Andreas Ohn­haus – Tour Vocal Coach Ger­many | Vocal Per­for­mance Specialist

Andreas Ohn­haus
TOUR VOCAL COACH | ARTIST VOCAL COACH

Anyone who accom­pa­nies pro­fes­sio­nal artists on tour for weeks on end must under­stand the demands of the pro­fes­sion from per­so­nal expe­ri­ence. It is pre­cis­ely this com­bi­na­tion of being an artist, a tour vocal coach, and a col­lege ins­truc­tor that con­ti­nues to shape my work to this day.

For years, I have been working with pro­fes­sio­nal artists on club, arena, and fes­ti­val tours, as well as on TV pro­duc­tions and stu­dio recor­dings. My focus is on kee­ping voices per­forming at their best, resi­li­ent, and con­sis­t­ently relia­ble over the long term amid the real-world demands of daily tou­ring. I com­bine tour pre­pa­ra­tion, pre­ven­tive vocal coa­ching, acute and emer­gency care for vocal issues—including voice loss—manual voice the­rapy, and stra­te­gies for reco­very and workload manage­ment into a per­so­na­li­zed sup­port con­cept and per­for­mance sys­tem that inte­gra­tes seam­lessly into exis­ting tour and pro­duc­tion workflows.

Among the artists and pro­duc­tions I have worked with are Alli­ga­toah, Win­cent Weiss, K.I.Z., Tream, Ben Zucker, Bülent Cey­lan, Benno!, Trip­Kid, Luca-Dante Spa­da­fora, Mont­real, Focus., Audio88 & Yas­sin, Anni­so­kay, Blut­hund, and Herbst, as well as artists from the TV pro­duc­tions Sing mei­nen Song and The Voice of Ger­many. My work ran­ges from club tours to arena pro­duc­tions to the big­gest fes­ti­vals in the Ger­man-spea­king world.

My under­stan­ding of the demands of pro­fes­sio­nal live pro­duc­tions isn’t based solely on my work as a coach. Even while I was in col­lege, I tou­red Ger­many, Luxem­bourg, Aus­tria, and Switz­er­land as the lead sin­ger of the alter­na­tive rock band The.Unfading.Beauty. Later, I became the front­man of the alter­na­tive metal band ANTI­TYPE, whose songs were released, among other things, as the offi­cial fes­ti­val song for Wacken Open Air. To this day, I also work inter­na­tio­nally as a ses­sion sin­ger. My voice can be heard on pro­duc­tions by major and inde­pen­dent labels as well as inter­na­tio­nal artists and pro­du­cers. With the offi­cial theme song “Unbre­aka­ble” for the video game Delta Force, I rea­ched num­ber 7 on the Chi­nese charts. In addi­tion, I sang for Peter Maffay’s musi­cal “Taba­luga on Ice” and, in 2024, became part of Adrian Benegas’s inter­na­tio­nal metal pro­ject, along­side musi­ci­ans from Sym­phony X, Crys­tal Viper, and Myrath, which was pro­du­ced by Grammy-nomi­na­ted pro­du­cer Jacob Han­sen.

I com­ple­ted my musi­cal trai­ning at the Pop­aka­de­mie Baden-Würt­tem­berg, where I ear­ned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal per­for­mance and song­wri­ting. During my stu­dies, I worked with Andrew Roach­ford, Ken Hens­ley, Michelle Leo­nard, Jan Van Der Toorn, and Crada, among others, and sub­se­quently deepe­ned my know­ledge through inter­na­tio­nal mas­ter­clas­ses and work­shops led by Seth Riggs, Dane Chal­fin, Chris John­son, and Ste­phen King, among others. Since 2016, I have ser­ved as Head of Vocals at BIMM Uni­ver­sity Ber­lin, where I men­tor the next gene­ra­tion of pro­fes­sio­nal sin­gers. In addi­tion, I regu­larly lead work­shops and mas­ter­clas­ses on vocal per­for­mance, vocal health, and tour pre­pa­ra­tion.
My work is groun­ded in the belief that suc­cessful tours result from the inter­play of vocal tech­ni­que, set­list, show inten­sity, in-ear moni­to­ring, reco­very, men­tal stress, and phy­si­cal per­for­mance. These fac­tors influence the voice anew every day. That’s why I deve­lop a cus­to­mi­zed per­for­mance sys­tem for each artist that adapts fle­xi­bly to their voice, pro­duc­tion, and tour sche­dule. I inte­grate my coa­ching con­cepts with insights from modern voice rese­arch and data-dri­ven voice ana­ly­sis to com­bine sci­en­ti­fic prin­ci­ples with many years of prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence in the day-to-day rea­li­ties of touring.

My goal is not to change a voice. My goal is to help artists deli­ver their per­for­man­ces night after night with the utmost con­fi­dence, con­sis­tency, and expres­si­ve­ness, while mee­ting the real-world demands of the music business.