Ulrich Cordes

Ulrich Cordes rehearses Behold and see from Handel's Messiah in St. Martin, Idstein , September 17, 2011

Ulrich Cordes (* 1980 ) is a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Ulrich Cordes first studied church music at the Cologne University of Music with Winfried Bönig and Margaretha Hürholz and graduated in 2003 with the A-exam. Then he studied singing. In the summer semester of 2005, a Socrates scholarship enabled him to study with Pierre Mervant at the Conservatoire de Paris in Paris. From the winter semester of 2005 he studied with Christoph Prégardien . In 2008 he obtained his diploma, in 2010 he graduated with the concert exam. He attended master classes with Claudia Visca. Since 2008 he has had private singing lessons from Konrad Jarnot . In 2008 he won a second prize at the Podium Young Singing Soloists competition organized by the Association of German Concert Choirs (VDKC).

Cordes performed with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging and the Munich Bach Choir , among others . On October 10th, 2004 he sang the tenor part in Beethoven's Mass in C major in Bonn Minster as part of the Beethoven Festival . In 2007 he sang the role of Apollon in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in a concert at the Rheingau Music Festival . With the Johanneskantorei Düsseldorf he performed Karl Jenkins The Armed Man in 2008 and Mendelssohn's Paulus in 2009 . In Cologne he was the evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion and also sang the great arias. In 2008 he sang the role of Uriel in several performances of Haydn's The Creation in three Berlin churches, in Bonn and in the Nicolaikirche, Dortmund . In 2009 he was the evangelist in Bach's St.Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein , with Andreas Pruys ( Vox Christi ), Katia Plaschka , Anne Bierwirth and Klaus Mertens . Daniel Honsack wrote in the Wiesbadener Tagblatt : "As an evangelist, Ulrich Cordes achieved top musical performances with clear formulations and an occasionally somewhat metallic, quite appropriate sharpness. The tenor from Christoph Prégardien's Cologne singer forge dealt with the part in a very haunting and exciting way." . In a performance of Handel's Saul with the Munich Bach Choir, conducted by Hansjörg Albrecht with Konrad Jarnot in the title role, he took on several roles. He was the soloist in Voices of Exile , Richard Blackford's cantata for soloists, chamber orchestra, band and choir, which was performed by the chamber choirs CONSONO and CONSTANT under the direction of Harald Jers at the music festival "Klangvocal" in Dortmund . In 2010 he appeared at the Stuttgart State Opera in the German premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin's opera The Rage of Life . His operatic roles include Mozart's Don Ottavio and Belmonte . With the Munich Bach Choir he was a soloist in a program based on Mozart's Requiem , which also included compositions by Enjott Schneider , performed in the Philharmonie am Gasteig . He was the evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Berlin Philharmonic on March 28, 2010. In 2011 he performed in the Cologne Philharmonic in Handel's Israel in Egypt with the choir of the Cologne Bach Society . He sang in Bach's B minor mass , performed in the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf and the Trinitatiskirche in Cologne, to celebrate 10 years of the CONSONO chamber choir. He sang Handel's Messiah in St. Martin, Idstein, with Katia Plaschka, Andreas Scholl and Markus Flaig .

Recordings

Cordes took part in a recording of Johann Mattheson's Christmas Oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra The largest child , directed by Michael Willens, in which the soloists also formed the choir. In 2011 he was the evangelist in a DVD recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion , which was recorded live in the Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles , directed by Bart Van Reyn .

Web links

• Ulrich Cordes website
• Ulrich Cordesklangvokal-dortmund.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JS Bach St. John Passion (PDF; 6.6 MB) cantamo.de. 2008. Accessed on September 29, 2011.  ( 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Cordes (tenor) ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
3. ↑ Prize winners of the PJGS Kassel 2008 . vdkc.de. 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
4. ↑ Beethovenfest Bonn 2004 . beethovenfest.de. 2004. Accessed on September 15, 2011.  ( 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.  
5. ↑ Chronicle 2000 . johanneskantorei-duesseldorf.de. 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
6. ↑ Marianne Kierspel: Wonderfully interlocked choirs . Cologne city indicator . March 6, 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 18, 2011. 
7. ↑ Concert history 1993-2008 . cantorei.de. 2008. Retrieved on October 5, 2011.  ( 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.  
8. ↑ Daniel Honsack: Powerful, velvety and gripping . Wiesbadener Tagblatt. April 7, 2009. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved on November 4, 2010.
9. ↑ In Praise of Handel: Saul . Munich Bach Choir . March 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. 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. Retrieved September 14, 2011. 
10. ^ Voices of Exile Richard Blackford . Klangvokal-dortmund.de. June 9, 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 15, 2011. 
11. ^ Voices of Exile . kammerchor-constant.de. 2011. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 18, 2011. 
12. ^ Stuttgart, State Opera Stuttgart, The Rage of Life - Lebenswut, November 12, 2010 . ioco.de. November 2, 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
13. ^ Mozart "Requiem" . muenchener-bachchor.de. March 16, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
14. ↑ Current concerts . opusvocale.de. March 28, 2010. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 26, 2011. 
15. ^ Israel in Egypt . bach-verein.de. March 27, 2011. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. 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. Retrieved October 6, 2011. 
16. ↑ concert history . consono.eu. 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
17. ↑ Doris Kösterke: Sublime inner peace . Wiesbaden courier. September 20, 2011. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
18. ^ The largest child, christmas oratorio for soloists, chorus & orchestra . Allmusic . 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
19. ↑ Michael Willens: MATTHESON The largest child on cpo ( English ) Fanfare . August 14, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
20. ↑ Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 / Recordings - Part 9 ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2011. Archived from the original on June 20, 2015. 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. Retrieved September 18, 2011.