Sepp Hammer’s baritone voice has been described as “powerful” (BostonEdge) and as showing “warm baritone gravity” (The Boston Globe). A San Francisco Bay Area native, he recently returned to the area after several years of performing in Boston, where he completed his Master’s Degree at New England Conservatory. This spring, Sepp makes his debut with Opera San Jose in the role of Wagner in Gounod’s Faust.

Most recently, Sepp has appeared with Sugar Creek Symphony and Song as Gideon March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women and as Hortensius in The Daughter of the Regiment. Last season with Opera Boston, Sepp covered the role of Don Pedro in Donizetti's Maria Padilla, and performed the role of Ben in outreach performances of The Telephone. Last spring, he performed the role of El Dancairo in Carmen with Martinez Opera.

Sepp’s training includes the young artist program of Opera New Jersey, where he covered Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. He was also a member of the Bonfils-Stanton Young Artist Program of Central City Opera, where he performed the role of a Guest in a new production of Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street. His other favorite roles include Escamillo in Carmen, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Don Giovanni, Schaunard in La Bohème, Falke in Die Fledermaus, John Proctor in The Crucible and Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro.

On the concert stage, Sepp has performed in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion as the First Pontifex under Kent Nagano on tour in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Brookline Chorus in Bach’s Es erhub sich ein Streit and Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg and with Masterworks Chorale in Brahms' Requiem.