|
The Daanish baritone, Teit Kanstrup, grew up in Roskilde and began his music training in Brass-Bands and began singing in Roskilde Cathedrals Boys Choir, and had his first solos as a treble. He began his vocal studies in 2000 at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (the Royal Danish Academy of Music), gaining a diploma in singing, followed by opera course at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. Here he had the opportunity to work with some of the world's foremost Lied pianists, international opera soloists, instigators and conductors at the absolute highest level. He sang among other main roles in Royal Opera House's most prestigious setup of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro under the direction of Sir Colin Davis. He graduated from the RAM with destinction in 2008.
Since then, Teit Kanstrup worked freelance in primarily northern Europe and the USA. He is a sought after bass and baritone soloist in various oratorial and choir works and has been engaged in various opera companies at home and abroad. As a baritone with equaly god top and a sonorous lower range in his voice, he has done a lot of oratorio- and symphonic- concerts ranging from the bas parts in J.S. Bach’s Passions and oratorios over highly demanding baritone solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana and Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
In the opera repertoire Teit Kanstrup is characterised as a Kavalier-baritone, but is also sought after in Baroque- and contemporary opera where versatility often is needed. Thus brings this season a touring production of a contemporary childrens opera by Andy Pape, the part as Silvio in I Pagliacci, as Owen Heart in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the Royal Operahouse in Copenhagen and the title role in George Frideric Handel’s Giulio Cesare. He has also sung and bigger supporting roles in W.A. Mozart's Cosí fan tutte, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Puccini’s La Bohéme, Benjamin Britten’s The rape of Lucretia and Verdi’s La Traviata.
Recent opera roles include the tile role in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni at Valdemar's Castle in the summer of 2010. In January 2011, he had the USA debut as Guglielmo in Cosí fan tutte, and last time he was on Denmark tour with the Operaen I Midtens of La Bohéme. Other roles include W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Aarhus Symfoniorkester, concerts with Den Jyske Sinfonietta, and Johannes Brahms's Requiem with the Savannah Philharmonic, USA. He made his debut at the Copenhagen Opera Festival in the Opera on a bike project, which this year brings Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci to different locations in Copenhagen.
During the time, Teit Kanstrup has worked with many dis- tinguished music professionals such as Sir Colin Davis, Steuart Bedford, Michael Schønwandt, Ingrid Surgenor and Denins O’Neill. He also does Lieder recitals, and is currently preparing a concert series of Schubert’s Winterreise. |
