Markus Volpert

Markus Volpert was born in Radolfzell am Bodensee in 1972. He studied with Wolfgang Gamerith in Oberschützen and Graz and gained his soloist’s diploma with distinction under Kurt Widmer in Basel; the Internationales Opernstudio Zürich and masterclasses with Sena Jurinac, Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Thomas Quasthoff completed his training. He is a prizewinner of the Leipziger Bachwettbewerb, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, the Grazer Schubert-Wettbewerb, the Anneliese-Rothenberger-Wettbewerb and the Francisco-Vinas-Wettbewerb in Barcelona, among others. On the opera stage he has sung in Zurich, Basel and Magdeburg. As a concert and lieder singer he works with period-instrument ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln and the Freiburger Barockorchester and can be heard regularly in the concerts and recordings of the J. S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen. His recordings include Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Magnificat (cpo, 2023) and Oskar Gottlieb Blarr and the Jesus-Passion (Cybele Records, 2018).