Andreas Pruys

Andreas Pruys ( born in Kleve ) is a German singer of the vocal range bass.

Life

Andreas Pruys studied singing and church music at the Folkwang School in Essen. He worked for several years as a church musician and head of the music school in Emmerich. Since 2001 he is member of the NDR Choir.

Pruys appeared as a soloist in oratorio concerts, especially singing the words of Christ in the Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2007 he undertook a concert tour with the Flensburg Bach Choir and sang Bach's B Minor Mass at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Dresden Cross Church and the Franciscan Church in Krakow. In 2008 he sang the words of Christ in Bach's St. John Passion at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, with Christoph Prégardien as an evangelist, Katharine Fuge, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij, the choir Arsys Bourgogne and Concerto Köln, conducted by Pierre Cao. He looked at deSingel art campus, Antwerp, in a concert with the Sinfonia espansiva by Carl Nielsen and Magnus Lindberg Chorale of with, led by Eivand Aadland. In 2008 he sang Beethoven's C major Mass and Bruckner's Te Deum with the NDR Symphony Orchestra for rededication of the Hamburg Cathedral of St. Mary. In 2009 he sang the words of Christ in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, with Ulrich Cordes as an evangelist and Klaus Mertens in the other bass-parts. In 2009 he sang Haydn 's The Creation with Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and the New Rheingau Kantorei both in Rheingau Geisenheim Cathedral and the Basilica of Schloss Johannisberg. On Palm Sunday, 2010, he sang the words of Christ of St. John Passion in the Cathedral of Trier. He sang in St. Martin, Idstein, the bass solo in Verdi's Messa da Requiem.

In 1996, Andreas Pruys Johann Muller's Vespro della beata Vergine Rose as a member of the ensemble Canticum, with Cantus Coelln and Concerto Palatino, directed by Konrad Junghänel.2010 worked Andreas Pruys with the project Robert Schumann: collection of music pieces, ancient and modern, the was initiated by Radio Bremen and led to a series and CDs. Artists like Veronika Winter and Jan Kobow led to the 70 compositions that had accompanied the newspaper Schumann New Journal of Music 1838-1841.