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KS Francisco Araiza: voice (master class)
Tenor KS Francisco Araiza hardly needs any introduction, as he is one of the world’s most legendary singers. Although best known early in his career as the leading Mozart and Rossini specialist of his generation, his wide repertoire later encompassed some of the most challenging roles of the spinto and the dramatic repertoires, including Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Alfredo in La Traviata, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Riccardo III in Un ballo in maschera, Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino, the title role in Don Carlo, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca, the title role in Andrea Chénier, Des Grieux in Manon, the title roles in Faust, Hoffmann, Werther, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Carmen as well as heroic roles in Wagner and Strauss operas in addition to Beethoven's Florestan in Fidelio. He has performed on all of the world's greatest stages, festivals and recital and concert venues, and collaborated with all of the greatest conductors, stage directors and singer colleagues of his generation. Some highlights of his extraordinary and unusual career include: his debut in 1980 at the Salzurg Festival upon being personally invited by the legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan, under whose baton he had, by then recorded, Tamino; singing Belmonte in the last operatic production ever conducted by Karl Bohm that same year; his 1983 participation in the Jean-Pierre Ponelle production of Manon at the Vienna State Opera which marked the beginning of his transition to a heavier Fach in a production signed by Ken Russell, later recorded under the baton of Sir Colin Davis; being awarded the “Best musical event of the year 1988” prize for his Liederabend in Tokyo, Japan; his triumphal debuts as Lohengrin in 1990 in Venice (conducted by Christian Thielemann), as Walter von Stolzing at the Metropolitan Opera in 1993 (staged by Otto Schenk and conducted by James Levine); and finally, as Loge in Robert Wilson’s production of Wagner’s Ring in Zürich. Amongst other awards, he is the recipient of the Mozart Medal from the Mexico City Univeristy in 1991; the “Otello d’Oro” Mario del Monaco prize in 1995; and the “Goldener Merkur” prize for the best performer in Munich in 1996. In addition to his numerous operatic recordings, KS Francisco Araiza is also known for his multiple recordings of Lieder for some of the world’s most prominent recording companies, including Deutsche Grammophon. June 7, 2014
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Petra Lang: voice (master class)
After completing violin studies she studied singing with Gertie Charlent and Ingrid Bjoner and participated in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Schreier and Astrid Varnay. Early in her career, she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Professional engagements in Theater Basel, Nüremberg and Dortmund, singing numerous roles of the lyric mezzo-soprano repertoire, followed. Early major engagements included De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Salzburg Festival, the Bregenz Festival, the Zurich Festival, Dortmund and Staatstheater Braunschweig. In addition to her successes on the opera stage, she is internationally sought-after on the concert stage. Her repertoire includes Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder,·Berlioz’s·Les nuits·d 'été, Berg's Seven Early Songs and the Wozzeck Fragments, Schoenberg's Songs Op.8 and the Wood Dove in Gurrelieder, Zemlinsky’s Maeterlinck songs, and orchestral songs by Sibelius, Duparc, Lalo and Strauss. She has sung Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Missa Solemnis. She performs worldwide with all the major orchestras under the direction, amongst others, of Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Christian Badea, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, M. W. Chung, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Adam Fischer, Ivan Fischer, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Armin Jordan, Philippe Jordan, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leif Segerstam, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Peter Schneider, Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Silvio Varviso, Simone Young. Petra Lang has a successful career as a Lieder singer.· She sings a comprehensive repertoire of Lieder from Franz Schubert to Anton Webern, and works with the pianists Adrian Baianu, Malcolm Martineau, Carmen Piazzini, Maurizio Pollini, Wolfram Rieger, Charles Spencer, and Einar Steen-Noekleberg. Their song recitals have been performed at, amongst others, Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Schubertiade (Feldkirch), Semper Opera House (Dresden), La Scala (Milan), Carnegie-Weill Hall (New York), Salle Pleyel (Paris) and at the Edinburgh Festival. Often teaching together with pianist and vocal coach Adrian Baianu, she has given master classes for the Mahler Society of London and at the Cologne Musikhochschule and in Münster, Germany. July 4, 2014
