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The German baritone, Ansgar Theis, grew up in a family of musicians near Detmold. Along the way, he benefited from a wide range of musical training and practice. After starting his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (October 2013-October 2016; double studies in choir conducting with Anne Kohler and singing with Gerhild Romberger), he moved to Munich in 2016. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Class of 2018) and the Theaterakademie August Everding (September 2018-2020) with Lars Woldt and Andreas Schmidt. The singer was a scholarship holder of the Deutschen Bühnenverein, Vereins Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München, Richard-Wagner-Verbandes München and Bischöflichen Studienförderung Cusanuswerk and is a prize-winner of Bundeswettbewerb Gesang 2022 in Berlin. He is currently deepening his studies with Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber. Teaching with artists such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Christiane Iven, Julian Prégardien, Ian Bostridge, Aribert Reimann, Gerd Uecker and Eberhard Feltz broadened his horizons.
Ansgar Theis works nationally and internationally as a soloist in operas, concerts and Lieder. He works with orchestras such as the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Concerto München, Ensemble Musikfabrik (Köln) and Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (Amsterdam), but also with ensembles such as the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rundfunkchor Berlin and vocal ensembles such as the Singphoniker and the Vokalzirkel München.
Ansgar Theis' extensive repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the modern era. In addition to major works such as the great oratorios by J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, W.A. Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn, he also dedicates himself to new works by contemporary composers such as Gordon Kampe, Max Beckschäfer, Jean-Luc Darbellay and Martin Smolka, in whose premieres he took part. In opera, he was recently heard as Demetrius in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. As a concert singer, he performed this season as bass soloist in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 in Munich's Herkulessaal with Concerto München, among others.
In addition to his artistic work, Ansgar Theis teaches as a voice trainer at the Münchner Domsingschule. In the current season, he can be seen, among other things, in the children's opera Bösemann by Steingrimur Rohloff in February 2024 as a father and narrator in the Theater Schwere Reiter in Munich (the Munich ensemble der/gelbe/klang is playing) and as a baritone soloist in human requiem, the staged version of Johannes Brahms' Requiem with the Rundfunkchor Berlin (May/June 2024 in the Radialsystem V/Berlin). |
