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Debut with Boston's Handel & Haydn Society
in Die Jahreszeiten under Sir Roger Norrington:
“Of the three excellent soloists, two were making
their local debuts. Tenor Christoph Genz was polished and elegant...” The Boston Globe, April 17, 2007 |
“The evening's most exciting discovery was tenor Christoph
Genz, whose phenomenal debut was marked by gorgeous, burnished tone and fluid phrasing. The aria If with all your
hearts ye truly seek me, which may be the score's most sumptuously beautiful stretch of writing, sounded even more
heart-stopping in Genz's version." -The San
Francisco Examiner, March 26, 2007 |
“Christoph Genz speaks so naturally in the recitatives, that
one is drawn to simply listen, the textual and technical issues disappear...His Evangelist is impresssive in its lack
of histrionics, managing to convey both serenity and tension, enabling us to hear this story as if for the first time.”
Leipziger Volkszeitung, May 6, 2006
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German lyric tenor Christoph Genz has been engaged for concerts, recitals and opera productions
in Europe, Asia and the USA, collaborating with such distinguished conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo
Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Roger Norrington, Ton Koopman, Ingo Metzmacher, Marek Janowski,
Markus Stenz, Daniel Harding, Ivor Bolton, Frans Brueggen, Marcus Creed, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Michail Jurowski
and Peter Schreier.
His many recordings include Bach Cantatas under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Reinhard Goebel,
Helmuth Rilling and Sigiswald Kuijken; Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos under the late Giuseppe Sinopoli; Bach’s
St. John Passion under Ludwig Güttler; Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony under Helmuth Rilling;
and several solo discs with works by Bach, Haendel, Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, and 17th- and 18th-century lute songs.
Mr. Genz appears regularly at prestigious festivals including the Schubertiade in Hohenems/Feldkirch, the May Festival
in Wiesbaden, the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein, Aix-en-Provence and Richter/Moscow Festivals. He has given recitals
at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Louvre in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as well as
on New York's distinguished "Art of the Song" series. Opera includes membership at the Basel Theater, followed by guest engagements at the Opera de Nancy (Ferrando in Cosi fan
tutte), Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris (Tamino in Die Zauberflöte), Opera de Lausanne, Teatro alla Scala,
Semperoper Dresden, La Coruna and the opera houses in Leipzig, Cologne and Wiesbaden. From 2001 to 2004 he was an ensemble
member of the Hamburg State Opera where he appeared in numerous lyric tenor roles.
In April 2006 he sang the role
of Christ in a production of Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots under Nicolaus Harnoncourt at the
Theater an der Wien. In 2007 he performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Herbert Blomstedt with the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Riccardo Chailly with the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, Haydn’s Seasons under Sir Roger Norrington with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society. In
the 2007-2008 season he performed the three Schubert song-cycles in the Gewandhaus Leipzig.
The current year's plans
include performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass in Montreal under Kent Nagano; Mendelssohn’s Paulus
under Marek Janowski in Berlin and under Herbert Blomstedt with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; tours of Bach’s
St. John Passion (with Rias Chamber Choir), and St. Matthew Passion with Sigiswald Kuijken. Mr. Genz received his first musical training as a member of the St. Thomas’
Boys Choir in Leipzig. He continued his studies in musicology at King’s College Cambridge where he was also a member
of King’s College Choir. He studied voice under Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig
and with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
He won first prize at the International Singing Competition in Grimsby, England and the
first prize at the International J.S.Bach-Competition in Leipzig. See:
www.christophgenz.com for more information.
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