Born in Stuttgart, Simon Amend received his musical education by taking violin lessons and singing in the boys´ choir collegium iuvenum.
He began his vocal studies with Professor Thomas Pfeiffer and Sylvia Koncza at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he successfully graduated School Music in 2017.
His main field being voice, he thereupon graduated Bachelor of Music (Bachelor Voice) at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart. Here he is also currently completing his education with the degree course Master Voice with Sylvia Koncza, as well as in the master classes of Professor Markus Eiche at Zurich University of the Arts, and with Professor Andreas Macco and Professor Pauliina Tukiainen (Lied presentation) at Mozarteum University Salzburg.
As an ensemble member he has been awarded with national and international prizes, such as the First Prize in the Mosbach International Competition of Chamber Choirs. National and international concert tours and engagements led him to numerous locations at home and abroad. As a soloist and chorister Simon Amend has collaborated regularly with important conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Denis Rouger, Holger Speck and Felix Koch. In doing so, he contributed to numerous CD productions, most recently playing the part of Paulus in the oratorio of the same name by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
In addition, he gained theatrical experience by playing a part in the opera "Don Giovanni", where he sang in the opera choir of the Wilhelma Theatre Stuttgart under the musical direction of Professor Bernhard Epstein. What is more, as a member of the opera choir of the State Opera Stuttgart, he could be heard and seen in various productions during the 2017/2018 season.
He furthermore has received decisive musical impulses from master classes with Professor Eric Mentzel, Professor Anne Le Bozec, Professor Thilo Dahlmann, Professor Karlheinz Hanser, Professor Elisabeth Scholl, Professor Thomas Dewald as well as Hans-Christoph Begemann.
Simon Amend has received scholarships of the Yehudi Menuhin · Live Music Now Stuttgart e. V. as well as the Richard Wagner Verband Stuttgart e.V., and is scholarship holder of the Gutenberg Stipendium Mainz.
Simon Amend also dedicates himself to the upcoming generation of singers and completes his fields of activity by teaching at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart as well as the municipal music school of Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Saint Michael´s Boys´Choir Schwäbisch Gmünd.
An important element of his musical work is the field of classical concert and Lied. His extensive repertoire, reaching from early baroque vocal music to present-day premieres, focuses mainly on Bach, Händel and the great romantic oratorios.