Born: Stuttgart, Germany

The German baritone, Thomas Laske, received his earliest musical training with the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben (a boys’ church choir), and wen on in 1990 to study sound and picture technology at the Academy of Music in Düsseldorf. He also studied singing under Professor Brigitte Dürrler and Lied interpretation under Professor Ria Götze. He attended master-classes with Elio Battaglia, Otto Edelmann, John Shirley-Quirk, Andreas Schmidt, Wolfgang Schöne and Edith Wiens.

Thomas Laske has won several prized at competitions and performed regularly at concerts at home and abroad. Since 1999-2000 he has been a member of the ensemble at the North Rhine-Westphalia Schiller Theater in Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal.

Source: Liner notes to the 2-CD album ‘Bach: Passio secundum Johannem’ conducted by Peter Neumann (MDG, 2000)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Georg Christoph Biller

Bass

BWV 244b

Fridemann Keck

Bass

BWV 248

Wolfgang Kläsener

Bass

BWV 245

Peter Neumann

Bass

BWV 245

Michael Reif

Bass

BWV 244

Links to other Sites

Thomas Laske (Official Website) [German/Italian]

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