Christoph Genz [SEP] voice type
Christoph Genz
Christoph Genz (born 1 March 1971 in Erfurt) is a German tenor in opera and concert.
Career.
Christoph Genz was a member of the Thomanerchor. He studied music at King’s College, Cambridge where he was a member of the King’s College Choir. He studied voice with Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. In 1996, he won the first prize of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition.
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Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12", written in Weimar in 1714, recorded in 2009 together with Gerlinde Sämann, Christoph Genz and Jan van der Crabben. She appeared in a concert of Bach cantatas at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey in 2005. She recorded with La Petite Bande also Bach's "St Matthew Passion" and "Mass in B minor", with Genz as the Evangelist and van der Crabben as the Vox Christi, the voice of Jesus. The ensemble, with the