Patrick Grahl
Born in Leipzig, Patrick Grahl was a member of St Thomas’s Boys Choir under the direction of Georg Christoph Biller before continuing his vocal education at his home-town’s Musikhochschule Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He completed his studies with Prof. Berthold Schmid with a ‘Meisterklassenexamen’, for which he was awarded a distinction. Master classes with Peter Schreier, Gotthold Schwarz, Gerd Türk, Kammersängerin Ileana Cotrubas, and Prof. Karl-Peter Kammerlander have offered further significant inspiration for his artistic development.
In 2016, the tenor was awarded first prize at the twentieth Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb in Leipzig. He is in high demand as a singer of oratorio and concert repertoires and has been invited to perform as a soloist alongside the Gewandhausorchester, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Gürzenichorchester Köln, as well as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Hartmut Haenchen, Ludwig Güttler, Peter Schreier, Andrew Manze, and Leopold Hager, and continues to nurture a close connection with St Thomas’s Boys Choir and the Dresdner Kreuzchor.
In addition to numerous concert and opera performances, Grahl cherishes chamber music projects and song recitals, for instance with his male-voice quartet Thios Omilos or the Ensemble Barockwerk Ost. With the latter ensemble, he won first prize at the Förderpreis Alte Musik in 2014, awarded by the Saarländischer Rundfunk and the Akademie für Alte Musik im Saarland.
In 2016, the tenor was awarded first prize at the twentieth Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb in Leipzig. He is in high demand as a singer of oratorio and concert repertoires and has been invited to perform as a soloist alongside the Gewandhausorchester, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Gürzenichorchester Köln, as well as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Hartmut Haenchen, Ludwig Güttler, Peter Schreier, Andrew Manze, and Leopold Hager, and continues to nurture a close connection with St Thomas’s Boys Choir and the Dresdner Kreuzchor.
In addition to numerous concert and opera performances, Grahl cherishes chamber music projects and song recitals, for instance with his male-voice quartet Thios Omilos or the Ensemble Barockwerk Ost. With the latter ensemble, he won first prize at the Förderpreis Alte Musik in 2014, awarded by the Saarländischer Rundfunk and the Akademie für Alte Musik im Saarland.
