Terry Wey
Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci - Orlando Generoso
Terry Wey embodies Orlando, a soldier broken by war, with beautiful and sometimes pale tones. His madness here is of a completely serious ›Nature‹ …
concerti.de (June 23, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
PHILHARMONIE KÖLN
Tölzer Knabenchor - Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - Alto
Sep 14
FREIBURG BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Bach Cantatas - Alto
Oct 3
BALTHASAR NEUMANN CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Bach - Christmas Oratorio - Alto
Dec 16
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CONCERTO COPENHAGEN
Bach Cantatas - Alto
Dec 19/20/21
BAROQUE WORK HAMBURG
Graun - Pharaoh Tubaetes - Ramses
March 4
POTSDAM CASTLE FESTIVAL
Steffani - Orlando Generoso - Orlando
March 19/20/21
GELDERLAND ORCHESTRA
Bach Cantatas - Alto
March 27/28/29
BACH COLLEGIUM JAPAN TOKYO
Bach - St. Matthew Passion - Alto
Apr 3/4/5
VIENNA ACADEMY
Handel - La Resurrezione - Maria Cleofas
May 6/30
BACH FESTIVAL LEIPZIG
Vivaldi - Gloria - Alto
June 20
Biography
According to Fono Forum, Terry Wey is considered one of the leading countertenors of his generation. As a regular guest at major Baroque festivals and a sought-after interpreter of historical performance practice, he works closely with the most important conductors and ensembles of this repertoire.
In the 2025/26 season, Terry Wey will be performing with the Tölzer Knabenchor and the Philharmonie Köln He will also be seen again with Concerto Copenhagen and the Balthasar Neumann Choir, with whom he will perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio . At the Potsdam Palace Festival, he will take on the title role in Agostino Steffani's Orlando generoso . Further concerts will take him to the Barockwerk Hamburg, the Orchest van Gelderland for performances in the Netherlands and Japan, and the Vienna Academy under Martin Haselböck, with whom he will once again perform Handel's La Resurrezione . A special highlight of the season will be his guest appearance at the Leipzig Bach Festival, where he will once again be a distinguished Bach interpreter.
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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 early music ensembles such as the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Collegium 1704, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Bachakademie Stuttgart, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, and the Bach Consort Wien under Conductors such as 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.
In the 2024/25 season, Terry Wey performed at the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden, where he sang alongside Hille Perl. In Lugano, he sang Bach cantatas with the Ensemble Claudiana under the direction of Luca Pianca. He was engaged by the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging for a tour with Bach's St. Matthew Passion under Hans-Christoph Rademann. In the same season, he sang Bach's B minor Mass with the Japan Bach Society and performed Bach cantatas at the Bachwoche in Ansbach together with the Windsbacher Knabenchor and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Key engagements of past seasons include concert performances of Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Theater an der Wien and the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, the Honoricus in a new production of Telemann's Gensericus at the Telemann Festival 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 Society, St. John Passion with the Windsbacher Knabenchor at the Rheingau Festival and the Bachwoche Ansbach, and a scenic production of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, which became a personal triumph for the singer.
Further highlights include the acclaimed Countertenor Gala at the Cologne Philharmonic, his solo recital at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina under Rubén Dubrovsky at the Bonn Opera, the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s Heart Chamber ( Deutsche Oper Berlin ), Athamas ( Semele , Komische Oper Berlin ), Orfeo (Berlin State Opera), Antigono (International Gluck Festival), Jephtha (Wiesbaden State Theatre), L'incoronazione di Poppea (Mannheim National Theatre), Handel/Vinci's Didone abbandonata (Schwetzingen), Rinaldo (Brussels and Paris), Teseo (Karlsruhe Handel Festival), Israel in Egypt (Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival), Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Komische Oper Berlin ), Xerxes ( Deutsche Oper am Rhein ), St. John Passion (Cleveland), St. Matthew Passion (Tafelmusik Toronto), Written on Skin and Giulio Cesare (Opera Bonn), Niobe (Boston Early Music Festival), Bach's Mass in B minor under Marc Minkowski (at the Vienna Musikverein, among others), Bernstein's Chichester Psalms (Berlin Music Festival), Porpora's Polifemo (Schwetzingen), Ruggiero in Alcina (Handel Festival Halle), Partenope (Handel Festival Karlsruhe, Theater an der Wien), Cavalli's La Didone (Les Arts Florissants), Scarlatti's Marco Attilio Regolo (Schwetzingen), Jommelli's Betulia Liberata under Riccardo Muti (Salzburg Whitsun Festival), an evening of arias in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Gala of the Four Countertenors in Versailles.
His current CD recordings include his solo CD Pace e Guerra, as well as Steffani's Niobe with Philippe Jaroussky, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Valer Barna-Sabadus, and Bach's Mass in B minor under Marc Minkowski.2025/26
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