Heiner Hopfner (28 June 1941 in Mitterteich[1] – 31 August 2014) was a German opera, lied and concert singer as well as a singing teacher in the tenor vocal range.
After graduating from high school in 1962 at the Deutschen Gymnasium in Amberg,[2] he studied singing at the Musikhochschule München and pedagogy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
During his three-year traineeship he won several international prizes and devoted himself increasingly to his career as an opera, lieder and concert singer.
The singer has worked with conductors such as Eugen Jochum, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Karl Richter, Helmuth Rilling, Georg Solti and Wolfgang Sawallisch to name but a few.
His students included, Christiane Karg Joel Montero,[3] Cordula Schuster [de],[4] etc.