Christoph Genz
Christoph Genz is a German tenor who began to make a reputation in the late 1990s. He was a member of the renowned Leipzig Thomanerchor, an organization that was once one of Johann Sebastian Bach's choirs. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, in England, and was a member of the famous Choir of King's College. His teachers are Hans-Joachim Beyer and the great soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Early in his career he won First Prizes in the Leipzig Bach Competition and the Grimsby International Singers Competition in England.
Genz made an initial strong showing in the leading Mozart tenor roles of Tamino (The Magic Flute) and Fernando (Così fan tutte). He made a Wigmore Hall recital appearance in London in July 2000, receiving acclaim there and in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Concertgebouw recital hall in Amsterdam.
Genz has worked with conductors Herbert Blomstedt, Philippe Herreweghe, Franz Brüggen, Sir Simon Rattle, and Peter Schreier. He recorded Bach cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and has been chosen by Maestro Gardiner to participate in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Tour by Gardiner with his Monteverdi Singers Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
Genz has also recorded Bach's Passion According to St. John, BWV 245, with Ludwig Güttler and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos under the late Giuseppe Sinopoli.
His brother Stephan Genz, a baritone, likewise began singing in the Thomanerchor.
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Discography
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 13)
Yeree Suh, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Accent on 24 Mar 2011
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 8)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Accent on 1 Jan 2008
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 11)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Accent on 27 Jul 2010
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Cantates (Intégrale, volume 12)
Gerlinde Samann, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Accent on 9 Jan 2011
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Cantates pour une année liturgique (Intégrale, volume 3)
Jan van der Crabben, Elisabeth Hermans, La Petite Bande, Petra Noskaiova, Sigiswald Kuijken, Christoph Genz
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Accent on 1 Jan 2006
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Bach: Secular Cantatas, BWV 36c, 201, 206, 207, Quodlibet BWV 524
Dorothea Röschmann, Axel Kohler, Christoph Genz, Musica Antiqua Köln , Reinhard Goebel
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1997
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J.S. Bach: Arias for Tenor
Christoph Genz, Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 1 Sep 2006
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Un momento di contento
Julia Wagner, David Timm, Händelfestspielorchester Halle
Classical - Released by Coviello Classics on 30 May 2008
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Edition des Lieder (Intégrale, volume 10) : Textes autrichiens contemporains (volume 1)
Classical - Released by Naxos on 5 Nov 2002
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MOZART, W.A. / HAYDN, F.J.: Lieder (Genz)
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on 26 Sep 2000
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