Terry Wey

Worldwide representation

Terry Wey, for the magazine Fono Forum one of the best in his field, is a regular guest of the most important Baroque Festivals and works regularly with leading conductors of this repertoire. 

The 2024/25 season will first take the artist to the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden, where he will perform together with Hille Perl. In Lugano, he will sing Bach cantatas together with the Ensemble Claudia under Luca Pianca. The Nederlandse Bachvereinigung has engaged the countertenor for a tour with Bach's St Matthew Passion under Hans-Christoph Rademann. This season he will also be a guest at the Japan Bach Society in Bach's Mass in B minor and at the Bachwoche Ansbach together with the Windsbacher Knabenchor and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with Bach cantatas.

His most important engagements in recent seasons include concert performances of Handel's Trionfo del Tempo e del disinganno at the Theater an der Wien and Munich's Gärtnerplatz, the Honoricus in a new production of Telemann's Gensericus at the Telemann-Tage Magdeburg, concerts with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in Madrid, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Association, Bach's St John Passion with the Windsbacher Knabenchor at the Rheingau Festival and the Bachwoche Ansbach, a scenic production of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, which became a personal triumph for the artist; the acclaimed countertenor gala in the Cologne Philharmonic, his solo evening at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe 2020, Ottone on a new production of Agrippina at Oper Bonn, the world premiere of Czernowin's Heart Chamber (Deutsche Oper Berlin,) Athamas (Semele - Komische Oper Berlin), Orfeo (Berlin State Opera ), Antigono (International Gluck Festival), Jephtha (Hesssiches Staatstheater Wiesbaden), Incoronazione di Poppea (Nationaltheater Mannheim), Handel / Vincis Didone abbandonata (Schwetzingen), Rinaldo (Brussels and Paris) Teseo (Handel Festival Karlsruhe), Israel in Egypt (Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival), Oberon (Midsummer Night's Dream - Komische Oper Berlin), Xerxes (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Johannes-Passion (Cleveland), Matthäus-Passion (Table music Toronto), Written on Skin and Giulio Cesare (Bonn Opera), Niobe (Boston Early Music Festival), Bach's Mass in B minor under Marc Minkowski (Wiener Musikverein etc.), Bernstein's Chichester Psalms (BerlinerMusikfest), Porporas Polifemo (Schwetzingen), Ruggiero (Alcina - Handel Festival Halle,) Partenope (Handel Festival Karlsruhe, Theater an der Wien), Cavallis La Didone (Les Arts Florissants) Scarlatti's Marco Attilio Regolo (Schwetzingen,) Jommelli's Betulia Liberata under Riccardo Muti (Salzburg Festival), an aria recital in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Gala of the four countertenors in Versailles.

Terry Wey received his vocal training as a soloist in the Vienna Boys' Choir with Silvija V. Purchar and later with Kurt Equiluz and Christine Schwarz in Vienna. Under conductors such as William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, Riccardo Minasi, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Christophe Rousset, Vaclav Luks, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Konrad Junghänel, Ruben Dubrovsky or Michael Hofstetter and original sound orchestras such as the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Collegium 1704, Basler Kammerorchester, Bachakademie Stuttgart, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble and the Bach Consort Vienna, he has appeared in major concert halls and opera houses around the world.

Besides the Solo-CD Pace e Guerra current CD recordings include Steffani’s Niobe with Philippe Jaroussky, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Valer Barna-Sabadus and Bach's Mass in B minor under Marc Minkowski.

2024/25

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