Gerson Luiz Sales

Gerson Luiz Sales, born in Rio de Janeiro, studied piano and voice at the Rio de Janeiro Music Academy and passed his piano diploma in 1989. In 1991 he moved to Milan where he performed renaissance music in a vocal ensemble. In 1992 he entered an engagement at the theatre in Hagen, Germany. Later on, in 1993, Gerson Sales started an additional education as a countertenor under Prof. Phillip Langshaw at the Cologne Music Academy. Since 1995 he has had several engagements in cities like Cologne, Vienna, New York, The Hague, Munich, Darmstadt, Taipei, Stuttgart, Madrid and Barcelona. Among others, he performed Bertarido in Rodelinda, Nero in Agrippina, Ulisse in Deidamia, Serse and Arsamene in Serse of G. F. Haendel, Philidel in Purcell's King Arthur, La Musica and Speranza in L'Orfeo, Ottone in L'Incoronazione di Poppea of C. Monteverdi, Haensel in Haensel and Gretel of E. Humperdinck, Don Quixote in Don Quixote of Paisiello, Prince Go-Go in Le Grand Macabre of G. Ligeti, La Cuzzoni in La Cuzzoni of Agustí Charles, L'Ospite in Luci mie traditrici, L'Uomo II in La porta della legge of Salvatore Sciarrino and Gluck's Orfeo.