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The German baritone, Simon Amend, received his musical education by taking violin lessons and singing in the boys´ choir collegium iuvenum. He began his vocal studies with Professor Thomas Pfeiffer and Sylvia Koncza at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, where he successfully graduated School Music in 2017. His main field being voice, he thereupon graduated Bachelor of Music (Bachelor Voice) at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. Here he is also currently completing his education with the degree course Master Voice with Sylvia Koncza, as well as in the master-classes of Professor Markus Eiche at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and with Professor Andreas Macco and Professor Pauliina Tukiainen (Lied presentation) at Salzburger Mozarteum. He furthermore has received decisive musical impulses from master-classes with Professor Eric Mentzel, Professor Anne Le Bozec, Professor Thilo Dahlmann, Professor Karlheinz Hanser, Professor Elisabeth Scholl, Professor Thomas Dewald as well as Hans-Christoph Begemann. He received scholarships of the Yehudi Menuhin · Live Music Now Stuttgart e. V. as well as the Richard Wagner Verband Stuttgart e.V., and is scholarship holder of the Gutenberg Stipendium Mainz.
As an ensemble member Simon Amend has been awarded with national and international prizes, such as the First Prize in the Mosbach International Competition of Chamber Choirs. National and international concert tours and engagements led him to numerous locations at home and abroad. He is a freelancer for the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under the direction of Marcus Creed and Yuval Weinberg. As a soloist and chorister he has collaborated regularly with important conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Denis Rouger, Holger Speck and Felix Koch. In doing so, he contributed to numerous CD productions, most recently playing the part of Paulus in the oratorio of the same name by Felix Mendelssohn.
In addition, Simon Amend gained theatrical experience by playing a part in W.A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, where he sang in the Opernchor des Wilhelma Theaters under the musical direction of Professor Bernhard Epstein. What is more, as a member of the opera choir of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, he could be heard and seen in various productions during the 2017-2018 season.
Simon Amend also dedicates himself to the upcoming generation of singers and completes his fields of activity by teaching at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart as well as the Städtischen Musikschule Schwäbisch Gmünd and the St. Michael Chorknaben Schwäbisch Gmünd.
An important element of his musical work is the field of classical concert and Lied. His extensive repertoire, reaching from early Baroque vocal music to present-day premieres, focuses mainly on J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel and the great romantic oratorios. |
