SINGER (since 2000)
During the festival Opéra à Baugé in summer 2010, Jörg Schnass sings the Speaker in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (conductor: Alexander Walker) and Monterone in Verdi’s Rigoletto (conductor: Philip Hesketh).
In autumn 2010 he sings Osmin in Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail at l’Opera breve, New York, Greenwich House School of Music.
Since 2000 Jörg Schnass regularly gives récitals with pianists Rianka Bouwmeester in London and with Emre Can Karayel and Nicolas Ducloux in Paris (Maison Heine, Maison du Cambodge, Centre Culturel d’Orly, Trinity College London etc.). He sings the bass solos in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew’s Passion and in Handel’s Creation during services at the churches Notre Dame de Lorette, Paris and Annonciation and Trinité in Brussels.
Jörg Schnass sang the Lied « Geduld », op.10, N°5 by Richard Strauss in the movie Laisser Passer by Bertrand Tavernier.
In March 2005 Jörg Schnass received the practical equivalent of the Bachelor of Arts by Guildhall School of Music & Trinity College in London (Licence in Recital / Voice).
He built his voice with Cornelius L. Reid in New York (1996 – 2008) and coached with Jennifer Petralia, Gary Norden and Lenora Eve in New York.
He took piano lessons with Natalia Sitolenko in Paris and with Jennifer Petralia in New York (1997 – 2005), and studied music theory at the Conservatoire municipale de Clichy (1985 – 90). |