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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 |
“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 |
New Haendel Arias CD: “It is a pleasure to listen to that smooth, floating voice. Genz tackles the difficulties in Haendel's
arias impressively, never forcing his voice which rests attractively in the middle, intensifying appropriately at the more
dramatic moments. Wholeheartedly recommended.”
Leipziger Volkszeitung Bach's St. John Passion with Markus Stenz in Cologne: "The pivotal role of the Evangelist was in great hands with Mr. Genz. Deeply moving."
-Koelnische Rundschau "With Christoph Genz we can admire a lyric tenor of the quality not encountered since Christoph
Pregardien. He performs his aria regally and with effortlessness. Beyond his singing he truly revels and reveals
the beautify of the German language."
-Berliner Zeitung |
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. He recently sang the three
Schubert song cycles at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Opera includes membership at the Basel Theater, 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.
Concerts
include Christ in a production of Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots under Nicolaus Harnoncourt
at the Theater an der Wien; Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Herbert Blomstedt with the San Francisco Symphony; 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; 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; Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat
and Haydn's Die Schoepfung with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony; and the Evangelist/Arias in Bach's St.
John Passion with the Calgary Philharmonic under Roberto Minczuk. 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.
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