Young counter-tenor Terry Wey’s debut at the Schwetzinger Festspiele 2007 met with great enthusiasm. Under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock and directed by Nicolas Brieger, Terry Wey triumphed as Andronico in Legrenzi’s Il Giustino. He begins the 2007/08 season with his first collaboration with William Christie in San Alessio, touring Caen, London, New York, Paris, Luxemburg and Nancy. He makes his debut at the Württembergische Staatsoper Stuttgart in Actus Tragicus, a scenic version of six J.S. Bach cantatas by Herbert Wernicke. In February 2008, Wey performs a concert of German baroque arias accompanied by the French baroque ensemble Café Zimmermann in Rouen. He then tours Spain with the Wiener Akademie and Handel’s Belshazzar, also performing at the Wiener Musikverein. He has been reinvited by the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, singing in Hasses Oratorium Petrus und Magdalena under Michael Hofstetter in 2008. Summer 2008 marks his first collaboration with Marc Minkowski, who is planning concerts and a CD-recording with the young counter-tenor. Terry Wey also continues to collaborate with Thomas Hengelbrock, starting with a big Bach cantata project in July 2008. He is invited to perform a program of German baroque arias and John Tavener’s Nipson, accompanied by the Almayne Consort, at the Carinthische Sommer 2008.

The young artist, born in Switzerland in 1985, attracted international attention at a competition in Austria in 2005, convincing both the press and the jury chaired by Fabio Luisi of his exceptional talent. Invitations from opera-houses and festivals followed immediately thereafter. In the 2006/07 season, Terry Wey sang Oberon in Britten’s Midsummer Nights Dream at the Opera Bonn after Franco Fagioli. He appeared in Conti’s David with the Lautten Compagney Berlin at the Güldene Herbst festival at Schloss Elisabethenburg Halle as well as at the Dresdner Frauenkirche. A CD-recording of this baroque-rediscovery will soon be released. The Feldkirch Festival has invited him for a world premiere of Music Theatre Productions Minsk by Ian Wilson. Terry Wey sang Bach’s Mass in b minor under Michael Hofstetter at the Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele. Concerts with the Clemencic Consort have led him to the Wiener Musikverein and he has made guest-appearances in Luxembourg and Antwerp with the Huelgas Ensemble.

In April 2006 he performed a Michael Haydn- and Mozart-program in Lucerne. In May 2006 he appeared together with Clemencic Consort at the Wiener Musikverein, in summer 2006 he sang in a festival-production of Haendel’s Ottone in Austria. He recorded for the Hyperion label with the Ensemble Cinquecento. Terry Wey successfully auditioned at the Theater an der Wien for William Christie, Mark Minkowski and Seiji Ozawa, who engaged him for Apollo in Britten’s Death in Venice immediately.

From 1994 to 1998 Terry Wey was a member and leading soloist of the Vienna Boys Choir. As a soprano-soloist he appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper, New York Carnegie Hall and Royal Festival Hall London and participated in several CD-recordings. In 2000 he began to study piano at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna and in 2001 he started private singing lessons with Prof. Kurt Equiluz. In 2002 he appeared in a small solo-part in the production of Billy Budd at the Wiener Staatsoper. Solo-appearances and recordings with Clemencic Consort under René Clemencic followed in 2003. That year, Terry Wey began to study singing at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. In 2004 he was awarded the scholarship of the MIGROS-Genossenschaftsbund and the Ernst-Göhner-Stiftung in Zurich (Jury: Edith Mathis, Kurt Widmer and others).

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