The 2023/24 season took me to many exciting projects around the world. Some of the highlights included my debuts in Oslo with the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and as a soloist at the Singfest in Hong Kong, where I performed the role of the Evangelist and the arias tenor in a staged production of Bach’s St. John Passion.
With Vox Luminis, I was on several international tours in the spring: in February, we performed Swedish Baroque music in Helsinki; in March, we embarked on a Passion tour with two different early Baroque programs, in which I took on the role of Pilate in Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion. Recordings of this tour were broadcast live on various radio stations, including SRF Klassik and Klassiek Radio. With Ensemble 1684, I sang in a soloist formation of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion alongside Daniel Johannsen. In April, I performed at London’s Wigmore Hall as a soloist alongside Florian Sievers, Felix Schwandtke, Viola Blache, and Alexander Chance in a program of early Weimar Bach cantatas, once again with Vox Luminis.
In June, I performed with Pia Davila at the Mozartfest in Würzburg under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner and took part in the revival of a production at the Liebhabertheater Großkochberg, where I performed in historically informed costume and gesture with Lautten Compagney Berlin. The season concluded with my return to Utopia, Teodor Currentzis’ ensemble, at the Salzburg Festival. A personal highlight was when, during a rehearsal where I briefly stepped in for an absent tenor soloist, Currentzis praised me with a simple yet memorable “Beautiful.”
Petrus (Christopher B. Fischer) watches as Jesus (Reginald Mobley) is slandered and condemned.
SINGFEST Hong Kong 2023.
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