Sepp Hammer's "powerful" (BostonEdge) baritone is heard regularly in opera, oratorio, and art-song in the Boston area.  This season with Opera Boston, Sepp will cover the role of Don Pedro in Donizetti's Maria Padilla, and will perform the role of Ben in outreach performances of The Telephone. In March, he will perform the role of El Dancairo in Carmen with Martinez Opera in California.  This coming summer, Sepp will join the Young Artist Program of Sugar Creek Symphony and Song in Illinois, where he will sing  the roles of Gideon March in Little Women and Hortense in The Daughter of the Regiment.  

Last season, Sepp appeared as Falke in Die Fledermaus with Worcester Opera Works, and as John Proctor in Robert Ward's The Crucible with Boston Opera Collaborative.  Other opera engagements have included the roles of Escamillo in Carmen and Melisso in Handel’s Alcina, also with BOC, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with MetroWest Opera, David in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge in Opera Boston’s Opera Underground Series, and Otto ten Broek in the world premiere of The Inman Diaries with Intermezzo Chamber Opera.

In the summer of 2008, Sepp was a studio artist with Opera New Jersey, where he covered the role of Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola.  Sepp’s training also includes the Bonfils-Stanton Program of Central City Opera’s 2007 season. There he was heard in the role of a Guest in a new production of The Saint of Bleecker Street.  In 2006, Sepp graduated from New England Conservatory with his master’s degree in vocal performance and opera.

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.  Sepp also appeared locally in oratorio, including a performance as soloist in Bach’s Es erhub sich ein Streit and Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg with the Brookline Chorus.