Born in 1995 in Zurich Switzerland, baritone Äneas Humm graduated with his Masters of Music from the Juilliard School in 2019.

For his achievements to date, he received the “OPUS Klassik” as Young Artist of the Year in 2022 and has previously been awarded the “Deutschlandfunk Förderpreis”.

While still a student, he gave his debut at Stadttheater Bremerhaven in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Kommiltionen and accepted guest engagements at the Theater Osnabrück as Sancho in Telemanns Don Quichotte.

After graduating from the Juilliard School he became a soloist at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in 2019. In 2020, he was hired by Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe where he remained a soloist for the following seasons.

At Theater St. Gallen he could be heard in important roles such, as Ophémon in Joseph Bologne's L’amant anonyme, as Doktor Falke in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, as Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, or as Roucher in Giordano's Andrea Chénier.

In autumn 2023, he was invited back to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and impressed as Agrippa in John Adams' Antony and Cleopatra and made his debut at Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Fauré's Requiem.

This was followed by his debuts at the Opera di Roma as Papageno and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as Harlekin in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.

Among his engagements in the past season were his return to the Theater St. Gallen for his debut as Pantalon in Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, his role debut in the title role of Owen Wingrave at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, and the reprise of the role of Falke in Die Fledermaus alongside Rolando Villazón. He returned to the Isarphilharmonie München to perform Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, sang Brahms’ Requiem at the Philharmonie Reutlingen, and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Elbphilharmonie under the baton of Tarmo Peltokoski with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Among his engagements for the 2025–26 season are: Ariadne auf Naxos at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Lohengrin at Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Äneas Humm is in great demand as a concert singer and is a welcome guest with renowned European orchestras such as the Bremen Philharmonic, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Kammerorchester Basel, the Nederlands Noordorkest or the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

He also is an acclaimed singer of the Lied Repertoire: recitals have taken him to Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, to the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, to the Heidelberger Frühling, to the Musikfest Bremen, to the Beethoven House in Bonn and also, for example, to the two major Swiss festivals in Davos and Lucerne.

His second solo album Embrace was named "CD of the Year 2021" by BR Klassik and he also received the "Opus Klassik as Young Artist“. His latest solo album "Libertas" (Rondeau Production) has been released in spring 2025 to rave reviews. Future recordings include collaborations with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyrique, Christoph Poppen and Kölner Kammerorchester and pianist Renate Rohlfing.

August 2025