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The German tenor, Daniel Sans, was a boy soprano in the choir of the Mainz Cathedral. He studied at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Martin Gründler. He specialized in oratorio and Lied with Karl-Heinz Jarius and Charles Spencer. His awards include: First prize at the Internationaler Brahms-Wettbewerb in Austria; Förderpreis Rheinland-Pfalz.
Daniel Sans has performed in the Wiener Konzerthaus with Michael Schneider, the Teatro Colon with Karl-Friedrich Beringer, at the Feldkirch Festival with Thomas Hengelbrock, the Kölner Philharmonie with Peter Neumann, the Berliner Philharmonie with Hans-Christoph Rademann, the Dresdner Kreuzkirche with Roderich Kreile, the Leipziger Thomaskirche with Gotthold Schwarz, and the Alte Oper in Frankfurt with Ralf Otto. In 2009 he performed Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus with the Landesjugendorchester (State Youth Orchestra) of NRW.
Daniel Sans has collaborated with the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. He has appeared with local choirs of the Rhein Main area, for example in 1999 he appeared with Christof Fischesser in Puccini's Messa di Gloria, both in St. Martin, Idstein and the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg. In 2001 he sang there the tenor part in Benjamin Britten's The Company of Heaven for speaker, soloists, choir and orchestra (1937), which the composer had written for Peter Pears. In 2009 he was the tenor soloist (Uriel) in Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Elisabeth Scholl (Gabriel, Eve), Andreas Pruys (Raphael, Adam) and the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei in the Rheingauer Dom in Geisenheim and in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg.
Daniel Sans recorded with Nicol Matt the masses of W.A. Mozart and Bruckner's Mass in D minor. He recorded the Robert Levin completion of W.A. Mozart's Requiem with the Bachchor Mainz, Barockorchester L'arpa festante München, Julia Kleiter, Gerhild Romberger, and Klaus Mertens, conducted by Ralf Otto, Schubert's Mass in E-flat major with Matthias Breitschaft, and F. Mendelssohn's Elias with Ronen Borshevsky. Again with Nicol Matt, he recorded in 2002 the complete choral works of F. Mendelssohn, and in 2006, Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and W.A. Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor. |
