Tobey Wilson

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Tobey Wilson and Sabrina Gehrmann at Lambertz Monday Night in February 2016.
Tobey Wilson, after being awarded Voice of the Year 2013

Tobey Wilson (also Tobias Rapp , real name Tobias Schmeißer , born August 24, 1977 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German tenor and entertainer living in Berlin .

Live and act

Tobey Wilson began his musical career at the age of eight as a soprano soloist in the Windsbach boys' choir . In addition, u. a. as yes-man at the Kurt Weill Festival in 1990 . After his voice broke, he became a tenor soloist. He left the choir in 1995 after almost 10 years and around 550 appearances and took care of his solo training. After winning the national youth competition Jugend musiziert , he began to study singing with Roland Hermann as a junior student at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and financed his studies as a choir director of three choirs. After graduating from the Black Forest High School in Triberg , he became a freelancer for the local daily press and worked as a cultural critic for the Mittelbadische Presse in Offenburg for the resorts of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Europa-Park Rust, thereby financing a pilot training course in Phoenix / Arizona, which he completed in 2001 finished.

He studied at the institute for music theater at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and was already in the first semester at the age of 21 as a solo tenor in two smaller roles. a. in Monteverdi's Lìncoronazione di Poppea committed to the State Theater Stuttgart . This was followed by a classical career, which led him primarily as a song and oratorio singer through the great concert halls of Europe, but also to the Casals Hall in Tokyo or the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv . He worked with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe , Georg Christoph Biller , Georges Prêtre , David Zinman , Jean-Claude Malgoire and sang almost all oratorios and passions.

In addition to classical music, Tobey Wilson always had a penchant for rock / pop and signed his first record deal with RCA Records in 2002 . Since then, Wilson, who previously performed under the maiden name of his mother "Rapp", has performed under stage names. This was followed by several albums, which, however, did not achieve any noteworthy placements and a genre change away from classical to light music. Since then he has appeared in some 50 television shows and gala was singer, among others at the Rose Ball , the German Film Ball of the Rose D'Or the Walters Award , Enjoy the Stars , the Champions League Night . He sang at the inauguration of Federal President Horst Köhler , at the request of Afghan President Hamid Karzai , for former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as at numerous social events and open airs. His duet partners included u. a. Joana Zimmer , Eva Lind or Anna Maria Kaufmann .

He became known to a wider public as an interpreter of national anthems. He sang the German national anthem since 2003 in numerous international matches of the national football team, the opening of the 2006 World Equestrian Games , the European Grand Prix in 2007, the Grand Prix of Germany in 2010 of Formula 1 , the basketball playoffs in 2011 and 2014, the Supercup in 2015 and numerous other sporting and political events. At the DTM in 2009 and 2010 he was on the grid with the national anthem, and on the winners podium with the winning anthem at every race across Europe. Wilson says he has 42 national anthems in the press, in the national language in his repertoire.

In 2011, Wilson founded Creaktivisten GmbH, a creative company specializing in conception, events and photo productions. Among other things, he realized campaigns for Marlboro, Riani or Müllerbräu or the well-known Lambertz calendar as well as events such as the Intouch Awards from Bauer Verlag.

In 2016 he withdrew from active agency business and switched to the real estate industry with the establishment of Rapp-Bau GmbH.

He has been in a relationship with model Sabrina Gehrman since 2012, and their son Paul was born in June 2018.

Discography

  • 1990 Der Jasager published by Capriccio (boy soprano: Tobias Schmeißer)
  • 2003 Eyes of the Heart was released by Sonymusic
  • 2004 song! published by PRecords
  • 2005 “ Meeresstille” published by Arte Nova
  • 2006 32 national anthems were published by EMI
  • 2008 Magic Moments was released by Sonymusic
  • 2014 The German national anthem was published by PRRecords
  • 2014 Dichterliebe op 48 was only published digitally

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hfm-karlsruhe.de/hfm/02-wir-ueber-uns/pdf/wettbewerbserhaben/1999.pdf
  2. ↑ https://www.kunststiftung.de/stipendiatenarchiv-vor-2013.html?year=1998
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Tobey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmeißer, Tobias (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tenor and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City