The repertory of the German bass Felix Schwandtke reaches from the 16th century to the great oratorios of the Classical and Romantic eras to contemporary compositions. He works regularly with leading early music ensembles throughout Europe, including the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Gaechinger Cantorey, the Dunedin Consort, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, Collegium 1704 under Václav Luks, Concerto Copenhagen under Lars Ulrik Mortensen and the Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber Ensembles.
In the 2025/26 season he has sung in Haydn’s The Creation with the Baroque orchestra Aris et Aulis and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He has also performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Vienna Musikverein and the Bachfest Leipzig, and appeared with Vox Luminis at the Festival de Saint-Denis and the Festival de Beaune.
He also regularly works with symphony orchestras and performs at renowned concert venues. Performance highlights have included Mendelssohn cantatas with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Keiser’s Brockes Passion at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and performances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie and with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
His opera engagements have included ¡Gesualdo! directed by Calixto Bieito at the Hamburg State Opera and Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe at the Semperoper Dresden.
Another focus of his artistic work is contemporary music. He is a member of the vocal ensemble The Present, which devises innovative programmes combining new and early music in unexpected ways. He has also participated in staged productions of Königliche Membranwerke — Nomictic Solutions at the Munich Biennale, Lucia Ronchetti’s chamber opera Mise en abyme /Widerspiegelung at the Semperoper Dresden and Wolfgang Mitterer’s Das tapfere Schneiderlein at the State Theatre in Dresden.
Felix Schwandtke studied singing at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.
