Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl ( born November 10, 1967 in Eltville ) is an internationally known German countertenor. The musical focus of its repertoire is in Baroque music. 2005, he was the first countertenor soloist at the Last Night of the Proms in London and entered in 2006 and 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera.

Life and work

Andreas Scholl comes from a musical family. His father and mother were choristers in Kiedrich, his sister Elisabeth Scholl 's soprano. He received his first musical training as a singer in the choir boys Kiedricher. At age 13, he appeared as " second in the State Theatre in Wiesbaden Boy " in Mozart's The Magic Flute on, while his sister Elisabeth sang the first boy.

From 1987 to 1993 he studied with Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where he received a diploma in early music. He was awarded as the winner of the Conseil de l'Europe and the Fondation Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1992; In addition, he received awards from the Ernst Goehner Foundation and the Association Migros.

Scholl teaches singing at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. Among his pupils was Patrick Van Goethem. Scholl is the Netherlands closely connected and is fluent in Dutch.

Since August 2012, he is married to Israeli pianist and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin.

Opera

Andreas Scholl embodies many roles that were written for the castrato Senesino. This includes his operatic debut in 1998, the role of Handel's Rodelinda in Bertarido listed at the Glyndebourne Festival under the direction of William Christie ( 1998, 1999, 2002). He sang the role at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006 with Renée Fleming in the title role, Kobie van Rensburg, conducted by Patrick Summers, resumed in 2011. Scholl played the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Det Kongelige Teater (2002, 2005), in Paris (2007 ) and Lausanne ( 2008). In 2008 he took over the role of Handel's Partenope at Arsace in Det Kongelige Teater, Lars Ulrik Mortensen directed by. In 2010 he sang the title role in Giulio Cesare at the Salle Pleyel on the side of Cecilia Bartoli with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie.

Concert

1991 Scholl sang the alto solos in Bach's St. John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe in Antwerp. In 1995 he joined under the direction of René Jacobs in Bach's B minor Mass. In 1998 he sang with his sister Elizabeth in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, with Max Ciolek as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the Vox Christi. In 1999, he led with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging with Jos van Veldhoven, among others Bach's Mass in G ( BWV 236) on. In New York's Avery Fisher Hall, he sang Bach's Christmas Oratorio, conducted by Ton Koopman. In 2000 he toured with the B-minor Mass in Japan, led by Masaaki Suzuki.

In 2001 he sang in Handel's Saul in Brussels and took over the title role in Handel's Solomon, conducted by Paul McCreesh. In the Leipzig Thomas Church, he sang Bach's St. John Passion. When Bach Festival Leipzig 2003, he participated in the St. Thomas Church in Bach's B Minor Mass, traditionally the feast decides, along with Letizia Scherrer, Mark Padmore and Sebastian Noack, Choir and Orchestra of the Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. In 2006, he sang on a European tour of Bach solo cantatas Hilarious Ruh, popular soul like ( BWV 170) and mind and soul is Confused ( BWV 35) with the orchestra Accademia Bizantina. In 2007 he sang again Saul, in Kloster Eberbach with Wilsberg Trine Lund ( Merab ), Hannah Morrison ( Michal ), Andreas Karasiak (Jonathan ) and the Schiersteiner Kantorei, directed by Martin Lutz. In the Berlin Philharmonic he sang Handel's Messiah with soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir, the chorus of Les Arts Florissants and the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by William Christie. 2008 Scholl sang for the first time with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Lincoln Center, Messiah with the Westminster Symphonic Choir under the baton of Ton Koopman. In 2010 he worked with his sister in a performance of Messiah in the Market Church in Wiesbaden, Andreas Karasiak and the Wiesbaden boys' choir.

At the Leipzig Bach Festival in 2011, he was again in the St. Thomas Church in Bach's B Minor Mass with, along with Anna Prohaska, Marie- Claude Chappuis, Magnus Staveland, Johannes Weisser, the Balthasar - Neumann -Chor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, conducted by René Jacobs. 2011 Scholl made ​​his debut at the Rheingau Musik Festival in three events a weekend interview, Rheingaugaureise to three historic churches and opera recital with his sister Elisabeth at Eberbach Abbey, with arias and duets from operas by Purcell and Handel. He sang in Handel's Messiah in St. Martin, Idstein, with Katia Plaschka, Ulrich Cordes and Markus Flaig.

Awards

Discography

Film

• Caesar the high notes - Andreas Scholl and the mystery of the countertenor. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 52 min, written and directed by Manfred Scheyko, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, arte, first broadcast: January 19, 2014 arte, Summary of ARD.