|
The German counter-tenor, Tobias Hechler, completed his studies first at the Bremen University of the Arts (2013-2017) with Katharina Rössner and later with Gudrun Pelker at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. He received further inspiration and coaching from Margreet Honig and Marek Rzepka. He was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
Guest engagements have taken Tobias Hechler to the Theater an der Wien, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Staatsoper Hannover, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, as well as the Theater Osnabrück and the Wuppertaler Bühnen. As a concert soloist he has appeared in the great oratorios and passions of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, as well as in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.
In 2021 Tobias Hechler took part in the renowned Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. In recent seasons, he has made his debut in specialist roles such as Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theater Vorpommern (2022), and as Ruggiero in G.F. Handel's Alcina at the Volkstheater Rostock (2023). In the 2024-2025 season, he will first be seen at the Schauspielhaus Hannover in The Artificial Silk Girl based on the novel by Irmgard Keun. In spring 2025, he will make his debut at the Oper Frankfurt in Aribert Reimann's L'Invisible as the second servant. He currently lives in Hannover, Germany |
