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The German tenor, David Jakob Schläger, comes from a family of classical musicians and received his first piano lessons at the age of 5 from his mother and pianist Vladlena Porozki. At the age of 8, he began taking regular singing lessons from his grandmother and opera singer Olga Sinitsyna in Mainz. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Mainzer Domchor, where he worked as a voice coach in 2022-2023 and regularly performs as a soloist. His musical development was greatly influenced by his voluntary social year at the Landesstiftung Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree with Thomas Dewald at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz, where he has been studying for his Master of Music degree since the winter semester of 2023-2024. In addition to his family and his lecturers, he received important musical inspiration from former cathedral conductor Mathias Breitschaft, cathedral conductor Karsten Storck and Karl Böhmer. He is a multiple prize-winner at the Wettbewerb Jugend Musiziert in the singing and piano categories, a prize-winner in the Lionsclub-Musikwettbewerb (2021) and the Wettbewerb der Hans- und Gertrud-Kneifel-Stiftung (2023), a cultural sponsorship award winner from the Rotary-Clubs Mainz-Churmeyntz (2022), a scholarship holder from the Anni-Eisler-Lehmann-Stiftung (since 2023) and the Fritz-Wunderlich-Gesellschaft 2023.
Since early childhood, David Jakob Schläger has regularly been involved as a soloist (boy soprano) in various concerts, which ultimately led him to two award-winning productions at the Oper Frankfurt (Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, role of Yniold, 2012; Puccini's Oper Frankfurt, role of the shepherd boy, 2013). As a young tenor, he quickly gained a foothold in the excellence program of the HfM Mainz Barock Vokal, as a Gutenberg soloist in the complete recording of the French cantata year 1714-1715 by Georg Philipp Telemann and as a Balthasar-Neumann-Chorakademist.
Since 2021, David Jakob Schläger has been heard regularly as a soloist in oratorios, cantatas and world premieres, but also in his own Lieder and aria evenings. In concert in 2024 he can be seen in J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 and Johannes-Passion BWV 245, Felix Mendelssohn's Elias and Paulus, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Creation and others. He sings and plays with increasing regularity in opera productions in the Rhine-Main area, including as a member of the Young Ensemble at Staatstheater Mainz (Strauss' Salome, Weinberg's Die Passagierin and the drama production Romeo und Julia) or as Giove in Gluck's Le Nozze di Ercole e d'Ebe under the direction of Florian Heyerick and Sigrid T'Hooft for the publication of the New Gluck Complete Edition. In his first leading role as a tenor, he shone in Iiro Rantala's comic opera Sanatorio Express at the Kammeroper Frankfurt. In recent years he has worked (in addition to the above) with artists such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Hermann Bäumer, Felix Koch, Paul Goodwin, Detlef Bratschke, Lionel Sow, Roland Böer, Friedemann Layer, Stanislav Rosenberg, Hans Christoph Begemann, Christian Rohrbach, Wolfram Koloseus, Claudia Eder, Andreas Scholl, Frieder Bernius, Claus Guth and others.
David Jakob Schläger has worked as a choir and ensemble singer on several CD recordings for the labels Rondeau, CPO, Naxos Deutschland, RFO Records, Organo Phon Label and SWR. He has performed as a soloist at WDR.
In addition to singing, David Jakob Schläger also occasionally gives piano recitals, concerts as a pianist in chamber music ensembles and also concerts as an orchestral soloist (W.A. Mozart's KV 488 with the orchestra of the Gymnasium Theresianum Mainz, J.S. Bach's BWV 1060 with the same).
David Jakob Schläger also follows in the footsteps of his composer grandfather Vladimir Porotskiy, from whom he receives composition and conducting lessons. At first he devoted himself mainly to composing chamber music and various piano transcriptions, but also to musicological work and the creation of piano scores/sheet music for Villa Musica and Barock Vokal. |
