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The German baritone, Florian Just, started his education as a singer with entering the Dresdner Kreuzchor. There he was singing as a boy soprano-soloist in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatsoper Berlin. He studied at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Metz in the Opera- and Lied class of Udo Reinemann. He took part in master-classes of Thomas Hampson, Udo Reinemann, Rudolf Jansen, Hartmut Höll, Noëlle Barker, Roger Vignoles and Jard van Nes.
Florian Just is regularly performing J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) and Passions (BWV 244, BWV 245) (Dresden Staatskapelle, Amsterdam Bach Consort, Het Gelders Orkest), Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré and Sgambati and he performed Gustav Mahler’s early songs with orchestra (De Filharmonie) and various times Orff’s Carmina Burana. In the coming seasons he will perform at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in the Zaterdagmatinee (conductor Markus Stenz) and as soloist during J.S. Bach's Matthew-Passion (BWV 244) tour with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging (conductor Václav Luks).
His opera repertoire includes Pelléas from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Nationale Reisopera - RAP/ Opera Transparant), Dulcamara from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Enrico from Haydn’s L’isola disabitata (Grachtenfestival). Since a couple of years he is a regular guest at Holland Opera. Beside the title roles from L´Orfeo by C. Monteverdi and Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell, he sang in countless performances of newly composed operas throughout all the Netherlands.He also worked internationally on highly acclaimed contemporary music productions. He performed in Lucia Ronchetti’s new opera Der Sonne entgegen (Opernhaus Gelsenkirchen), sang Xenakis’ Oresteïa and Il Servo in Sciarrinos Luci mie traditrici (Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires and Teatro Argentino in La Plata) and the title role in the world premiere of Morton Subotnik's Jacobs Room at the Bregenzer Festspiele, Berlin, Vienna and Dresden. Recently he sang Pelléas at Opera Transparant in Belgium, Norway, France and the Netherlands and Xenakis’ Aïs at Teatro Colon / Buenos Aires.
Florian Just has worked with conductors like Reinbert de Leeuw, Jos van Veldhoven, Arturo Tamayo, Alejo Peres and Tito Ceccherini.
With pianist Jan-Paul Grijpink and lute player Israel Golani Florian Just e forms duos that perform repertoire from the early Renaissance till the contemporary period in numerous concerts throughout the Netherlands. He has won a various number of important prizes at international singing contests. So as in march 2004 the "Vriendenkrans" and press prize of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in 2006 the prestigious Schubert interpretation prize of the contest "Schubert and the music of modern times" in Graz, Austria. He currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
