Tobias Berndt (Baritone) - Short Biography

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Tobias Berndt (Baritone)
Born: 1979 - Berlin, Germany
The German baritone, Tobias Berndt, received his first musical training during in his youth as a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. As a boy soprano, he sang at the Dresden Semper Oper and the Komische Oper Berlin, the first boy in Mozart's Zauberflöte. Since October 2000 he studied singing at the Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" with Professor Hermann Christian Polster. Furthermore, he attended master-classes including with Rudolf Piernay, Theo Adam and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Awarded with the " Mauersberger-Stipendium" and the "Artländer Musikpreis", he was already successful at various competitions ranging as "Jugend musiziert" and the Leipzig Bach Competition. In 2004, he won 3^rd Prize the field of concert performance at the Federal Singing Competition. 2005 led Tobias Berndt to an opera engagement at the Schlosstheater Rheinsberg. He made guest perfomances at renowned festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Schumann-Tagen-Zwickau and the Prague Spring. Most recently, he was heard in the Mass in B minor (BWV 232) by J.S. Bach with Helmuth Rilling at the European Music Festival Stuttgart 2005. Concert engagements have taken him to other European countries, the USA and Chile. In May 2006 he was heard in a performance of War Requiem by Benjamin Britten. Radio and CD recordings demonstrate his artistic work.

Source: Berliner Kantorei Website (December 2006), English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2009) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2009)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
Günter Brick	Bass	BWV 244, BWV 245, BWV 248
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Tobias Berndt (Berliner Kantorei) [German]

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