Jacques le Roux

Jacques le Roux (born May 21, 1981 in Ladysmith ), born Hermanus Jacobus le Roux , is a South African opera and concert singer (tenor).

Life

Born in Ladysmith in the province of Natal , Jacques le Roux received his first music lessons from his mother, who worked as an organist in a church. The family then moved to Vereeniging , a town in what was then the South African province of Transvaal , where Jacques le Roux received his first piano and clarinet lessons at the grammar school's conservatory at the age of 14. He then studied music with a major in singing at the North West University Conservatory in Potchefstroom with Werner Nel. In 2006 the singer went to the Netherlands and Germany, among others. He now lives in Austria.

Career

As a student, Jacques le Roux won competitions, prizes and grants such as the UNISA Voice Competition or the ATKV Music Competition. He was also one of the finalists at the Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna.

In 2006, Jacques le Roux's path led to the Netherlands, where he sang Pedrillo in The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Residence Artist Program at the National Reisopera in Enschede. He made his European stage debut in 2007 as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini at the Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim of Jeunesses Musicales Germany. Further arrangements and projects in Europe followed.

In 2007 he was hired as tenor for the Munich Chamber Opera . In 2008 and 2009 he was the youngest member of the ensemble of the Meiningen State Opera in South Thuringia . After working as a concert and opera singer in South Africa, the Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, Russia, Norway, Poland and Germany, Jacques le Roux has been a member of the opera ensemble of the Landestheater Linz since 2010/2011 . There, for example, he sang the lead role in Philip Glass ' Traces of the Lost One in 2013 as part of the opening of the new music theater in Linz . He was also engaged for opera premieres by Ernst Ludwig Leiter, Moritz Eggert and Helmut Schmidinger .

He has worked with international conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle , Franz Welser-Möst , Teodor Currentzis , Alessandro De Marchi , Dennis Russell Davies , Patrick Lange and Gustav Kuhn and directors such as Robert Wilson , David Pountney , Dietrich Hilsdorf , Achim Freyer , Carlus Padrissa and Roland Schwab together.

Prizes and awards

In 2010 Jacques le Roux received the "Ulrich Burkhardt Award" from the Meiningen State Theater in South Thuringia, which declared him "Artist of the Year 2010". In 2016 he was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize for his interpretation of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw .

Discography

• Philip Glass: Traces of the Lost ( The Lost ) | DVD
• Philip Glass: Traces of the Lost ( The Lost ) | CD
• Bellini: Songs - Canzone - Songs | CD

Web links

• Jacques le Roux at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Jacques le Roux on the website of the Landestheater Linz
• Jacques le Roux homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacques le Roux - tenor. Retrieved April 4, 2017 (American English).