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Andreas Scholl: voice
The German counter-tenor, Andreas Scholl, was born in Eltville-am-Rhein, and grew up in the neighbouring village of Kiedrich im Rheingau near Wiesbaden. There he was a member of the 600-year old Kiedricher Chorbuben, along with several members of his family including his sister, the soprano Elisabeth Scholl. At thirteen, he was selected from 20,000 choristers at a Rome festival to sing solo in St Peter’s Basilica before Pope John Paul II. At seventeen he was still singing soprano, having ‘sung through the break’, although his speaking voice had by then long been baritone. He was identified as a countertenor by the Chorbuben's voice coach who sent him to tenor/countertenor Herbert Klein. Klein advised him that he should study in London or at Basel’s Schola Cantorum Basiliensis which, until then, had never accepted undergraduates. Scholl was auditioned and accepted on the recommendation of·René Jacobs, who was then teaching at the Schola. He obtained his Diploma in Ancient·Music six years later having studied with Richard Levitt and participating in master classes with René Jacobs and Emma Kirkby amongst many others. James Bowman was his external examiner for graduation. He received awards from the Conseil d'Europe, the Fondation Claude Nicolas Ledoux, the Association Migros and the Ernst Göhner Foundation.
The partnership between Harmonia Mundi France and the·Schola Cantorum Basiliensis to document previously unrecorded early music resulted in a series of recordings directed by René Jacobs in which Andreas Scholl participated. They include Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater·and Caldara’s Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo·both of which received multiple awards and achieved lasting commercial success, although it was William Christie’s 1994 HM recording of·Händel’s Messiah·which launched Scholl as a major artist. By 1998, he dominated Harmonia Mundi's sales with CDs at numbers one, three, four, five and ten in their inventory, recordings which remain among their best sellers. In 1999 Andreas Scholl signed with Decca, the contract being renewed in 2004. For Deutsche Grammophon, he has sung Händel’s Solomon·and David in·Saul, under·Paul McCreesh. Scholl’s personal accolades include the Diapason d'Or, multiple Gramophone Awards, 10 de Repertoire, ffff Telerama and Choc du Mond de la Musique, the ECHO award and Prix de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge. In a unique departure from its customarily austere approach, Fanfare magazine described his recording of Dowland's·A Musicall Banquet·(2000) as 'perfect'.
Andreas Scholl has sung with conductors Paul Dyer, John Eliot Gardiner, Reinhard Goebel, Christopher Hogwood, Konrad Junghänel, Robert King, Nicholas McGegan, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Roger NOrrington, Christophe Rousset, Jos van Veldhoven, Dominique Vellard and Roland among others. His regular solo partners include harpsichordist Markus Märkl and lutenist Crawford Young who succeeded Scholl’s long-time lutenist, the late Karl-Ernst Schröder. Ensembles with which he performs include the·Nederlandse Bachvereinigung, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Musica Antiqua Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Accademia Bizantina, which is now his regular orchestra for recording.
In opera, Andreas Scholl has sung the role of Bertarido in·Händel’s Rodelinda·(Glyndebourne, 1998, 1999, 2002) and the title role in Händel’s Giulio Cesare·in Egitto in a 2002 Royal Danish Opera production (revived 2005) under the baton of Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
Andreas Scholl teaches interpretation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, succeeding his own teacher, Richard Levitt. His mantra is·'Lieber erstmal Lieder'. In 2004, he was a judge at Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours, and other competitions.
Andreas Scholl has recorded several Bach cantatas including all those written for the solo alto voice, the CD of which remains his most popular, as well as the·B Minor Mass, the·St John·and·St Matthew Passions (with Philippe Herreweghe) and Christmas Oratorio (with René Jacobs). He has taught a master course on Bach cantatas at the Britten-Pears School, England.
