Agility, colorfulness and immediacy in expression make Holger Falk an internationally sought-after interpreter with a focus on the repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Opera engagements have taken him to the Teatro Real Madrid, Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Theater an der Wien, for example. As a song interpreter he has sung at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Frick Collection New York, Library of Congress Washington, Bozar Brussels, Philharmonie de Paris, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Kölner Philharmonie, Gasteig Munich and Philharmonie Berlin, among others. He has been nominated several times by the "Opernwelt” as „Singer of the Year".

For his numerous song recordings with large collections of songs by Eisler, Satie, Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Rihm etc. he has received awards such as the ECHO Klassik and the German Record Critics' Annual Award. Holger Falk is Professor for Lied Interpretation and founder of the Master’s program Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM vocal) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (A).

The training of singers at European music conservatories is largely limited to conveying the tradition of the vocal ideal and the division of labor in 19th-century opera theater. Creativity and artistry in vocal training are mostly confined to interpretation and producing functioning cogs in the opera industry. How can we awaken the creative, performative, and improvisational potential of today's singers and thereby foster a congenial collaboration between composers and stage artists that enables new forms of music theater beyond existing stereotypes? How can music conservatories be structured, both in terms of personnel and infrastructure, to bring forth new creations in cooperation with theaters and also outside theater structures?