Jan Kobow | |
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| Born | 1966 West Berlin, West Germany |
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| Occupation | Classical tenor |
| Organization | Himlische Cantorey |
Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.
Jan Kobow | |
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| Born | 1966 West Berlin, West Germany |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Classical tenor |
| Organization | Himlische Cantorey |
Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.
Jan Kobow was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the Staats- und Domchor, Berlin with Christian Grube. He studied the organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in 1994. He continued to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Sabine Kirchner, graduating in 1999. [1]
In the field of historically informed performance he has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. In 2002, he recorded several cantatas for Pentecost of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, conducted by Ludger Rémy, with one voice per part, the four soloists forming the choir. [2] In 2003 he recorded Bach cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent, Johannette Zomer, Ingeborg Danz and Peter Kooy, including Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 , written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724. [3] In 2007, he recorded more Bach cantatas with Herreweghe, Dorothee Mields, Matthew White and Peter Kooy. [4] In 2007, he performed with Herreweghe the tenor arias of Bach's St John Passion in Alice Tully Hall. [5] In 2008, he sang the part of the Evangelist in an arrangement of this passion by Robert Schumann. A review states: "Jan Kobow's rendition of the evangelist's role is brilliant—compellingly dramatic and wonderfully fluent, and the ease of his high range is remarkable." [6]
He has performed Baroque opera, such as in 2004 the part of Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in a production also presented at Lincoln Center in New York, in Caen and in Luxembourg. In 2007, he sang the title role of this opera in concert performances with Les Talens Lyriques, directed by Christophe Rousset. [7]
He has performed and recorded Lieder of the period of Romanticism accompanied on period instruments. He sang Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang with Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Lieder of Siegmund von Seckendorff on words of Goethe with Ludger Rémy (pianoforte), and Lieder and Ballads of Carl Loewe with Cord Garben. [8] In 2010 Kobow took part in the project Robert Schumann: Sammlung von Musik-Stücken alter und neuer Zeit, which was initiated by Radio Bremen and resulted in a series of broadcasts and CDs. Artists such as Veronika Winter and Andreas Pruys performed the 70 compositions which Schumann had added to the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1838 to 1841. [9]
Kobow co-founded the ensemble Himlische Cantorey, performing works of Claudio Monteverdi and John Dowland, among others. [1]
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