Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Songs of Myself - the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein. Other discs include Arias for Senesino - for which he won the 2006 Classical Brit Singer of the Year award; Heroes - a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck; Robert Dowland's A Musicall Banquet; Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Wayfaring Stranger - a selection of specially arranged English and American folksongs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and Arcadia - a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome’s Arcadian Circle are all released on the Decca label. His discography also includes Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh on Deutsche Grammophon. Recordings for Harmonia Mundi include the Gramophone Award-winning Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; Il duello amoroso, a selection of Handel’s Italian cantatas with Accademia Bizantina and Crystal Tears - lute and consort songs by John Dowland. His DVDs include productions of Giulio Cesare (Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca).
This season’s highlights include an extensive European tour with Accademia Bizantina and concerts with Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse - both featuring the works of Henry Purcell; a major recital tour of Australia featuring works by Purcell and Handel plus recitals in Zürich, Schwarzenberg, Barcelona, Bergen and at Wigmore Hall - his first with piano. He will also record an all-Purcell album - O Solitude - for Decca.
A committed recital artist, Andreas Scholl performs in the world's leading concert halls and festivals. Concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms - the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited. Operatic roles include Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and The Metropolitan Opera; Arsace (Partenope) at Royal Danish Opera and the title role in Giulio Cesare at Royal Danish Opera, Opéra de Lausanne and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben. He later studied under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is a winner of the 1999 ECHO Awards, Prix de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge and the Middle Ages/Renaissance category of the 2002 Edison Awards for his recording of A Musicall Banquet. He won a second ECHO Award in 2005 for his composition for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale.