The Leipzig born tenor is a prizewinner of the Kammeroper Schloss Reinsberg 2011 and 2012 International Vocal Competition, as well as being a recipient of the Yehudiv Menuhin Live Music Now Scholarship in 2010 and 2012.



Thomas Seidel has worked with composers Siegfried Matthus [“Konprinz Friedrich” (Regie: Kay Kunze), Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg 2012], Manuel Durão (MDR prizewinner for “Cantata”, “Robin Hood”, “Das Rätzel der Zeit”); Carlos Hidalgo (“Evohé”), Ioannis Mitsalis (“Word X”).

He has worked on pieces by, among others, Schönberg, Berg, Terzakis, Cage, Scelsi, Busoni, Froleykes, and Kagel.

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In the 2009/2010 Season Seidel debuted as the Deputy in Don Carlo at the Oper Halle. Further performances include Pesto in Les Mamelles de Tirèsias by Poulenc, Jean in Der gestiefelte Kater by Cui, Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone, as well as soloing in the premiere of Heinichen’s Die Lybische Talestris at the Bach Festival and Baroque Music Festival in Leipzig.

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In August of last year he took on the role of Robin Hood in the previously mentioned opera by Manuel Durão and Jauino in Fidelio. At the beginning of December he could be seen as Gherardo in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (directed by Matthias Oldag) at the HMT Leipzig.

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In the 2011/2012 Season at the Staatstheater Braunschweig he sang the role of Professor Süffle. Offers from the MDR-Rundfunkchor and from the Theater Gera/Altenburg as Mottel in Anatevka followed.

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In March 2012 Seidel soloed at the Gewandhausorchestra’s Grossen Konzert under the direction of Dennis Russel Davies in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.

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He studies under Prof. Berthold Schmid and has attended master classes by Prof. Barbro Marklund (Oslo), Prof. Philipp Moll (Chicago, Leipzig), Frank Wörner (Stuttgart) und Christiane Libor (Berlin).