Professional career

Daniel Sans was a boy soprano

Boy soprano

A boy soprano is a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range. Although a treble, or choirboy, may also be considered to be a boy soprano, the more colloquial term boy soprano is generally only used for boys who sing, perform, or record as soloists, and who may not necessarily...

 in the choir of the Mainz Cathedral

Mainz Cathedral

Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany...

. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt with Martin Gründler. He specialized in oratorio and Lied

Lied

is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...

 with Karl-Heinz Jarius and Charles Spencer.

Sans has performed in the Wiener Konzerthaus with Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider (conductor)

Michael Schneider is a German flautist, recorder player, conductor and academic teacher. He is especially connected with later baroque repertoire such as the works of Telemann, and founded the orchestra La Stagione to perform that repertoire.-Professional career:Schneider studied flute and...

, the Teatro Colon with Karl-Friedrich Beringer, at the Feldkirch Festival with Thomas Hengelbrock

Thomas Hengelbrock

Thomas Hengelbrock is a German violinist, musicologist, stage director and conductor.- Biography :Thomas Hengelbrock studied the violin with Rainer Kussmaul and started his career in Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau...

, the Kölner Philharmonie with Peter Neumann, the Berliner Philharmonie

Berliner Philharmonie

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture....

 with Hans-Christoph Rademann, the Dresdner Kreuzkirche

Kreuzkirche

The Church of the Cross in Dresden is the largest church in Saxony, and home to the Dresdner Kreuzchor boy choir. Known since the early 12th century, it was officially dedicated on 10 June 1388 to the Holy Cross. Since 1491, it has burned down five times...

 with Roderich Kreile, the Leipziger Thomaskirche with Gotthold Schwarz, and the Alte Oper

Alte Oper

The Alte Oper is a major concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The building was inaugurated in 1880. Many important works have been premiered at the Alte Oper, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937....

 in Frankfurt with Ralf Otto. In 2009 he performed Mendelssohn's Paulus

St. Paul (oratorio)

St. Paul , Op. 36, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn.The libretto was begun in 1832 by the composer with Pastor Julius Schubring, a childhood friend, pulling together passages from the New Testament and Old Testament...

with the Landesjugendorchester (State Youth Orchestra) of NRW.

Sans has collaborated with the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. He has appeared with local choirs of the Rhein Main area, for example in 1999 he appeared with Christof Fischesser in Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...

's Messa di Gloria, both in St. Martin, Idstein

St. Martin, Idstein

St. Martin in Idstein, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, is the church of the local Roman Catholic parish. The official name is Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin. The parish is part of the Diocese of Limburg...

 and the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg

Schloss Johannisberg

Schloss Johannisberg is a winery in the Rheingau wine-growing region in Germany, that has been making wine for over 900 years. The winery is most noted for its claim to have "discovered" late harvest wine.- History :...

. In 2001 he sang there the tenor part in Britten

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

's The Company of Heaven for speaker, soloists, choir and orchestra (1937), which the composer had written for Peter Pears

Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor who was knighted in 1978. His career was closely associated with the composer Edward Benjamin Britten....

. In 2009 he was the tenor soloist (Uriel) in Haydn's Die Schöpfung

The Creation structure

The Creation, the oratorio by Joseph Haydn, is structured in three parts. He composed it in 1796–1798 on German text as Die Schöpfung. The work is set for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Its movements are listed in tables for their form, voice, key, tempo marking, time signature and...

with Elisabeth Scholl

Elisabeth Scholl

- Professional career :Elisabeth Scholl was the first girl to sing with the boys choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. From 1982 to 1987 she sang the role of the First Boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden...

 (Gabriel, Eve), Andreas Pruys

Andreas Pruys

- Professional career :Andreas Pruys studied singing and church music at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. He worked as a church musician for several years, also as director of the music school in Emmerich. He has been a member of the choir NDR Chor since 2001....

 (Raphael, Adam) and the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei in the Rheingauer Dom in Geisenheim

Geisenheim

Geisenheim is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany, and is known as Weinstadt , Schulstadt , Domstadt and Lindenstadt ....

 and in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg

Schloss Johannisberg

Schloss Johannisberg is a winery in the Rheingau wine-growing region in Germany, that has been making wine for over 900 years. The winery is most noted for its claim to have "discovered" late harvest wine.- History :...

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Sans recorded with Nicol Matt the Masses of Mozart and Bruckner's Mass in D minor. He recorded the Levin

Robert D. Levin

Robert D. Levin is a classical performer, musicologist, and composer, and is the Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival.-Education:...

 completion of Mozart's Requiem

Requiem (Mozart)

The Requiem Mass in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the...

with the Bachchor Mainz, L'arpa festante München, Julia Kleiter, Gerhild Romberger, and Klaus Mertens

Klaus Mertens

Klaus Mertens is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Professional career:Klaus Mertens took singing lessons while attending school...

, conducted by Ralf Otto, Schubert's Mass in E Flat major with Matthias Breitschaft, and Mendelssohn's Elias

Elijah (oratorio)

Elijah, in German: Elias, is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament....

with Ronen Borshevsky. Again with Matt, he recorded in 2002 the complete choral works of Mendelssohn, and in 2006, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler...

and Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor

Der Schauspieldirektor

Der Schauspieldirektor , K. 486, is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian Schauspieldirektor....

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Awards

• First prize at the Internationaler Brahms-Wettbewerb in Austria
• Förderpreis Rheinland-Pfalz.

External links

• Daniel Sans website
• Entries for Daniel Sans on WorldCat
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