Pascal Zurek, bass-baritone
Starting early into professional musicianship at the age of 14, the bass-baritone has walked many miles on numerous theatre stages across Europe, specializing in contemporary opera and world premieres of music theatre including extended vocal techniques. Before dedicating himself fully to the vocal arts with his studies at the Opernschule at HMDK Stuttgart, he studied music pedagogy and physics as well as audio technology in Rostock and Piteå (Sweden). His mentors include distinguished figures such as Margreet Honig, Prof. Teru Yoshihara, Prof. Angelika Luz, Georg Nigl and contemporary music experts such as Sarah Maria Sun, Tora Augestad and others.
He is a fellow of the Britten Pears Young Artists programme VOICEBOX under the leadership of Juliet Fraser, where a team of young singers commission new works for voice, pushing the possibilities of voice and style.

Notable world premieres include Victoria Bond’s opera “Clara” at Festspiele Baden-Baden and “Alice in Wonderland” by Johannes Harneit at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, as well as performances at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and Impuls Festival Graz. In 2021, he was honored the prestigious scholarship by Vadstena-Akademien in Sweden and premiered “Zebran” by Tebogo Monnakgotla. In 2023, he made his debut at Staatstheater Kassel in a piece by Genoel von Lilienstern addressing the very recent Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.
Further guest appearances include the Salzburger Festspiele and the Biennale Venezia.

Zurek teaches at Mozarteum Salzburg and Musikhochschule Würzburg, where he focuses on nurturing strong and healthy vocal art forms in his students. His extensive knowledge in dance, physiology and vocal physics blend into his artistic and pedagogical work.
In his non-operatic works, Zurek interweaves poetry and visual arts with the diverse realm of vocal improvisation, embracing and incorporating interdisciplinary art forms such as puppetry, dance and immersive light and sound installations. Further projects include intermedial versions by Bach’s oratorios and combinations of the classical oratorio and Kunstlied canon with intense video works.

His expertise in extreme vocal techniques is showcased in one of his favourite works, the “Eight Songs for a Mad King” by Peter Maxwell Davies; a furious mono-opera in which Zurek unpacks the full extent of the human voice, transcending the boundaries of classical opera singing.

More info can be found at www.pascalzurek.de

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