Biografie
Received his artistic and pedagogical train at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and the Musikhochschule in Hanover. He won a special prize at the 2010 Federal Singing Competition. He debuted at the International Young Opera Schloss Weikersheim. He joined the ensemble of the Theater Erfurt while he was a student. Beginning with the 2013/14 season, he joined the ensemble of the Nationaltheater Mannheim. With the 2016/17 season, he began a freelance career, with performances with the Theater Bielefeld, at the Opéra National de Paris, and at the Wagner Festival in Budapest. He appears regularly as a concert and oratorio singer, and was recently heard on the concert podium with Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He joined the ensemble of the Oper Leipzig with the 2018/19 season, appearing as the hermit in Der Freischütz, Fasolt in Das Rheingold, Hagen in Götterdämmerung, Landgrave Hermann in Tannhäuser, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, and Kezal in The Bartered Bride. In season 2019/20 roles include the hermit in Der Freischütz, Fasolt in Das Rheingold, Hagen in Götterdämmerung, Kezal in The Bartered Bride, King Marke in Tristan und Isolde, La Roche in Capriccio, bass in Missa solemnis, and Gurnemanz in Parsifal. New 2020/21: Steffano Colonna in Rienzi.