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Davide Damiani: voice
Italian baritone Davide Damiani was born in Tavullia (Pesaro). He studied at the conservatories of Pesaro (diploma in double bass, 1986), Parma (diploma in composition, 1990) and Bologna (diploma in conducting, 1992). From 1986 to 1992 he studied conducting with Julius Kalmar and from 1990 singing with KS Hilde Zadek. in Vienna. From 1993 he continued his vocal studies at the Tel Aviv University with Tamar Rachum . From 2008- 2011 he completed an Executive Master's degree in Arts Administration at the University of Zurich.
He made his professional debut in the title role of Don Giovanni (title role) in Tel Aviv in 1993.From 1995 till 1999 Mr. Damiani was member of the ensemble of Vienna State Opera where he sang Sharpless, Belcore, Conte d'Almaviva, and the new productions of Enescu's Oedipe, Le Prophète, Fedora as well as the role of Comte de Toulose in Verdi's Jérusalem with Zubin Mehta. A series of successful debuts followed in almost all Italian theatres including in Napels (Belcore), Turin (La Bohème), Palermo (Lescaut in Manon Lescaut), Genoa (Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia), Trieste (Ford), Ravenna (Nick Shadow), Verona (Don Giovanni), Bergamo (La Bohème), Florence (The Rape of Lucretia), Cagliari (Goyescas), Catania (Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress), Milan (Volo di notte), Bologna (F. Vacchi's in Les Oiseaux de Passage), Bari (Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro and Didon), Ancona (Mittenhofer in Elegy for Young Lovers), Modena (Nick Shadow), Parma (The Rape of Lucretia" and returned to most of these theatres with other roles. Outside of Italy he sang Sharpless and Germont in Tokyo; Don Giovanny in Cardiff; Belcore and Don Giovanni in Sankt Galen, Harlekin and Don Carlo de Vargas, in Berlin; Marcello, Ford and Scarpia in Basel; Nozze di Figaro's Count and the title role of Don Giovanni in Düsseldorf; Enrico and Germont in Tel Aviv; Il Giuramento, La Vestale, Tonio and Rigoletto in Wexford, Don Giovanni in Toronto, Balstrode in Graz, Don Giovanni and Riccardo at the Palm Beach Opera, in the USA, as well as Boesman's Julie and Brewaeys’s L’uomo dal fiore in bocca in Brussels. Most recently he sang Lescaut in Manon Lescaut and Germont in La Traviata in Venice; Escamillo at the Hamburg State Opera; Verdi's Jerusalem at the Jerusalem Opera Festival, Germont at the Israel Opera in Tel Aviv; Francesconi's La Terra at Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Escamillo at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Michonnet in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur at Oper Frankfurt, the title role in Verdi's Machbeth at Grand Théâtre de Geneve; Rodrigo Marchese di Posa at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, and Scarpia at Theater Basel in Switzerland.
Davide Damiani worked with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, and stage masters like Daniele Abbado, Calixto Bieito, Luc Bondy, Robert Carsen, Götz Friedrich, Christof Loy, Hans Neuenfels, David Pountney, Graham Vick, Franco Zeffirelli. In addition to his operatic career, Mr. Damiani has participated in numerous concerts and recitals. Davide Damiani has lived in Vienna since 1990. June 23-26, 2014
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Julia Hamari: voice
Julia Hamari was born in Budapest, where she received her vocal training with Fatime Martins and Jenö Sipos. She studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. In 1964 she won the Erkel International Singing Competition in Budapest. She then continued her studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart until 1966. In 1966, she made her debut as a soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Karl Richter in Vienna. Her opera debut was the part of Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen at the Salzburg Festival of 1967, together with Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers and Mirella Freni, Herbert von Karajan conducting. In 1987 she appeared in the title role herself at the Staatsoper Stuttgart with conductor Carlos Kleiber. In 1979, she sang Celia in Haydn's La fedeltà premiata at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, in 1980 Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in 1984 Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Dallas Opera, and in 1986 Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola. In 1982 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. At the Cologne Opera she sang Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, and at Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden. In 1975, she sang Magdalene in Georg Solti's first recording of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with the Vienna Philharmonic with René Kollo as Stolzing. She recorded with Richter and his Münchener Bach-Chor several Bach cantatas, including Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33. She recorded even more Bach cantatas with Helmuth Rilling and his Gächinger Kantorei in their complete recording, including the solo cantata for alto Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170. With Helmut Winschermann and the Deutsche Bachsolisten she also recorded Bach cantatas including Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. In 1968 she recorded the St Matthew Passion with Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Theo Altmeyer as the Evangelist, Franz Crass, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Nicolai Gedda, Hermann Prey and Hans Sotin. In 1974, she recorded Bach's St John Passion with Karl Münchinger, the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben, Dieter Ellenbeck, Walter Berry, Elly Ameling, Werner Hollweg and Hermann Prey. In 1977, she sang soprano II and alto in Rilling's first recording of Bach's Mass in B minor. She performed the alto solo in Mozart's Requiem in a recording of 1970 with Edith Mathis, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Concert Choir, conducted by Karl Böhm. She participated in the 1975 premiere and 1993 recording of Gottfried von Einem's cantata An die Nachgeborenen, written in 1973 as a commission from the United Nations, both with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. In 1989, Julia Hamari was appointed professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart. She has conducted master classes and has been teaching at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival since 1982.
