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The Viennese tenor Alexander Mayr received his first musical education as a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. He began his voice studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts „Mozarteum“ in Salzburg and completed his training as a student of Prof. Franz Lukasovsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Alexander Mayr is a specialist in very high tenor parts, with roles such as the Nose and the Sergeant in Shostakovich's "The Nose", the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Golden Cockerel" or Arkenholz in Reimann's "Ghost Sonata" forming the focus his repertoire. His first encounter with modern music came early and he has since attained much success as an interpreter of contemporary music: his performances include the role of Schreber in the world premiere of the eponymous opera Schreber by Peter Androsch at the Klagenfurt Theatre and the title role of Param Vir’s opera Ion at the Aldeburgh Festival and the Almeida Festival in England; Kaufmann in Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at the Salzburg Festival, Toni in Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers at the Vienna Odeon, or in spring 2011 with the tenor role in the internationally acclaimed world premiere of Stockhausen's "Sunday from Light" at the Cologne Opera..
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He has collaborated with many renowned conductors and stage directors such as Stefan Soltesz, David Perry, Ivan Anguelov, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Peter Keuschnig, Johannes Kalitzke, Christoph Loy, Brigitte Fassbaender, Andrea Schwalbach, Stein Winge, Sir Peter Ustinov; and the many venues at which he has appeared in recent years include the theaters in Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Basel, Lucerne, Lübeck and Oldenburg, the Opernszene Wien, the Neue Oper Wien, the Vienna Chamber Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Wuppertal Opera House, the Kiel Opera, the Opera Zuid in Maastricht, the Aalto Theatre in Essen and the Frankfurt Opera. He has also performed at the Operetta Festival in Bad Ischl, the Aldeburgh and Almeida (London) Festivals, the Salzburg Festival and the Bregenz Festival, the Vienna Osterklang Festival and the International Chamber Opera Festival in Zwolle, in the Netherlands.
With the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Academica Salzburg, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras Alexander Mayr has participated in various concert programs such as Orff's Carmina Burana and in opera and operetta galas at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Dortmund Konzerthaus, at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the concert hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Aula in Salzburg.
In addition to his appearances as tenor Alexander Mayr has also frequently performed on stage as a countertenor.
For the past several years he has taught voice at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna and the Internatioal Summer Academy Lilienfeld.
