| Biography | German lyric baritone, Benjamin Appl, received his first musical training with the famous Regensburger Domspatzen. He studied with Edith Wiens as well as in Helmut Deutschs Lied class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich as well as at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. During master-classes, Benjamin Appl reinforced his training with Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christian Gerhaher, Margreet Honig, Rudolf Piernay as well as Peter Schreier.
In 2002, Benjamin Appl was awarded a Special Prize by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation for his outstanding interpretation of a 20th Centurys Work, he won a Dieter-Ullrich-Music-Promotion in Munich as well as a scholarship by the Richard-Wagner-Association. In 2003, he was a prize winner of the Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert. Since 2007, he holds a scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and, since 2008, he is promoted by the Yehudi-Menuhin-Foundation Live Music Now.
As a soloist Benjamin Appl has performed with ensembles, such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Arsatius Consort, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Bach Collegium Zürich and the Ensemble aperto of the Haller Bach-Tage. He was soloist in a service held by Pope Benedikt XVI. in Regensburg on the occasion of his apostolic visit to Bavaria in 2006, broadcasted live worldwide.
Benjamin Appl has sung at festivals such as the Bachwoche Stuttgart, Internationale Sommerakademie Salzburg, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Internationale Haller Bach-Tage and at the Internationale Bach-Tage Zürich. In 2010, he performed George Frideric Handels Messiah in Paris, G.F. Handel s Samson in Augsburg and sang Gustav Mahler s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen on a tour of Germany. He also took part in the opening concert of the 2010 Days of Early Music Regensburg. |