Richard Resch & Ensemble La Silla
Biography Richard Resch & Ensemble La Silla
Richard Resch
Born in Regensburg, the tenor Richard Resch received his first musical training at the Regensburger Domspatzen humanistic music high school, where he came into contact with a wide musical repertoire right from the start and was able to work with many well-known artists.
After graduating from high school, he first studied elementary music education, piano and singing education at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music, including with Agnes Habereder. The pedagogical studies were followed by singing studies with Prof. Hans-Joachim Beyer as well as with Edda Sevenich and Prof. Dominik Wortig at the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg.
In addition to his singing work, he also studied music education and concert pedagogy at the Leopold Mozart Center and then deepened his knowledge of early music and ensemble singing at the Academy of Early Music “Schola Cantorum Basiliensis” at the Basel Music Academy.
In addition to many well-known lecturers such as Evelyn Tubb, Marcelo Amaral, Frieder Bernius, Anthony Rooley and Tobias Truniger, who accompanied him through his studies, Richard Resch rounded off his training with master classes, among others. with Brigitte Fassbaender, Margreet Honig, Regina Resnik, Irwin Gage, Rudolf Jansen, Rudolf Piernay, Udo Reinemann, Wolfram Rieger and Gerd Türk.
Richard Resch is a winner of several international competitions, such as the “Concorso Internazionale del Canto Lirico Toti dal Monte” in Treviso, the “International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg” and the “International Opera Competition Gut Immling”. He was also honored with the City of Augsburg's Art Promotion Prize.
As part of his busy work as a concert and opera singer, engagements have taken him to various theaters such as the Augsburg and Braunschweig State Theaters, the Bregenz State Theater, the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Bavarian State Opera, as well as to festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Bach Montréal Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the ION Musica Sacra in Nuremberg, the Munich Opera Festival, the Stuttgart Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Salzburg Mozart Week.
Richard Resch works with many well-known conductors, such as Howard Arman, Francesco Corti, Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph Hammer, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken, Michel Laplénie, Andrea Marcon, Marc Minkowski, Andrew Parrott, Philippe Pierlot, Joshua Rifkin, Helmuth Rilling, Christophe Rousset, Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Andreas Spering, Jos van Veldhoven and Peter Whelan as well as with well-known ensembles and orchestras such as the Bachkollegium Stuttgart, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Capella Istropolitana, the La Cetra Barockorchester, Les Musiciens Du Louvre, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the La Folia Baroque Orchestra, the Kanazawa Orchestra Ensemble, the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, the Neue Münchener Hofkapelle, the symphony orchestras of the Bavarian Radio, the Hessian Radio and the Südwestrundfunk or Vox Luminis and the Ensemble Continuum.
Numerous concerts and radio productions take Richard Resch throughout Europe, from Norway to Italy, from Spain to Russia, as well as to China and Japan, where he performed in concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Philharmonie in the Gasteig, the Beijing National Center Of Performing Arts or the Tokyo Opera City. In 2019 he made his debut with Schubert's Winter Journey in the USA, with further country debuts in Brazil and South Africa coming soon.
In addition to the well-known stage and concert repertoire, chamber music making is particularly important to him - whether in a song duo with piano, lute or guitar, or with a string or vocal ensemble, from the Renaissance to contemporary works. With collaborative, transparent music-making, he also likes to introduce the audience to lesser-known repertoire. For example, with the newly founded vocal ensemble “Alerĭon” or established groups such as “Vox Luminis” or “Voces Suaves”.
Richard Resch is increasingly dedicating himself to educational activities and passes on his personal experiences and technical knowledge to students worldwide in interpretation classes and master courses, most recently at Hong Kong University, the Kharkov National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the West Texas A&M University.
In November 2022, his solo debut CD “If I only have you” was released by Carpe Diem Records.
