Ekkehard Abele
Ekkehard Abele studied organ and singing in Freiburg, Saarbrücken and Basel. In 1996, he won a prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. He is persuing his vocal studies, formerly with Prof Eugene Rabine, at the present with Gudrun Bär in Weimar.
As a concert soloist, he has worked with Thomas Hengelbrock, Hermann Max, Ton Koopman, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philippe Herreweghe, Harry Christophers and Masaaki Suzuki. In contemporary music theatre productions, he has sung world premieres of works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Bryan Ferneyhough, Bernhard Lang and Georg Friedrich Haas at the Schwetzingen Festival, the Munich Biennale and the Steirischer Herbst Graz. He has made guest appearances at the opera houses in Darmstadt, Wuppertal, Basel, Venice and Mannheim and at festivals in North and South America.
Ekkehard Abele was a member of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and still enjoys performing with the Ensemble stimmkunst and the Chapelle rhénane, is a founding member of the German Chamber Choir and teaches singing at the University of Church Music in Heidelberg.