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Adrian Baianu: vocal coach (master class)
Adrian Baianu studied in Munich (piano with G. Hefele, collaborative piano with E. Werba, H. Deutsch, N Shetler and S. Mauser), musicology and drama, as well as Italian philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Adrian Baianu works as vocal coach and collaborative pianist with Susan Anthony, Wolfgang Brendel, Albert Dohmen, Wolfgang Koch, Petra Lang, Noemi Nadelmann, Andreas Schmidt, Juha Uusitalo, Michael Volle, Edith Wiens and Elena Zaremba, amongst others. He has given recitals in Berlin (Komische Oper), Bern, Brussels (Théâtre de la Monnaie), Geneva (Grand Théâtre de Genève), London (Wigmore Hall), Leipzig (Gewandhaus), Munich (Prinzregenten Theater), Savonlinna (Opera Festival), Stuttgart, Valencia (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia) and Zürich, amongst others. He is also a specialist in Italian vocal technique, which he applies to the German vocal repertoire, particularly to that of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Together with Petra Lang he has given Italian technique master classes in Münster, London, Bayreuth and Munich. Mr. Baianu has recorded several CD’s, including: songs by Enjott Schneider (Wergo), songs by Franz Schreker (Arte Nova/BMG), songs by Engelbert Humperdinck (EDA), songs by Hans von Büllow, Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss (Oehms Classics), and Brahm’s Schöne Magelone (Brilliant Classics). July 4-5, 2014 |
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Christiaan Crans: vocal coach (master class)
Christiaan Crans was born in Dallas, Texas. He is an internationally sought after coach, whose students guest at all of the world's major opera houses. He earned a doctorate in conducting from the Indiana University School of Music. In 1999 he made his Carnegie Hall debut as collaborative pianist together with soprano Jennifer Welch-Babidge. He has been a member of the Sarasota Opera, the Hawaiian Performing Arts Festival, the Cincinnati Opera, the Des Moines Metro Opera, Pensacola Opera, the Caramoor Festival and Vermont Opera, as well as the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is currently a coach and conductor at the National Theater in Mannheim, where he has conducted the German première of Avenue Q and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges. June 8, 2014 |
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Julius Drake: collaborative piano (master class)
Pianist Julius Drake lives in London and specializes in the field of chamber music, working with many of the world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. He appears at all the major music centres: in recent seasons concerts have taken him to the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade, and Salzburg Music Festivals; to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre, New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Philarmonie, Cologne; Châtelet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; La Scala, Milan and Liceu, Barcelona; Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Vienna; and Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms, London. Julius Drake’s many recordings include a widely acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, for which the Barber Songs, Schumann Heine Lieder and Britten Songs and Proverbs have won the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Gramophone Awards; award winning recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI; several recitals for the ‘Wigmore Live’ label, with among others Lorraine Hunt Liebersen, Matthew Polenzani, Joyce Didonato and Alice Coote; and recordings of Tchaikovsky and Mahler with Christianne Stotijn for Onyx and English song with Bejun Mehta for Harmonia Mundi. Julius Drake is now embarked on a major project to record the complete songs of Franz Liszt for Hyperion: the second disc in the series, with Angelika Kirchschlager, won the BBC Music Magazine Award for 2012. Julius Drake is also a committed teacher and is regularly invited to give master classes, this season in Aldeburgh, Basle, Toronto, Utrecht, and at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. He is Professor at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts in Austria, where he has a class for song pianists. Highlights in his present schedule include a tour of the USA and Canada with Gerald Finley; a series of four Schumann concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; a tour of Japan with Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager; recordings with Sarah Connolly and Katarina Karneus; instrumental chamber music at the festivals of Delft, West Cork and Oxford; recitals in his own series at the historic Middle Temple Hall, London; and to mark 30 years performing at London’s Wigmore Hall, a major series there entitled Julius Drake: Perspectives. June 27, 2014 |
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Roger Vignoles: collaborative piano (master class)
