Markus Adenstedt

Markus Adenstedt is a bass, vocal pedagogue, choral conductor, and music educator. He is currently studying music education with majors in choral conducting and singing, as well as vocal pedagogy with a focus on children’s and youth voice training, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

His teachers include Martina Steffl-Holzbauer (singing) and Jordi Casals-Ibanez and Johannes Hiemetsberger (choral conducting). He has also received important musical impulses from Johannes Prinz, Michael Grohotolsky, Barnaby Smith, and Simon Erasimus.

Through his participation in numerous ensembles and choirs—including Jugendchor Österreich, Webern Kammerchor, and Momentum Vocal Music—he has gained extensive experience in ensemble singing. He is a permanent member of the Company of Music and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and has sung, among others, with the chorus of Opera Klosterneuburg in Verdi’s Don Carlo and in Bellini’s Norma at the Theater an der Wien. In May 2023, he appeared as a choral soloist at the Baroque Days in Melk under the direction of Ivor Bolton.

His solo performances have taken him to major sacred buildings and concert halls, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Klosterneuburg Abbey, Herzogenburg Abbey, Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Melk Abbey, Göttweig Abbey, the Jesuit Church in Vienna, and St. Pölten Cathedral. He has
also appeared in a wide range of staged productions at the mdw, including the role of the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (2022) and Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (2024). In April 2023, he made his debut at the Classionata Solothurn music festival (Switzerland) as Bogdanowitsch in Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow).

As a choral conductor, his work focuses particularly on children’s and youth choirs. He is the artistic director of the Mozart Boys’ and Girls’ Choir Vienna, serves as an assistant for the youth choir of the Vienna Choral School, and works as a choir director at the primary school of the Theresianum in Vienna. In addition, he has worked for the NANO Children’s Choir School and the Vienna Youth Choir Academy, where he was also responsible for management and vocal training for several years.