Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl

Counter-tenor

“Andreas Scholl has the world’s most cultured counter-tenor voice. During his three Handel arias some 6,000 people scarcely dared breathe.” (The Times). A Grammy-nominated artist, he has won numerous awards and prizes including the Cultural Prize of the State of Hessen which he was awarded together with his wife, the pianist Tamar Halperin, the ECHO Award, the Gramophone Award and the Edison Award. He was the first counter-tenor ever to appear at the Last Night of the Proms.

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During a career spanning three decades, Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings including “Wanderer” – a disc of German Lied in partnership with Tamar Halperin; “O Solitude” – an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award, “Arias for Senesino”, “Heroes” – a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck, Robert Dowland’s “A Musicall Banquet”, “Arcadia” – a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome’s Arcadian Circle, “Wayfaring Stranger” – a selection of specially arranged English and American folksongs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bach cantatas with Kammerorchester Basel and Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, all of which are released on Decca. His discography also includes recordings for Deutsche Grammophon – Handel’s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh and for Harmonia Mundi including Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater; Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; and “Crystal Tears” – lute and consort songs by John Dowland. His DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca). “Small Gifts of Heaven”, a collection of arias for alto voice by JS Bach bookended by two of the Brandenburg concerti, is a collaboration with Dorothee Oberlinger and Ensemble 1700 and released on Sony.

Recent and upcoming touring highlights are a tour of Pergolesi´s Stabat mater with the Barrocada ensemble in Israel and Turkey, a tour with works by Tuma with the Czech Ensemble Baroque at the Prague Spring 2023 in Brno and Holešov, as well as the series of the Caldara´s Harmony of the planets at the Znojmo Music Festival, a duo recital with Edin Karamazov at the Beaune International Baroque and Romantic Opera Festival, the project Les deux contre-ténors: If music be the food of love with Maarten Engeltjes and Orchestre PRJCT d’Amsterdam at various concert halls, a concert with Wrocław Baroque Orchestra at the in 58th International Festival Wratislavia Cantans. He also appears with a new recital programme devised in collaboration with Tamar Halperin.

Scholl sang his signature operatic role Giulio Cesare in his debut at Oper Frankfurt as well as at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and at the 2012 Salzburger Festspiele (opposite Cecilia Bartoli). He has also appeared as Bertarido in which he made his debut at both the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and The Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming). Concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Concertgebouworkest, Boston Symphony Orchestra and all of the world’s leading baroque orchestras. He is a regular guest with numerous chamber groups including Kammerorchester Basel, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Tel Aviv Soloists and the Vienna Morphing Orchestra with whom he has worked extensively on the works of Arvo Pärt, and repertoire he plans to record with the group.

Born into a family of singers in Eltville on the Rhine, near Wiesbaden, Andreas Scholl’s early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben, a choir with a tradition of 650 years. He later went on to study under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Contact

Dr. Marcus Felsner – +49 89 20 500 85624 – marcus@felsnerartists.com