Stefan Vinke (Tenor)

Born: Osnabrueck, Gemany

The German tenor, Stefan Vinke, studied voice with Edda Moser in Cologne and with Eugene Kohn. He graduates as church musician.

Stefan Vinke's first engagement was with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1993. He sand lyrical roles for two seasons and then changed to the Theater Krefeld - Mönchengladbach, performing as Tony (West Side Story), Beppe (Pagliacci), 1^st Geharnischter (Zauberflöte), Hoffmann (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) and Erik (Fliegender Holländer).

Jan Maerkl invited Stefan Vinke to the National Theater Mannheim as 1^st heroic tenor for the season 1999-2000. In the new Ring, he will sing Sienmund, then Lohengrin, Parsifal, Florestan and Erik, as well as for the following season in Hoffmann and in Goldmark’s Königin von Saba.

Source: Theater Erfurt Website, English translation by Thomas Manhart (January 2004)
Contributed by Thomas Manhart (January 2004)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Gerard Akkerhuis

Tenor

BWV 182

Udo Witt

Tenor

BWV 245, BWV 248/1, 4, 6

Links to other Sites

Stefan Vinke - Tenor (Theater Erfurt) [German]