Swiss tenor
Mauro Peter is equally at home on the operatic stage and in the recital hall. He began his career singing in the
Lucerne Boys Choir. He studied at the Munich University of Music and Theater and the Bavarian Theater Academy, and his teachers included Fenna Kügel-Seifried, August Everding, Christoph Adt, and
Helmut Deutsch. He made his operatic debut at the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonie, and he performed at the State Theater at the Gärtnerplatz, the Bavarian Theater Academy, and the Prince Regent Theater in Munich. He has performed with the
Munich Radio Orchestra in performances of oratorios by
Bach,
Handel, and
Haydn, as well as
Mozart's Requiem. As a recitalist, he has performed songs by
Schubert,
Liszt,
Wolf,
Warlock, and
Barber. He is a frequent guest artist at music festivals, including the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems and the Salzburg Festival. He has recorded
Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin for the Wigmore Hall Live label, and Lieder of
Schubert and
Schumann for Sony Classical.