Jason Steigerwalt
Bass
Jason Steigerwalt is an American baritone who has had an active career in both Germany and the United States. As a concert singer, he has been heard in Handel’s Messiah and Saul, Saint-Saens’s Oratorio de Noel and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Jason made his Carnegie Hall solo debut singing under the direction of Ton Koopman in Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum, and was heard again the following year performing Faure’s Reqiuem. He has worked as an ensemble memberwith the RIAS Kammerchor and Rundfunkchor in Berlin, the Gächinger Kantorei in Stuttgart, Apollo’s Fire in Cleveland, and Musica Sacra in New York.
He was previously a full-time member of the Komische Oper Berlin, where he sang in over 100 performances each season. Notable productions during this time were Prokofiev’s Der feurige Engel, Shostakovich’s Die Nase, Mozart’s Figaro, and Barrie Kosky’s highly celebrated productions of Berstein’s West Side Story, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Schönberg’s Moses und Aron, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Handel’s Semele, and Bock’s Anatevka. He is a graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, as well as Susquehanna University, with additional studies at Temple University. He was selected for vocal fellowships at both the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals.
Jason’s Discography
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