Festival Soloists: Thomas Cooley
Tenor – Hamden, CT.
Thomas Cooley is known for his performance of the great works of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Britten, whereby the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions figure prominently. Recent orc
hestral appearances have included the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and the Akadamie für Alte Musik Berlin. He works regularly with conductors such as Nicholas McGegan, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Spano and Karl Friedrich-Beringer. On the opera stage, Mr. Cooley was engaged from 2002-2006 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, singing most of the major Mozart tenor roles and Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Thomas Cooley was born in Minneapolis, lived in Germany for nine years, and recently moved to Hamden, CT. He loves to cook, garden and collect antiques.