Daniel Sans was a
boy soprano in the choir of the
Mainz Cathedral. He studied at the
Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He specialized in oratorio and
lied. Sans has performed in the
Wiener Konzerthaus with
Michael Schneider, the
Teatro Colon with
Karl-Friedrich Beringer, at the Feldkirch Festival with
Thomas Hengelbrock, the
Kölner Philharmonie with , the
Berliner Philharmonie with
Hans-Christoph Rademann, the Dresdner
Kreuzkirche with
Roderich Kreile, the Leipziger
Thomaskirche with
Gotthold Schwarz, and the
Alte Oper in Frankfurt with
Ralf Otto. In 2009 he performed Mendelssohn's
Paulus with the Landesjugendorchester (State Youth Orchestra) of
NRW. Sans has collaborated with the
Bachchor Mainz, conducted by
Ralf Otto. He has appeared with local choirs of the
Rhein Main area; for example, in 1999 he appeared with Christof Fischesser in
Puccini's
Messa di Gloria, both in
St. Martin, Idstein and the Basilika of
Schloss Johannisberg. In 2001 he sang there the tenor part in
Britten's
The Company of Heaven for speaker, soloists, choir and orchestra (1937), which the composer had written for
Peter Pears. In 2009 he was the tenor soloist (Uriel) in Haydn's
Die Schöpfung with
Elisabeth Scholl (Gabriel, Eve),
Andreas Pruys (Raphael, Adam) and the
Neue Rheingauer Kantorei in the
Rheingauer Dom in
Geisenheim and in the Basilika of
Schloss Johannisberg. Sans recorded with Nicol Matt the
masses of
Mozart and
Bruckner's Mass in D minor. He recorded the
Levin completion of Mozart's
Requiem with the Bachchor Mainz,
L'arpa festante München,
Julia Kleiter,
Gerhild Romberger, and
Klaus Mertens, conducted by Ralf Otto, Schubert's
Mass in E-flat major with Matthias Breitschaft, and Mendelssohn's
Elias with Ronen Borshevsky. Again with Matt, he recorded in 2002 the complete choral works of Mendelssohn, and in 2006, Mahler's
Das Lied von der Erde and Mozart's
Der Schauspieldirektor. == Awards ==