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 26/27 and Highlights
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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NETHERLANDS 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 of historically informed performance practice, he works closely with the most important 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 Baroque Festival Ljubljana, and performances with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging. 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 His engagements include Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Concerto Copenhagen and the Balthasar Neumann Choir, concerts with the Barockwerk Hamburg and the Orchest van Gelderland in the Netherlands and Japan, and Handel's La Resurrezione with the Vienna Academy under Martin Haselböck. Further engagements took Terry Wey to the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden alongside Hille Perl, and to Lugano with Bach cantatas and the Ensemble Claudiana under Luca Pianca. He toured with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging 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 Berlin Music Festival, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society, and the St. John Passion with the Windsbach Boys' Choir at the Rheingau Festival and the Ansbach Bach Week. 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 at 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. In addition, there was the acclaimed countertenor gala at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, a solo recital at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, and an aria recital at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden as well as the gala of the 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 Palace Festival. Previously, he appeared as Honoricus in a new production of Telemann's Gensericus at the Telemann Days in Magdeburg; concert performances of Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno took him to the Theater an der Wien and the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. A staged production of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein proved to be 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. He also appeared at the Bonn Opera in Written on Skin and Giulio Cesare . Other 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 Handel Festival in Halle, Partenope at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe and at the Theater an der Wien, and 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 current CD 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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