June 2-5, 2014 |
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Mary Ann Hart: voice
Mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart made her New York Philharmonic début under the baton of Kurt Masur, and has appeared with the New York Chamber Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, American Composer’s Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Boston Baroque, and has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has a solo CD of American songs, Permit Me Voyage, was one of four singers who recorded the complete songs of Charles Ives, and can be heard on a CD of the songs of Henry Cowell, all on the Albany label. She appeared in the United States tour of the Philip Glass opera Hydrogen Jukebox, and recorded that work for Nonesuch. A winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and Second Prize in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition, she was awarded a Solo Recitalist Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. Recital appearances have taken her to 26 American states, Austria, Germany, Romania, Canada, and the Virgin Islands. Previously on the faculties of Vassar College and the Mannes School of Music, Mary Ann Hart is now Chair of the Voice Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches voice and song literature.
July 14-17, 2014 |
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Cornelius Hauptmann: voice
Bass Cornelius Hauptmann was born in Stuttgart and studied·at the music Academie of his hometown. In 1982 he passed the examination for stage qualification and, as a student of Jakob Stämpfli, he graduated from the Conservatory Bern and received his diploma as soloist.·Master-courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hans Hotter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Eric Tappy added considerably to his artistic development and led to numerous awards and acknowledgements at international singing competitions. Cornelius Hauptmann’s first engagement was at the State Theatre in Stuttgart and until 1989 he was member of the opera ensembles in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. Over the past years he was mainly engaged in singing Mozart – in Munich, Leipzig, Orléans, Paris (Bastille and Châtelet), Lissabon, Madrid, Lyon, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Amsterdam, Zürich etc. under such conductors as Mehta, Gardiner, Marba, Hollreiser, Nagano, Haenchen, Kuijken and others. Predominantly in the concert area he became internationally known under such conductors as Bernius, Bernstein, Bertini, Corboz, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Marriner, Masur, Rilling, Kuijken, Boulez, Cao and others. Many bear witness to his artistic versatility: Bach Passions, Mozart’s masses and operas, Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri (Gardiner/Deutsche Grammophon), Monteverdi, Schubert, Schütz, Mendelssohn (Bernius), Haydn’s Stabat Mater (Pinnock/Deutsche Grammophon), Oedipe by Enescu (Foster/EMI), Die Zauberflöte (Norrington/EMI and Kuijken/Bayer), Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (Herreweghe/Harmonia mundi), Mozart’s Requiem and C-minor Mass (Bernstein/Deutsche Grammophon), amongst others Hauptmann is a renowned exponent of the German Lied repertoire. He has recorded songs by Loewe, Silcher, Schubert, Mozart/Hoffmeister. He performs regularly both in Germany and abroad, and often teaches young singers in master classes.
June 9-10, 2014
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Falko Hönisch: voice and German diction.
