René Voßkühler

René Voßkühler was born in Anklam (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) in 1963 and sang in his local boys’ choir during his school years. He studied voice with Kammersänger Siegfried Lorenz at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, graduating with a diploma in 1990. From 1990 to 1992 he gained stage experience in the studio of the Komische Oper Berlin, before joining the ensembles of Theater Frankfurt (Oder) and the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam as a soloist. He began deputising with the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 1995 and has been a permanent member of the ensemble since 1999.

Within the Rundfunkchor Berlin he is also regularly heard as a soloist: in Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s production of Beethoven’s »Fidelio« under Sir Simon Rattle in Tokyo he sang the First Prisoner, and under Nikolaus Harnoncourt he performed the Young Man in Schubert’s »Alfonso und Estrella«; he can also be heard on Kent Nagano’s recording of Bernstein’s »Mass«. In the series »Broadening the Scope of Choral Music« he sang the tenor solo in Shchedrin’s »The Sealed Angel« (Berlin, Brandenburg, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, Copenhagen, San Sebastián), and in Tavener’s »The Veil of the Temple« at the Hamburger Bahnhof in 2007 he performed the Beatitudes.​

Together with Isabelle Voßkühler, Kristiina Mäkimattila and David Stingl he founded a vocal quartet within the Rundfunkchor Berlin, which has appeared in Tokyo and in the choir’s own chamber music series.