Andreas Scholl (singer)

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Andreas Scholl (2013)

Andreas Scholl (born November 10, 1967 in Eltville am Rhein ) is a German opera singer ( countertenor ). The musical focus of his repertoire is baroque music . He was the first countertenor soloist at the Last Night of the Proms in London in 2005 and performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006 and 2011 .

Life

Andreas Scholl comes from a musical family. His father and mother Wilma Scholl were choristers in Kiedrich , his sister Elisabeth Scholl is a soprano. He received his first musical training as a singer in the Kiedricher Chorbuben . At the age of 13 he appeared in the Wiesbaden State Theater as “2. Knabe ”in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , while his sister Elisabeth sang the first boy.

From 1987 to 1993 he studied with Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where he received a diploma in early music . In 1992 he was awarded a laureate of the Conseil de l'Europe and the Fondation Claude Nicolas Ledoux; He has also received prizes from the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Migros Association.

Scholl taught singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . Patrick Van Goethem was one of his students . Since October 2019 he has been professor for singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has close ties to the Netherlands and speaks fluent Dutch .

He has been married to the Israeli pianist and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin since August 2012 .

Opera

Andreas Scholl embodies many roles that were written for the castrato Senesino . These include his operatic debut in 1998, the role of Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda , performed at the Glyndebourne Festival under the direction of William Christie (1998, 1999, 2002). He also 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 on the role of Arsace in Handel's Partenope at Det Kongelige Teater, directed by Lars Ulrik Mortensen . In 2010 he sang the title role of Giulio Cesare in the Salle Pleyel alongside Cecilia Bartoli with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie.

concert

Andreas Scholl and members of the Accademia Bizantina baroque orchestra in a concert of the Rheingau Music Festival in the church of Hallgarten

In 1991 Scholl sang the alto solos in Bach's St. John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe in Antwerp . In 1995 he appeared in Bach's B minor Mass under the direction of René Jacobs . In 1998 he sang together with his sister Elisabeth in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein , with Max Ciolek as Evangelist and Max van Egmond as Vox Christi . In 1999 he performed Bach's Missa in G (BWV 236) with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging under Jos van Veldhoven . He sang Bach's Christmas Oratorio at New York's Avery Fisher Hall , conducted by Ton Koopman . In 2000 he performed the Mass in B minor in Japan, conducted 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 . At the Leipzig Bach Festival in 2003 he took part in the Thomas Church in Bach's B minor Mass, which traditionally closes the festival, together with Letizia Scherrer , Mark Padmore and Sebastian Noack , choir and orchestra of the Collegium Vocale Gent , conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. In 2006, on a European tour, he sang Bach's solo cantatas Lustte Ruh, Popular Seelenlust (BWV 170) and Geist und Seele wird bewret (BWV 35) with the Accademia Bizantina orchestra. In 2007 he sang Saul again , in the Eberbach Monastery with Trine Wilsberg 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 from the Tölzer Knabenchor, the Les Arts Florissants choir and the Berlin Philharmonic , conducted by William Christie. In 2008 Scholl sang for the first time with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Lincoln Center , Messiah with the Westminster Symphonic Choir under the direction of Ton Koopman. In 2010 he worked with his sister in a performance of Messiah in the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden, with Andreas Karasiak and the Wiesbadener Knabenchor.

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

Awards

Discography

Movie

  • Caesar of high notes - Andreas Scholl and the secret of the countertenor. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 52 min., Script and director: Manfred Scheyko, production: Hessischer Rundfunk , arte , first broadcast: January 19, 2014 on arte, summary by ARD .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Scholl . Klassikakzente.de. October 7, 2010. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ Andreas Scholl in Pauw & Witteman 10 January 2012 , YouTube video
  3. ↑ a b c d e When did Scholl sing at ...? Andreas Scholl Society (English)
  4. ^ Johanna Gross: The annual ritual at the end of the Bach Festival . leipzig-almanach.de. June 1, 2003. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  5. ↑ Handel's Messiah ( English ) nyphil.org. December 17, 2008. Archived from the original on August 14, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  6. ↑ Steve Smith: A "Messiah" as Handel Might Have Heard It ( English ) The New York Times . December 18, 2008. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  7. ↑ Doris Kösterke: Handel's “Messiah” with flying colors. Jubilee of the Wiesbaden Boys Choir with countertenor Andreas Scholl in the Marktkirche . Wiesbadener Tagblatt. November 19, 2010. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved on November 17, 2010.
  8. ↑ Axel Zibulski: Musical sound with an idea . Wiesbaden courier. July 19, 2011. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved on March 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ Doris Kösterke: Sublime inner peace . Wiesbaden courier. September 20, 2011. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved on September 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ Member entry by Andreas Scholl at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on November 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Hessian Culture Prize 2016 goes to Tamar Halperin and Andreas Scholl. Press office of the Hessian State Chancellery, October 10, 2016.
  12. ↑ Evi Baumeister: Andreas Scholl fascinates with his Purcell homage. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , February 6, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Scholl, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (countertenor)
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville on the Rhine