Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim is an Australian tenor who emerged as an international singer in the 1990s.
He was a fine French horn player who had eight years of experience as members of orchestras and brass groups when he entered the Victorian Academy of the Arts to study singing. His teacher was Dame Joan Hammond.
After graduation with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, he was with the Victoria State Opera for three years, and was also a member of the Treason of Images Theatre Company Australia. He debuted with them as both Jove and Sylvia in La Calisto by Cavalli at the 1988 Melbourne Spoleto Fringe Festival.
He received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver jubilee Award in Australia, and also an Australia Council Overseas Study Grant.
He went to Europe where he studied with John Modenos in Athens and had several master classes with singers such as Gösta Winberg, Neil Schicoff, and Ileana Cotrubas. He spent two years at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where he also studied Lieder interpretation with the internationally famous accompanist Irwin Gage.
Davislim became a member of the of the Zurich Opera in 1994. With that company he has sung the parts of Count Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Achilles in La Belle Helene, Tamino in The Magic Flute, Ferrando in Così fan Tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Camille in The Merry Widow, and Gonsalvo in Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole.
He has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Hamburg Opera, the Berlin Staatsoper, and the Mozart Festival Schönbrunn Vienna. He was scheduled to debut as Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff at Covent Garden in 2001.
He also is a frequent concert singer, appearing with the Chicago Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Royal Danis Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He participated in the recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, part of that group's prize-winning complete Beethoven symphony recording on the Ars Nova label. He has also made numerous live and broadcast appearances with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Discography
8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Karol Szymanowski : Concerto pour violon n°1 - Symphonie n°3
Steve Davislim, Christian Tetzlaff, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Wiener Singverein, Johannes Prinz
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 19 Oct 2010
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Liszt: The Sound of Weimar – Die Orchesterwerke im Originalklang
Chorus sine nomine, Steve Davislim, Gottlieb Wallisch, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck
Classical - Released by Gramola Records on 15 Jun 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weber: Oberon
Hillevi Martinpelto, Steve Davislim, Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 4 Jul 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Liszt: Faust Symphony
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck, Steve Davislim, Chorus sine nomine
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 Feb 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes, Marijana Mijanovic, Steve Davislim, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on 1 Jan 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Seduction
Classical - Released by Melba Recordings on 9 Jan 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Michael Hersch: Poppaea (Live)
Ah Young Hong, Steve Davislim, Silke Gäng, Ensemble SoloVoices, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Jurg Henneberger
Opera - Released by New Focus Recordings on 16 Feb 2024
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Richard Wagner im Schweizer Exil
Christoph Keller, Zsuzsa Alföldi, Steve Davislim, Jeanine Hirzel, Mojca Vedernjak, Tatjana Gazdik
Classical - Released by Musiques Suisses on 1 Sep 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo