Yosemeh adjei

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Yosemeh Adjei (* 20th century in Nuremberg ) is a German countertenor and trumpeter .

Origin and life

He was born in Nuremberg, his family has roots in Ghana. As a child he was in the Windsbach boys' choir . He studied trumpet with Reinhold Friedrich at the Karlsruhe University of Music , where he devoted himself more and more to singing. In 2001 he began his singing studies with Kai Wessel at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and shifted his musical focus to singing. He received further artistic impulses from Thomas Quasthoff and Andreas Scholl .

Since then he has appeared as a soloist, particularly with “ early music ” . In 2005 he made his debut with Handel's “ Athalia ” at the Handel Festival in Halle , accompanied by La Stagione Frankfurt.

In 2002 he was a prizewinner of the music competition for early music in Bruges and a finalist in the German music competition with his quintet "baroque art ensemble köln". In 2003 radio productions with the WDR radio orchestra and Deutsche Welle followed . At the beginning of 2004 a CD production of Handel's Messiah with the Regensburger Domspatzen was released under the direction of Roland Büchner and Yosemeh Adjei as soloists.

He made guest appearances at opera premieres in Aachen , Wuppertal and Osnabrück and in 2006 sang the role of Ottone in Handel's Agrippina in the theaters in Solingen and Remscheid . In 2007 he was u. a. invited to the premiere of Handel's opera Julius Caesar in Göttingen to the Handel Festival there and to the production of Niccolò Piccinnis Catone in Utica under the musical direction of Reinhard Goebel at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . He also made his debut as Oberon in Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night 's Dream at the Landestheater Detmold and as Medarse in Wuppertal . The highlights of 2008 included the collaboration with Andrea Marcon and concerts with the CPE Bach chamber orchestra. In 2009 he sang the title role in Handel's Ezio at the Schwetzingen Festival and at the Bonn Theater .

In the Ruhr Triennale in 2014 he played in the production singer without a shadow of Boris Nikitin .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ruhrtriennale: Scenic essay about appearance and being, Boris Nikitin's "Singer Without Shadow" , review by Ulrike Gondorf in Deutschlandradio Kultur on August 22, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Singer without a shadow - Boris Nikitin traces the power of the human voice with his project for the Ruhrtriennale , Nachtkritik.de, August 22, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Adjei, Yosemeh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German countertenor and trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg