Sebastian Myrus

The Munich-born bass Sebastian Myrus is one of the most sought-after Bach interpreters of his generation and works with renowned early music ensembles. He has a longstanding partnership with Vox Luminis, with whom he regularly appears at international festivals. His repertory reaches from polyphony to Classical and Romantic oratorios to contemporary music; however, Baroque music remains at the heart of his interests.

In the 2024/25 season he performed works by Bach in countries including Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland. His other performances included Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Haydn’s Creation and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. On the operatic stage he reprised his performances of Cold Genius in Purcell’s King Arthur in London and Liège and Winter in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen on tour in the Netherlands. He completes the season with performances at the Prague Spring Festival, the Church Music Festival in Oslo, the Stockholm Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Musical Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Salzburg Festival.

He works regularly with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Netherlands Bach Society, Collegium Vocale Gent, Continuum, Ensemble Correspondances, Voces Suaves and the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen. He has also performed with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Munich Baroque Soloists, the Zürcher Barockorchester, Il Gardellino, Les Muffatti, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and the Doha Baroque Ensemble. He has worked with conductors such as Marcus Creed, Philippe Herreweghe, Manfred Honeck, Kay Johannsen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Johannes Leertouwer, Reinbert de Leeuw, Enrico Onofri, Philippe Pierlot, Helmuth Rilling, Skip Sempé, Jean Tubéry, Peter Van Heyghen and Jos van Veldhoven.

With capella sollertia and Johanna Soller he recently completed the first recording of the complete cantatas of Johann Ludwig Bach.

Sebastian Myrus received his first musical training in the Windsbach Boys’ Choir, before studying singing at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich.