Florian Boesch

Baritone

Florian Boesch Baritone
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The Austrian bass-baritone Florian Boesch is one of the foremost exponents of Lieder in 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 Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

As a concert artist he performs with leading orchestras such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.

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

Concert highlights of 2024/25 have included Weill’s Sieben Todsünden with the Czech Philharmonic under Simon Rattle, Mahler Lieder with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorenzo Viotti and Britten’s War Requiem with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Philharmonie de Paris. This summer he gives recitals with Malcolm Martineau at the Edinburgh Festival and the Schubertíada in Vilabertran, and performs with Musicbanda Franui at the Salzburg Festival; he will also appear with them at the Vienna Konzerthaus this autumn.

On the operatic stage, he has appeared to acclaim 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. He has also sung in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust in Berlin, Berg’s Wozzeck in Cologne, Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival, Von der Liebe Tod at the Vienna State Opera and, most recently, Handel’s Saul, directed by Claus Guth, at the Semperoper Dresden, and the title role of Bluebeard’s Castle at the Tyrolean Festival Erl.

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 Lieder. He released the album Alles wieder gut with Musicbanda Franui in 2020.

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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