Andreas Post

The tenor Andreas Post is particularly valued for his beautiful and haunting interpretations of the great evangelist roles by Johann Sebastian Bach.

His concert activities regularly take him abroad, especially to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, England, Italy, Scandinavia as well as Israel, Macedonia, South Africa and Singapore. He has worked with conductors including Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Ludger Rémy, Jos van Veldhoven, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jan Willem de Vriend, Michael Hofstetter, Wolfgang Katschner and Hansjörg Albrecht as well as 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.

The tenor has recorded several CDs, including "Die Schöne Müllerin" by Franz Schubert and his solo CD entitled "Mein Alles in Allem" with arias by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, G.Ph. Telemann and R. Keizer.

Concert engagements 2016 - 2018 included: Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" with Enoch zu Guttenberg at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, a CD production of Bach's "St. John Passion" (evangelist and arias) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir, Schumann songs and duets with the soprano Mojca Erdmann at the Beethovenhaus Bonn and at the VOICES festival, various concerts with the Bachkoor Holland and the Bach-Verein Köln (Cologne) under Thomas Neuhoff (partly WDR live broadcast), Bach cantatas at the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach's "St. John Passion" with the Elbipolis baroque orchestra, concerts with the Mainz Bach Choir and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, the Mozart Requiem at the Mozart Festival Würzburg with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Berlin Konzerthaus with the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) and the noted Berlin Konzerthausorchester.

2019: concerts under Andreas Spering, the "St Matthew Passion" with the Münchener Bach-Chor under Hansjörg Albrecht at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, Telemann's "St Luke Passion 1744" with the Dresden Chamber Choir and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, and many other concerts. 2020: CD production "Christmas Oratorio" (J. S. Bach) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben, a Beethoven-Schubert programme under Paul Mc Creesh, Mozart's Requiem with Hansjörg Albrecht, Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" with Jos van Immerseel (cancelled, postponed to 2022), cantatas at the Bachfest Leipzig (cancelled).....Plans for 2020/21 included: Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the B minor Mass at the Berlin Philharmonie and a tour with W. Sauseng's "St John Passion" and Bach's "St Matthew Passion" under Rob Vermeulen through the Netherlands and to Vienna, which was postponed to 2022/23. In 2023 he performed repeatedly at the Isarphilharmonie in J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Münchener Bach-Chor under Hansjörg Albrecht, where he was invited again for 2024. Also under Hansjörg Albrecht, he can be heard in Handel's “Saul” at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg in 2023. In the same year he will give a guest performance of Bach's “Christmas Oratorio” in the renowned Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. With the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben he will return to the Stuttgart Liederhalle in 2023 with Haydn's “Creation”, to name but a few stops.

On the opera stage, he performed Astromonte in the rediscovered opera "The Philosopher's Stone" by Mozart and other composers, “Belsazar” in Amsterdam in a co-production with the Festival Düsseldorfer Altstadt Herbst, Ottone in Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea" with La Stagione Frankfurt under Michael Schneider, Palemone in Josef Schuster's rediscovered opera "Amor e Psiche", Pedrillo in Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio", a co-production of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Theater Göttingen, Tamino in "The Magic Flute" at the Gut Immling Festival, Uriel in a staged realisation of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city of Ludwigsburg. He also sang the roles of Alfred in "Die Fledermaus" and Macheath in Pepusch's "The Beggar's Opera" in an adaptation by B. Britten. In 2012 he 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 Dance Master in "Ariadne auf Naxos". In 2014 he made his role debut as Belmonte at the VOICES Festival. In 2015 he made a highly successful guest appearance at the Mozart Festival Würzburg as Tamino with the Lautten Compagney under Wolfgang Katschner. At the Prinzregententheater in Munich he could be heard under Enoch zu Guttenberg as 1st Armoured Man in the "The Magic Flute". In 2015/16 he sang in a staged production of the "St John Passion" at the Wuppertaler Bühnen, among others. In 2016/17 he performed the part of Vitaliano in Handel's opera "Il Giustino" with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner, among others at the Handel Festival Halle (CD recording). In 2019 he made a repeat guest appearance with the Lautten Compagney at the Handel Festival Halle. This time as Oronte in Handel's "Alcina", followed in 2021 by Vitaliano in "Il Giustino" at the Handel Festival 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.

He is also passionate about the art song, to which he devotes himself above all with the lied accompanist Dominikus Burghardt. He premiered songs by Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm at the Kissinger Sommer. There, too, he sang the world premiere of the Rilke cycle “Dir zur Feier” by Manfred Trojahn. In programmes combining song and reading, he has worked with well-known actresses such as Eva Mattes or Corinna Kirchhoff or the radio announcer Eckhard Leue, among others.

Andreas Post started his vocal training with Alastair Thompson and then completed his studies in the class of Prof. Ks. Soto Papoulkas at the Folkwang University in Essen. He passed his Konzertexamen with distinction. He is a prize winner of the 11th International Bach Competition in Leipzig and a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association in Cologne and the German Schubert Society, the latter enabled him to take lessons in art song interpretation with Norman Shetler.