As opera singer, baritone Falko Hönisch has sung over several years at various opera houses. His repertoire now comprises important roles including Il Conte di Almaviva, Papageno and Wolfram von Eschenbach , as well as baroque and modern operas. His international career has taken him to Austria (Theater an der Wien), Italy (Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste), The Netherlands (Nationale Reisopera) and France (Opéra de Lyon) under the baton of Niksa Bareza, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Cornelius Meister, Roberto Paternostro, Siegfried Köhler, et. al. Amongst the stage directors with whom he has worked, Michiel Dijkema, Christine Mielitz, Vera Nemirova, Gabriele Rech or La Fura dels Baus stand out. As concert singer, Falko Hönisch has sung both baritone and bass roles. He has sung under the baton of Ton Koopman, Frieder Bernius, Ed Spanjaard and Raphaël Pichon in such renowned concert houses as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf and the Händel Festival in Halle, amongst others, singing works ranging from Bach’s Passions and Cantatas, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung·and Mendelssohn’s Oratorios, through Frank Martin’s In Terra Pax and Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw as well as many contemporary works. As a recitalist, Falko Hönisch has collaborated with numerous pianists working on both most of the major song cycles by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, and lesser known works by relatively unknown composers and also by contemporary living composers whose works he has premiered. In all of these three genres Falko Hönisch has established himself as a versatile singer and has been the recipient of numerous awards in international singing competitions including the 58th ARD Competition in Munich, the Lauritz Melchior Competition for Wagnerian Voices in Aalborg, Denmark, the “New Wagnerian Voices” competition in Karlsruhe, the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich and the IVC Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
June 2nd-July 31, 2014
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Jeremy Hunt: voice / yoga for singers
Originally from Warner Robins, Georgia, Dr. Jeremy Hunt received his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He went on to receive both his Masters and his Doctorate in Vocal Performance from the prestigious Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music. During his time at IU, Jeremy studied with world-renowned singers and teachers Virginia Zeani, Giorgio Tozzi, and Andreas Poulimenos. He also held the position of Associate Instructor of voice for four years, and saw several of his students embark on successful performing careers.· Dr. Hunt has been a featured soloist with The Riverside Symphonia in Lambertville, NJ, The Orlando Chorale, the Orlando Philharmonic and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and is a frequent recitalist in the US and abroad. As a voice faculty member at UCF, Dr. Hunt has had students accepted into top graduate music programs including, Indiana University, Northwestern University, Manhatten School of Music, Mannes, University of Illinois, Penn State and UNCG. In addition to his musical interests, Jeremy is a registered yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance, and incorporates his knowledge and practice of yoga into the voice studio. He has presented at National and International conferences on the subject of Yoga for Singers. Dr. Hunt is a member NATS and is currently secretary/treasurer of the·Central Florida chapter. He was accepted and participated in the NATS Intern program in 2010.
July 28-31, 2014
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Carlos Montané: voice
Tenor Carlos Montané studied in Cuba, the United States, and Italy, receiving his B.A. in vocal studies. He made his professional debut at age 23 singing the role of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, a role that he later performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and Philadelphia Lyric Opera as well as in Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, and South Africa. He also performed in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Great Britain, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Malasia. Montané has appeared only in leading roles, such as Radames in Aïda, Riccado in Un Ballo in Maschera, the title roles in Don Carlo and in Ernani, Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino, Macduff in Macbeth, Ismaele in Nabucco, Riccardo in Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio (U.S. professional premiere), Gabriele Adoro in Simon Boccanegra, Alfredo in La Traviata, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Roberto in Roberto Devereux, Faust in Faust, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut. During a career spanning 48 years as of 2009, he has performed with sopranos including Montserrat Caballe, Martina Arroyo, Teresa Kubiak, Gilda Cruz-Romo, and Patricia Wise. His oratorio performances include Verdi's Requiem, Donizetti's Requiem, Bottesini's Requiem, and Beethioven's Missa Solemnis. In recital, he is noted for his interpretations of art songs from his native Cuba, as well as works by other Latin American, Spanish and Italian composers. Montané has presented master classes at AIMS in Graz; Centro Studi Italiani and Scuola Italia in Italy; Lyric Opera Studio, Weimar, Germany; Musik Hochshule in Leipzig, Germany; Vianden Festival in Luxembourg; Yonsei University in Seoul; and FAVA in France. His students perform leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, National Theater-Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Arena di Verona, Bayreuth Festival, and others.
