The german bass Thorsten Grümbel studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

After engagements in Duesseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) and Frankfurt Opera House he returned 2012 to the ensemble of Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duesseldorf.

Guest performances led him to Dortmund, Essen, Freiburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt, to Prague National Opera, National Theater Taipeh, to the State Opera Houses of Wiesbaden, Nuremberg, Hanover and Munich, Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, to the National Opera Prag, to the Opéra National Paris (Bastille), Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Royal Opera of Stockholm, Theater Basel, Grand Théâtre de Genève and to the opera festivals like Mézières, Montreux, Strasbourg, Savonlinna.

His repertoire includes Antinoo (Monterverdi: Ulisse), Osmin (Entführung aus dem Serail), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Sarastro (Magic Flute), Narbal (LesTroyens), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Sir John Falstaff (Lustige Weiber von Windsor), Banco (Macbeth), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Graf Walter (Luisa Miller), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Philipp II (Don Carlos), Il re (Aida), Daland (Flying dutchman), Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser), König Heinrich (Lohengrin) Fasolt (Rheingold), Hunding (Walkure), Fafner (Siegfried), König Marke (Tristan), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Wassermann (Rusalka), Colline (La Bohème), Peneios (Daphne). La Roche (Capriccio), Pommersfelden (Hindemith: Mathis der Maler), Graf Waldner (Arabella) and Ochs (Rosenkavalier).

2018/19 he will perform König Heinrich (Lohengrin) at Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, at the Theater an der Wien in a concert version of Webers Peter Schmoll the part of Martin Schmoll and Hunding (Walkure 1st Akt) with the Beogradska Philharmoniija in Belgrad.

Concerts he had with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the WDR Radio Orchester Cologne, in the section of Ancient Music with “Concerto Köln” and the “Neuen Düsseldorfer Hofmusik”. His repertoire in concert includes Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratory, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Missas, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Eliah and Verdi’s Requiem. Concerts with him took place in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, France, Italy, Poland and South Corea including Radio and CD productions.