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Stephan Loges is the winner of the 1999 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. John Allison wrote in The Times ‘(Loges) was the most natural, communicative artist and had given a performance worthy of his country’s great Lieder tradition. His sculpted singing is even, yet always sensitive to light and shade. He set an example to British singers by getting every word of his Britten across, and evoked the essence of Duparc and Poulenc.

Born in Dresden, Stephan Loges was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor before going on to study at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. In 1995 he began studies with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, completing the opera course in June 1999.

Stephan Loges was a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and made his Carnegie Hall début in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem under Helmuth Rilling. Other US concert appearances have been with Paul McCreesh to sing the Messiah with both the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when he sang Bach’s St.John Passion with Peter Schreier.

In Europe, he has sung Bach under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. He has also appeared with the London Philharmonic, at the Philharmonie in Munich with the Münchner Bach Choir and Orchestra, sang Die Schöpfung with both the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg and the Odense Symphony Orchestra and made his BBC Proms debut in 2002. With Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées he has toured Spain singing Mendelssohn’s Paulus.

Stephan Loges’ extensive Lieder repertory includes Schubert’s Schwanengesang, Winterreise and Brahms’ Die schöne Magelone. He has also performed regularly with Graham Johnson, including appearances at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in Germany, and made his New York début at the 92nd St Y with Alexander Schmalcz, with whom he also gave his first full Wigmore Hall recital.