Martin Lattke

Martin Lattke (born 29 May 1981 in Pirna ) is a German singer ( lyric tenor ).

Career

Martin Lattke received his first singing lessons at age seven. As a boy soprano he was a member of Thomas' Boys Choir Leipzig, where he spent the next nine years and enjoyed a comprehensive musical education since 1990.

After his choir time he was co-founder in 1999 of the Leipzig vocal quintet calmus with which led him concert tours throughout Europe and the USA.

He is a 1st prize winner of international competitions and was awarded in 2002 at the German Music Competition with a scholarship and received Young Artists Concerts with the ensemble in the federal selection. From 2006 to 2013 he was a member of the ensemble Amarcord, and has performed in concert halls and music festivals around the world. In the future he wants to devote himself entirely to solo career.

Martin Lattke received singing lessons from Gotthold Schwarz in Leipzig, before he began vocal studies at the Leipzig Academy of Music and Theatre " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy " in Hans -Joachim Beyer after his active Thomanerzeit and the completion of studies in industrial engineering in 2003. In 2007 he was awarded by a masterclass with Peter Schreier artistic inspiration for the design fashion of Johann Sebastian Bach's Passions.

His repertoire includes ensemble and song literature from the Renaissance to modern, oratorios and cantatas, preferably of the works of Bach, opera and literature. His debut as an evangelist in the Christmas Oratorio by JS Bach had in 2008 " GranTeatro La Fenice " in Venice under the direction of Riccardo Chailly. Concerts have taken him, inter alia, in the " Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino " in Florence, with Kurt Weill's " The Seven Deadly Sins " to the Lebanese National Orchestra to Beirut and regularly for the great Passion performances with the Boys Choir under the direction of Thomas cantor Georg Christoph Biller in the Thomas church. As part of his singing career, he toured Europe, the USA, Australia, Canada, Russia, Korea, Africa, Central America and the Middle East.

Highlights of his singing activities in 2010 were the recording of the Christmas Oratorio for Decca with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly and 2012 the recording of the St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Georg Christoph Biller on DVD / Blu -ray.

Martin Lattke was with the ensemble Amarcord winners of the ECHO Klassik 2010 for the CD " Restless Love " with Leipziger romance of Schumann, Mendelssohn etc. and winners of the ECHO Klassik 2012 for the CD " The Love brings big ' Freud " with German folk songs.

Awards

  • 2002: 1st prize at the International Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau
  • 2004: 1st prize " youth culture " Hannover
  • 2004: Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical Album for the album color tones
  • Tones Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical Song for the track Dear Moon, you go so silent color of the album: 2004
  • 2005: 1st prize Tampere Sävel in Tampere (Finland )
  • 2005: 1st prize Tolosa / Spain - Category prophane MUSIC
  • 2005: 1st prize Tolosa / Spain - Category SACRED MUSIC
  • 2005: 1st prize Tolosa / Spain - Audience Award
  • 2005: Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical Album for the album Carmina fati
  • 2005: Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical song for the piece Madrigal II Album Carmina fati
  • 2010: ECHO Klassik 2010 in the category " ChorWerk Recording of the Year - Choir / Ensemble Music 18 - 19th century "
  • 2010: Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical Album for the album Restless Love
  • 2010: Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award ( CARA ) for Best Classical song for the piece Spring Bells Album Restless Love
  • 2010: Supersonic Award ( Pizzicato ) for the CD Restless Love
  • 2012: ECHO Klassik 2012 in the category " Ensemble of the Year - Vocal Music " for the album The Love brings big ' Freud!
  • 2013: International Classical Music Award for the album to S. Thomas
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