The baritone Andrè Schuen comes from La Val in South Tyrol, where he grew up speaking three languages: Ladin, Italian and German. After a long period during which the cello was his main instrument, he decided to study singing at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he was taught by Horiana Brănișteanu and studied Lieder and oratorio with Wolfgang Holzmair.
Andrè Schuen is a sought-after guest artist at leading international opera houses such as the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Teatro Real in Madrid. In the 2022/23 season he has sung Count Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera, and taken on two Wagner roles for the first time: the Herald (Lohengrin) at the Bavarian State Opera and Wolfram (Tannhäuser) at the Berlin State Opera. He also regularly appears at prestigious festivals, most recently as Mozart’s Figaro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) at the Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of his concert career include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle, the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding. In summer 2022 Andrè Schuen made his debut at the Lucerne Festival, singing Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša. His concert engagements in the 2022/23 season have included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Andris Nelsons at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, Milan.
Andrè Schuen is especially dedicated to the art of Lieder-singing, and performs in a duo with the pianist Daniel Heide. He regularly sings at prestigious recital halls such as London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Schubertiaden in Schwarzenberg and Vilabertran, at the Heidelberger Frühling and at the Rheingau Music Festival. In 2022/23 he returned to Schwarzenberg, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and the Konzerthaus Dortmund to give Lieder recitals. In the USA he has appeared at the Tanglewood Festival with Andreas Haefliger, and at the Aspen Music Festival.
Andrè Schuen has received top international reviews for his recordings. Since 2021 he has been an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon, for which label he is currently recording the three great Schubert song cycles: he has already released Die schöne Müllerin (2021) and Schwanengesang (2022).
