Axel Scheidig

Bass-baritone Axel Scheidig was born in 1970 in Sonneberg, Thuringia, and began his musical education at the specialist school for music education in Wernigerode and with the Rundfunk-Jugendchor Wernigerode. From 1991 to 1998 he studied voice and music theatre with Helga Bante at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, graduating with an artistic diploma, and attended masterclasses with Barbara Schlick, Kurt Moll, Siegfried Lorenz and Jakob Stämpfli.​

In 1997 he was a prizewinner at the International Handel Competition in Halle, and in 1998 he won first prize in the German Music Council competition with the vocal ensemble Die Weimarer Hofsänger, which he co-founded. Numerous recordings, concerts and guest appearances at home and abroad attest to his extensive chamber music experience. As a soloist he appeared at theatres across Thuringia while still a student, including in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Gera and Rudolstadt.​

From 1998 onwards he sang with the radio choirs of NDR, WDR and BR as well as with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, which he joined as a permanent member in 2005. Here he also appears regularly as a soloist under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Simon Halsey, Marek Janowski, Marc Minkowski and Gijs Leenaars, in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Sala São Paulo and Teatro Colón. In addition to his work with the Rundfunkchor Berlin he is much in demand as an oratorio soloist throughout Germany. Furthermore, he is a member of the men’s quartet Vokalzeit and the mixed quartet Berlin’s 4, with which he performs at events across Germany. He has also served as a juror at the Grand Prix of Nations Berlin 2017, organised by Interkultur in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, as well as at the German National Singing Competition.