photo: Miriam Lewin

Alexander Schneider was born in Frankenberg/Saxony. He was member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1987 to 1996 before going on to study at the College of Music „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin as a student of Peter Herrmann. In 2004 he gained his degree in singing and education. He attended masterclasses of David Cordier, Jeffrey Gall and Peter Kooij.

The Altus sung with many wellknown ensembles for Early Music like Cantus Coeln, Concerto Palatino, Collegium Vocale Gent, Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin, Absolut Ensemble New York, Rheinische Kantorei, Ricercar Consort, Saechsisches Vocalensemble, Sette Voci, Dresdner Kammerchor, Ensemble Amarcord, Musica Fiata Koeln and the Lauttencompagney Berlin.

Conductors such as Philipp Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Kristian Jaervi, Stephen Stubbs, Herrmann Max, Howard Arman, Joshua Rifkin, Philippe Pierlot, Wolfgang Katschner, Martin Haselboeck, Marcus Creed, Attilio Cremonesi, Hans Chr. Rademann and Konrad Junghaenel have worked with him.

Numerous CD- recordings document this work.

One of the artist's special concerns is to work out solo-programs.

Well-known artists like the harpsichordists Ludger Rémy and Mark Nordstrand or the Lutenist Ophira Zakai are his musical partners. As artistic initiator of the ensemble Polyharmonique he unites musicians and artists from all over Germany and Europe, to present concerts on highest level in the "Heilig-Geist-Kapelle“ at the business School of the Humboldt- University Berlin.

At the Neukoellner Oper Berlin in 1999 he made his kindly regarded opera debut in „La Sorella amante“, a Commedia per Musica by Johann Adolf Hasse. He was guest at the Theater Heidelberg, the Opera Leipzig, the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstaedt, the Schlosstheater Potsdam (Neues Palais) and the Theatre Gera.

In the Worldpremiere of the Jazzopera „Casanova“ by Daniel Schnyder he sung the "Mozart" in Gstaad/Switzerland and New York City/USA.

He is one of the laureates of the competition „Musica Antiqua“ in Brügge 2002.

discography

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