Jakob Gerbeth · Lyric tenor
Abridged biography
Updated: 21 October 2026

Jakob Gerbeth is a Viennese tenor particularly devoted to art song, oratorio and opera. In March 2025, aged 24, he made his Vienna Musikverein debut as a soloist in Monteverdi’s Vespers. Further appearances have taken him to Vienna’s Konzerthaus and, in 2026, to Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música with Barucco under Heinz Ferlesch. The concert featuring Mozart’s Requiem was broadcast on ORF III on Palm Sunday as “Osterklänge aus Madrid”.

He made his solo operatic debut in 2022 as Floridoro / Feraspe at the donauFESTWOCHEN at Schloss Greinburg. His further stage roles include Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni”, Alfred in “Die Fledermaus”, Gomatz in “Zaide” and the Prologue in “The Turn of the Screw”. His song performances include Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” with Professor Manfred Schiebel.

In concert, he has sung the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and appeared in Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passions, Handel’s “Messiah”, Monteverdi’s Vespers and Charpentier’s “Te Deum”. His engagements include the “Imago Dei” festival, Vienna’s St Stephen’s Cathedral, the Festspielhaus St. Pölten and the Carinthischer Sommer. He collaborates with ensembles including Barucco, Concerto Stella Matutina, L’Orfeo Barockorchester and cappella nova Graz vocale e strumentale. From 2018, he was a member of Momentum Vocal Music. He has been a member of Company of Music since 2022.

His musical beginnings were in cello playing and the Wiener Chorschule children’s choir. He has studied at the mdw since 2020 and has been pursuing a master’s degree in Lied since 2024 with Professors Margit Klaushofer, Michael Schade and Florian Boesch. His teachers also included Professor Justus Zeyen (1963–2025).

Announced projects include the world premiere of Wolfgang Mitterer’s “Der böse Fürst” in Vienna and Scarlatti’s “Stabat Mater” with Company of Music at the Easter Festival in Vienna’s Hofburgkapelle.