Andreas Post

The tenor Andreas Post is particularly valued for his vocal and haunting interpretations of the great evangelist parts 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 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 various 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.

In 2019 he sang concerts with Andreas Spering, the "St. Matthew Passion" with the Münchener Bach-Chor under Hansjörg Albrecht at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich and Telemann's "Lukaspassion 1744" with the Dresden Chamber Choir and the Wroclaw Barock Orchestra as well as numerous other concerts. 2020: CD production "Christmas Oratorio" (JS Bach) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir, a Beethoven-Schubert program under Paul Mc Creesh, Mozart's Requiem with Hansjörg Albrecht in Italy, Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" with Jos van Immerseel (cancelled due to Covid 19), cantatas at the Leipzig Bach Festival (cancelled ) ..... Plans for 2020-21 include: 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.

He participated in various opera CD productions for instance as Varo in Gluck's "Ezio" and in the title role of J. Schuster's "Demofoonte".

His special commitment is the art song. Andreas Post works on the contemporary song repertoire with Axel Bauni, with whom he premiered songs by Reimann and Rihm at the Kissinger Sommer. He also gave the world premiere of the Rilke cycle "Dir zur Feier" by M. Trojahn with the pianist Jan Philip Schulze. He is currently working on programs that combine song and reading. Well-known actresses such as Eva Mattes and Corinna Kirchhoff or the speaker Eckhard Leue, known from the radio, are at his side.

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 enabling him to take lessons in art song interpretation with Norman Shetler.