Florian Sievers

Born in Hamburg, tenor Florian Sievers gained his first singing experience with the Chorknaben Uetersen. After studying school music, he studied singing with Berthold Schmid at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, where he graduated as a master student with distinction in 2021 and now lives as a freelance singer.

Establishing himself as a soloist at a young age quickly developed into an international concert career that now takes him regularly to major music centres, 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 include 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. He also continues his collaboration with Frieder Bernius, including Mozart's Requiem in Stuttgart and Schwäbisch Gmünd and C. P. E. Bach's Magnificat on tour in Italy. Handel's ‘Messiah’ will be performed in Riga Cathedral to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous Riga Boys‘ Choir, and Haydn's “Creation” with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Jörg Breiding to mark the 75th anniversary of the Hanover Boys’ Choir. Furthermore, Florian Sievers will make his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2025 in Bach's ‘St John Passion’ under Lionel Meunier.

Florian Sievers also performs with conductors such as Jordi Savall, Wolfgang Katschner and Hans-Christoph Rademann, with the pianist Kit Amstrong, and with orchestras such as the Dresden Philharmonic, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Opera productions have a high priority in his work too. In the opera ‘J. S. Bach - The Apocalypse’ (production: Opera2Day with the Netherlands Bach Society), which premiered in 2022, he also sang the leading role of Jan van Leyden in over 20 performances in the Netherlands and Germany in 2024, including at the Royal Theatre The Hague, the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam and the Bachfest Leipzig. While still a student, he was engaged as a guest in residence at the Chemnitz Opera in 2019-2021, where he performed the role of Pedrillo in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", among others.

As a sought-after lied singer, he can be heard regularly with innovative programmes, including with Ragna Schirmer in the Small Hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2019). In 2021 he initiated the experimental project Schubertlied.Salon, in which he arranged Franz Schubert's famous "Erlkönig" for two electric guitars and voice, among other works.

Numerous CD, video and radio recordings with works ranging from baroque and classical-romantic pieces to contemporary opera testify to the singer's stylistic expertise and wide variety of repertoire. The new recording of Heinrich Schütz's ‘Christmas History’ by Vox Luminis with Florian Sievers as Evangelist was recently highly praised by the international press. In 2025, Louis Spohr's rediscovered work ‘Die letzten Stunden unseres Heilands’ (Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius/Carus), Ferdinand Hiller's oratorio ‘Saul’ (Kölner Akademie & Michael Willens/cpo) and Carl Reinecke's oratorio ‘Belshazzar’ (Gewandhauschor & Gregor Meyer/cpo) will be released with his participation. New recordings of various Bach cantatas with Le Concert Français (Pierre Hantai) and the Bachstiftung St. Gallen (Rudolf Lutz) will also be released.