Yosemeh Adjei

Born in Nuremberg with Ghanaian roots, Yosemeh Adjei grew up as a Windsbach Choir Boy. By the age of ten he had already been involved in numerous record and television productions as well as concert tours.

He later was trained as an instrumentalist on the trumpet and then became a member of the WDR Radio Orchestra. During this time, he also completed a degree in vocal studies at the Cologne University of Music with Kai Wessel, which he passed with distinction. Consequently, Yosemeh shifted his musical focus back to singing. His vocal development was further influenced by Andreas Scholl, Charles Brett and Thomas Quasthoff.

Yosemeh Adjei was a finalist of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and a prize winner of the international Early Music Competition in Bruges. Subsequently Detlev Glanert composed for Yosemeh Adjei the music for the WDR radio play "Orlando furioso". This composition was later published by Random House, New York. In the following year, he made his debut in Handel's "Athalia" with La Statione Frankfurt at the Halle Handel Festival and has since been a sought-after soloist in his field.

Since then, the Altus has made guest appearances at renowned venues including KKL Lucerne Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Singel Antwerp, Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Bonn, Saxon State Opera Dresden, National Theater Mannheim, Theater am Gärtnerplatz Munich , Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Early Music Festival of Bruges, Music Festival La folle journée de Nantes, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Ruhr Triennale Bochum, Bach Festival Leipzig and at the Handel Festivals of Göttingen, Halle and Karlsruhe, to name but a few. He has sung under numerous renowned conductors including Helmuth Rilling, Andrea Marcon, Denis Comtet, Laurence Cummings, Nicholas McGegan, Reinhard Goebel, Konrad Junghänel, Michael Hofstetter, Wolfgang Katschner and Alessandro De Marchi.

In 2018, he appeared in the title role of Gluck's "Orfeo" at the International Gluck Festival in Nuremberg. In 2019 Yosemeh Adjei sang the leading role of Valmont in the opera pasticcio "Vivaldi - Dangerous Liasons" with arias by Antonio Vivaldi and Vanni Moretto with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging in a production of the Stichting OPERA2DAY, which took him to various theatres in the Netherlands, including the Royal Theater Den Hague, the Rotterdam Theater and the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam. With this production he was also meant to go on a tour through Switzerland in 2020 (cancelled). In 2019, the Altus could be heard with the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle in concert performances of the rarely performed sacred opera "Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo" by Emilio de 'Cavalieri in the role of Piacere. He returned to the Leipzig Bach Festival, and appeared at the 2019 International Gluck Festival in the narrative concert "Im Reich der Schatten". A CD production with this program will follow in September 2020.

Yosemeh Adjei took part in various CD / DVD productions, including for the Sony BMG and ARTHAUS labels.

He is a lecturer in baroque singing at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, at the University of Music in Nuremberg and at the State University for Music and Theater in Munich.