Biography
“Beckemeyer returned shortly thereafter to display the advantage of presenting soloists of different expressive capabilities as he sang [Thou shalt break them.]”
“...an apt flourish at slowed final cadences, starting with tenor Blake Beckemeyer’s picturesque “rough places” in the oratorio’s first aria.”
Tenor Blake Beckemeyer thrives on exciting, small-ensemble performances working on historical and text-driven interpretations of Baroque, Classical, and modern music. He returns from being the tenor Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival including performances as soloist with Grete Peterson and Michael Beattie. Beckemeyer looks forward to an exciting season featuring reprising appearances at the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra's collaboration with St. Paul's, Apollo's Fire's tour of Messiah throughout the Midwest, Alkemie Viols' collaboration with Incantare at Christmastime, and returns to Washington Bach Consort. The season features two performances of the Bach St. John Passion Evangelist & Arias with Quartz and the Arizona Philharmonic as well as the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Christ Church Cathedral.
In past seasons, Beckemeyer has been also seen with Seraphic Fire, The Thirteen, True Concord, Oregon Bach Festival, the Valparaiso Bach Ensemble, Bach Ensemble-Helmuth Rilling, the Weimar Bach Cantata Akademie, the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium, both the Bloomington and Indianapolis early music festivals, and Tonos del Sur. Beckemeyer's work has taken him to record multiple discs and video recordings, including video recording for German state Television, a Rocky Mountain Emmy award-winning video of Runestad's Earth Symphony for Arizona PBS with True Concord, and multiple Opus Klassik nominations for Vox Orchester's recording of Handel Alexander's Feast.
Beckemeyer lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Shannon and he works as a software consultant in architecture for low-code and no-code platforms and data analytics and engineering.