Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim was born in 1967 in George Town, Malaysia, but grew up in Australia. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and worked as a horn player. During his music studies he also took singing lessons with Dame Joan Hammond and after graduating he sang for three years at the Victoria State Opera. Thanks to an international scholarship, he was also able to study in Italy, Greece, Germany and Switzerland.
In 1994, he received an engagement at the Zurich Opera House, where he sang Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Gonsalvo in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole, among others. After appearances at the Salzburg Festival and in German opera houses he was invited to Chicago, and was also given the opportunity to take on the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo at La Scala in Milan in 2005. In 2007, he sang the title role in the world premiere of the opera Teneke by Italian composer Fabio Vacchi.
He frequently appears in concert with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as at the BBC Proms. He has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Marc Minkowski and Sir Roger Norrington.
He died in Wien in 2024.
