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The German counter-tenor, Jan Manuel Jerlitschka, was born in Pforzheim and raised in Brackenheim. He began his vocal training in 2010 in the Knabenchor Capella Vocalis Reutlingen. In 2015 he was accepted as a young student at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart in the singing class of Professor Teru Yoshihara. After graduating from high school, he began studying singing at the Institut für Aufführungspraxis der Hochschule für Musik Trossingen in Jan van Elsacker's class (2018), as well as music for secondary school teaching. After completing his bachelor's degree, he is now studying for his master's degree in concert singing with Professor Christina Landshamer at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart He was awarded 2nd prize at the 2016 Händel-Jugendpreis at the Karlsruher Händelfestspiele and 1st prize in 2017.
First as a boy soprano, then as a counter-tenor, Jan Jerlitschka has delighted audiences at home and abroad in many performances of Monteverdi's Marienvesper; J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244, Johannes-Passion BWV 245 and Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248; George Frideric Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt; and Alessandro Scarlatti's, Antonio Vivaldi's, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat mater, among others, with ensembles such as the Barockorchester L'arpa festante, Ensemble Il Capriccio, and Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen. He also impressed audiences at home and abroad with music from later eras such as the Requiems of W.A. Mozart, Michael Haydn, and Maurice Duruflé, Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and in song recitals with works from early Baroque Europe, songs by Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, and other composers. He has now sung the alto solos in four premiere recordings of Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner cantatas with SWR2 under the direction of Christian Bonath. In the summer of 2021, the young counter-tenor was a soloist at the Barockakademie der Höri-Musiktage, led by Petra Müllejans. He received further important musical inspiration from Professor Alexander Fleischer and Lionel Meunier, among others.
Jan Jerlitschka also sings in several ensembles, such as the Vocalensemble Rastatt (Director: Holger Speck) and Kammerchor Stuttgart (Director: Frieder Bernius). |
