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Markus Schäfer (Tenor) |
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Born: June 13, 1961 - Andernach/Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Germany |
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The German tenor, Markus Schäfer, studied with Marga Plachner, Armand McLane and Evelyn Dalberg.
Following his attendance at the Opera Studio in Zürich, Markus Schäfer's first professional engagement was at the Opernhaus Zürich in 1985. Since then guest appearances have take Markus Schäfer to many a prestigious musical location - the Salzburger Festpiele, the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, La Fenice in Venice, Liceo in Barcelona and the State Opera on Munich, to name but a few. He has undertaken principal roles in various operas by W.A. Mozart, Monteverdi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Adolf Hasse and Rolle. He worked closely with René Jacobs and the Concerto Köln at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, on Cosi fan tutte, and Krösus by Reinhard Keiser.
Markus Schäfer has often toured and recorded with the Baroque ensemble La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken) works such as Cosi Fan tutte, Don Giovanni and W.A. Mozart’s Requiem. At the moment (2000) he is playing Tamino in Harry Kupfer’s production of W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Berlin Comic Opera.
Highlights of Markus Schäfer's concert career have been recording of the St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) with Gustav Leonhardt (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG) and the recording of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) with the Windsbacher Knabenchor for television and CD. In 1997 he sang the Evangelist in J.S. Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245) under the direction of Karl-Friedrich Beringer during Bachwoche Ansbach.
As a singer of Lieder, Markus Schäfer has performed Schubert, Robert Schumann and Wolff together with Hartmut Höll at the Wolf-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart and also in the Lincoln Center, New York. The Heimkehr – taken from Heinrich Heine’s Reisebilder (series of travel poems) and set to music by Vesque von Püttlingen (1803-1883) – was released by Signum, featuring Markus Schäfer and Christian de Bruyn.
Among the singers who have studied with him and/or attended his master-classes: Heejun Kang (Tenor). |
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Sources:
Liner notes to Rondeau CD ROP-2007 (Cantatas BWV 34, BWV 93 & BWV 100, conducted by Beringer, 2000)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2001) |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Works |
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Hansjörg Albrecht |
Tenor |
BWV 201 |
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Rolf Beck |
Tenor |
BWV 248 |
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Karl Friedrich Beringer |
Tenor |
BWV 1, BWV 34, BWV 48, BWV 78 [1st, Video], BWV 78 [2nd], BWV 93, BWV 100, BWV 140 [1st Video], BWV 140 [2nd]
BWV 232, BWV 243, BWV 244 (Excerpts), BWV 245, BWV 248/1-6 [2nd, Evangelist], BWV 248/1-3 [3rd] |
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Jörg Breiding |
Tenor |
DVD: BWV 61, BWV 63, BWV 248/1 |
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Christian Brembeck |
Tenor |
BWV 232 |
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Frans Brüggen |
Tenor |
V-8 (2010): BWV 245 [2nd recording, Evangelist]
V-6 (2010): BWV 245 [3rd recording, Evangelist]
BWV 249 |
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Michel Corboz |
Tenor |
BWV 232 |
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Michael Gielen |
Tenor |
BWV 245 [TV] |
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt |
Tenor |
BWV 244 [4th] |
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Franz Hauk |
Tenor |
[V-1] (2017): BWV 243 |
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Sigiswald Kuijken |
Tenor |
BWV 244 [1st, 1989, Video], BWV 245 [2nd, Video] |
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Martin Lehmann |
Tenor |
BWV 248/4-6 |
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Gustav Leonhardt |
Tenor |
BWV 27, BWV 30a, BWV 34, BWV 41, BWV 207, BWV 244 [1st] |
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Hermann Max |
Tenor |
BWV 195 |
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Johannes Moesus |
Tenor |
BWV 244 |
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Lars Ulrik Mortensen |
Tenor |
AOB Video: BWV 156 |
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Helmut Müller-Brühl |
Tenor |
BWV 55, BWV 160, BWV 189, BWV 232, BWV 244 |
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Helmuth Rilling |
Tenor |
BWV 215 |
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Peter Schreier |
Tenor |
BWV 245 |
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Stephan Schultz |
Tenor |
[PV-1] (2019, Video): G.F. Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48 [Evangelist, Johannes, Gläubige Seele] |
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Gotthold Schwarz |
Tenor |
[V-3] (2018, 2-CD/Blue-ray/2-DVD]: BWV 248/1-6 [Arias] |
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Christoph Spering |
Tenor |
BWV 244 |
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