Roger Vignoles is internationally recognised as one of the world’s most distinguished piano accompanists and musicians of today. He regularly partners the finest singers in major venues around the world and is regarded as a leading authority on the song repertoire. Originally inspired to pursue a career as a piano accompanist by the playing of Gerald Moore, he read Music at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and later joined the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur. He then completed his training with the renowned Viennese-born teacher Paul Hamburger. In the course of his distinguished career he has collaborated with such leading singers as Elisabeth Söderström, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Barbara Bonney, Kathleen Battle, Christine Brewer, Brigitte Fassbaender, Bernarda Fink, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dame Felicity Lott, Mark Padmore, John Mark Ainsley, Roderick Williams, Joan Rodgers, Sarah Walker, Measha Brueggergosman and Kate Royal,. He performs extensively at major venues across the world such as the Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Cologne, Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, the Royal Concertgebouw, Musee d’Orsay, Carnegie Hall, the Frick Collection in New York, La Scala, Oper Frankfurt, Théatre des Champs-Élysées, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Bonn Beethovenfest, Baden-Baden Festival and Teatro del Zarzuela in Madrid. Roger Vignoles is frequently invited to devise and direct programmes and festivals of song. He has created several series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, including “Young Brahms”, “Landscape into Song” (a celebration of Schubert) and “Scenes from Schumann”. He presents the annual Ciclo de Lied Galega in Santiago de Compostela. In the 2009/10 season he presented a Strauss song series at the Wigmore Hall. Roger Vignoles is also an outstanding teacher and has given masterclasses in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Valencia, Copenhagen, Stockholm, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto. He is a regular visitor to Indiana University, Bloomington, the Britten-Pears Young Artists’ Programme at Snape and the Stimmen Festival Freistadt in Upper Austria. Roger is Prince Consort Professor of Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music in London, Vice President of the Jackdaws Music Education Trust, and has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Magdalene College, Cambridge honoris causa. His extensive discography ranges from German Lieder and French Melodies to Spanish Canciones and Cabaret Songs. Recent recordings include Schumann and Brahms with Bernarda Fink; and Britten Before Life and After with Mark Padmore on Harmonia Mundi (the latter received the prestigious Diapason d’Or and Prix Caecilia awards in 2009). For Hyperion, Vignoles has recorded the highly acclaimed Strauss The Complete Songs volumes with Christine Brewer, Anne Schwanewilms, Andrew Kennedy, Christopher Maltman, Alastair Miles, Kiera Duffy and Elizabeth Watts; Schubert Schwanengesang with Robert Holl, and Carl Loewe Songs & Ballads with Florian Boesch. He has also recorded Strauss and Wolf with Angelika Kirchschlager on Wigmore Hall Live. Highlights in 2012/13 include a European tour with John Mark Ainsley, recitals with Christine Brewer, Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tiresias in Aldeburgh and Aix-en-Provence, and various masterclasses both in the UK and abroad. In 2013 he will lead Britten’s Church Parables for Mahogany Opera, in a production by Frederick Wake-Walker, with performances in St Ekaterina’s Church in St Petersburg, Orford Church in Suffolk and Southwark Cathedral in London. July 26, 2014 |
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Edward Bak: collaborative piano
Mr. Bak holds degrees from the Peabody Institute and the Cleveland Institute of Music, with additional studies at Boston U and Yale U School of Music. He has worked privately with Yoheved Kaplinksy (USA), Marc Durand (Canada), and Eduardo Vercelli (Switzerland). Bak, currently professor at The Ohio State U School of Music and principal coach at Opera Columbus, previously held faculty positions at Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory and the Peabody Institute Preparatory. He has presented master classes at the Escuela Moderna in Santiago, Chile and the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was a visiting professor of piano in Seoul, South Korea. He appears regularly in concert with established artists and emerging talents, and has been heard in such venues as the Teatro Colón, The Monnaie, The Festival Lanuadiere, The Philips Collection, and Kolarac Hall. He is active as a chamber musician, sharing the stage with members of the Boston Symphony, The Phildelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony. He is a regular faculty member at Prelude to Performance, and has taught at AIMS in Graz, Austria. As an advocate of contemporary music Mr. Bak maintains an active interest in performing the works of living composers, presenting the world premiers of several works, and received special recognition for his performance of 20th Century music at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. He also has worked as a guest coach at the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan. July 14-17, 2014 |
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Greta Benini: collaborative piano · Greta Benini was born in Ravenna, Italy where she graduated with distinction from the Ravenna Conservatory. She subsequently continued her studies in Piano and Chamber Music at the Accademia Internationale at Florence and at the Accademia Pianistica “Incontri col Maestro” at Imola. She also received an EU-sponsored Diploma in Piano-Didactics, studying with Piernarciso Masi, Alexander Lonquich, Konstantin Bogino, Boris Petrushanski, Franco Scala and Riccardo Risaliti. In 1999 Greta Benini moved to Vienna, where she specialized at the Hoschchule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst as a solo pianist, in addition to studying Lied and Oratorium Accompaniment at the Vienna Conservatory. Milestone moments in her career, as a collaborative pianist have been working in close and long-term sessions with Paul Hamburger (Lied and Oratorium) and the legendary Italian coach Ubaldo Gardini (Covent Garden, London). Greta Benini was first prize winner in the Chamber Music Competition, “Caravita”; second