David Kerber

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David Kerber

David Kerber began his classical vocal training at the age of five with the Wiltener Sängerknaben, studying there for twenty years under Professor Johannes Stecher. He continues his vocal studies with Lucja Zarzycka.

He has received significant artistic and vocal inspiration through his work with KS Angelika Kirchschlager, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, and Linda Watson.

Kerber made his operatic debut at the age of nine as the First Boy in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Landestheater Bregenz and has since appeared regularly on opera and concert stages. Already as a child, his performances took him to the Tiroler Landestheater, the Bregenzer Landestheater, the Tirol Festival Erl, several of China’s major concert halls, and in 2012 to the Salzburg Festival in Meine Bienen. Eine Schneise, a project by Franui and Klaus Händl.

Lied is his great passion. Together with Austrian actress Maresa Hörbiger, he created the evening program Schreiben Sie mir oder ich sterbe and has since performed numerous Liederabende, including Die Dichterliebe – ein lichter Traum at the Kultursommer Semmering and for Jeunesse. In the project Der Dichter Liebe, Leah Maria Huber, David Kerber, and Miriam Reinstadler wrote and staged a unique piece inspired by Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. This melodrama, enthusiastically received by audiences, also led the trio to establish and direct the new festival Alles Lied. in Breitenwang, Tyrol.

He has also made his mark on the screen: Kerber performed the film music for Josef Bierbichler’s 2018 feature film Zwei Herren im Anzug.

A particular focus of his repertoire lies in Baroque music. Most recently, he recorded the part of the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on CD, together with Academia Jacobus Stainer and the Wiltener Sängerknaben.

David Kerber made his operatic debut at the Bregenz Festival in 2019, appearing both as Triquet in Eugene Onegin at the Kornmarkt under Valentin Uryupin and as the Page in Rigoletto on the lake stage under Enrique Mazzola. In 2021, he performed in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Tirol Festival Erl and appeared at the Tiroler Landestheater in Peter Eötvös’s The Golden Dragon.

Since the 2022/23 season, David Kerber has been a permanent ensemble member of the Volksoper Wien. He also made his debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute with the Dutch National Touring Opera under Marcus Merkel. His repertoire at the Volksoper includes Tamino, Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, and the Steersman in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. The 2023/24 season marked his first appearance in Wagner’s Ring cycle, singing Froh in Das Rheingold at Staatsoper Stuttgart under Marek Janowski.

In the 2024/25 season, David Kerber resumed his collaboration with Franui, begun in 2012, performing the role of Sandor Barinkay in the world premiere of Das Lied vom Rand der Welt oder Der Zigeunerbaron, based on a libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig. He also made his debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus, singing works of the Strauss dynasty with Vera-Lotte Böcker and the Strauss Festival Orchestra under Vinzenz Praxmarer. Further engagements include two Liederabende featuring works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Wolf at the Alles Lied festival in Breitenwang and the Schubertiade Wieden in Vienna, in collaboration with pianist Alejandro Pico-Leonis, before concluding the season with Alfredo in La Traviata at the newly founded Wiener Opernsommer.

David Kerber is a laureate of numerous competitions and foundations. He was awarded the sponsorship prize of the Professor Armin Weltner Foundation from Zurich at La Scala in Milan and has received multiple honors, including at the 2021 International Haydn Singing Competition in Rohrau, the 36th Concorso Internazionale di Canto “Maria Caniglia” in Sulmona, and the Zukunftsstimmen competition initiated by Elīna Garanča.

April 2025