Peter Schoene

Peter Schoene has established his international reputation as concert and opera singer. He won several competitions, including the Schubert Competition in Graz and Bundes-wettbewerb Gesang, and was prizewinner at the ARD.

Since his operatic debut es Eddy in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2002 his roles have included Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Jeletzki (Pique Dame), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Lescaut (Manon), Belcore (L’elisier d’amore), Frank/Fritz (Tote Stadt), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Valentin (Faust) as well as Amfortas (Parsifal). A great success was the name part in Monteverdis L’Orfeo.

Peter Schoene was born in Berlin in 1976 and began playing the violin at the age of five. He studied singing with Harald Stamm at the University der Künste Berlin and took part in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Francisco Araiza, Edda Moser and Thomas Hampson.

He has performed internationally in concert and recital, including engagements with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Nürnberger Sinfonikern and the Ensemble Kontrapunkte Vienna and collaborated with the conductors Kent Nagano, Thomas Adès, Dennis Russel Davies and Kirill Petrenko. Pianists like Helmut Deutsch, Jan Philip Schulze and Günther Albers were his musical partners and will be in future.

A keen proponent of contemporary music, he has worked extensively with the pianist Axel Bauni and the composers Aribert Reimann, Wolfgang Rihm, Wilhelm Killmayer and Moritz Eggert, for which he was awarded the Schneider-Schott Music Prize by the City of Mainz.

In Season 2010/2011 Peter Schoene will give his debut as Marcello (La Boheme) and as Eisenstein (Fledermaus). Beyond that he will sing as soloist at Richard-Strauß-Tagen in Garmisch-Patenkirchen, at Kissinger Sommer and with Münchener Rundfunk-orchester in Munich.