Alexander Mayr

Alexander Mayr is a Viennese tenor, voice pedagogue and researcher. He is University Professor of Voice and Applied Vocal Didactics at the Antonio Salieri Institute of Vocal Studies and Vocal Research in Music Education at the mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and teaches master classes internationally.

His research bridges artistic practice and vocal science — historical singing techniques and vocal aesthetics, historically informed performance practice, vocal physiology, and the acoustics of phonation. In 2014 he completed the artistic-scientific doctoral project Die voce faringea – Rekonstruktion einer vergessenen Kunst at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with distinction, collaborating with researchers such as Johan Sundberg (KTH Stockholm) and Donald G. Miller. His findings have appeared in the Journal of Voice and Vox Humana, were presented at conferences including EPARM, PEVOC and the Voice Foundation Symposium in Philadelphia, and culminated in the monograph Voce faringea: Eine Kunst der Belcanto-Tenöre (Bärenreiter, 2018).

As an opera and concert singer he has appeared on international stages since 1998, with a particular affinity for extremely high tenor roles — among them Arkenholz in Aribert Reimann’s The Ghost Sonata at the Frankfurt Opera, the artistic documentation of this research project.

---

The full artistic biography can be found at alexmayr.com.