Markus Schäfer (born 13 June 1961) is a German lyric tenor, a soloist in opera, oratorio, and Lied.
[2] Schäfer has performed with the ensemble La Petite Bande, conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken, in concerts and recordings of Bach cantatas and in works by Mozart, as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Ottavio in Don Giovanni and taking the tenor part of the Requiem.
[3] He is a regular soloist with the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor, beginning in 1989 with the tenor part in Mozart's Requiem for the funeral of the assassinated Alfred Herrhausen.
[2] In 2014, Schäfer appeared in a performance of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, celebrating the composer's birth in 1714 as "C.P.E.
Hermann Max conducted the Rheinische Kantorei and the Kleine Konzert, with soloists Veronika Winter (soprano), Matthias Vieweg (bass) and Hannes Rux (trumpet), at Eberbach Abbey, as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival.