Conductor

Manfred Equiluz, Vienna, tenor, teacher for lead vocals at the academy of music Vienna, privat university

First music lessons (flute and piano) at the age of 6; further education at the gymnasium for music Neustiftgasse Vienna, in parallel studies at the institution for higher education for music and performing arts at the age of 12, singing education at the conservatory Vienna at 18. Final exam with honors in singing and oratorium and operetta. International solo performances as a singer already during studies and member at the „Bayreuther Festspielchor“ for many years; supplementary choir of Operahouse Vienna, ORF- and Arnold Schönbergchor.

Opera contracts with Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Sommerarena Baden, Kurtheater Bad Hall (Zarewitsch), Theater am Kornmarkt (Tamino), Wiener Kammeroper, Neuer Oper Wien; Rotterdam, Liege, Wiesbaden as well as Aachen (esp. Frantz/The Tales of Hoffmann; Beppo/Bajazzo; Peter Iwanow/Tsar and Carpenter; Victorin/Tote Stadt) and Volksoper Wien (esp. Don Curzio/Figaro, Flaut/Thisbe, Sommernachtstraum/Britten, Zorn/Meistersinger), as well as Staatsoperette Dresden (Hexe in Hänsel und Gretel)

Wide-ranging concert repertoire among classical songs, masses and oratorios – Johannes- und Matthäuspassion/Bach (Mexico) – esp. Stabat Mater/Dvorak, Missa da Gloria/Puccini (Kosice), Te Deum/Bruckner, Lied von der Erde/Mahler /Romania, Portugal), as well es contemporary arias and songs.

Teachings as singing teacher at the Joseph Haydn-conservatory Eisenstadt and the Musikhochschule Graz (until 1992), head of a lead vocal class at the conservatory Vienna, privat university since 1990.

Kontakt

chorus discantus Chorbüro: A-1120 Wien, Wolfganggasse 45-47 Tel: +43 664 2255 442
Fax: +43 1 890 5183 office@discantus.at