In summer 2009 the 23-year old counter-tenor Terry Wey participated in a procuction of Haendel’s Theodora at Salzburger Festspiele under Ivor Bolton. He also appeared with an aria out of this composition at the opening of the Festival and at the final concert of the Young Singers’ Project. In autumn 2009 he appears in Haendel’s opera Anaesthesia in Berlin, Hannover, Halle, Luxembourg and Bregenz. In 2010 he sings in the world premiere of Klaus Lang’s buch asche at Oper Bonn. In concerts Terry Wey appears at Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele under Michael Hofstetter, with Gulbenkian Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock (Bach’s Magnificat), with Bach Consort Wien (Fux’ Cristo nell’orto) as well as with Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.

Terry Wey opened the last season at Oper Bonn as Ruggiero in a new production of Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso under the baton of Rubén Dubrovsky. He made his debut at Theater an der Wien under Christophe Rousset in Partenope (directed by Pierre Audi), at Teatro Real Madrid under William Christie in Ritorno d’Ulisee in Patria (directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi) as well as at Haendelfestspiele Halle and Bregenzer Festspiele. Other engagements were his debut in a concert performance of Gluck’s Orfeo in Nuernberg, performances of Haendel’s Messiah under Frieder Bernius in Essen and Cremona and the revival of the Schwetzinger production of Legrenzi’s Il Giustino at Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg.

Under the baton of conductors such as William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marc Minkowski and Michael Hofstetter, and together with original-sound orchestras like Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Les Arts Florissants or Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Terry Wey was guest in some of the most important concert-halls and festivals, e.g. at Musikverein Wien, Barbican Centre London, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Lincoln Center New York, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival and Styriarte Graz.

He performed in a variety of different opera roles such as Oberon (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Adelberto (Haendel’s Ottone), Andronico (Legrenzi’s Il Giustino) and Roma & Religione (Landi’s Il Sant’Alessio) at opera houses such as Oper Bonn, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris and worked together with the stage directors Nicolas Brieger and Benjamin Lazar. In addition to this and as a labour of love for renaissance-music he founded the vocal-ensemble Cinquecento. Furthermore he performed together with leading ensembles such as Huelgas Ensemble or Le Poème Harmonique. Terry Wey’s discography contains three CDs of Cinquecento (hyperion), complete recordings of Albinoni’s Il Nascimento dell’Aurora (oehms classics) and Conti’s David (cpo), as well as Bach’s Mass b-minor under Marc Minkowski (naïve).

Terry Wey was born in Bern/Switzerland and got his singing-education as soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben (teacher: Silvija V. Purchar). Later he worked together with Kurt Equiluz and Christine Schwarz. First appearances together with the Clemencic Consort under René Clemencic in 2003 led the young price-winner of several competitions (e.g. MIGROS-Genossenschaftsbund Zürich, Kärntner-Sparkasse Wörthersee Music-Scholarship) to a rapid entry into the international concert- and opera-world.

2009/10