Alexander Seidel
Alexander Seidel (* 1976 in Moscow ) is a German countertenor , conductor and organist.
Life
Alexander Seidel was born the son of diplomats in Moscow. The family comes from Strausberg . Seidel studied church music in the subjects of organ and choir conducting and orchestral conducting. He then continued his studies in the subjects of organ, singing and historical performance practice in Paris. In 2003 he took up residence in Zurich. From 2005 to 2010 vocal studies followed in Zurich with the aim of training as a countertenor . Internships brought him together with Daniel Barenboim , William Christie , Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Roger Norrington. He attended singing master classes with Barbara Schlick , René Jacobs and James Bowman at the Juilliard School in New York and the Handel Academy in Karlsruhe, as well as conducting master classes with Kurt Masur and Colin Metters in Leipzig and Zurich.
Act
In 1995, Seidel founded the New Sagittarius Consort Zurich, a chamber music ensemble with which he performed more than forty concert programs as a vocal soloist. From 2010 to 2013 he was the first guest conductor of the St. Gallen Chamber Soloists, with whom he performed works from the Baroque period and the Viennese Classic , and guest conductor of the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Vorarlberg Baroque Orchestra “Concerto Stella Matutina”. Every summer he teaches performance practice and interpretation at the music course weeks of the “Arosa Kultur” festival in Graubünden.
In the last few years (as of 2018) he worked as a concert conductor and choir director, gave solo recitals as a countertenor and performed in oratorio concerts . As an organist he gave concerts in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Potsdam and Zurich and played many historical instruments in Europe. He also worked as an actor, speaker and theater musician in Germany and Switzerland ( Theater Rigiblick Zurich, Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin, ARD, independent productions).
His vocal repertoire includes works by Antonio Caldara ( Medea in Corinto ), Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Friedrich Händel ( La Lucrezia ), Gustav Mahler ( Kindertotenlieder ), Franz Schubert ( Die Schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise ), Antonín Dvořák ( Biblical songs and gypsy songs ). Based on Dvořák's Biblical Songs , the German composer Manfred Schlenker dedicated a cycle of biblical duets to him, which was premiered in 2010.
In 2011 he performed at a Christmas concert with music by Purcell and Handel in the Auditorium Maximum of the ETH Zurich , which was broadcast by Radio Swiss Classic .
He has been a church musician in the Reformed Parish of Höfe on Lake Zurich since 2012 and has been the conductor of the St.Otmar Choir at the St.Otmar City Church in St.Gallen since 2014. Every year, highly regarded concert series take place at both locations.
In February 2016, he took on the role of singer in the play Die Wohlgesinnten based on the novel by Jonathan Littell at Theater Basel . In 2017 Seidel sang as a soloist in a CD recording of the Concerto Melante (members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and guests) with music by Telemann. He sang with this ensemble in Baden-Baden in 2018 as part of the Easter Festival.
In 2019 he was musical director of the ibaroccoli chamber orchestra based in Zurich and a member of the baroque ensemble Anima Mea Ostschweiz.
Web links
- Alexander Seidel's website
- A strong voice for the organ . In: Märkische Oderzeitung from September 25, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of Alexander Seidel's job , accessed on November 16, 2018
- ↑ Swiss Classic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German countertenor, choir and concert director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |