Jacques le Roux

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Jacques le Roux (born 21 May 1981 as Hermanus Jacobus le Roux) is a South African tenor, concert, and opera singer.

## Life and person[edit]

Le Roux was born in South Africa in Colenzo-Ladysmith in the then-province of Natal.[1] His mother, an organist in the local church, gave him his first music lessons. The family relocated to Vereeniging, a city in Transvaal now known as Gauteng, where Jacques le Roux at the age of 14 started studying piano and clarinet at the local gymnasium conservatory. It was during these years that he discovered his singing talent. This finally led him to further his music studies at the Conservatorium of the North-West University in Potchefstroom,[2] where he studied voice under Prof. Werner Nel. In 2006 the singer went abroad to the Netherlands and Germany to pursue an international opera career. He now resides in Austria.

## Career[edit]

As a student in his native South Africa, Jacques le Roux had already sung in many student opera productions. This led to him winning various competitions, prizes, and scholarships, such as the UNISA Voice Competition[citation needed] and the ATKV Music Competition.[citation needed] He was also nominated as a finalist in the Belvedere singing competition in Vienna, Austria.[citation needed]

In 2006 le Roux was part of the Resident Artist Program of the Nationale Reisopera (now the Nederlandse Reisopera) in Enschede, the Netherlands, where he sang in the role of Pedrillo in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.[citation needed] The following year, he made his European stage debut in the role of Don Ramiro in G. Rossini's La Cenerentola at the World Youth Opera Schloss Weikersheim in Germany,[3] a program of the German branch of Jeunesses Musicales International. This led to new engagements and further productions in Europe.

In 2007 le Roux became part of the chamber opera in Munich, and in the following years of 2008 and 2009, Le Roux sang as the youngest member of the ensemble at the Meiningen Court Theatre. After working as a concert and opera singer in South Africa, the Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, Russia, Norway, and Poland, Jacques le Roux finally relocated permanently to Austria. Since 2010/2011, he has been part of the fixed opera ensemble of the Linz State Theatre in Austria.[4] In 2013, he sang in the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera The Lost,[5] which was written for the opening of the Linz opera house.[6] He has sung leading male roles worldwide and at European premieres of composers such as Ernst Ludwig Leiter, William Bolcom, Moritz Eggert , and Helmut Schmidinger.

## Awards[edit]

Jacques le Roux won the 2010 "Ulrich-Burkhardt-Förderpreis“ of the South Thuringia State Theatre Meiningen. [7]

In 2016 he was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize in the category of Supporting Male Role for his performance as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw.[8]

## Discographies[edit]

* Philip Glass: Spuren der Verirrten (The Lost) | DVD
* Philip Glass: Spuren der Verirrten (The Lost) | CD
* Bellini: Songs – Canzone – Lieder | CD

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Vitae - Jacques le Roux". Jacques le Roux - Tenor. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
2. ^ "Young tenor sings at alma mater — 10 March 2015 | Take Note". Blog of the NWU School of Music. North-West University. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
3. ^ "Produktionen - Junge-oper" (in German). Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland. Archived from the original on 31 March 2023.
4. ^ "Jacques le Roux" (in German). Landestheater Linz. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023.
5. ^ Dammann, Guy (26 April 2013). "Digitally enhanced". TLS. Times Literary Supplement (5743): 18–20. ISSN 2517-7729.
6. ^ Burton-Hill, Clemency (1 May 2013).Philip Glass and Linz Opera: A classic combination. BBC. Archived 24 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ "Den Förderpreis 2010 erhielt der Sänger Jacques Le Roux". TheaterFreunde Meiningen Theater Förderung Georg2 (in German). Archived from the original on 25 March 2023.
8. ^ "Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis | Archive". Musical Vienna. Vereinigte Bühnen Wien. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2023.

## External links[edit]

* Official website (archived)
* Jacques le Roux - TENOR on Facebook
* Jacques le Roux's channel on YouTube

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* VIAF

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* United States