Über mich
About myself
Andrew Sritheran was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He began his musical training at the Wellington Polytechnic Conservatorium of Music, Massey University. Graduating with a Bachelor of Music enabled him to undertake a Master's degree at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music in New York. After a short visit back to New Zealand he returned to the U.S.A. to study with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West. Following his success there he began the transition from baritone to tenor under the tutelage of Paddy McGuigan courtesy of a Major Scholarship from the Peter Moores Foundation at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Thereafter he won a place at the National Opera Studio in London and not long after won a place on the much lauded Jette Parker Young Artist' Programme of the Royal Opera House in London.
He has won numerous prizes in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany and the U.S.A. including but not limited to: the 2002 National Mozart Competition, the 2005 Bayreuth Bursary, the 2005 International Bayreuth Bursary Competition although in this case he was unable to compete further than the semi-finals due to commitments at the Royal Opera House. He was also a finalist in the inaugural Seattle International Wagner Competition and a prize-winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation in New York.
Sritheran showed from early on in his studies a distinct aptitude for the operas of Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with his powerful dark coloured voice.
After enormous success with the role of Siegmund for Theater Lübeck he was offered a fixed position at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau where he made his name with Lohengrin and Florestan. With guest appearances in Koblenz The tales of Hoffmann, Ulm Otello and Siegfried and Lübeck Siegmund & The King of Naples (The Tempest) and Erl for the Tiroler Festspiele Cavaradossi, Lohengrin, Siegmund & Siegfried Sritheran cemented his renown as a tenor worth listening to. Shortly hereafter he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in his beloved role of Siegmund.
His musical passion is mainly for Opera, his powerful stage presence, good looks and his tenorial brilliance allow him to shine on stage. However he is just as impressive in Puccini's Messa da Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Verdi's Requiem and other works of Oratorio in which he has taken part as he is in Concert or Opera.
His appearance at the Metropolitan Opera was broadcast worldwide on radio and his Siegmund from Theater Lübeck was released on DVD under Musicaphon, which won the Echo prize of 2012 and the prize of the 'German Record Critics Best List'.
Sritheran teaches in Italy and Germany.