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The German tenor, Mirko Ludwig, gained his first singing experience as a boy soprano with the Chorknaben Uetersen. He studied with Professor Thomas Mohr and Krisztina Láki at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Here he also received important impulses in the field of historical performance practice by Manfred Cordes and Detlef Bratschke, among others.
In addition to the large solo parts in the concert and oratorio epertoire, including as an Evangelist in the great works of J.S. Bach, Mirko Ludwig is in great demand as an ensemble singer. He performs regularly with renowned ensembles such as Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor (Director: Thomas Hengelbrock), Cantus Cölln (Director: Konrad Junghänel), Collegium Vocale Gent (Director: Philippe Herreweghe), Les Cornets Noir, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam (Director: Harry van der Kamp), Himlische Cantorey or Cantus Thuringia (Director: Bernhard Klapprott). In the repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries (including Gabrieli, Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz), he not only performs the tenor parts, but can also be used for the high registers of the "tenor alto".
With his vocal ensemble Quartonal (founded in 2006) Mirko Ludwig won first prize in the category vocal ensemble at the Deutschen Chorwettbewerb in Dortmund in 2010 and in recent years has also won several prizes at international competitions. In spring 2017, the second album was released by Sony Classical.
Numerous CD and radio recordings for the labels Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, CPO, NDR Kultur, Radio Bremen, Deutschlandradio Kultur document his musical work.
Mirko Ludwig gained stage experience at the Hamburgischen Staatsoper as a member of a vocal ensemble for Baroque operas. Furthermore, he sang u.a. the roles of Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, and Orpheus in J. Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in the productions of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
One of the highlights of his career to date is the participation in the 5-voice vocal ensemble at the opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in January 2017. In 2018 he was heard as a soloist at Festpsielen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Schleswig-Holstein-Musik- Festival. |
