Benjamin Appl

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Benjamin Appl (2017)

Benjamin Appl (* 26. June 1982 in Regensburg ) is a German opera - concert and Lied singer with the vocal range baritone .

biography

Appl received his first vocal training from the Regensburger Domspatzen and completed his vocal training (with Edith Wiens and Helmut Deutsch, among others ) at the Munich University of Music and Theater and the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding with distinction , in addition to successfully studying business administration . From 2010 to 2013 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the singing class of Rudolf Piernay . Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , with whom he studied privately as the last student until 2012, had a major influence on his artistic career . In 2016 Benjamin Appl signed a long-term exclusive contract with Sony Classical and received the Gramophone Award for New Artist of the Year 2016.

Opera

Appl's opera engagements include Count (Conte) in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte in London, the title role in Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave in Banff , Aeneas in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Aldeburgh Festival and Brighton Festival , the Minister in Johann Strauss ' Wiener Blut in Munich, the Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Baron Tusenbach in Eötvös ' Tri Sestri in the Munich Prinzregententheater and at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden . In the summer of 2014 he sang the role of Leo in Bernhard Gander's Life on the Edge of the Milky Way at the Bregenz Festival , a composition commissioned by the Wiener Konzerthaus , Wien Modern and the Bregenz Festival. He worked with international conductors.

concert

As a concert soloist, the baritone has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music , Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , the Berliner Barock Solisten, the Concerto Köln , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Gabrieli Consort and Dunedin Consort, the London Philharmonic Orchestra , NHK-Sinfonieorchester , NDR Radiophilharmonie , Philadelphia Orchestra , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra , the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Symphony Orchestra of India, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , and several times with the orchestras of the BBC ( BBC Symphony Orchestra , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic ) performed; His oratorio repertoire includes works such as Bach's St. John Passion , St. Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio , Brahms ' Ein deutsches Requiem , Handel's The Messiah , Haydn's The Creation , Orff's Carmina Burana and Britten's War Requiem . In 2012 Benjamin Appl sang for Pope Benedict XVI at a concert in the papal summer residence Castel Gandolfo . Psalm settings that were broadcast live worldwide.

song

Appl during an evening of songs in Detmold, November 7, 2017

Appl regularly gives recitals in the Wigmore Hall and at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems and has also performed at the Rheingau Music Festival , Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Edinburgh Festival , Ravinia Festival , Heidelberg Spring , Ruhr Piano Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival on. Benjamin Appl a. a. in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , Carnegie Hall , Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , the Elbphilharmonie , and the Louvre . In December 2018 he sang Mahler 's Rückert songs in front of 16,000 people in the akasaka-jō Hall . He has given concerts with various international pianists.

Honors

Appl received the Schubert Prize of the German Schubert Society in 2012. He was also funded by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation “Live Music Now” and the German National Academic Foundation, and in 2003 received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association . 2014 Appl was for the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme of the British radio station BBC and selected as "ECHO Rising Star" of the European Concert Hall Organization. For his solo album "Heimat" he received the Prix ​​Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Best Song Singer) 2017/18 from the Académie du disque lyrique Orphées d'Or.

repertoire

Benjamin Appl has a large repertoire of art song, but it also spans operas and concerts from the Renaissance to the present day. Some contemporary composers also composed works for him, such as Kit Armstrong, Marian Ingoldsby, György Kurtág , Nico Muhly , Susan Oswell and Matthias Pintscher . For the Konzerthaus Dortmund he worked with György Kurtág in several intensive phases of work on his Hölderlin chants , which were then performed in a special discussion concert in Dortmund in February 2020.

Teaching

Appl while teaching a master class in Basel 2019

Benjamin Appl has been teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as professor of German song since September 2016 . He has taught in master classes and workshops around the world.

Discography

Special projects

In autumn 2019 Benjamin Appl presented his own radio program on BBC Radio 3 with the title "A Singer's World" , in which he gave an insight into the life of a classic singer of the 21st century . In spring 2020, Appl played the lead role in a new film production entitled "Breaking Music" , which was shot in Buenos Aires and Berlin and deals with tango , but also with the similarities and differences between tango and German art song.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Appl. Artist wiki at Klassikradio.de, accessed on February 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Sony Classical. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gramophone: Young Artist of the Year. September 15, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Radio 3 announces six artists joining its New Generation Artists Scheme , bbc.co.uk of September 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Rising Stars 2014/2015 Season ( memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , European Concert Hall Organization  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concerthallorganisation.eu
  6. ↑ Katharina von Glasenapp : Multifaceted Schubertiade evenings . In: Die Neue , May 3, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  7. ^ Benjamin Appl Tour Features New Commission by Marian Ingolsby . In: The Journal of Music , October 28, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  8. ↑ Anke Demirsoy : Centerpiece with Hölderlin: The baritone Benjamin Appl enriches the Kurtág-Zeitinsel in Dortmund with two world premieres . In: Revierpassagen , February 4, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  9. ^ Anne Midgette : German baritone Benjamin Appl announces his US arrival with a generous Phillips program . In: The Washington Post , January 21, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  10. ↑ Michael Scheiner : The tragedy of collapse and dissolution . In: Neue Musikzeitung . Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  11. ↑ Keith Bruce : Festival Music review: Benjamin Appl, Queen's Hall . In: The Herald , August 17, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  12. ↑ Jennifer Wilton : The Last Witness to the Avant-Garde . In: Die Welt am Sunday , February 3, 2020. Retrieved on May 6, 2020. 
  13. ^ Guildhall School Annual Report 2016-17 , Guildhall School of Music & Drama. March 7, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2020. 
  14. ↑ George Hall: Brahms & Schumann: Lieder . In: BBC Music Magazine , July 21, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  15. ^ Hilary Finch : Hours, Days, Eternities performed by Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu . In: BBC Music Magazine , February 20, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  16. ^ Hugo Shirley : Benjamin Appl: Schubert Lieder . In: Gramophone Magazine . Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  17. ↑ Alexandra Coghlan : Telemann Reformation Oratorio . In: Gramophone Magazine . Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  18. ↑ Erica Jeal : Heimat: Benjamin Appl CD review - impressive, poignant, finely judged performance . In: The Guardian , March 9, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  19. ↑ Brett Allen-Bayes : Brahms: Songs Volume 7 (Benjamin Appl); This Appl didn't fall very far from Fischer-Dieskau's tree . In: Limelight Magazine , July 6, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  20. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey : CD tip: Benjamin Appl & the Ensemble Concerto Köln . In: SWR , September 16, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  21. ↑ Erica Jeal : Dausgaard / Appl / BBCSSO: Kullervo review - thrilling and intense account of Sibelius' epic . In: The Guardian , June 27, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  22. ↑ Bernhard Hoppe : Well-known in a new form; "Transformation" by Berio . In: Operalounge . Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  23. ^ Fiona Maddocks : Home listening: a fond farewell from the Hilliards and Jan Garbarek . In: The Guardian , October 20, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2020. 
  24. ↑ Tim Dams : AMC's Film & Arts explores tango and classical in 'Breaking Music' . In: Television Business International , February 10, 2020. Accessed May 6, 2020. 
personal data
SURNAME Appl, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg