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 will appear as ‘Nettuno’ in Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero at the Buxton International Festival (Vache Baroque/Jonathan Darnbourne). He also 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 a role in Montéclair’s Jephté with the Mozarteum and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (2025), Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Mozarteum OpernStudio (2024), and the roles of Kappadozier/Fünfter Jude in R. Strauss’ Salome and Dandini in G. Rossini’s La Cenerentola, both at 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 performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Germany and Austria, and a debut recital at SongEasel festival with pianist Jocelyn Freeman.
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.
