Markus Flaig [SEP] voice type
Markus Flaig
Markus Flaig (born 1971) is a German bass-baritone.
Career.
Markus Flaig was born in Horb am Neckar. He studied sacred music and school music, then voice with Beata Heuer-Christen in Freiburg and with Berthold Possemeyer at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has worked with Carol Meyer-Bruetting. In 2004, he was awarded a prize at the international Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the voice category.
Flaig has collaborated on Lieder with Jörg Schweinbenz.
Mertens, and in 2011 she was the soprano in Handel's "Messiah", with Andreas Scholl, Ulrich Cordes and Markus Flaig. Her voice was described as clear and light, and her "Rejoice greatly" and "I know that my Redeemer liveth" were considered highlights of the performance along with Scholl's "He was despised".
In 2005, Plaschka performed Monteverdi's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" with the Frankfurter Kantorei. With the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei she sang Poulenc's "Gloria" and John Rutter