Jörg Dürmüller [SEP] voice type
Jörg Dürmüller
Jörg Dürmüller (born 28 August 1959 in Bern) is a Swiss classical tenor in concert and opera.
Biography.
Dürmüller studied violin and voice at the conservatory of Winterthur and took voice master classes with Edith Mathis, Christa Ludwig and Hermann Prey.
As a concert singer, Dürmüller has appeared as the Evangelist in Bach's Passions and in his cantatas. He took part in the project of Ton Koopman to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.
She recorded Bach's "St Matthew Passion" in 1997 with conducting the , Jörg Dürmüller as the Evangelist and Klaus Mertens as the vox Christi (voice of Jesus).
In the field of historically informed performance, she has worked with the choir Junge Kantorei in Eberbach Abbey in works of Handel, "Hercules" in 2006, "Alexander's Feast" and "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" in 2008, and "Messiah" in 2009. She has collaborated regularly with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande in