Julian Prégardien

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Julian Prégardien (born July 12, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German singer ( lyric tenor ).

Life

Julian Prégardien comes from a musical family. His grandfather and father, the tenor Christoph Prégardien , were founding members of the Limburger Domsingknaben . The soprano Julia Kleiter is his cousin.

education

Julian Prégardien began his musical training in the boys' choir at Limburg Cathedral . Before starting his studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (2005–2009) he sang in various professional vocal ensembles; among them were the Collegium Vocale Gent and the Kammerchor Stuttgart . In 2008 he was a member of the Académie Européenne de Musique in Aix-en-Provence .

Opera

In 2007, under the musical direction of Christoph Hammer , he sang the role of Hermenegild in the staged revival of the baroque opera Fredegunda by Reinhard Keizer in a production of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding at the Prinzregententheater in Munich . In 2008 he took on the role of Nencio in the opera L'Infedeltà Delusa by Joseph Haydn in a touring production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence . With this production he made guest appearances at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and the Musikfest Bremen . In November 2008 he sang Varo in the opera Ezio by Christoph Willibald Gluck with the ensemble Il complesso barocco at the Theater an der Wien under the musical direction of Alan Curtis .

Since the season 2009/2010 to 2012-2013 he was firmly at the Frankfurt Opera engaged. There Prégardien sang mainly the lyric tenor subject, including Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Jason in Médée , as well as Nathanael / Spalanzani / Franz / Pitichinaccio in Hoffmann's stories . He also took on various medium and smaller roles, including in the operas Die tote Stadt (Gaston / Victorin), Billy Budd (The Newcomer) and Tristan und Isolde . In July 2017 he played the title role in Oberon in a production by the Bavarian State Opera for the Munich Opera Festival .

concert

Prégardien's concert repertoire mainly includes passions , oratorios and masses of the Baroque , Classical and Romantic periods . He works regularly with internationally leading ensembles and conductors of historical performance practice .

In 2005 he sang for the first time with Philippe Pierlot and his baroque ensemble Ricercar Consort . In 2006 he performed Bach cantatas in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam .

In spring 2006 he worked for the Carus-Verlag in the first recording of Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor; this recording received the MIDEM Classical Award in 2007. In autumn 2007 Prégardien took part in a live recording of Dietrich Buxtehude's passion cycle Membra Jesu nostri (K 617), together with the La Chapelle Rhénane ensemble . Also published on CD are Der Rose Pilgerfahrt by Robert Schumann (also by Carus-Verlag), works by Padre Martini (ars musici), works by Joseph Martin Kraus and Georg Philipp Telemann (both cpo) and the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (Zig Zag Territoires).

In 2009 Prégardien took over the tenor part in the Magnificat of Johann Sebastian Bach under the direction of René Jacobs and the Lamentationes of Jan Dismas Zelenka (musical director: Konrad Junghänel ) at the Innsbruck Festival . His other concert repertoire includes the tenor roles in Die Jahreszeiten (2009, Cologne Philharmonic ), in The Creation (2009, with the Orchester de Chambre de Genève), the Evangelist in the St. Matthew Passion (2009, Paris) and the tenor Arias in the St. Matthew Passion (2010, Gasteig , Munich).

song

Prégardien is particularly active in the field of chamber music . He also works on concert programs that contain his own arrangements and combine different forms of chamber music. Together with the Gémeaux Quartet and the pianist Michael Gees , he developed a program idea entitled Schumann ex tempore , which was realized for the first time in the summer of 2010 at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival. At the center of this program is an arrangement of the song cycle op. 24 by Robert Schumann for string quartet with improvised piano interludes. In 2011 the arrangement of opus 24 could be heard at the Heidelberger Frühling .

In a duo with various pianists, he has appeared at numerous music festivals in Europe since 2008, including 2008 as the “Young Elite” at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , 2009 at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad as part of the “Jeune Étoile” series and in 2011 at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Festival de Saintes.

With Franz Schreker's lullaby Schlafe, mein Liebchen , Prégardien is represented on the first CD edition of the Carus publishing house 's lullaby project . Following on from this, a second edition of the song project was published with folk songs, for which he took over the recording of Schubert's The Wandering is the Miller's Lust from the song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin .

After a recital with his father Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees at the Schwetzingen Festival 2010, the father-son program was also on the program at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011 and in 2012 in the Oper Frankfurt's Lied series.

classes

From April 2013 to September 2015 Julian Prégardien was teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich , and on November 1, 2017, he was appointed professor of singing at this institute.

Awards

  • 2007: Midem Classical Award for Michael Haydn: Requiem in C minor
  • 2009: Orphée d'Or for Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
  • 2010: Nomination for Young Artist of the Year in the specialist magazine Opernwelt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julian Prégardien, tenor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Biography at Italartist Austroconcert )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ia-ac.com  
  2. ^ United stages Vienna - Ezio (cast and biography of Julien Prégardien)
  3. ↑ Helga Schmöger: MUNICH / Opera Festival / Prinzregententheater: "OBERON, KING OF THE ELVES". In: Online marker. July 28, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Oper Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 3, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oper-frankfurt.de
  5. ^ Yvonne Poppek: Professorship for Julian Prégardien. In: Süddeusche Zeitung. November 1, 2017, accessed July 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Prégardien, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (lyric tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main