Matthias Rexroth

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Matthias Rexroth
Nürnberg, West Germany
Occupation(s)Countertenor opera and concert singer
Years active1999 – present
Awards
  • 1st Prize,
    Francisco Viñas
    International Singing Contest (2000)
  • 1st Prize, Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition (2000)
Websitematthiasrexroth.de

Matthias Rexroth (b. Nürnberg, Germany, 7 January 1970) is a German countertenor and voice teacher. Winning 1st prizes at the Francisco-Viñas in Barcelona [1] and the 'Belvedere Competition' in Vienna[2] in 2000, preceded an extensive international performing and teaching career.

Early life and education

Matthias Rexroth was raised in

Altus (In English, a "Male alto").[3]

Rexroth studied at the

Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and privately with Marilyn Horne
. In 1999 he received a stipend award from the cultural foundation of the state of Baden Württemberg. [4]

Voice Teacher

Rexroth is a professor of voice at the Warsaw Opera Academy of the national theater Teater Wielki[5] and gives masterclasses at the Berlin Hans Eisler Musikhochschule, the Meistersingerakademie in Neumarkt,[6] Frankfurt Opera, Kyoto City University of Arts, Duszniki Zdroj,[7] Daegu, Novosibirsk and the Kaunas Music Academy[8] as well as masterclasses for ENOA.[9]

Career

Rexroth was hired by

Thomaskirche with Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller, the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.[12]
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Also in 2000, Rexroth won two competitions, both wins as first countertenor ever: the 37th Francisco-Viñas in Barcelona - first prize in the category Male voices, as well as ‘best counter-tenor’[14] and the 19th 'Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition' in Vienna, winning the first prize and eight additional prizes.[15][16]

In 2001 the Cologne Philharmonie nominated Matthias Rexroth for the "Rising Star" award, with a tour of major European concert houses.[17] In 2003 he represented Germany in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.[18]

Matthias Rexroth has collaborated frequently with the conductor

Berlin Philharmonie, Prinzregententheater in Munich,[24] Bad Kissingen,[25] and with pianists Semion Skigin,[26] Matteo Pais, Mariusz Kłubczuk[27][28] and Eytan Pessen.[29]

Matthias Rexroth has also been a judge for the 10th

Stanislaw Moniuszko competition.[30] His performance of Admeto[31] was nominated for the category best singer performance of Der Faust 2007.[32] He has conducted the Georgisches Kammerorchester[33] and the "Ensemble del' Arte" in Ingolstadt.[34][35] In 2010 Rexroth appeared in a book of cooking recipes by famous opera singers Die Oper kocht by Evelyn Rillé and Johannes Ifkovits.[36]

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Opera

Rexroth sang the title roles in

Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and Staatsoper Stuttgart, Armindo in Partenope (under Christophe Rousset)[41] and Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare in Frankfurt (2013-5).[42][43]

Apart from Handel repertoire, Matthias Rexroth performed Corindo in

Stefan Soltesz,[47] and Alfonso in Francesco Cavalli's Veremonda.[48]

Concerts

Concert appearances with the

St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Radio Televisione Española Madrid, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Santa Cecilia orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,[49] Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln,[50] Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart,[51] the Berliner Philharmoniker Scharoun Ensemble[52] Orchestra Montis realis,[53] and the festivals of Schwetzingen, Innsbruck,[54]
Ludwigsburg, Rheingau, Baden-Baden and Shanghai.

The composer Wolfgang Rihm wrote Kolonos (“Oedipus auf Kolonos”)[55] for Rexroth, performed and recorded by the SWR and the Rossini in Wildbad opera festival in 2008, and with Constantin Trinks in Darmstadt.[56][57]

Recordings

Recordings with all major broadcasting companies in Germany have taken place. These include: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, SFB, Südwestrundfunk, ORF and Deutsche Welle.

Specific recordings

  • 2001: J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, Universal Music Classics & Jazz ASIN: B003TXPUN2
  • 2004: Rossini Tancredi, Nef ASIN: B0002CPFCE [58]
  • 2004: Solo recital: Stimme der Könige, Matthias Rexroth NEF ASIN: B0001TSYZS
  • 2007: Händel, Admeto, Arthaus ASIN: B000M2EBTC
  • 2007: Gluck's Ezio
  • 2008: CPE Bach Magnificat / Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, ASIN: B001GHD43G
  • 2011: Telemann Germanicus, CPO, ASIN: B005UU066S
  • 2012: Handel Teseo, Carus, 2012, ASIN: B002QEIQVI
  • 2012: Mozart Ascanio in Alba, K. 111 (Excerpts) Ars Produktion ASIN: B008Y1VLGE

Interviews

  • Heinrich Becker, "Matthias Rexroth Temperament für die Bühne", Orpheus, March–April 2003, pp. 10–11 (In German)
  • Live interview on NDR (In German)
  • 2008 interview retrieved June 2013. (In German)

