Member Spotlight: Pascal Zurek - Bass-Baritone

By Audition Oracle – Fri 2 Aug 2024 @ 9:40

Our latest Member Spotlight brings us to German bass-baritone Pascal Zurek

 Pascal Zurek - Bass-baritone

1. How do you describe yourself as an artist?

Pushing the limits of classical singing into every direction the contemporary classical music world needs
 

2. What other skills or passions do you have that help shape you as an artist?

Mountain climbing and extreme distance hiking give me the endurance to work in this business!
 

3. What has been the most memorable and rewarding experience you have had as an artist?

While I was giving a solo recital with contemporary poems, voice improvisation and Schubert settings: Seeing somebody silently starting to cry in the last row of a concert hall. She later thanked me very silently and just walked away.
 

4. What role, company or performing situation would be a dream come true for you as an artist?

World premiering a new opera by Simon Steen-Andersen at any large opera house in Europe! He is just my favorite living composer of music theatre, and his last work (Don Giovanni aux enfers) was marvellous, entertaining, multi-sensual and multimedial, extremely complex - but extremely easy to follow! This should happen so much more - our audience would quadruple...
 

5. What do you like most about being a creative artist?

That no day is like the other, and that I can help shape the way people perceive culture and their own lives!
 

6. If you could go back in time and give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Do not stay with abusive teachers.
 

7. Three words that are the pillars you shape your career by:

Versatility, Balance, Endurance
 

8. Where can our followers watch you perform next?

 VOICEBOX Unbound
with a world premiere by Andreas Eduardo Frank and others
 
17.08.2024, 15:00
Snape/Aldeburgh (UK): Britten Pears Foundation
https://www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/voicebox-unbound

15.09.2024, 19:30
London, UK: Café Oto
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/voicebox-showcase/

This special London showcase celebrates the culmination of the year-long VOICEBOX project, led by Juliet Fraser, for advanced singers specialising in contemporary vocal performance. The cohort of six singers gather one last time to share a programme of solo and ensemble works, including new works by Laura Bowler, Rufus Isabel Elliot, Andreas Eduardo Frank, Winnie Huang, t l k and Amber Priestley, revealing the boundless possibilities of the human voice.

VOICEBOX has been generously supported by Arts Council England, Foyle Foundation, Hope Scott Trust and the Michael Cuddigan Trust.
Berio's A-RONNE with HYOID voices in January 2025 throughout France. 
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