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Ireland-born
Robin Tritschler has parlayed his designation as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2012 into a growing international career.
Tritschler was born in Wicklow and studied music in Dublin, graduating from the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has said that he is a tenor from Ireland but does not consider himself an "Irish tenor" and has avoided singing the common run of Irish popular songs in recital.
Tritschler moved on to the Royal Academy of Music in London, and indeed much of his performing career has taken place within the U.K.; his primary residence on the operatic stage is at the Welsh National Opera, where he has performed leading tenor roles by
Mozart,
Donizetti,
Richard Strauss, and others.
Tritschler first attracted international attention with a series of prizes in the 2000s decade, including the Ulster Bank Music Foundation Bursary, the Abigail Dodds Lieder Prize, the Song Prize at the second China International Singing Competition, and the Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in 2006, following that up with a second prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in 2007. Those prizes launched a vigorous recital career for
Tritschler, who has performed to the accompaniment of
Graham Johnson,
Simon Lepper,
Malcolm Martineau, and
Roger Vignoles. He has also made appearances as a soloist in choral music, especially that of
Bach, and in orchestral concerts, earning nationwide recognition as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. During his term, which lasted until 2014, he made his debut at the Royal Opera as the Idiot in
Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
Tritschler's young recording career has been marked by daring choices of unusual repertory. His 2011 Pilfink-label debut,
The Renaissance Album, showcased songs by Rosseter and
Dowland, hardly typical fare for a young tenor on the rise. The year 2014 brought
No Exceptions, No Exemptions, a collection of World War I songs that included German songs as well as British ones. In 2017 he released an album of lieder by the little-known German composer Robert Franz. During the 2016-2017 season he had appeared with groups as diverse as the
London Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Bavarian and
North German Radio Symphony Orchestras, the
Collegium Vocale, and
Pygmalion. During that season he also made his debut with the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires.