Terry Wey
Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival - Orlando Generoso
Terry Wey […] masters the mad scene Furies, let me go, throw away the snakes , a highlight of the opera, with all his heart and soul, leading his slender, agile countertenor into the most ludicrous high registers, working himself up more and more into an incessant frenzy.
Kirsten Liese, The Opernmagazin (June 26, 2025)Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen – Madness from England
Shimmering and rich in overtones, its noble timbred Alto His tonal range is always breathtaking, the perfectly placed high notes, the seemingly endless legato phrases.
Karl Masek, Online Merker (26.03.2017)Upcoming
INTERNATIONAL BACH ACADEMY STUTTGART
Handel – Theodora – Didymus
Oct 24 (Ludwigsburg)/ Oct 25 (Stuttgart)
BACH COLLEGIUM JAPAN
European Tour
Handel – Messiah
Dec 14 (Groningen)/ 15 (London)
SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONIC'S BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Bach – St. Matthew Passion
Jan 22
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INTERNATIONAL BACH ACADEMY STUTTGART
Handel – Theodora – Didymus
Oct 24 (Ludwigsburg)/ Oct 25 (Stuttgart)BACH COLLEGIUM JAPAN
European Tour
Handel – Messiah
Dec 14 (Groningen)/ 15 (London)SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONIC'S BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Bach – St. Matthew Passion
Jan 22NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY
Bach – St. Matthew Passion
March 13 (Amsterdam)/ 14 (Groningen)/ 16 (Rotterdam)/ 17 (Utrecht)/ 18 (Utrecht)/ 19 (Tilburg)/ 20 (Aardenburg)/ 21 (Naarden)/ 23 (Eindhoven)/ 24 (Naarden)/ 25 (Naarden)/ 26 (Naarden)/ 27 (Naarden)GEORG-FRIEDRICH-HÄNDEL-HALLE
Handel – Theodora
June 6WINDSBACH BOYS' CHOIR
Handel – Messiah
June 10 (Nuremberg) / 12 (Ludwigsburg) / 13 (Halle) / 25 (Eberbach)
Biography
Terry Wey is considered by Fono Forum to be one of the leading countertenors of his generation. A regular guest at major Baroque festivals and a sought-after interpreter in historically informed performance practice, he works closely with leading conductors and ensembles of this repertoire.
In the 2026/27 season, Terry Wey will appear as Didymus in Handel's Theodora with the Gaechinger Cantorey under Hans-Christoph Rademann in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart, as well as at the Handel Festival in Halle. Further highlights include a European tour with Handel's Messiah and the Bach Collegium Japan, Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Ljubljana Baroque Festival, and performances with the Nederlandse Bachverenigung. He will also perform Handel's Messiah with the Windsbacher Knabenchor in Nuremberg, Ludwigsburg, Halle, and at Eberbach Abbey.
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Highlights of past seasons include performances with the Tölz Boys' Choir and in the Philharmonie Köln , Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Concerto Copenhagen and the Balthasar Neumann Choir, concerts with the Barockwerk Hamburg as well as with the Orchest van Gelderland in the Netherlands and Japan and Handel's La Resurrezione with the Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselböck. Further engagements led Terry Wey to Bachfest Leipzig He performed at the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden alongside Hille Perl and toured Lugano with Bach cantatas and the Ensemble Claudiana under Luca Pianca. He toured with the Nederlandse Bach Verenigung under Hans-Christoph Rademann performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion , sang the Mass in B Minor with the Japan Bach Society, and performed Bach cantatas with the Windsbach Boys' Choir and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the Ansbach Bach Week.
Other important concert engagements include performances with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in Madrid and at the Musikfest Berlin, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Netherlandse Bachvereiniging, and the St. John Passion with the Windsbach Boys' Choir at the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Bachwoche Ansbach. He has performed Bach's Mass in B Minor under Marc Minkowski at venues including the Vienna Musikverein, the St. John Passion in Cleveland, and the St. Matthew Passion with Tafelmusik in Toronto. Israel in Egypt took him to the Salzburg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and Jommelli's Betulia Liberata under Riccardo Muti to the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.Further highlights include an acclaimed countertenor gala at the Kölner Philharmonie, a solo recital at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, and an aria recital at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, as well as a gala featuring four countertenors in Versailles.
On the operatic stage, his most recent engagements include the title role in Agostino Steffani's Orlando generoso at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival. Previously, he appeared as Honoricus in a new production of Telemann's Gensericus at the Magdeburg Telemann Festival; concert performances of Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno took him to the Theater an der Wien and to the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. A staged production of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein became a personal triumph for the singer.
His other important stage engagements include Ottone in Handel's Agrippina under Rubén Dubrovsky at the Bonn Opera, Athamas in Semele and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Komische Oper Berlin, Orfeo at the Berlin State Opera, Antigono at the International Gluck Festival, Jephtha at the Wiesbaden State Theatre, L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Mannheim National Theatre, Handel/Vinci's Didone abbandonata in Schwetzingen, Rinaldo in Brussels and Paris, Teseo at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, and Xerxes at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. At the Bonn Opera, he also appeared in Written on Skin and Giulio Cesare . Further productions include Steffani's Niobe at the Boston Early Music Festival, Porpora's Polifemo and Scarlatti's Marco Attilio Regolo in Schwetzingen, Ruggiero in Alcina at the Halle Handel Festival, and Partenope at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival. Theater an der Wien as well as Cavalli's La Didone with Les Arts Florissants. He also participated in the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Heart Chamber at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Terry Wey received his vocal training as a soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir under Silvija V. Purchar, and later with Kurt Equiluz and Christine Schwarz in Vienna. He has worked with leading period-instrument ensembles such as the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Collegium 1704, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Bach Academy, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, and the Bach Consort Vienna under conductors including William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, Riccardo Minasi, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Christophe Rousset, Václav Luks, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Konrad Junghänel, Rubén Dubrovsky, and Michael Hofstetter – in major concert halls and opera houses worldwide.
His recordings include, besides his solo CD Pace e Guerra , Steffani's Niobe with Philippe Jaroussky, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Valer Barna-Sabadus, and Bach's Mass in B minor under Marc Minkowski.
2026/27
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