Prof. Scot Weir

Prof. Scot Weir was born in New Mexico, USA, and studied at the University of Colorado School of Music in Boulder, Colorado, USA, with Louis Cunningham, Barbara Doscher, Gerhard Hüsch, Gérard Souzay, Renato Cappechi and Ralph Herbert. During the 1980s he took up contracts as a lyric tenor with the Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen and the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Here he founded the Musikherbst Wiesbaden, of which he is the artistic director. Freelance since 1989, Scot Weir performs throughout the world. He is a regular guest at the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, at the Opéra Bastille and Opéra Chatelet in Paris, at the Zurich opera and at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. Scot Weir has sung at the Berliner Bachtage, the Berliner Festwochen, the festivals in Salzburg, Ludwigsburg and Schwetzingen, at Mostly Mozart in New York, at the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival, at Wien Modern and the Mozartwoche in Salzburg as well as at numerous festivals in Europe, North America, Japan and Israel. Scot Weir is equally well-established as an opera, oratorio and lieder singer. His repertoire encompasses over 70 operatic rôles, more than 200 oratorios and around 1000 songs, including 47 complete song cycles. He has worked with well-known conductors such as Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Roger Norrington, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Gennadi Nikolajevich Roshdestvensky, Charles Dutoit, Sir Charles Mackerras and Jesus Lopez Cobos. Radio and CD recordings document his career. As a teacher he has directed many music courses at the universities of Colorado and Oregon. Since 1993 Scot Weir has worked as vocal tutor at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart and was appointed Professor of Singing at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin in 1995. Scott Weir