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The German counter-tenor, Luca Segger, began his vocal training with the Knabenchor Hannover. His vocal development was supported by Professor Eva Märtson and Johannes Euler. He then studied with Kai Wessel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (HfMT Köln), graduating in 2024. He attended master-classes with Evelyn Tubb, Uta Schwabe, and Anja Paulus, and with Andreas Scholl as part of the Händelakademie Karlsruhe in 2024. He is the winner of the 2022 Lions Musikpreises at the regional and national levels. In 2023, he and his duo partner Kewen Wang won 3rd prize in the 2023 Liedduowettbewerb der HfMT Köln. He is also supported by the Verein Live Music Now e.V.
Luca Segger's concert career has taken him to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Festival für Alte Musik Knechtsteden, and Herrenhausen Barock Festival with various Baroque ensembles such as the Lautten Compagney Berlin, Neumeyer Consort, Ensemble Schirrokko Hamburg, Musica Fiata, and La Festa Musicale. He also performs as an ensemble singer with ensembles such as the Rheinische Kantorei (Director: Hermann Max) and Choeur de Chambre de Namur (Director: Jean Tubéry).
In opera, Luca Segger has performed the roles of Satirino in Cavalli's La Calisto and the Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at Theater Aachen. In 2022, he performed Orlofsky in Strauss' Fledermaus in a production at the HfMT Köln. In 2023, he returned to Aachen as the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's opera Flight.
Luca Segger's work is documented on various radio and CD recordings, including his participation in the WDR premiere recording of Giacomo Greber's Baroque opera Gli amori d'Ergasto in the alto role of Nisos with the Cairos Ensemble under Kai Wessel. In 2022, a CD of Georg Philipp Telemann's cantatas was released with the Neumeyer Consort under Felix Koch on the CPO label; and Thomas Selle's Johannespassion with the Göttinger Barockorchester under Antonius Adamske on the Covello label. |