References

  1. ^ Rexroth’s appearance in this concert is discussed effusively by a character named ‘Andre’ in a novel by Roland Schreyer.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Bernd Krause, "Der Stuttgarter Countertenor Matthias Rexroth gewinnt den Gesangswettbewerb in Barcelona", Stuttgarter Zeitung, 1 February 2000
  2. ^ Peter Jarolin, "BÜHNE-Sonderpreis – ein Porträt des Siegers", Wiener Bühnen, September 2000, p. 39
  3. ^ Heinrich Becker, "Matthias Rexroth Temperament für die Bühne", Orpheus, March–April 2003, pp. 10-11
  4. ISBN 978-3930395248
  5. ^ "Matthias Rexroth".
  6. ^ "IMA - Internationale Meistersinger Akademie".
  7. ^ "Tarptautiniai meistriškumo kursai". 17 February 2019.
  8. ^ "XXIV Pažaislio muzikos festivalis Margas dainų raštas".
  9. ^ "Enoa".
  10. ISBN 978-3981100761
    (2006),
  11. ISBN 978-3476019073
    s. 246
  12. ^ J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, Universal Music Classics & Jazz, 2001, ASIN: B003TXPUN2
  13. ISBN 978-3839157114
  14. ^ Bernd Krause, "Der Stuttgarter Countertenor Matthias Rexroth gewinnt den Gesangswettbewerb in Barcelona", Stuttgarter Zeitung, 1 February 2000
  15. ^ Peter Jarolin, "BÜHNE-Sonderpreis – ein Porträt des Siegers", Wiener Bühnen, September 2000, p. 39
  16. ^ Barbara Rett, "Hans Gabor Wettbewerb geht online" Archived 2013-06-01 at the Wayback Machine, Barbara Rett's online blog, 7 July 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2013
  17. ^ Christopher Morley, Financial Times (London), 28 January 2002
  18. ^ Cardiff Competition website also Graeme Kay's blog (see "additional sources" below)
  19. ^ Opera News, July 2011
  20. ^ Vienna Musikverein, Monatszeitung, Meistersinger aus Nürnberg retrieved 10 July 2013
  21. ^ "P2 Koncerten | Torsdagskoncert med Luisi & Carmina Burana | DR LYD".
  22. ^ "Alla Reggia la magia dei Carmina Burana di Carl Orff". 21 July 2017.
  23. ^ "The RSO and Fedeyosev blaze through Schnittke and Shostakovich".
  24. ^ Klaus Kalchschmid, "Matthias Rexorh Gefeiertes Debut", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 21 November 2005
  25. ^ Ahnert, Saale Zeitung, 28 June 2011
  26. ^ Dirk Aschendorf, (Engl. "Wahnfried's first Counter", WAT, 4 October 2008
  27. ^ https://www.coburg-kongress.de/de/?id=198%3Aqcoburgs-finestq&catid=1%3Averanstaltungskalender [dead link]
  28. ^ "Veranstaltungstipps: In Kürze - Neue Presse Coburg".
  29. ^ Recital review: Albrecht Schmidt, "Jeder Ton ein Ereignis, Matthias Rexroth singt, dass einem der Atem stockt", Damstädter Echo, 15 April 2002
  30. ^ "Competition stages - Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition". szymanowski-competition.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22.
  31. ^ Händel, Admeto, Arthaus ASIN: B000M2EBTC
  32. ^ "Der Faust 2007".
  33. ^ Sandra Hummel, "Grandios: Matthias Rexroth und die Georgier im Festsaal", Donau Kurier, 30 September 2010
  34. ^ Josef Heumann, "Eine Stimme, die Emotionen weckt", Donaukurier, 20 January 2013
  35. ^ "Ensemble del Arte feiert 25-Jähriges".
  36. ISBN 978-3-9502956-1-0
  37. ^ Ingrid Gäfvert, Opera News, 5 February 2005
  38. ^ Brooke Bryant, "Admeto re di Tessaglia by George Frideric Handel; Howard Arman; Matthias Rexroth; Romelia Lichtenstein; Mechthild Bach; Tim Mead; Raimund Nolte", Notes, Second Series, vol. 66, No. 3 (March, 2010), Music Library Association, pp. 621-622
  39. ^ Article: "Deutscher Theaterpreis, Rexroth mit Admeto nominiert", Neue Presse, Coburg, 28 September 2007
  40. ^ Review in Opernwelt (magazine), August 2011
  41. ^ Ulrich Weinzierl, Die Welt, 24 February 2009
  42. ^ Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Frankfurter Rundschau, 4 December 2012
  43. ^ Claus Ambrosius, Opernwelt, February 2013
  44. ^ Orpheus magazine, 8 September 2002
  45. ^ Barbara Röder, "Giuditta, una opera sacra", Scherzo (magazine), N.255, September 2010 p. 39
  46. ^ Götz Thieme, Kunst und Wahnsinn, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 24 March 2001
  47. ^ Radio review by Ulrike Gondorf, dradio.de, December 12, 2011
  48. ^ Apthorp, Shirley (3 May 2016). "Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Rokokotheater, Schwetzingen, Germany — review". Financial Times.
  49. ^ Online at akamus.de
  50. ^ Matthias Boll, "Die klangvoller Rückkehr eines Stars", FN, 17. January 2007, p.4
  51. ^ Review of Handel's Messiah with Helmuth Rilling, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 12 December 2005
  52. ^ Christine Gehringer, "Ein Klang wie aus höheren Sphären", Badisches Tagblatt, 14 June 2003
  53. ^ Giancarlo Satragni, La Stampa, 10 November 2006, p.57
  54. ^ Klaus Kalschmid, "Telemann Der Geduldige Sokrates", Opernwelt (magazine), October 2007
  55. ^ Information on the work on universaledition.com
  56. ^ Ausgabe: 10/08 - 57 online review Jahrgang
  57. ^ Online review on echo-online.de
  58. ^ Roman Fryscheisen, "Tancredi mit Counter Matthias Rexroth und beiden Finale Fassunge", Opernwelt (magazine), August 2004

Additional sources

External links
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