Andreas Post

Andreas Post studied voice with Prof. Soto Papoulkas at the Folkwang University in Essen. He passed his concert exam with distinction.

He is a prizewinner of the Leipzig International Bach Competition and a scholarship holder of the Cologne Richard Wagner Association and the German Schubert Society.

He is highly regarded for his interpretation of the tenor and evangelist roles in Bach's passions and oratorios. His busy concert schedule has taken him beyond the borders of Germany and Europe, including to Israel, South Africa and Singapore. He has performed in renowned international music centres under conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Hansjörg Albrecht, Jos van Veldhoven, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jan Willem de Vriend, Michael Hofstetter, Andreas Spering and Sir Neville Marriner.

Recent concert engagements include various concerts with the Bachkoor Holland and the Bach-Verein Köln (some of which were broadcast live on WDR), Bach cantatas in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach's ‘St John Passion’ with the Elbipolis baroque orchestra, concerts with the Bachchor Mainz and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, the Mozart Requiem at the Mozart Festival Würzburg with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the ‘Christmas Oratorio’ with the Thomanerchor and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Telemann's ‘Lukaspassion 1744’ with the Dresdner Kammerchor and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra as well as a Beethoven-Schubert programme under Paul Mc Creesh. In 2023, he appeared repeatedly at the Munich Isarphilharmonie in J.S. Bach's ‘St Matthew Passion’ with the Munich Bach Choir, where he was also invited again for 2024. He made a guest appearance with the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel Bach Choir under Hansjörg Albrecht in Handel's ‘Saul’ at the Hamburg Laeiszhalle. He performed Haydn's ‘Creation’ with the Stuttgart Hymnus Choirboys in the Stuttgart Liederhalle. Bach's ‘Christmas Oratorio’ will take him to the renowned Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim and Cologne Cathedral in 2024. In 2025, he will then perform the ‘St Matthew Passion’ in Milan Cathedral under Ruben Jais and with the Stuttgart Hymnus Choirboys in the Stuttgart Liederhalle, to name just a few stops.

Andreas Post has also worked with ensembles such as Concerto con Anima, Les Amis de Philippe, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Musica Alta Ripa, Collegium Vocale Gent, Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Lautten Compagney Berlin and Orchester der Klangverwaltung.

He is also passionate about art song, to which he devotes himself intensively, particularly with his accompanist Dominikus Burghardt. In the field of contemporary song repertoire, Andreas Post premiered songs by Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm at the Kissinger Sommer. He also sang the world premiere of the Rilke cycle ‘Dir zur Feier’ by M. Trojahn there. In programmes that combine song and reading, he has been supported by well-known actresses such as Eva Mattes and Corinna Kirchhoff as well as the well-known radio speaker Eckhard Leue. He performed duets by Robert Schumann with soprano Mojca Erdmann at the Beethoven House in Bonn.

As part of various Corona aid projects funded by the German Music Council in 2021, he worked on a programme of works by the Romantic composer August Bungert, based on his six-song cycle ‘Mein Rhein’. Together with song accompanist Lucius Rühl, he has created a programme of songs from the chanson genre, including some of Arnold Schönberg's well-known Brettl-Lieder as well as lesser-known gems by composer Juan Allende-Blin. Together with organist Joachim Vogelsänger, he has also devoted himself to a programme dedicated to 19th century Protestant church songs. In 2022, he also completed a project, also funded with Corona aid money, which deals with the extensive song oeuvre of Beethoven's teacher Christian Gottlob Neefe. This project primarily involved the transcription into our modern notation system. Most recently, he worked on songs by Ferdinand Hiller, an unjustly forgotten contemporary of Felix Mendelssohn.

On the opera stage, he performed roles such as Astromonte in the rediscovered opera ‘The Philosopher's Stone’ (a composition in which Mozart also participated), the title role in Handel's ‘Belshazzar’, Ottone in Monteverdi's ‘The Coronation of Poppea’, Palemone in Josef Schuster's rediscovered opera ‘Amor e Psiche’, Tamino in ‘Magic Flute’, Alfred in ‘The Bat’ as well as Macheath in Pepusch's ‘The Beggar's Opera’ in the arrangement by B. Britten. In 2012, he once again took part in an opera by Josef Schuster. This time in the role of Conte Belsospiro in ‘Il marito indolento’ at the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg. At the Herrenchiemsee Festival in 2013, Andreas Post made his role debut as the Dancing Master in ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’. This was followed in 2014 by his role debut as Belmonte at the VOICES Festival. In 2015, he made a highly successful guest appearance as Tamino at the Mozart Festival Würzburg with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner. At the Prinzregententheater in Munich, he was heard as the First Armoured Man in ‘The Magic Flute’ under Enoch zu Guttenberg. In 2015/16, he appeared at the Wuppertaler Bühnen in a staged production of the ‘St John Passion’. In 2016/17, he sang the role of Vitaliano in Handel's opera ‘Il Giustino’ with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner, including at the Handel Festival in Halle (CD recording). In 2019, he once again performed with the Lautten Compagney at the Handel Festival in Halle. This time as Oronte in Handel's ‘Alcina’. This was followed in 2021 by Vitaliano in ‘Il Giustino’ at the Handel Festival in Göttingen.

In opera CD productions he can be heard as Varo in Gluck’s „Ezio“ and in the title role of the opera „Demofoonte“ by J. Schuster, among others.