Florian is the winner of the 2023 International Handel Singing Competition as well as the 2023 Helmut Deutsch Song Competition. Next season he will be performing on a European tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and will be making his debut at the Händel-Festspiele Halle. He recently returned to the London Handel Festival in a production of Esther directed by Laurence Cummings and featured in a tour of Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki. His recording of Duruflé’s Requiem with the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge is published by Hyperion.

On the recital stage, Florian will be performing at song festivals in Leeds, Lewes (both UK) and Brig (CH), as well as Zell am See (Austria) alongside pianist Helmut Deutsch. Recent appearances include a concert of German song at Carnegie Hall with Renée Fleming’s SongStudio, as well as French song concerts at Salle Cortot, Paris and Wigmore Hall as part of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange. Together with pianist Mark Rogers, he has won the Prix de mélodie at the 2023 International Voice-Piano Competition ‘Lili et Nadia Boulanger’ in Paris. Operatic roles include Bartolo in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Masetto & Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Orchestra VOX/Hannah von Wiehler) and Sir Thomas in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park.

Florian is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, London where during his studies he was awarded first prizes for both opera and song recitals, as well as the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Having enjoyed his musical upbringing in the vocal music scene around Trier Cathedral (Germany), he is now based in London.

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