Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl is one of the world's best-known exponents of the countertenor voice -- of male singing in the alto range. He focuses on Baroque operatic and concert works, but later in his career, he has also recorded a wide variety of music from beyond that period, some of it not originally written for a countertenor at all. Scholl was born on November 10, 1967, in Eltville, on the Rhine River, in what was then West Germany. He grew up in nearby Kiedrich, where his father was a boychoir conductor. Andreas and two siblings sang in the choir, and as a child, he had a solo at a...