Adam Riis

EDUCATION:Studied at The Royal Dansish Conservatory of Music from 2000-2005 with Bodil Gümoes. Teachers in that period and afterwards include Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Andreas Schmidt, Klavs Lewinsky and Tonny Landy.Adam Riis’ concert repertoire varies from Monteverdi (Vespro), Schütz (Evangelist in the Passions and Weihnacht-Historie), Buxtehude (Membra Jesu), Händel (Messiah), Bach (Evangelist in the two Passions and Weihnachts-Oratorium), to Mozart, Haydn, Britten and Orff (Carmina Burana). As a Lied singer, Adam has an extensive partnership with pianist Christian Westergaard, with whom he has performed the great Cycles by Schubert, Schumann and Britten in the Danish based Liedkompagniet.BIOGRAPHY:Highlights so far have been Monteverdi’s VESPRO DELLA BEATE VERGINE with Paul Hillier and Concerto Copenhagen, the arias in Bach’s MATTHÄUS PASSION with Concerto Copenhagen, Beethoven’s MESSE IN C with Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, the same piece with Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Vassily Sinaisky, and the first performance in Denmark of Arvo Pärt’s MISERERE, at the Estonian composer’s Sonning Prize concert, with Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen conducted by Paul Hillier.Future events include the launch of an Ib Nørholm cd for Kontrapunkt, the Evangelist in Heinrich Schütz’s WEIHNACHT-HISTORIE with Concerto Copenhagen and conductor Paul Hillier. This Schütz production will be recorded for Dacapo Records. Furthermore he will sing the tenor in Händel’s THE MESSIAH with Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and once again in The Copenhagen Cathedral. AWARDS:2005 A scholarship from Van Hauen 2006 Sonning Music bursury