Axel Everaert

Axel Everaert (born December 22, 1965 in Roeselare ) is a Belgian opera singer ( tenor ) and vocal teacher .

Life

Everaert's musical training began at the State Opera in Brussels . He studied at the University of Leuven with a focus on singing and chamber music and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in musicology .

From 1987 to 1990 he deepened his singing studies in Rome with Gianella Borelli and Loredana Franceschini-Shenker . Ré Koster and Ileana Cotrubas took over his further training from 1990 to 1995 and Irwin Gage in Zurich .

Axel Everaert appeared in numerous concerts in Europe and Canada ; many of these concerts were recorded live by various national broadcasters. His lively concert activity led him as a soloist to major orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Hamburg Baroque Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg , the Belgian National Orchestra, the Collegium Instrumentale Brughense and Musica Antiqua Cologne . As a guest singer he was u. a. to the Cologne Opera , the Aachen Theater , the Koblenz Theater , the opera houses of Athens , Lille , Besançon , Avignon and the Brussels State Opera La Monnaie as well as to important music festivals such as the Festival de Wallonie , the Festival van Vlaanderen , the Würzburg Mozart Festival , the Invited to Bosch Boulevard , the Handel Festival and the Festival de Musique de Strasbourg .

His repertoire includes the great oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel , opera roles by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Gioacchino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti , as well as Belgian, German, French and Italian art songs . He is particularly interested in the Italian bel canto repertoire.

Axel Everaert teaches at the Maastricht University of Music and is a singing teacher at the Latvian National Opera in Riga.

Awards

• 1987: Gold Medal of the State of Belgium for Singing and Chamber Music
• 1989: First prize at the Giovanni Battista Pergolesi competition in Rome
• 1992: Third prize at the International Competition for Coloratura Singing in Stuttgart
• 1994: Finalist of the International Gayarre Competition in Pamplona

Discography

• Axel Everaert, Pascale del Marmol, piano, songs by Ottorino Respighi (PAVANE)
• Axel Everaert, Pascale del Marmol, piano, songs by Franz Liszt , Gioacchino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (EBS)

Axel Everaert also performs a duet with the Korean soprano Sumi Jo on her last CD (WARNER)

Web links

• Axel Everaert homepage
• Axel Everaert at Bach Cantatas (English)
• Axel Everaert at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Axel Everaert on the Coservatoire Maastricht website