Alexander Puhrer grew up in Vienna and was educated in the USA. His repertoire includes the thirty-five operatic and operetta parts as well as numerous songs and oratorios. His career began in the US, including as Figaro, Marcello, Almaviva and Sid. One of his first orchestral concerts was conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Alexander Puhrer is the winner of numerous singing competitions, including the International Competition for Song Art, Stuttgart and the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.
Alexander Puhrer spent the first three years of his artistic career in Europe as an ensemble member of the Graz Opera . There he sang some of his showpiece roles (Almaviva, Papageno, Malatesta, Harlequin, Count Eberbach) under the direction of renowned conductors such as Philippe Jordan , Karel Mark Chichon and Arnold Östman . Further engagements have taken the artist living in Vienna to the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Theater an der Wien , the Wiener Musikverein , the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg and the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Landestheater Salzburg or the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca. These included appearances on festival stages, such as at the lake festival Mörbisch or the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt under Adam Fischer.
The baritone's repertoire also includes contemporary roles such as the Christ in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper (OsterKlang Wien), Peter in Herbert Willis Schlafes Bruder, the title role of the opera Franz Jägerstätter, or Ben from The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Wiener Living room opera).
Alexander Puhrer is also an internationally sought-after concert singer and song interpreter. His repertoire includes sacred music and oratorios - special attention heard Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Vienna Musikverein, as well as Bach's St. Matthew - and St. John Passion with the Capella Savaria - and concert repertoire, including Orff's Carmina Burana and Frank Martin's Jedermann Monologues (Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City), Bach's Magnificat (Seiji Ozawa) and B Minor Mass , Brahms' Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony andMissa Solemnis and Samuel Barber's Dover Beach. As a Mahler specialist, he has performed the journeyman , Rückert and Wunderhorn songs with various orchestras several times and recorded them on CD, including the ALEA Ensemble in arrangement for piano quartet by Gerhard Präsent . In 2010, a recording of Schubert's Winterreise was created together with the pianist David Lutz .
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