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The German tenor, Thaisen Rusch, was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and grew up in Germany. He gained his first musical experience at the Institute of Music Tapiola in Helsinki, Finland and received instruction in vocal training with Christian Hauschild, later on with Karl-Heinz Lampe from the Norddeutschen Rundfunk Chor in Hamburg. He began his studies in stage and concert singing in 2007, initially at the Music Academy in Lübeck and continued his studies at the Hanns Eisler College of music in Berlin with Professor Scot Weir und Júlia Várady. His studies in the subject of Lied-interpretation characterized him in the Lied-class of Wolfram Rieger. In 2014 he successfully completed his training, graduating with a Master of Music. He received further valuable inspirations from the hero tenor Reiner Goldberg and by participating in the master classes of Christine Schäfer, Irwin Gage and Peter Berne. Thaisen Rusch is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and of the Richard Wagner Association in Würzburg.
Thaisen Rusch gathered his first stage experience already during his studies, among others, at the Theatre in Kiel / Schleswig-Holstein in 2010 in the new production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, in the 2012-2013 season at the Berlin State Opera unter den Linden at the Schiller Theatre in the title role of the children’s opera The Brave Little Tailor as well as with the world premiere New Scenes at the German Opera in Berlin. During the 2014-2015 season he again appeared at the Berlin State Opera in the re-adoption of Mitterer’s The Brave Little Tailor, in Cuis‘ Puss in Boots and in Ariadne on Naxos by Strauss. During the 2016-2017 season he was engaged and member of the ensemble at the Theatre Gera/Altenburg - TPT Theatre and Philharmony Thuringia. At the Landestheater Altenburg he successfully appeared as Ernesto in Don Pasquale by Donizetti (Director Axel Köhler). In the Summer 2017 he performed convincingly at the German National Theatre Weimar in the title role of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's St. John Passion (Director Philipp Harnoncourt) with the Staatskapelle Weimar (Kirill Karabits). For the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons, he was a member of the ensemble at the States Theatre Augsburg in Bavaria. He sang the major character Philipp Gjurka in Paul Abrahams` Operetta Roxy & Her Wonderteam (Director: Martin G. Berger).
Thaisen Rusch is, in particular, successful in the subjects of Concert and Lied. Concert Engagements have led him, i.a. to the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatskapelle Berlin, Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra Kraków, New Zürich Orchestra, Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, New Prussian Philharmonics and Baroque Orchestras l’Arte del Mondo, La Banda & Lautten Compagney Berlin.
He was a frequent guest at various international festivals such as the Shanghai Performing Art Festival, Copenhagen Opera Festival, International Week Graz, Impulse Festival Graz, Cultural Festival “Kulturwald Bavarian Forest”, the renowned Concert Series “Musik im Pfaffenwinkel" as well as the Music Festival in Potsdam. Concert tours have taken him to Switzerland, Scandinavia, People`s Republic of China, Australia and New Zealand.
Together with the renowned accompanist, Trung Sam (Bonn), Thaisen Rusch has already presented various lieder recitals and has presented a solo-recital at the Cultural Casino in Bern, Switzerland.
His wide solo repertoire has expanded to encompass J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248), St. John Passion (BWV 245) & St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Mass in B minor (BWV 232), as well as Benjamin Britten's Serenade, Bruckner`s Te Deum, Haydn`s Missa Cellensis, W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Ramirez’s Missa Criolla, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass) just like the well-known Lied-cycles, i.e. Robert Schumann’s Poet Love, Schubert’s Winter Journey, as well as Hanns Eisler’s Holderlin-Fragments.
Thaisen Rusch was academy and freelance member of the Grammy-awarded Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Choir), directed by Gijs Leenaars and Simon Halsey. With this choir he joined various performances together with the Berliner Philharmoniker (directed by Sir Simon Rattle), Radio-Symphonie-Orchester-Berlin, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He was from 2019 to 2022 a member of the "Chorsolisten" - Opera Choir at Komische Oper Berlin. At the Komische Oper Berlin he appeared in minor roles in the productions: Der Rosenkavalier/R.Strauss (Director: Andreas Homoki), La Bohème/G. Puccini (Director: Barrie Kosky), Candide/Leonard Bernstein (Director: Barrie Kosky) as-well as the semi staged R. Schumann Production Mondnacht (Director: Barrie Kosky). In January 2023 he will become a new member of the Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin (Jeremy Bines).
During the Winter Semester 2022-2023 Thaisen Rusch holds a lectureship at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in the university faculty of medical science. His lecture topic "Find Your Voice" will be integrated in the lectures of the neurophysiology. His current Vocal Coach is the Italian operatic Soprano Arianna Ballotta (Bologna) as well as the German Tenor Reinhold Beiten (RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin). In Addition to that he works regularly with Jean-Christophe Charron and Professor Norbert Strolz. |
