Florian Sievers

Florian Sievers, a tenor born in Hamburg, has established himself internationally as an outstanding performer in both concert and opera. Highly regarded for his clarity and interpretative skill, he performs at major concert halls and leading festivals.

In 2026, for example, he went on a European tour as a soloist with the Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, performing J. S. Bach’s ‘St Matthew Passion’. With the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Johanna Soller, he made his debut in the role of Gianguir in J. C. Bach’s opera ‘Zanaida’. Mozart’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s ‘Paulus’ brought him together once again with Frieder Bernius.

In the 2026/27 season, he will take on the role of the Evangelist in Bach’s ‘St John Passion’ on an Australian tour with the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis and the Australian Chamber Orchestra under Lionel Meunier. He will make a guest appearance with the Latvian Radio Choir under Kaspars Putnins, performing Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’. At the invitation of Frieder Bernius, he will also perform in Beethoven’s ‘Missa solemnis’ at events including the Rheingau Music Festival and the ION Festival Nuremberg. Furthermore, he will return to the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival and, with C. P. E. Bach’s ‘Magnificat’, to the Nederlandse Bachvereniging under Johanna Soller.

In recent years, his international concert career has taken him to major music venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Dresden Philharmonie, Musikfest Bremen, Musikfest Stuttgart, Händel-Festspiele Halle, MDR Musiksommer, Bach festivals in Leipzig, Ansbach, Arnstadt, Eisenach, Arques-la-Bataille, Schaffhausen, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, DeSingel Antwerp, Bozar Brussels, Concertgebouw Bruges, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, Teatro Real Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla, Grand Auditorium de la Maison de Radio France Paris, to name but a few. Highlights of the 2022/23 season were his US debut with works by Handel and Bach at the Boston Early Music Festival, Mozart's ‘C Minor Mass’ with the B'Rock Orchestra in The Hague, Brussels and Antwerp and Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Sønderborg, Denmark. His schedule in 2023/24 included a European tour (including Wigmore Hall London) with J. S. Bach's ‘Christmas Oratorio’ and the Ensemble Vox Luminis under Lionel Meunier, the Evangelist in Bach's ‘St John Passion’ with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music (AKAMUS) under Justin Doyle at the Berlin Philharmonie and La Seine Musicale Paris, as well as the ‘St John Passion’ with the hr Symphony Orchestra under Alain Altinoglu at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, a guest engagement as tenor soloist in John Neumeier's ballet ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ (based on J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor) at the Hamburg State Opera, as well as concerts at the Rheingau Music Festival with the Windsbach Boys' Choir and again with the RIAS Chamber Choir and AKAMUS. Engagements in 2024/25 included Bach cantatas with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra under Jaroslaw Thiel, the cantata BWV 112 (concert and CD/video production) with the Bachstiftung St. Gallen under Rudolf Lutz, Bach's ‘St Matthew Passion’ with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Andreas Reize as well as his debut at La Scala in Milan in an Advent concert by the Monteverdi Choir London under Christophe Rousset. Furthermore, Florian Sievers made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2025 in Bach's ‘St John Passion’ under Lionel Meunier.

With his warm, rich timbre and effortlessly resonant voice, the lyric tenor is also in high demand on the opera stage. His professional career began whilst he was still a student, as a resident guest at Chemnitz Opera, where he made his debut in roles including Pedrillo in Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and Dancairo in Bizet’s ‘Carmen’. From 2022 to 2024, he starred as Jan van Leiden in the opera pastiche ‘J. S. Bach – Die Apokalypse’ by Opera2Day, a production marking the 100th anniversary of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, which toured to venues including the Royal Theatre in The Hague and Leipzig Opera. This special production will be available in full on YouTube from autumn 2026.

Florian Sievers regularly performs as a lieder singer throughout Germany, including with the pianist Ragna Schirmer at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He recently made his debut in Leipzig with Gustav Mahler’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ (original version for piano). He shares a close artistic partnership with Doriana Tchakarova, with whom he focuses, amongst other things, on the great 19th-century ballad settings.

The singer’s mastery of style and vast repertoire are evidenced by numerous CD and radio recordings, including Bach cantatas with the St. Gallen Bach Foundation under Rudolf Lutz and Le Concert Français under Pierre Hantai, Schütz’s ‘Christmas Story’ as the Evangelist with Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier, Schubert’s Mass in A flat major and Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’ with the Stuttgart Chamber Choir under Frieder Bernius.

Florian Sievers also performs with conductors such as Wolfgang Katschner, Raphael Pichon, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Christophe Rousset and Jordi Savall, as well as with ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, B’Rock, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the hr Symphony Orchestra, the Monteverdi Choir, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Sønderjyllands Symfonieorkester and Sinfonietta Riga.

Florian Sievers gained his first experience as a singer with the Uetersen Boys’ Choir. He lives in Leipzig, where, after studying school music, he studied singing with Prof. Berthold Schmid at the ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ University of Music and Theatre, and in 2021 completed his masterclass examination with top marks and honours. In 2024, he was appointed as a lecturer at his alma mater and has since been leading his own singing class in the Early Music department.