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The Colombian counter-tenor and organist, Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Vocal Performance- Piano Performance from Escuela de Música Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas in Bogotá, Colombia (2008-2012); his Master of Arts degree in Early music Performance from Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Drastellende Kunst Stuttgart under Viennese baritone Georg Nigl (2014-2017); and his Bachelor of Church Music degree (Organ and direction) from University for Churchmusic Protestan Church in Tübingen. In 2016, after an intense activity in Europe, he received the prize for Colombian youth artists of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and his artistic life was reviewed by Radio Nacional de Colombia and the specialized cultural press, in addition to being a fellow of the Deutsches Musikrat (2020) and the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Würrtemberg (2021). He has appeared in invitational master-classes with Dame Emma Kirkby, Andreas Scholl, Robin Blaze and Philippe Jaroussky at “Jeunes talents du chant” , Centre du musique baroque du Versailles and the Bach Institut Leipzig.
As a soloist, Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya has been invited by orchestras throughout Germany: Barockorchester Schleswig-Holstein, Preussiches Kammerorchester (Potsdam, December 2015-January 2016), Café International Baroque Orchestra (Hamburg, January 2020), Neumeyer Consort (Mainz, June-July 2019), Barockorchester L'arpa festante (May 2019), Johann Friedrich Fasch-Ensemble Halle, Jugendbarrockorchester Baden-Würrtemberg (October 2018), and abroad, with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (Israel, May 2018) and Ensemble Barroco de Bogotá (Colombia).
Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya has collaborated with artists and conductors such as Michael Schneider (La Stagione Frankfurt), Professor Johannes Knecht (Lübeck-Stuttgart), Dominique Vellard (Ensemble Guilles Binchois), Holger Speck (Vocalensemble Rastatt, since June 2017), Christoph Spering (Chorus Musicus Köln) and instrumentalist Organist Professor Wolfgang Zehrer (Hamburg) or Zink-cornetto Frithjof Smith (Basel) and has appearanced at festivals including the Podium Festival Esslingen (March/April 2016), Deutsches Chor Fest DDKC in Magdeburg (March 2017), 93. Neue Bachgesellschaft: Bachfest in Tübingen, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Holland, August 2017), and Festival Barroco di Roma (December 2019). On the opera stage he has played Fernando in George Frideric Handel's Rodrigo (directed by Jörg Halubek), Bertarido in Rodelinda (Willhelma Theater, Stuttgart, July 2017), in L’humana Fragilitá by Monteverdi with the Reutlinger Kammeroper, Ottone in Agrippina and Cesare in G.F. Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto with the Händel Akademie Karlsruhe under the vocal guidance of mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus.
Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya was also Organist at Evangelische Heilandskirche Stuttgart (March 2017-January 2022).
His conducting training with Veronika Stoerzenbach and Professor Dieter Kurz (HMDK Stuttgart) at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Tübingen, he has guest conducted with Camerata Viva Tübingen, Orchester der Universität Stuttgart, Camerata Louis Spohr Düsseldorf, and Cölner Barockorchester. Since 2023, he has also served as Kantor at the Evangelischen Emmaus-Kirchengemeinde in Willich (NRW) and as Artistic Director of the Willicher Musikprojekts.
Several recordings for Edition Weissenburg:“Songs of Love and Night” (2018), G.F. Handel's Messiah (2018) in Hebrew to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel State - together with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra - and for the label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - with the Vox Baroque Orchester showcase his vocal prowess. In 2024, he recorded with Camerata Louis Spohr Düsseldorf Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem as well as music by Felix Mendelssohn. In all his work, his central concern is to make the diversity of multiculturalism in today's Germany tangible and to present the connection to music as a democratic value in society.
In 2025, Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya' acquired German citizenship; so he is now officially a German-Colombian musician. His works, especially in his role as conductor, is currently suppoted by by the Landesmusikrat NRW (State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia). |
