Following his First Prize triumph at the 2018 Queen-Elisabeth-Competition, Samuel Hasselhorn has quickly established himself internationally as a versatile artist who is equally at home in the genres of opera, Lied, and oratorio. A former member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera and the Nuremberg Opera, today he regularly performs at major opera houses such as the Berlin State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Scala in Milan. In 2025/26 he will make his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He is esteemed internationally as a lied recitalist, regularly working with renowned pianists such as Helmut Deutsch, Malcolm Martineau, Ammiel Bushakevitz or Joseph Middleton at the Schubertiade, the Hugo Wolf Academy, the Schubertíada or the Wigmore Hall. The first two albums of the “Schubert 200” project with Ammiel Bushakevitz were awarded the Diapason d'or de l'année and the German Record Critics' Award.

Born in Jerusalem, he began playing piano at the age of four. Developing an early love for the art song, Ammiel is internationally recognised as a leading song pianist of his generation and performs regularly at notable venues across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. After initial studies in South Africa, where he raised, he furthered his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig and at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Ammiel is a prize-winner at numerous competitions, including the Wigmore Hall Competition in London or the International Schubert Competition in Stuttgart. One of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he mentors regularly at Thomas Hampson’s Heidelberg Lied Academy. In addition to his activities as a pianist, Ammiel is also active as a musicologist and specializes in research on Schubert and Wagner. He has been named a Stenway Artist in 2025.