Jörg Waschinski was born in Berlin, where he first studied church music, continuing to study as a male soprano with Renate Faltin at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule. He participated in master-classes with Peter Schreier, Elio Battaglia and Barbara Schlick, and completed his studies in close collaboration with Scot Weir. He was a prize-winner in 1996 at the Melk Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Competition and won the special prize of the German Stage Union at the Berlin Regional Singing Competition, embarking on a career as a sought-after singer in opera and oratorio throughout Europe, hailed by Opernwelt as the rising singer of 1999/2000. His extraordinary vocal ability led him to the lost repertoire of the legendary baroque castrati, and to works of the pre-classical period, up to Mozart. He has appeared with distinguished conductors and his stage rÃŽles have included those of Xerxes in Handel's opera at the St Gallen Stadttheater, Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea in Hanover, with David in Handel's oratorio Saul at the Bonn Opera. Jörg Waschinski has collaborated in a number of prizewinning recordings, including Johann Christian Bach's Endimione, awarded the 2000 Echo-Klassik Prize, and Dittersdorf's oratorio Giob, awarded the 2002 German Record Critics Prize.Â
