Thomas Laske (Baritone)

Born: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, 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 prizes 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.

Sources:
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

Karl Friedrich Beringer

Bass

BWV 248/1-3 [3^rd]

Georg Christoph Biller

Bass

BWV 244b

Ton Koopman

Bass

[O-10] (2010, Video): BWV 127 [2^nd recording], BWV 140 [3^rd recording], BWV 147 [3^rd recording]

Karin Freist-Wissing

Bass

BWV 245 [1^st, 2005]

Rainer Johannes Homburg

Bass

BWV 245 [2^nd recording, 2016]

Friedemann Keck

Bass

BWV 248 [1^st], BWV 248 [2^nd]

Wolfgang Kläsener

Bass

BWV 244 [Christus], BWV 245 [2^nd], BWV 248/1-3 [2^nd]

Stefan Kordes

Bass

[BT2-1] (2021, Video): BWV 32
[BT2-2] (2021, Video): BWV 2, BWV 185
[BT2-3] (2021, Video): BWV 166, BWV 165
[BT3-2] (2021, Video): BWV 106, BWV 198
[SV-3] (2021, Video): BWV 82, BWV 56
[BT4-1] (2022, Video): BWV 144, BWV 159
[BT4-2] (2022, Video): BWV 181, BWV 127
[BT4-3] (2022, Video): BWV 22, BWV 23

Martin Lehmann

Bass

BWV 248/4-6

Peter Neumann

Bass

BWV 245

Michael Reif

Bass

BWV 244

Christoph Emanuel Seitz

Bass

BWV 232

Carsten Zündorf

Bass

BWV 248/1, 2, 5 & 6

Links to other Sites

Thomas Laske (Official Website) [German/Italian]