In the artist's words:

Bass-baritone Thomas Bonni lives in Cologne, where he also studied at the University of Music and Dance.
where he also studied. His repertoire includes the major roles in the oratorios and passions of Bach
and Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn ("Elijah"), Mozart, Brahms and Verdi ("Messa da Requiem") and Beethoven.
Requiem") and Beethoven's 9th Symphony, but also countless lesser-known works
Baroque composers and parts from the sacred works of Dvorak, Puccini and Rossini, among others.
Rossini.
On the opera stage, he has sung roles such as Papageno, Figaro (Mozart), Colonel Ollendorf
and Peter Besenbinder. Most recently he sang Kaspar from ("Freischütz" / Opera compact
Maastricht In the field of new music, he has sung various world premieres, most recently for WDR's
"More Glowing Ambers" by Israeli composer Richard Farber for WDR on the occasion of the
the international Holocaust memorial day.
The singer has a particular interest in the music of the 17th century. Alongside German
composers such as Rosenmüller, Buxtehude and Bruhns, he is also interested in the works of
Italian composers of the early and high baroque period, which he performs with the Baroque
Baroque ensemble CordeBasso, which he co-founded.
With song accompanist Christoph Schnackertz, he develops programs with music by both well-known
well-known and lesser-known artists from the classical canon as well as from contemporary music.
from contemporary music. In 2021, they performed in the series "Funkhauskonzerte im WDR"
a program with 30 songs by Richard Farber (*1945) based on texts by Christian Morgenstern.
Morgenstern. 2022 the duo was a guest at the "Schlesische Musikfesten" in Görlitz. 2023
together with the author and publicist Rüdiger Safranski, they created a program
on the subject of "Eichendorff and German Romanticism".
Thomas Bonni attaches great importance to combining music with related arts.
He has developed various thematic solo programs, e.g. with poetry by female poets of the
Baroque period, with literary texts and letters on the 1st World War and the Thirty Years' War
or on the subject of faith, in which he performed in churches and at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne.
music with paintings and sculptures.