Sebastian Noack

Sebastian Noack studied voice with Ingrid Figur and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin, and went on to take postgraduate lessons from Thomas Quasthoff. At the German National Voice Competition (Bundeswettbewerb Gesang) he won First Prize, as well as Second Prize at the International Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London.

Noack is active as an opera and concert soloist on the international scene, collaborating with eminent conductors of the likes of Christoph Eschenbach, Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop, Kirill Petrenko, Helmuth Rilling, and Philippe Herreweghe. He is often invited to appear at illustrious festivals including Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein, Lake Constance, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Israel Chamber Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, and the Ruhrtriennale. His wide range of repertoire extends from the Renaissance to contemporary music.

He has honored engagements to sing at prominent venues such as the Staatsoper in Berlin (Donizettis Viva la Mama), the Staatstheater in Halle (Wolfram in Tannhäuser), the German National Theatre in Weimar (Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde), the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (with conductor Donald Runnicles), the Nederlandse Reisopera in Enschede, and the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Sebastian Noack has participated in a great number of CD productions and broadcast recordings (for Harmonia Mundi, Carus, ChannelClassics, SWR, NDR, Deutschlandradio and many other entities).

In 2015, OehmsClassics released his recording of the Dichterliebe cycle along with further Heine settings by Robert Schumann. Sebastian Noack is Professor of Voice at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.