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Praised for his textual clarity, expressiveness and sound culture (Komische Oper Berlin), his warm, versatile and elegant baritone (CD Éternelle Dualité), shining timbre and vocal plasticity (Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires), Amsterdam-based baritone Florian Just enjoys a varied international career on the opera and concert stage, but also in the oratorio and chamber music world. He started his musical training at an early age with the Dresden Kreuzchor and completed his studies at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Metz with Udo Reinemann.
He can regularly be heard as a soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Staatskapelle Dresden, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra), his Passions (Netherlands Bach Society, Gelders Orchestra, Nord Nederlands Orkest), Mahler’s Songs (De Philharmonie, Ebony Ensemble), Brahms’ Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana. He sang the leading roles in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Holland Opera), Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Muziektheater Transparant), Subotnik’s Jacob’s Room (Bregenzer Festspiele), Xenakis’ Oresteia and Aïs (Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires and Teatro Argentino/La Plata ) and was heard as Enrico in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata (Canal Festival), as Micha in Dvorak’s Bartered Bride (Nationale Reis Opera) and sang during the Saturday matinee of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in Berg’s Wozzeck and Strauss’ Elektra. He worked with conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Jos van Veldhoven, Markus Stenz, Ed Spanjaard, Reinbert de Leeuw, Klaas Stok, Vaclav Lúks, Peter Dijkstra, Arturo Tamayo, Alejo Peres and Tito Ceccherini. Florian Just won the Friends’ Wreath (Vriendenkrans) as well as the press prize of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Schubert Prize at the competition “Schubert und die Musik der Moderne” in Graz.
In 2016, his debut CD Monologe, which was praised by the international press, was released in collaboration with pianist Jan-Paul Grijpink. In October 2022, his widely praised 2nd CD Éternelle Dualité was released with French-language songs accompanied by piano, flute and cello.