The baritone Andrè Schuen comes from La Val in South Tyrol where he grew up speaking three languages: Ladin, Italian and German. He began his musical training as a cellist, before deciding to study singing at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where Horiana Brănișteanu und Wolfgang Holzmair were his formative teachers. Today he is in worldwide demand as an opera, concert and Lieder singer.
Opera engagements regularly take Andrè Schuen to leading opera houses such as the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Teatro Real in Madrid and La Scala, Milan, and to the Salzburg Festival and the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Lucerne. In the 2025/26 season he sang roles including Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) under Bertrand de Billy on a tour of Japan with the Vienna State Opera and under Giovanni Antonini at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Donner (Das Rheingold) under Alexander Soddy and Simone Young at La Scala, Milan, Ford (Falstaff) at the Berlin State Opera and Posa (Don Carlo) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Other recent operatic highlights have included Count Almaviva at the 2023 Salzburg Festival, Wolfram (Tannhäuser) in Munich, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) at Covent Garden and Don Giovanni under Simon Rattle at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2025.
Recent concert appearances include his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of St Luke’s under Bernard Labadie, Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer with the Swedish and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestras, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons and with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle, and Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden.
Andrè Schuen is particularly passionate about Lieder and art song. In the 2025/26 season he gave recitals with his long-term piano accompanist Daniel Heide in cities including Milan, Trento, Turin, Florence, Madrid, Alicante, Graz, Vienna and Berlin. The duo regularly perform at the Schubertiades in Schwarzenberg, Hohenems and Vilabertran, at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Heidelberg Spring Festival and at the Rheingau Music Festival, and have also appeared at the Salzburg Festival (in 2025), in Tanglewood, at the Aspen Music Festival and at the Spring Festival in Tokyo.
Andrè Schuen is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon, for which label he has recorded multiple award-winning Schubert albums — including Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang. His new album Mozart with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Roberto González-Monjas was released in July 2025.
