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The German bass, Johannes Wedeking, was born in in Münster/Westphalia, and grew up in Meschede, Sauerland, where he received his first musical training before studying church music at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Rottenburg am Neckar, Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Tübingen (Church Music: 2008-2011) and Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf (Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music: 2011-2013). He continued his studies in the opera class of the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule with Thomas Laske (Bachelor of Music degree in Singing and Opera: 2013-2017; Master of Music degree in Singing and Opera: 2017-2019). Various master-classes and internships, e.g. with SingerPur, Wolfgang Klose, Thomas Heyer and Judith Lindenbaum, complement his training. He also studied German and Musicology at the Heinreich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf (2015-2018).
Johannes Wedeking is and was a member of various ensembles, including Kammerchors Consono (Director: Harald Jers), Vocalensemble Rastatt (Director: Holger Speck) and the Chorus Musicus Köln (Director: Christoph Spering). Together with The Orpheus Consort, he dedicates himself particularly to the music of the Renaissance and the early Baroque.
Johannes Wedeking prefers to devote himself to Lieder singing, especially by hitherto unknown, late-Romantic composers.
Johannes Wedeking is the 2017 prize-winner of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. In 2016 he sang at the Theater Hagen and in 2017 at the Theater Hagen and Theater Münster. In 2018 he sang the role of the Grand Inquisitor in the Don Carlo production for the Flanders Festival in Ghent (Belgium). In the 2019-2020 season he was a guest at the Oper Köln (Dean - Hamlet/Semi-Choir [Solo]) and the Oper Halle (Masetto in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni).
CD recordings are available from the Sterling Records and OrganumClassics labels (March 2022). |
