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Andreas Post, tenor
The
young tenor Andreas Post has gained a notable reputation as a concert singer,
especially through the role of Evangelist in the J.S.
Bach passions.
His concert activities have led him abroad
to Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands. Luxembourg, England, Scandinavia as
well as to Poland, Israel, Macedonia, Singapore and South Africa. He has sung
under conducters such as Helmuth
Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Ludger Rémy, Jos van Veldhoven, Enoch zu
Guttenberg, Jan Willem de Vriend, Michael Hofstetter and Hermann Max with
ensembles such as Concerto con Anima, Les Amis de Philippe, Combattimento
Consort Amsterdam, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Musica Alta Ripa, Collegium Vocale
Gent, Monteverdichor Hamburg, Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Orchester der
Klangverwaltung.
With
the Baroque Orchestra Le Chardon he recently recorded a solo-CD with arias by
J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, G.Ph. Telemann and R. Keiser which was released in
2013.
Andreas Post has been a welcome guest at festivals
such as Telemann Festtage Magdeburg, Musikfestspiele Dresden, Tage Alter Musik
Regensburg, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Mozartfest Augsburg, and has
appeared as well at Halle Handel Festival and Festival van Vlaanderen in
Brugge.
His operatic engagements include: the part
of Astromonte in the rediscovered opera The Philosopher’s Stone by W. A.
Mozart, Hennebert, Schack, Gerl and Schikaneder; the role of Belsazar in
Amsterdam in a co-production with the festival Duesseldorfer Altstadt Herbst; Ottone
in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea with La Stagione Frankfurt under
Michael Schneider; Palemone in the rediscovered opera Amor e Psiche by
Josef Schuster, Pedrillo, The Abduction from the Serail, Mozart in a
co-production of the Goettinger Sinfonieorchester and the Deutsches Theater
Goettingen; Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Festival Gut Immling 2008; Uriel
in a staged production of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation on the occasion of the
300th anniversary of the
City of Ludwigsburg as well as Alfred in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus,
Macheath in The Beggar´s Opera by Pepusch/Britten, and Samson in
a staged production of G. F. Handel’s oratorio of the same name. In 2012,
Andreas appeared as Conte Belsospiro in Josef Schuster’s opera Il marito
indolento at the festival Tage Alter Musik Regensburg. At the International
Herrenchiemsee Festspiele 2013 he will make his role debut as Tanzmeister
in R. Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos under Ljubka Biagioni.
He participated in varoius opera CD productions for instance as Varo in Gluck’s Ezio and in the title role of J. Schuster’s Demofoonte.
Lied
recitals are a special interest of Andreas’ as well which he perfects with the
pianoforte player Tatjana Dravenau. They jointly recorded three CDs, last of
all F. Schubert’s cycle Die schoene Muellerin. In the field of contemporary
songs he works with the pianist Axel Bauni with whom he gave the world première
of selected lieder by Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm at the festival
Kissinger Sommer. He returned to Kissinger Sommer in 2011 for the world
première of M. Trojahn’s Rilke-cycle ‘Dir zur Feier’ with pianist Jan Philip
Schulze.
Andreas Post
began his vocal training with Alastair Thompson and continued his studies with
Prof. Ks Soto Papulkas at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he passed his
artistic final examination as well as the subsequent Konzertexamen with
distinction.
He
was awarded a scholarships by the Cologne Richard Wagner Society, was a
prize-winner of the 11th International Bach Competition in Leipzig,
and participated in lied classes with Norman Shetler with a scholarship from
the German Schubert Society.
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