British-Italian baritone Filippo Turkheimer studied at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and read Music at New College, Oxford, where he was a Choral Scholar. A member of this year’s Gustav Mahler Academy, he appeared in selections from 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 Tukkiainen as part of Bolzano Festival Bozen.
Recent operatic appearances include the title 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). He also joined Teodor Currentzis’s ensemble, Utopia, for Don Giovanni at last year’s Salzburg Festival.
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).
Soon he will appear as ‘Caronte/Spirito’ in C. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Lautten Compagney Berlin, with performances at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, and Residenzplatz in Salzburg. Other plans include a debut at the Slovak Philharmonic performing German Baroque music as part of a tour with the Slovakian ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, performances of Handel’s Messiah with Instruments of Time & Truth under Edward Higginbottom, and in Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Germany and Austria.
