Biography

Florian Boesch

Current as of February 2024

The Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is one of the foremost exponents of Lieder of our time, appearing at the most prestigious halls in Europe and North America. He has been artist in residence at the Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, the Theater an der Wien and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

Florian Boesch enjoyed a vibrant collaboration with the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He works regularly with well-known conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Iván Fischer, Stefan Gottfried, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Roger Norrington, Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Franz Welser-Möst.

Highlights of 2023/24 include concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and at the BBC Proms, Haydn’s The Seasons with Il Giardino Armonico, Beethoven’s Mass in C major with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and the Missa Solemnis under Herbert Blomstedt. He also gives song recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus, and in Madrid.

On the operatic stage, he has appeared at the Theater an der Wien in productions including Handel’s Saul and Orlando, and in Schubert’s Lazarus, Handel’s Messiah and Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper. Other productions in which he has appeared include Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust in Berlin, Berg’s Wozzeck in Cologne and Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival. In the 2022/23 season he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in the Mahler project Von der Liebe Tod and appeared at the Berlin State Opera in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Nikolaus Habjan and Musicbanda Franui, which also toured to the Bregenz Festival and to Graz, Gmunden and Vienna. In October 2023 he appeared at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Zoroastro in Handel’s Orlando.

His recordings have received multiple awards. His recording of Die schöne Müllerin was nominated for a Grammy and Schumann & Mahler: Lieder won the BBC Music Magazine Award. In May 2023 he released Schumann Dichterliebe & Kerner Liedern.

Florian Boesch has held a professorship in song and oratorio performance at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna since 2017.

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