She first studied voice with Fatime Martins and Jeno Sipos, continuing her studies at the Budapest Academy of Music. In 1954, she won the Erkel competition and studied for several years at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik. Her concert debut was in 1966 as the alto soloist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in a Vienna performance. That launched her concert and Lieder career, which has taken place largely in Europe, though she made her United States debut in 1967 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She also made her opera debut the same year as Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen and since then has appeared, primarily with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, in various Baroque and Classical operas. In 1989, she returned to Stuttgart as a professor.