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The German baritone, Georg Gädker, sang as a boy soloist (alto voice) and young male voice in the Freiburger Domsingknaben and attended the Musische Gymnasium Kolleg St. Sebastian in Stegen near Freiburg. From 1999 to 2001 he was a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Bernd Göpfert, where he studied singing and singing education since 2002. From 2004 to 2009 he continued his studies with Rudolf Piernay at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he graduated in 2008 with distinction. He also attended master-classes with Margreet Honig, Emma Kirkby, Thomas Quasthoff, Graham Johnson, Sarah Walker, Wolfram Rieger, Charles Spencer and Thomas Hampson, to name a few. He is laureate of some of the most prestigious European singing competitions, including “Musica Sacra” Rome (Italy), the German Music Competition Berlin, Brahms-Competition (Austria), IVC ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), Schumann-Competition Zwickau (Germany), as well as he was a scholar of the International Richard-Wagner-Society and member of the “Bundesauswahl Konzerte junger Künstler” of the German Music Council. Moreover, Georg was awarded special awards at Schubert-LiedDuo Dortmund (Germany) and Queen-Elisabeth-Competition Brussels (Belgium) and was finalist at Hilde-Zadek competition Vienna.
As a much sought after soloist, Georg Gädker pursues an extensive activity both in opera and concert stage. He is a regular guest at venues such as Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Konzerthaus Berlin, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Liederhalle Stuttgart or Wigmore Hall London, and debuted at Tonhalle Zurich with the Tonhalle-Orchester and George Frideric Handel's Messiah in 2015.
In opera, Georg Gädker's recent appearances have included Count Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Æneas in Dido&Æneas, Schneck in Vogelhändler, Notario in Gianni Schicchi and further roles in first performances of operas by Arnulf Hermann and Lucia Ronchetti at opera houses such as Braunschweig, Leipzig, Mannheim, Rheinsberg and Frankfurt. In 2013 he was seen in the title role of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera Das Märchen vom Popen und seinem Knecht Balda at the Konzerthaus Berlin, followed by Purcell’s The Tempest at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, directed by Calixto Bieito. He has also been guest at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen for a pasticcio-kind opera project of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost including music of Rameau, Purcell and others, in 2014. In 2015, he debuted as Don Giovanni at the opera festival StadtOper Soest (Germany), followed by the German premiere of Luke Bedford's chamber opera Through His Teeth with Opera Factory Freiburg, and Hans Zender’s Don Quijote de la Mancha with Ensemble Modern under Johannes Kalitzke in Frankfurt in 2016. In 2017, he was seen in a scenic production of G.F. Handel's Jephtha at Detmold Theatre.
Besides touring in Germany (Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Felix Mendelssohn's Elias/Jena Philharmonic Hall, F. Mendelssohn's Paulus/Heidelberg Theatre, Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony/Philharmonic Orchestra of Thuriniga, César Franck: Les Béatitudes, G.F. Handel's Alexander’s Feast, J.S. Bach: Passions etc.), recent concert engagements have led him to the Netherlands (J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244)/Concerto Brabant, L.v. Beethoven's Synphony No. 9/Holland Symfonie Orkest, Johannes Brahms-Requiem), France (renaissance music by H. Finck and J. des Prés with members of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Switzerland (Nono: Prometeo with Ingo Metzmacher, The Messiah/Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich), Italy (J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244)/Tölzer Knabenchor) and Chile (J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), Helmuth Rilling). He was heard at festivals such as Biennale München, Biennale Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale or Berliner Festwochen, as well as he has worked with conductors such as Masaaki Suzuki, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Reinhard Goebel, Howard Arman, Christoph Wyneken, Wolfram Christ and Helmuth Rilling. Future engagements include Wagner’s Liebesmahl der Apostel in Geneva, a six-concert-tour with J.S. Bach’s Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) in the Netherlands, Rossini’s Messa di Gloria at Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo/Spain and W.A. Mozart's Requiem at Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
Several recordings were made (NDR, SWR, deutschlandradio, the BBC and Radio France), a CD with orchestral songs of Gustav Mahler has been published in 2010.
Despite of his own artistic activities, Georg Gädker has founded an ongoing Lieder series named “klangwerk LIED Freiburg” under the patronage of Irwin Gage. |
