About
Hailed as ‘the most promising of today’s up-and-coming song recitalists’ (Financial Times), baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Suddeutsche Zeitung), ‘exacting attention to text’ (New York Times), and artistry that’s described as ‘unbearably moving’ (The Times). Named Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year in 2016, Appl was a member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme from 2014-16, as well as a Wigmore Hall Emerging Artist and ECHO Rising Star for the 2015-16 season, appearing at major venues throughout Europe, including the Barbican Centre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Paris and Cologne and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. He was signed exclusively to SONY Classical between 2016 and 2021. He recently partnered up with Alpha Classics for a long term collaboration of multiple albums.
News
10/01/2023
For his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Benjamin performs three concerts with Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder under Klaus Peter Flor.
31/12/2022
Together with the Zürcher Kammerorchester Benjamin performs arias by Bach and Mozart at the KKL Lucerne and Tonhalle Zürich – Happy New Year!
26/12/2022
Swiss National TV SRF1 is broadcasting the film Winterreise tonight at 6.10pm.
24/12/2022
Happy Christmas to all of you!
23/11/2022
Benjamin gives tonight his debut with the Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä with Mozart’s Requiem in three performances.
11/11/2022
Benjamin performs Britten’s War Requiem under Thomas Søndergård and the RSNO in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
06/10/2022
As part of Artist in Residence at St.-Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Benjamin enters the stage together with Auschwitz survivor Éva Fahidi.
21/09/2022
Benjamin sings the world premiere of Philip Hefti’s Rhapsody together with Württembergisches Kammerorchester.
10/09/2022
Together with Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi Benjamin travels through Germany with performances in Berlin, Hamburg and Wiesbaden.
01/08/2022
Summer time is festival time! Join Benjamin for Kaunas Festival, L’Offrand Musicale, Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, BBC Proms or Rheingau Musikfestival.
12/07/2022
Benjamin teaches at and performs for Toronto Music Summer Festival.
10/06/2022
Opening Night for Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Opera de Rouen with Benjamin as Papageno.
15/05/2022
Benjamin sings Vaughan-Williams Five Mystical Songs with Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, which will be broadcast on BR Klassik.
11/05/2022
Benjamin jumps in to perform Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn songs with Helsinki Philharmonic and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
28/04/2022
Watch Haydn’s Die Schöpfung from Hamburg Elbphilharmonie with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Alan Gilbert live.
13/03/2022
Benjamin performs together with pianist Lise De la Salle a newly commissioned piece by David Lang to celebrate 200 years of Schubert’s ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ at Konzerthaus Dortmund.
02/03/2022
At Schloss Elmau Èva Fahidi, a survivor of Ausschwitz, talks about her life while Benjamin performs music, which has always been important in her life.
16/02/2022
Benjamin performs together with James Baillieu live on BBC Radio 3 at BBC intune around 5pm. Tune in!
14/02/2022
Benjamin’s exciting project of a filmed version on the Julierpass in Switzerland, filmed by John Bridcut and commissioned by the BBC will be premiered on February 27 on BBC4.
11/02/2022
Today is release day: Benjamin’s new album with Schubert’s Winterreise is available.
07/02/2022
Studio day: At 1pm you can listen to Benjamin at NDR Kultur A la Carte and later in the evening at 6.45pm he is guest at the TV show NDR DAS!
23/01/2022
Benjamin embarks on his tour through the US with stops in Boston, Pittsburg and Dallas to perform Schubert’s Winterreise.
13/12/2021
Benjamin appears with two Christmas songs in the ZDF Morgenmagazin between 8 and 9 am, broadcast live.
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