Biography

Sebastian Noack was born in Berlin and studied singing at the Academy of the Arts Berlin with Dietmar Hackel, Ingrid Figur, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He became known through various successful competitions including the German Federal Singing Competition Berlin, the Paula Lindberg Salomon competition “Das Lied“, and The Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition in London.
 
Noack is known and esteemed as a concert singer. His concert appearances include “Ein deutsches Requiem“ by Johannes Brahms, “L’Enfance du Christ“ by Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's “Die erste Walpurgisnacht“, “Requiem“ by Gabriel Fauré, and “B Minor Mass”, “the Christmas Oratorio”, “the Matthew Passion”, “the John Passion” as well as the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Conductors with whom he has performed include Christoph Eschenbach, Semyon Bychkov, Johannes Debus, Martin Alsop, Kirill Petrenko, Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, and Gustav Leonhardt. He participated in festivals, e.g. Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, Festival de Saintes, Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Brühler Schlosskonzerte, and Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.
He also appeared with well-known orchestras, baroque orchestras, and chamber music ensembles, including the Radio Symphony Orchestras of the NDR, WDR, BR, SWR and SR, the Scharoun Ensemble, the Bamberger Symphony, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
Sebastian Noack is also co-founder of the recital series “Meisterlied“ in the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum.

Aside from his concert engagements, he assumed numerous operatic roles, including in Gaetano Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma, Wolfram von Eschenbach in Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Halle Opera House under Karl-Heinz Steffens, and Kurwenal in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, the Dutch Reisopera, and at Deutsche Oper Berlin under Donald Runnicles. In the summer of 2013, Noack guested with Ravel’s Lʼenfant et les sortileges in Japan, and in April 2015, he debuted at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro as Don Pizarro in Beethoven’s Fidelio.

Sebastian Noack has done various CD recordings, including the St. John Passion, Leipzig Christmas Cantatas, and the opera “Siroe“ by George Frederick Handel under the baton of Philippe Herreweghe, as well as numerous radio broadcasts.
 
As of season 2016/17, Sebastian Noack is a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Kassel where he since then performed roles such as Count Almaviva in the opening production Le nozze di Figaro, Miller in Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Peter/Hansel and Gretel, and Ping in Turandot.

In season 2017/18 he will be back on stage in Kassel as Peter/Hansel and Gretel as well as in the roles of Herr Fluth in Otto Nicolai’s opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and Sprecher as well as 2nd Armoured Man in Die Zauberflöte.

Sebastian Noack is a visiting professor of voice at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.

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