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Katharina Persicke: voice
She has won prizes in both the “Schubert und die Musik der Moderne” Competition in Graz and the “Queen Sonja” Competition in Oslo. Included among her most notable operatic performances are Giselher in Die lustigen Nibelungen with the Semperoper Dresden, Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro with both the Luzerner Theater and the Stadttheater Augsburg, Marguerite in Faust with Bühne Baden bei Wien, Zerlina at the Feldkich Festival 2006 as Zerlina, with the European Opera Centre 2011 as Quiteria in Die Hochzeit des Camacho by Mendelssohn, and the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele 2010 and 2011 as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. In 2012 Katharina Persicke made her debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, performed again at the Herrenchiemsee under the direction of Enoch zu Guttenberg and toured with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden Baden und Freiburg as soprano soloist in Schönberg’s Moses and Aaron.
On the concert stage, Ms. Persicke has worked with the Amaryllis Quartet, pianists Nicholas Rimmer and Pauliina Tukiainen, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden Baden und Freiburg, and members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra among others.
She has worked with many prominent conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Sylvain Cambreling, Vasily Petrenko, Howard Arman, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Kay Johannsen and Hans Michael Beuerle. Her collaboration with prominent stage directors include projects with Gerd Heinz, Robert Herzl und Jan Phillip Gloger.
Ms. Persicke is passionate about art song, and this passion found its greatest expression in 2011 when, with pianist Nicholas Rimmer and Baritone Georg Gädker, she founded the series “Klangwerk: Lied“ under the patronage of Irwin Gage.
July 7-10, 2014
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Dr. Emilio Pons: voice, Spanish and Italian diction.
Emilio Pons holds a graduate degree in Piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, in addition to Master and Doctor of Music Degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was a student of Carlos Montané and Andreas Poulimenos. In Europe he studied with KS Francisco Araiza and with soprano Lyubov Stuchevskaja. Since his professional debut in 2006 at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia, he has performed internationally at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland; the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Vlaamse Opera, Ghent & Antwerp, Belgium; the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival, and the Wiener Kammeroper in Austria; and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Prinzregenten Theater, the Magravial Opera House in Bayreuth, Theater Freiburg, Theater Coburg, and Theater Heidelberg (company of which he was a resident artist for over two seasons) in Germany; the Vilnius City Opera in Lithuania; Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile; Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Compañía Nacional de Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, amongst others. His operatic repertoire encompasses more than thirty roles, including staples of the lyric Fach such as Tamino, Ferrando, Don Ottavio, Il Conte d’Almaviva, Nemorino, Narraboth, Trouffaldino and Lensky and a myriad of leading roles in lesser known works, including the title role in Porsile’s Spartaco, Mad Woman (Britten-Curlew River), Hypollit (Henze-Phaedra), Egeo and Sole (Cavalli-Il Giasone, commercially released on DVD), Richmond (Battistelli-Richard III), Serge/Adolphe (Martinů-Die drei Wünsche), Le Commissaire (Martinů-Juliette), Fernando (in the German première of Granados’ Goyescas) amongst others. He has sung under the baton of acclaimed conductors such as Mikhail Jurowsky, Danielle Callegari, Jiri Belohlavek, Frédéric Chaslin, Zoltan Pesko, Niksa Bareza, and Cornelius Meister amongst others, and has worked with renowned stage directors such as Robert Carsen, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Richard Jones, and Benedikt von Peter. On the concert and recital stage, he has performed recitals in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, and Japan, and has performed in Concert in Israel (with the Jerusalem Camerata and the Be'er Sheva Sinfonietta), Azerbaijan (with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) and France. A skilled polyglot, Dr. Pons speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian --all fluently. While at Indiana University, Dr. Pons taught courses in Italian and Spanish diction, in addition to serving as Italian diction coach for the IU Opera Theater. Dr. Pons is a dual citizen of Mexico and Germany.
June 2nd-July 31st, 2014
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