Jan Kobow
Jan Kobow (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German singer ( tenor ) in the field of classical music .
Life
Jan Kobow grew up in Berlin and attended the Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium , which he left in 1987 with the Abitur . He received his first musical training as a boy soloist with the Staats- und Domchor Berlin under Christian Grube. He first studied organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in 1994 in church music from the Hanover Music Academy . He finished his vocal studies with Sabine Kirchner at the Musikhochschule Hamburg in 1999.
Jan Kobow is successful worldwide as an oratorio and lieder singer. He has given concerts with outstanding conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Philippe Herreweghe and was involved in the recording of all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas (so-called “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage”) under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner . Jan Kobow often occurs as a recitalist, particularly with German art songs of romance on. He regularly gives recitals , including 2005 in the USA and Canada together with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout . Jan Kobow was an opera singer at the 2003 Boston Early Music Festival. In summer 2004 he made his debut at the Theater Royal de la Monnaie Brussels as Telemaco in the Monteverdi opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria . He also made guest appearances with this production at the Lincoln Center in New York as well as in Caen and Luxembourg .
Since the 1990s Jan Kobow has performed regularly with the “Himlische Cantorey” ensemble, of which he is a founding member. This ensemble cultivates the music of Claudio Monteverdi and John Dowland , among others .
He has lived at Seehaus Castle in Middle Franconia since 2009 . The television program “A Castle Full of Music” shows Kobow's work as a classical vocal artist and co-owner of Seehaus Castle.
Awards
- 1998: First prize at the 11th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition
- 2004: Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer Festival
Web links
- Works by and about Jan Kobow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jan Kobow at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Jan Kobow - Vita (Agency)
- Verena Fischer-Zernin: A dandy almost like Oscar Wilde - portrait in: Der Tagesspiegel
Individual evidence
- ^ Jan Kobow ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Vita. Website Bachwoche Ansbach
- ↑ Jan Kobow . Vita. Internet presence of the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor
- ↑ A castle full of music (Schloss Seehaus) TV report on YouTube . Retrieved October 10, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kobow, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |