British-Italian baritone Filippo Turkheimer was a member of this year’s Gustav Mahler Academy, where he appeared in selections from G. Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Dobbiaco and Bolzano, and also presented songs by Mahler and Sibelius with the renowned Finnish pianist Pauliina Tukiainen as part of Bolzano Festival Bozen.
This year, he toured C. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Lautten Compagney Berlin, performing the roles of Caronte (Bayreuth & Hamburg) and Plutone/Pastore (Salzburg). Other recent operatic appearances include the role in Montéclair’s Jephté with the Mozarteum and Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (2025), ‘Count Almaviva’ in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Mozarteum OpernStudio (2024), ‘Kappadozier/Fünfter Jude’ roles in R. Strauss’ Salome and ‘Dandini’ in G. Rossini’s Cenerentola, both operas as part of the Immling Festival (2023).
Concert highlights in 2024/25 include performances of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St John Passion with L’Orfeo Barockorchester (Stephan Schultz), and Mondonville’s Venite, Exultemus with Instruments of Time & Truth (Edward Higginbottom). He performed R. Vaughan-Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Staatskapelle Dresden (2023) and solos in J.B. Lully’s Grands Motets with the Salzburger BachChor, conducted by Howard Arman (2022). Plans include a debut at the Slovak Philharmonic performing cantatas by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger and Johann Schimrack with the Slovakian ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Germany and Austria.
He studied singing at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and read Music at New College, Oxford, where he was a Choral Scholar. His current teachers are Robert Dean and David Kempster.
