Martin Lattke
German tenor Martin Lattke received his first singing training at the age of Seven.
Since 1990, as a boy soprano, he was a member of the Thomanerchor Leipzig, where he spent the following nine years of his life, and began an extensive musical education. After his time with the choir, he co-founded the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig in 1999 and, from 2006 to 2013, was a member of the vocal soloist ensemble Amarcord. He performed on stages and podiums of major concert halls and music festivals worldwide.
He is a laureate of international competitions including first prize at the International Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau, Germany in 2002, first prize at "Jugend kulturell" in Hanover, Germany in 2004, and first prize at Tampere in Finland and Tolosa in Spain in 2005. He was awarded a German Music Competition scholarship in 2002.
After completing his degree in industrial engineering in 2003, he studied opera singing at the oldest university school of music in Germany, the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig with Professor Hans-Joachim Beyer. In 2007, he completed a master class with Peter Schreier and received artistic impulses for singing the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Passions.
Lattke's repertoire includes extensive Lieder and ensemble literature from the Renaissance to contemporary, oratorios and cantatas, preferably the works of J.S. Bach and opera. His debut as the Evangelist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio was in 2008 at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
Many engagements have taken Lattke in recent years to more than 50 countries on all continents of the earth (including throughout Europe, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Russia, Japan, Korea, Africa, Central America and the Middle East).
Highlights of his singing career are the recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio for Decca with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2010, conducted by Riccardo Chailly; the recording of the St. Matthew Passion with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2012; and the recording of the B-Minor Mass with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on DVD/Blu–ray in 2013, conducted by Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller.
In 2010, Lattke was a winner of the ECHO Klassik with Amarcord for the album "Rastlose Liebe" (music from Schumann and Mendelssohn) and again in 2012 for the album "Das Lieben bringt groß Freud!" (German folk songs). Numerous other CD and radio productions document his artistic work.
Since 1990, as a boy soprano, he was a member of the Thomanerchor Leipzig, where he spent the following nine years of his life, and began an extensive musical education. After his time with the choir, he co-founded the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig in 1999 and, from 2006 to 2013, was a member of the vocal soloist ensemble Amarcord. He performed on stages and podiums of major concert halls and music festivals worldwide.
He is a laureate of international competitions including first prize at the International Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau, Germany in 2002, first prize at "Jugend kulturell" in Hanover, Germany in 2004, and first prize at Tampere in Finland and Tolosa in Spain in 2005. He was awarded a German Music Competition scholarship in 2002.
After completing his degree in industrial engineering in 2003, he studied opera singing at the oldest university school of music in Germany, the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig with Professor Hans-Joachim Beyer. In 2007, he completed a master class with Peter Schreier and received artistic impulses for singing the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Passions.
Lattke's repertoire includes extensive Lieder and ensemble literature from the Renaissance to contemporary, oratorios and cantatas, preferably the works of J.S. Bach and opera. His debut as the Evangelist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio was in 2008 at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
Many engagements have taken Lattke in recent years to more than 50 countries on all continents of the earth (including throughout Europe, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Russia, Japan, Korea, Africa, Central America and the Middle East).
Highlights of his singing career are the recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio for Decca with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2010, conducted by Riccardo Chailly; the recording of the St. Matthew Passion with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2012; and the recording of the B-Minor Mass with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on DVD/Blu–ray in 2013, conducted by Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller.
In 2010, Lattke was a winner of the ECHO Klassik with Amarcord for the album "Rastlose Liebe" (music from Schumann and Mendelssohn) and again in 2012 for the album "Das Lieben bringt groß Freud!" (German folk songs). Numerous other CD and radio productions document his artistic work.