{"id":11789,"date":"2023-08-01T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T09:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiagofestival.it\/archivio\/benjamin-appl\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:50:25","slug":"benjamin-appl","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/asiagofestival.it\/en\/archivio\/benjamin-appl\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Appl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div id=\"ultimate-heading-718269d9c5801bdb8\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-718269d9c5801bdb8 uvc-1998  uvc-heading-default-font-sizes\" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-718269d9c5801bdb8 h4'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h4 style=\"--font-weight:theme;margin-bottom:10px;\">Benjamin Appl<\/h4><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-718269d9c5801bdb8 .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"desktop:20px;\",\"line-height\":\"desktop:26px;\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;color:#000028;margin-bottom:25px;\">baritone<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Appl began his musical career as a young chorister at the renowned &#8220;Regensburger Domspatzen,&#8221; later continuing his studies at the &#8220;Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater M\u00fcnchen&#8221; and finally at the &#8220;Guildhall School of Music &amp; Drama&#8221; in London. He was fortunate to be mentored by the legendary singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Appl says, &#8220;My years of working with Fischer-Dieskau were invaluable and had an enormous formative influence on me. He is an inspiration, someone who is always on a relentless quest for a deeper understanding of music and life. He was a model for growing as an artist, not just interpreting, but each time creating.&#8221; Appl also enjoys a significant long-term collaboration with composer Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g. As an accomplished concert pianist, Appl has performed at the &#8220;Ravinia,&#8221; &#8220;Rheingau,&#8221; &#8220;Schleswig Holstein,&#8221; &#8220;Edinburgh International,&#8221; and &#8220;Oxford Lieder&#8221; festivals, &#8220;Schubertiade Schwarzenberg,&#8221; and the &#8220;KlavierFestival Ruhr.&#8221; He has performed at major concert venues including Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin and Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Mus\u00e9e de Louvre Paris, at Wigmore Hall and Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling. Much in demand as a soloist on the world&#8217;s most prestigious stages, he collaborates with &#8220;NHK Symphony Orchestra,&#8221; &#8220;Philadelphia Orchestra,&#8221; &#8220;Staatskapelle Dresden,&#8221; &#8220;Philharmonia,&#8221; &#8220;Seattle Symphony,&#8221; &#8220;Vienna Symphony,&#8221; and many others. Going forward, Appl&#8217;s 2022\/23 season includes orchestral concerts with &#8220;Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra&#8221; conducted by Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 and &#8220;Royal Liverpool Philharmonic&#8221; in Mozart&#8217;s Requiem, &#8220;NDR Hannover&#8221; with Andrew Manze and &#8220;Orchestre Pays de Loir &#8220;and Brahms&#8217; Requiem; the &#8220;Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Thomas S\u00f8nderg\u00e5rd&#8221; in Britten&#8217;s War Requiem; with &#8220;Orchestra La Verdi&#8221; of Milan in Mahler&#8217;s Kindertotenlieder; and the prestigious &#8220;Zurich Chamber Orchestra&#8221; New Year&#8217;s Gala. A revered interpreter of period music, Benjamin looks forward to collaborations with Les Talens Lyriques in a solo tour of Mozart and in Bach&#8217;s Passion according to Matthew with Christophe Rousset; a recital with Ensemble Masques at BOZAR in Brussels; more Bach programs with the &#8220;Berliner Barocksolisten&#8221;; and his debut with the &#8220;Gabetta Ensemble&#8221; in Budapest.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<br \/>\n<!-- wpml-sync-fix --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He made his debut at the age of 12 with the Zerkalnyy Zal Chamber Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dt_portfolio_category":[139,154,133],"dt_portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11789","dt_portfolio","type-dt_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_portfolio_category-artists","dt_portfolio_category-artists-2023","dt_portfolio_category-participating-artists","dt_portfolio_category-139","dt_portfolio_category-154","dt_portfolio_category-133","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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