Further appearances on the concert stage include Hampson joining the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Bancroft for Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”. He sings Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra led by Fabio Luisi and appears with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Essen Philharmonic, both led by Daniel Hope. Following their highly successful tour last season at venues such as Het Concertgebouw, Konzert Theater Coesfeld, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Hampson returns to Europe for a second tour of Schubert’s “Winterreise” with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova at Verbier Festival, Bergen Festival, Kings Place London, and Tonhalle Zürich. He resumes his collaboration with pianist Wolfram Rieger, with a program of Mahler’s lieder on tour in China at the Shenzhen Belt Road Festival, the Macau Festival, and Changsha Concerto Hall; the duo will also perform “Winterreise” at Baden-Baden Festspiele Haus. Later in the season, Hampson appears at Aspen Music Festival for an all-American program.

Last season, Hampson directed and sang Don Alfonso in a concert performance of Mozart's “Così fan tutte” with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. He also starred in Barber's “Vanessa” with the National Symphony Orchestra, joined a special concert celebrating American works with Renée Fleming and Denyce Graves, and starred as Bishop Edward Vergerus in Mikael Karlsson’s new opera based on Ingmar Bergman's “Fanny and Alexander” at La Monnaie. His concert schedule featured collaborations with the MDR Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. Hampson also served as Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

He is an honorary professor of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and an honorary member of London’s Royal Academy of Music. In addition to several Honorary Doctorates, he is the Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France, and an Honorary Artist of the Guangzhou Opera House. In 2017 he received the Hugo Wolf Medal, together with Wolfram Rieger. He is the co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Lied Academy Heidelberg, in 2003, he founded the Hampsong Foundation, through which he uses the art of song to promote intercultural dialogue and understanding. His international master class schedule is a continuing online resource of Medici.tv, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Hampsong Foundation livestream channel. Additionally, he serves as an Advisor for Opera for Peace.

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