1998

Appearances during the 1998/99 season include his New York recital debut, Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, Brahms's German Requiem with the Chicago Symphony and Daniel Barenboim (in Chicago and Berlin), Mozart arias with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink.

1999

Signs exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon; first release: Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (with Anne Sofie von Otter, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado; Grammy Award 2000); debuts at the Ravinia, Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals; highlights of the 1999/2000 season include his Carnegie Hall debut in Britten's War Requiem with the Boston Symphony and Ozawa, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Rattle with both the Wiener Philharmoniker and the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestras and Brahms's Requiem with the London Philharmonic under Kurt Masur; European and US recital tours.

2000

CD releases include lieder by Brahms and Liszt (with pianist Justus Zeyen; Cannes Classical Award 2001) and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (with Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker).

2001

Performs and records German Romantic arias with Christian Thielemann and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper (released in 2002); other appearances include Schoenberg's Gurrelieder with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle in Berlin and Mahler's Wunderhorn with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Abbado at Carnegie Hall, New York; CD release of Schubert's Schwanengesang and Brahms's Four Serious Songs (with Justus Zeyen; Echo Award 2001).

2002

Schumann’s Scenes from “Faust” under Abbado and Bach’s St. John Passion under Rattle, both with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Mahler song cycles in London, Bach cantatas in the US and at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Munich, Mahler’s Wunderhorn with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; recital tours of Europe and the US

2003

Opera debut in Beethoven’s Fidelio (Don Fernando) with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle in Berlin and Salzburg; Mahler’s Wayfarer songs with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Boulez. On CD: Schubert songs orchestrated by famous composers (Grammy Award, 2004 “Best Vocal Performance”)

2004

Vienna State Opera debut (Amfortas in Parsifal) and first Salzburg Festival lieder recital; Martin’s Jedermann Monologue with Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker; Mozart arias with the New York Philharmonic and Muti; Haydn’s Creation under Maazel; Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Welser-Möst; Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Wayfarer songs at the Verbier Festival; tour of Europe with Schubert’s Winterreise; Release of A Romantic Songbook (Echo Award 2004, Orphée d'or 2005) and Bach Cantatas (Midem Classical Award 2005, Klassik-Amadeus Award 2005, Grammy Award, BBC Music Magazine Award, 2006 ).

2005

Parsifal in Vienna; Bach’s B minor Mass with the Zurich Opera and Elijah with the Wiener Philharmoniker; Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; Britten’s War Requiem in Vienna; Mozart arias in Vienna, Paris and London; Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in Hamburg; Bach cantatas on tour in Germany and Austria; CD releases: Mahler song cycles with Boulez and the Wiener Philharmoniker and Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (with Justus Zeyen); on DVD: Schubert's Winterreise (with Barenboim).

2006

Engagements include Mozart arias (in Vienna under Domingo, in Salzburg under Harding, in the Carnegie Hall under Welser-Möst, in Berlin under Barenboim); Bach’s St. John Passion and Brahms’s German Requiem with Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; orchestral songs by Pfitzner with Thielemann in Munich; Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder under Barenboim in Chicago. Recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival, the Schubertiade; Beethoven’s Ninth at the Verbier Festival. Receives Il Canto del mondo’s Culture Award, and Grammy Award as “Singer of the Year”. Releases: Betrachte, meine Seel – sacred arias by Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, and The Mozart Album – arias and duets with DG’s star singers

2007

Concerts include Haydn’s Creation with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle; Mozart’s Requiem with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Mehta; Mahler song cycles with the Staats¬kapelle Berlin and Barenboim and with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle; Bach cantatas and Handel arias with the Berlin Baroque Soloists. Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch (with Dorothea Röschmann), lieder cycles by Schumann and Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone (with Zeyen); Schubert’s Winterreise with Helmut Deutsch; Winterreise and Mahler lieder with Charles Spencer. Festival appearances include Brahms’s German Requiem under Levine and Schumann song cycles with Hélène Grimaud in Verbier; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, and a lieder recital with Zeyen in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed jazz concerts in New York’s Carnegie Hall and Europe. His bestseller jazz album Watch What Happens receives an Echo Award, 2007 and is nominated for a Grammy. A further recording of Bach cantatas with Dorothea Röschmann and the Berlin Baroque Soloists finds great critical acclaim

2008

ppearances include Haydn’s Creation in Salzburg and Stockholm; Schubert’s Orchestral Songs with Levine in the US, and with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Jansons in Amsterdam, Vienna and Lucerne; Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Germany and Vienna; Verdi’s Requiem with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Muti; Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Rückert Lieder with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Barenboim; three New Year’s Eve Gala Concerts in Berlin’s Philharmonie. Recitals with Dorothea Röschmann and Ian Bostridge at the Barbican and in Carnegie Hall; Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Schumann’s Dichterliebe in Berlin. Festival appearances at the Schubertiade and in Salzburg. He performs jazz with Bobby McFerrin in Vienna’s State Opera, with Till Brönner in Berlin and with Maria João & Band at the Attersee Festival. His recording of Haydn arias with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is released in autumn and supported by a German tour in December

2009

Performances include Haydn’s Creation in London, Eisenstadt (Haydn Festival) and Hamburg, Haydn arias in New York, and The Seasons in Berlin, Zurich, Lucerne and Salzburg; Dvořák’s Requiem in Amsterdam and Vienna; Bach and Handel arias with the Berlin Baroque Soloists in Vienna, London and Paris; the St. Matthew Passion with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig and London; Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust with Rattle in Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall and with Gergiev at the Barbican Centre; Mahler song cycles in Carnegie Hall; Elijah in Berlin and Hamburg; Elgar’s Dream of Gerontious with Rattle in Vienna, Mozart arias in St. Petersburg. Festival appearances in Salzburg, Lucerne, Verbier and at the Schubertiade. Quasthoff is artistic director of the new Das Lied – International Song Competition which takes place for the first time in Berlin