Ansgar Theis
The Munich baritone Ansgar Theis is a national and international soloist in opera, concert and lieder.
He works with orchestras such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, Concerto München, the Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne) and the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (Amsterdam), as well as with ensembles such as the SWR Vokalensemble, the Bavarian Radio Choir, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and vocal ensembles such as the Singphoniker and the Vokalzirkel.
The singer’s extensive repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the modern era. In addition to major works such as the great oratorios by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Mendelssohn, Ansgar Theis also devotes himself to new works by contemporary composers such as Gordon Kampe, Max Beckschäfer, Jean-Luc Darbellay and Martin Smolka, in whose world premieres he has participated.
The singer was a scholarship holder of the German Stage Association, the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich Association, the Richard Wagner Association Munich and the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Grant and is a prizewinner of the Federal Singing Competition 2022 in Berlin.
Ansgar Theis grew up in a family of musicians near Detmold. Along the way, he benefited from a wide-ranging musical education and practice. After beginning his studies at the Detmold University of Music (double degree in choral conducting with Anne Kohler and singing with Gerhild Romberger), the young singer moved to Munich in 2016. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and the Theaterakademie August Everding with Lars Woldt and Andreas Schmidt. He is currently furthering his studies with Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber.
Lessons with artists such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Christiane Iven, Julian Prégardien, Ian Bostridge, Aribert Reimann, Gerd Uecker and Eberhard Feltz have broadened his horizons. In addition to his artistic activities, he teaches voice training at the Munich Cathedral Singing School. In the current season, Ansgar Theis can be seen in February 2024 in the children’s opera “Bösemann” by Steingrimur Rohloff as the father and narrator at the Schwere Reiter Theater in Munich (performed by the Munich ensemble der/gelbe/klang) and as the baritone soloist in “human requiem”, the staged version of Brahms’ Requiem with the Rundfunkchor Berlin (May/June 2024 at Radialsystem V/Berlin).