Tobias Berndt; “Der Leiermann”; WINTERREISE; Franz Schubert

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Tobias Berndt–baritone
Heidi Steger, Uwe Steger–accordions
2023
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“The baritone Tobias Berndt is one of the most versatile and sought-after singers in his field today. He has made a name for himself internationally, particularly as a song and concert singer.

He began his musical training in the Dresden Kreuzchor and studied with Hermann Christian Polster in Leipzig and with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. His teachers also include Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff.

His collaboration with conductors such as Hans Christoph Rademann, Philippe Herreweghe, Helmuth Rilling, Andrea Marcon, Sir Roger Norrington, Herbert Blomstedt and Teodor Currentzis has recently taken him to important orchestras throughout Europe.
His extensive concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi’s Marian Vespers to the great baroque works of Bach and Handel, the important choral symphonic oratorios such as The Creation by Haydn or Mendelssohn’s Elias to works of the 20th century, such as Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

Tobias Berndt regularly appears at renowned festivals at home and abroad.
Most recently, guest appearances have taken him through Europe with Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Philipp Herreweghe, to South America with the Bach Academy in Stuttgart under Hans Christoph Rademann, to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the Brahms Requiem with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis, and with the Windsbacher Boys’ Choir to the Ansbach Bach Weeks, to the Göttingen Handel Festival under Laurence Cummings, to the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini, to the Warsaw Philharmonic under Matthew Halls with Haydn’s Creation and with the Bachvereniging in the Netherlands under Jos van Veldhoven and Peter Dijkstra.

Further engagements in 2019/20 took him to the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Festival La Volle Journée de Nantes/France, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Bachfest Leipzig and the baroque orchestra La Cetra under Andrea Marcon.

In addition to numerous opera engagements – including as Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Teatr Wielki in Poznan/Poland and as Argante in Handel’s opera Rinaldo at the National Theater in Prague – he was engaged in the Wagner cycle in the Meistersinger under Marek Janowski.
Tobias Berndt received important impulses from the sensational conductor Teodor Currentzis. An invitation to Russia with Mahler’s ‘Songs of a Traveling Journeyman’ under his direction was followed by guest appearances with Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte in the role of Don Alfonso and a little later as Aeneas in Purcell’s opera Dido & Aeneas, which was followed by a tour through Europe.
Most recently he appeared on stage as Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, as Caronte and Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and as Papageno in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.

In addition, Tobias Berndt is an excellent lieder singer thanks to his vocal flexibility, his perfect diction and his creative color. He is the winner of the “Das Lied – International Song Compertition” competition in Berlin and the “Brahms Competition” in Pörtschach.
He gave recitals at the Heidelberg Spring, the festival in Bergen/Norway, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Vienna Musikverein and the Lucerne Festival, as well as in Japan, South Africa, the Netherlands and Russia. He works with pianists such as Alexander Fleischer, Daniel Heide and Eric Schneider and regularly performs well-known song cycles such as “Die Schöne Müllerin”, “Winterreise” and the “Schwanengesang” by Franz Schubert, with Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” or with Brahms ” The beautiful Magelone” can be experienced in song evenings. With the latter work he recently appeared alongside Thomas Quasthoff as a speaker on a festival stage in September 2020. In 2015, his first song CD with all of Fanny’s Goethe settings was released, which was highly praised in the specialist press.”

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