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Yosemeh Adjei

Yosemeh Adjei blickt direkt in die Kamera
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Yosemeh Adjei

The countertenor with Ghanaian roots was born in Nuremberg and initially trained on the trumpet. Today, Yosemeh Adjei delights audiences internationally with his unique voice as a singer on concert and opera stages.

About the artist

Countertenor with an extraordinary voice

Career

With his extraordinary voice, countertenor Yosemeh Adjei delights audiences on concert and opera stages at home and abroad. Born in Nuremberg with Ghanaian roots, he "grew up" as a Windsbacher Sängerknabe and participated in numerous record and television productions as well as concert tours at the age of ten. He initially trained as an instrumentalist on the trumpet at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule.

Back to singing

As a long-time member of the West German Radio Orchestra in Cologne, he completed his studies at the Cologne Academy of Music with Kai Wessel with distinction and refocused his musical interest on singing. Important sources of inspiration for his musical development were personalities such as Andreas Scholl in Basel, Charles Brett in London and Thomas Quasthoff in Berlin.

Collaborations

Since his concert debut with musica antiqua under the direction of Reinhard Goebel, Yosemeh Adjei has sung with renowned orchestras and ensembles such as the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra, the Gächinger Kantorei, the Radio Orchestra of the Wesdeutscher Rundfunk and the Potsdamer Kammerakademie in numerous solo concerts under the direction of Karl Heinz Steffens, Helmut Rilling as well as Andrea Marcon, Denis Comtet and Konrad Junghänel, Michael Hofstetter and Alessandro De Marchi.

Festivals

He is a regular guest at the music festivals in Rheingau, Schleswig Holstein, Nantes, the Musiksommer Kloster Chorin, in Brandenburg and the MDR in Leipzig.

As a finalist in the German Music Competition and winner of the International Early Music Competition in Bruges, Detlev Glanert composed the music for Yosemeh Adjei for the radio play production "Orlando furioso" by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, which was subsequently published by the New York music publisher Random House. The following year he made his debut at the Handel Festival in Halle with Handel's Athalia in "La Stagione" Frankfurt and has since been regarded as one of the most outstanding singers in his field.

On Stage

In 2019 Yosemeh Adjei performed the leading role of Valmont in the opera pastiche "Vivaldi - Dangerous Liasons" with arias by Antonio Vivaldi and Vanni Moretteo with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging. A tour with this renowned ensemble followed in 2020 with secular music by J. S. Bach. This concert programme was released on DVD as part of the "all about Bach" project (a video recording of the Bachvereninginging's complete Bach oeuvre). Other productions with Yosemeh Adjei in the title role, e.g. Handel's Siroe or Ezio, have been released on DVD or CD by well-known labels such as Arthouse, Artist and Sony.

Yosemeh Adjei appeared in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo at the Nuremberg International Gluck Festival in 2019, followed by a CD production of the narrative opera "Orfeo" with the Nuremberg Ratsmusik.

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