It was fantastic to meet and have some chat with Tom after his Melbourne, Australia recital almost exactly 12 months ago now, while he's always been a great and thoughtful artist, and one who has just as much taken an intellectual and scholarly approach to his art as he has to the performing the music itself - and this of course especially in the case of Lieder and art song. We Australians very much look forward to warmly welcoming him back whenever he chooses to return!
He says Fritz Wunderlich was his teacher, i think he must be wrong. Fritz Wunderlich was not a baritone but a unique tenor who died ways to young in 1966 at the age of 35, when Mr Hampson was just 11 years old.
