Christian Rathgeber

Christian Rathgeber received his first musical education in the Windsbacher Knabenchor. While he studied and worked as a nurse, he took private singing lessons, among others, with Hans-Peter Blochwitz and Martin Hummel. Since 2007, he studied Singing at the Musikhochschule Mainz with Andreas Karasiak. His focus is on tenor parts of Early Music. In 2011, he performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Johannes-Passion and Mass in B minor in Israel and South Africa. Christian Rathgeber is regularly solist in the Bachkantatenreihe under Ralf Otto and member of the Jungen Ensembles at the Staatstheater Mainz. He performed at the Kammeroper Rheinsberg and at the Staatstheater Mainz and frequently works together with vocal ensembles like Collegium Vocale Gent and the Kammerchor Stuttgart.