Biographies & programs
28.5.24
17:20
Markus Ennsthaller
Austria
Virgile Van Essche
Belgium
Program
Franz Schubert
Frühlingsglaube D686 (Ludwig Uhland) - 1R
Im Frühling D 882 (Ernst Schulze)
Gioacchino Rossini
Soirées musicales
La promessa "Ch´io mai vi possa amare" (Pietro Metastasio) - 1R
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op. 25
1. Widmung (Friedrich Rückert)
7. Die Lotosblume (Heinrich Heine)
Hugo Wolf
Goethe-Lieder
29. Frühling übers Jahr
Eichendorff-Lieder
3. Verschwiegene Liebe
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
1. L´invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
9. Chanson triste (Jean Lahor) - 1R
Roger Quilter
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.6
1. Come Away, Death - 1R
2. O Mistress Mine
3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Emile Paladilhe
Psyché (Pierre Corneille)
Ramón Gil Gonzalez
Zagalejo de Perlas (Félix Lope de Vega Carpio)
Media
Markus Ennsthaller
Tenor
Year of birth:
1991
Tenor Markus Ennsthaller is an international guest concert soloist, opera singer and performer of recitals. He received his artistic training at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he completed his master's degree in song and oratorio in 2019. He develops interpretive finesse and vocal mastery with his professors Pauliina Tukiainen, Helmut Deutsch, Andreas Macco, Michele Crider and Christoph Strehl.
Important performances include Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" and "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, a gala evening at the Brucknerhaus in Linz and Mozart's "Coronation Mass" at the Gasteig concert hall in Munich. In 2023, Markus Ennsthaller will also make his debut as an evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
Virgile Van Essche
Pianist
Virgile Van Essche is a Belgian pianist born in 1992. He studied at the Saint-Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, the Royal Academy of Music of London. Among his teachers, one can find world class accompanists as Malcolm Martineau and James Baillieu.
Virgile is now based in Brussels, where he completed a degree in both piano accompaniment and pianoforte. The playing in historical keyboards such as pianoforte and romantic piano has had a major influence on him during the past few years.
He has a huge interest in languages and their culture, as there are intimately linked to his favorite repertoire. Virgile is a native French speaker, he is also fluent in Russian, English and is proficient in Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish.