Ulrich Cordes
Ulrich Cordes ( born 1980 ) is a German singer of Vocal Tenor.
Life
Ulrich Cordes studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Winfried Bönig and Margaretha Hürholz and graduated in 2003 with top honors from. He then studied singing. In the summer semester of 2005 enabled him a Socrates scholarship to study at the Conservatoire de Paris in Paris with Pierre Mervant. Starting in the winter semester of 2005, he studied with Christoph Prégardien. In 2008 he obtained his diploma in 2010, he graduated with a concert exam. He attended master classes with Claudia Visca. Since 2008, he received private singing lessons with Konrad Jarnot. At the podium Young soloists of the Association of German Concert Choirs Competition ( VDKC ) he won a second prize in 2008.
Cordes occurred among others, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and the Munich Bach Choir. On 10 October 2004, he sang the tenor part in Beethoven's Mass in C Major at the Bonner Münster as part of the Beethoven Festival. In 2007 he sang the role of Apollo in Monteverdi's L' Orfeo in a concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival. With the Johanneskantorei Dusseldorf he led in 2008 Karl Jenkins The Armed Man and 2009, Mendelssohn 's Paulus on. In Cologne, he was the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion, and also sang the great arias. In 2008 he sang the role of Uriel in several performances of Haydn's The Creation, in three churches in Berlin, Bonn and in the Nicolai Church, Dortmund. In 2009, he was the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, with Andreas Pruys ( Vox Christi ), Katia Plaschka, Anne Bierwirth and Klaus Mertens. Daniel Honsack wrote in Wiesbaden Tageblatt: "As Evangelist Ulrich Cordes made with clear formulations and sometimes something metallic, quite reasonable sharpness musical excellence The tenor of the Cologne-based singer forged by Christoph Prégardien sat down with the part apart on very immersive and exciting way. ". In a performance of Handel's Saul with the Munich Bach Choir, conducted by Hansjörg Albrecht Konrad Jarnot in the title role, he took over several roles. He was a soloist in Voices of Exile, Richard Black Ford cantata for soloists, chamber orchestra, band and choir, which was performed by the chamber choirs CONSONO and CONSTANT headed by Harald Jers at the music festival "Sound Vocal " in Dortmund. In 2010 he joined the Staatsoper Stuttgart in the German premiere of Elena Kats- Chernin's opera The Rage of Life. His opera roles include Mozart's Don Ottavio and Belmonte. With the Munich Bach Choir, he was a soloist in a program of Mozart's Requiem, which also included works by Enjott Schneider, listed at the Philharmonie am Gasteig. He was the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Berlin Philharmonic on 28 March 2010. 2011 he joined the Cologne Philharmonic in Handel's Israel in Egypt with the chorus of the Brook Club Cologne. He sang in Bach's B Minor Mass, listed in the St. John's Church Dusseldorf and the Holy Trinity Church in Cologne, around 10 years to celebrate Chamber Choir CONSONO. He sang Handel's Messiah in St. Martin, Idstein, with Katia Plaschka, Andreas Scholl and Markus Flaig.
Recordings
Cordes took part in a recording of Johann Mattheson's Christmas Oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra, the largest child, directed by Michael Will, in which the soloists were also the choir. In 2011 he was the evangelist in a DVD recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, which was recorded live at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, directed by Bart Van Reyn.