Georg Gädker

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Georg Gädker (born January 28, 1981 in Freiburg ) is a German opera , concert and lied singer ( baritone ).

Life

Georg Gädker was born in Freiburg im Breisgau . As a boy soloist ( alto voice ) and a young male voice, he sang with the Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir and attended the high school college St. Sebastian in Stegen near Freiburg. From 1999 to 2001 he was a young student at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Bernd Göpfert, where he studied singing and vocal pedagogy from 2002 . From 2004 to 2009 he continued his studies with Rudolf Piernay at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, where he graduated with honors. He attended master classes with Margreet Honig, Emma Kirkby , Thomas Quasthoff , Graham Johnson , Sarah Walker , Wolfram Rieger , Charles Spencer and Thomas Hampson . Gädker was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk Study Foundation .

Gädker has been working freelance since 2009. In the concert field he appears as an interpreter of most of the great roles in his field, including, based on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach ( St. Matthew Passion under Reinhard Goebel or with the Tölzer Knabenchor , St. John Passion under Helmuth Rilling in Chile, Christmas Oratorio under Hans- Christoph Rademann , Mass in B minor , cross bar cantata , various reconstructions of the Mark Passion , solo cantatas), Handel's The Messiah , Jephta and Alexander's Feast , Haydn's Creation and Seasons as well as Mozart's Requiem, increasingly larger works, such as Beethoven's 9th Symphony , Mendelssohn's Paulus and Elias , Brahms ' A German Requiem , César Franck's Les Béatitudes, Vaughan Williams ' A Sea Symphony , Orff's Carmina Burana (under Howard Arman ), Wagner's Love Supper of the Apostles , Verdi's Messa da Requiem or Britten's War Requiem . Concerts have taken him to concert halls such as Philharmonie Berlin and Konzerthaus Berlin , Muziekgebouw Amsterdam , Philharmonie Cologne , Gewandhaus Leipzig , Tonhalle Zurich , Liederhalle Stuttgart or Wigmore Hall London, in churches such as Berlin Cathedral , Lateran Basilica in Rome, Geneva Cathedral , Grossmünster Zurich or Freiburg Minster , as well as at other venues in Europe and around the world. Radio recordings and sound carriers were made, including for NDR , SWR , deutschlandradio , BBC and Radio France . A CD with orchestral songs by Gustav Mahler was released in 2010 with the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra under Christoph Wyneken .

Georg Gädker made guest appearances in the music theater at the stages of Braunschweig, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Mannheim, where he appeared as Count Almaviva ( Figaro ), Aeneas ( Dido and Aeneas ), Schneck ( bird dealer ), Notario ( Gianni Schicchi ) and other roles World premieres of the opera Wasser by Arnulf Herrmann and the chamber opera Neumond by Lucia Ronchetti could be seen. In 2013 he appeared in the title role of Shostakovich's opera Das Märchen vom Popen and his servant Balda in a production of the Konzerthaus Berlin and from 2014 appeared for two seasons in Shakespeare's The Tempest (directed by Calixto Bieito , music by Henry Purcell ) at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In the 2014/2015 season, Georg Gädker gave an opera pasticcio based on Oscar Wilde's Ghost of Canterville with music by Rameau, Purcell and others at the Musiktheater im Revier (MiR) Gelsenkirchen. In 2015 Georg Gädker made his debut at the StadtOper Soest festival in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni , followed by the German premiere of Luke Bedford's chamber opera Through his Teeth with the Opera Factory Freiburg in 2016, and Hans Zender's Don Quijote de la Mancha at the Frankfurt LAB with the Ensemble Modern under the direction of Johannes Kalitzke . In 2017 Georg Gädker was heard in a staged production of Handel's Jephta at the Detmold Theater .

2011 founded Gädker with soprano Catherine Persicke and pianist Nicholas Rimmer international recital series "klanglabor SONG" Freiburg which projects he and Persicke and Rimmer as artistic director, and until his death in 2018 under the auspices of the American song accompanist Irwin Gage stood .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sea Symphony / November 15, 2015 | Municipal concert choir Winfridia Fulda. Retrieved on March 27, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Program on Friday, May 10, 2013. Accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bach Choir Tübingen - Chronicle. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ mir media-Digital Agency- www.mir.de: Philharmonic Choir Cologne, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Cologne, H. Meinardus: Mozart. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ Opera Factory Freiburg> Georg Gädker. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Heike Weitz, Thomas Rabbow (responsible): Artist catalog of the 52nd Federal Selection of Concerts for Young Artists, page 25. German Music Council, accessed on May 1, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Cantilena Singing Competition 2007 | Young Musicians Foundation. Accessed May 1, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Ralf Schöne: Prize Winner PJGS 2008 Kassel. Accessed May 1, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Prize winners 2006–2010 . In: 25th International Johannes Brahms Competition . January 19, 2018 ( brahmscompetition.org [accessed May 1, 2018]).
  10. ↑ AME - Accademia Musicale Europea. Dir. Art. Daniela de Marco: 2010 - Concorso Internazionale Musica Sacra. Retrieved May 1, 2018 (it-IT).
  11. ^ Ö-Konzept Zwickau, Michael Stoye: International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice in Zwickau. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gädker, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera, concert and lied singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg