Gerd Türk [SEP] voice type
Gerd Türk
Gerd Türk is a German classical tenor.
Biography.
Gerd Türk received his first musical training as a choir boy at the cathedral of Limburg. He studied in Frankfurt and then at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Richard Levitt and René Jacobs, continuing in master classes with Ernst Haefliger and Kurt Equiluz.
In the field of historically informed performance he has worked with Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe and Jordi Savall. He was a founding member of the ensemble Cantus Cölln and has collaborated with the Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Chiyuki Urano
Urano studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and was awarded prizes at several competitions. He has recorded cantatas and other compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, both as a soloist and a member of the ensemble. With the ensemble, he recorded in 1998 the vox Christi (voice of Christ) in Bach's "St John Passion", with Gerd Türk as the Evangelist and Peter Kooy singing the bass roles and arias, in a recording praised