David Kerber 2025
David Kerber
David Kerber began his classical vocal training at the age of five with the Wilten Boys' Choir and studied there for twenty years with Prof. Johannes Stecher. He continues to study with Lucja Zarzycka.
David Kerber received strong artistic and vocal inspiration through his collaboration with KS Angelika Kirchschlager, KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Linda Watson.
David Kerber made his debut at the age of nine as the first boy in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Bregenz State Theatre and has continued to sing regularly on the opera and concert stages. His singing experience as a child has taken him to the stages of the Tyrolean and Bregenz State Theatres, the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, numerous stages in China's largest concert halls, and in 2012 to the Salzburg Festival in "My Bees. A Path" by Franui and Klaus Handel.
Lied is his great passion, which is why he created the evening "Schreiben Sie mir oder ich sterbe" (Write to me or I die) with Austrian actress Maresa Hörbiger and has already given several song recitals, including his evening "Die Dichterliebe – ein leuchttraum" (Poet's Love – a bright dream), at the Semmering Cultural Summer Festival and at Jeunesse, among others. With the project "Der Dichter Liebe" (Poet's Love), Leah Maria Huber, David Kerber, and Miriam Reinstadler wrote and directed an original piece centered on the essence of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe (Poet's Love). This melodrama, which was enthusiastically received by audiences, led the trio to, among other things, the artistic direction of the newly founded "Alles Lied" (All Song) festival in Breitenwang, Tyrol.
He has also proven his singing skills on screen, singing the soundtrack to Josef Bierbichler’s 2018 film “Two Gentlemen in Suits”.
He pays particular attention to Baroque music and recently recorded the role of the Evangelist in the St. Matthew Passion on CD with the Academia Jacobus Stainer and the Wilten Boys' Choir.
David Kerber made his operatic debut twice at the Bregenz Festival in 2019: in the Kornmarkt Opera Studio as "Triquet" in Eugene Onegin under Valentin Uryupin and as "Paggio" on the Lake Stage in Rigoletto under Enrique Mazzola. In 2021, he sang in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl and in Peter Eötvös's "The Golden Dragon" at the Tyrolean State Theatre.
David Kerber has been a permanent member of the Vienna Volksoper ensemble since the 2022/23 season and also made his debut as Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute with the Dutch National Touring Opera in Holland under Marcus Merkel. In addition to Tamino, David Kerber's repertoire at the Vienna Volksoper includes Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata and the Helmsman in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman." The 2023/24 season marked the young Tyrolean's first appearance in a Richard Wagner Ring opera, singing Froh in Rheingold at the Stuttgart State Opera under Marek Janowski.
In the 2024/25 season, David Kerber continued his collaboration with Franui, which began in 2012, singing Sandor Barinkay in their world premiere of "Das Lied vom Rand der Welt oder Der "Zigeunerbaron"" (The Song from the Edge of the World or The Gypsy Baron) based on a libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig. He also made his concert debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus, singing works by the Strauss dynasty with Vera-Lotte Böcker and the Strauss Festival Orchestra under the direction of Vinzenz Praxmarer. He will also give two recitals with works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Wolf at "Alles Lied" in Breitenwang and the Schubertiade Wieden in Vienna with his pianist Alejandro Pico-Leonis, before concluding his season with Alfredo in "La Traviata" at the newly founded Vienna Opera Summer.
David Kerber is also a prizewinner of numerous competitions and foundations, for example he was awarded the Professor Armin Weltner Foundation's Promotion Prize from Zurich at La Scala in Milan and he has been named a multiple prizewinner of the 2021 International Haydn Singing Competition in Rohrau, the 36th Concorso Internationale di Canto "Maria Caniglia" in Sulmona and the Zukunftsstimmen competition by Elina Granča.