prize in the International Lied Competition, “Guarda l'Europa” (Florence), semi-finalist at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition (London); and recipient of a special prize in the Belvedere Interational Competition for Collaborative Pianists (Vienna). Since 2000 she has worked in Vienna as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach at the Volksoper; Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Institute for European Studies, and Kammeroper. Since 2006, Greta Benini is a member of the Faculty of the Vienna State Conservatory and since 2010 is a Senior Artist at the Performing Arts University of Graz. She is also the official accompanist of the International Competition ÖJAB (Vienna-Tokyo). Greta Benini has worked as a collaborative pianist in a great number of master classes and working sessions with Angelika Kirchschlager (University of Graz), Michael Schade (Musikverein Wien), KS Hilde Zadek, KS Walter Berry, Robert Holl, Carlos Montane (Urbania,Italy), Antonio Carangelo, Helena Lazarska, KS Birgid Steiberger (Wiener Meisterkurse), and Franz Lukasowsky. In addition, she has served as a vocal and Italian diction coach for the ORF CD-production of Don Giovanni with Bertrand de Billy and Die Walküre at the Auditorium, A Coruña, Spain with Víctor Pablo Pérez. As a stage partner and vocal coach Greta Benini has worked with world-renowned singers, which have included: Bryn Terfel, Andre Rost, Gregory Kunde, Genia Kühmeier, Wolfgang Holzmair, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Melba Ramos, Florian Boesch, Birgid Steinberger, Arona Bogdan, Dario Schmunck,Regina Schörg, etc. June 30-July 3, 2014 |
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Matthieu Cognet: collaborative piano and French diction
Mr. Cognet studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris–CNR with Pierre REACH, while studying at the same time at the University of La Sorbonne (Master of Musicology with the highest honors). In 2004, after his graduation in Paris (1st Prize), he attended the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he completed a Master of Music in Piano Performance in Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden's studio. He graduated in 2007 with High Distinction, ranking first in the final recital exam. In 2008 he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he pursued a Performer Diploma in Piano performance with Emile Naoumoff at Indiana University. He had the privilege to be one of the late Janos Starker's studio accompanists between 2008 and 2010 at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and accompanied Joshua Bell's masterclasses in April 2009. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University, under the guidance of Professor Gilbert Kalish. He has regularly participated in master-classes in Europe with Jacques Rouvier at the Summer Academy of Nice (1998), Aquiles Delle-Vigne at the Mozarteum of Salzburg (2001), Dominique Merlet in France (2002, 2005), Boris Berman and Paul Badura-Skoda in Vila-seca, Spain (2011).
Mr. Cognet has participated in numerous competitions. In December 2009, he was one of the fifteen semifinalists of the Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition in Westport, Connecticut. He won the 1st Prize in the Travel Grant Competition in Bloomington in April 2010 and was semifinalist in the last edition of the Pozzoli International Piano Competition in Seregno, Italy, in September 2011. He is finalist and Gold Medal in the Forte International Competition at Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall) in New York City in February 2014 with the SCH Trio, which he founded with violinist Yoonmi HONG and cellist Zexun Shen in 2013.
Matthieu Cognet is also highly interested in the two-piano repertoire. In 1998, he was finalist and awarded 1st accessit in the four-hand piano section of the Concours Musical de France, with the Chinese pianist Bin Wang. Macha Kanza is his regular two-piano partner. They gave together several recitals in Belgium and in France. He regularly plays as a soloist and in chamber music, mainly in France, Belgium,·Spain, Italy and the United States. He recently performed at Steinway Hall and Weill Hall in New York City, and at the Chicago Cultural Center (The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts) with Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn. |
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Andrew Crooks: collaborative piano
MusB/BA degrees in music and German literature at the U of Otago, New Zealand; MM (Choral Conducting) at Indiana U Jacobs School of Music; AD at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. During his student years, he served as studio pianist for various voice professors and accompanied vocal master classes taught by such famous artists as Roger Vignoles, Patricia Racette, Nathan Gunn, Håkan Hagegård and Carol Vaness. Currently on the music staff of the Deutsche Oper-Berlin, he has previously worked as coach and ass't conductor for Cincinnati Opera, The Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program at Washington National Opera and Canterbury Opera (New Zealand). As an assistant to many leading opera conductors, including Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, Sir Roger Norrington, Alberto Zedda, and Edoardo Mueller, and as a conductor, he has prepared and performed Le Nozze di Figaro, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Alcina, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs. July 21-24, 2014 |
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Nicholas Rimmer: collaborative piano
Nicholas Rimmer was born in Wigan, England and began his musical training at the Royal Northern College of Music, going on to study in Cambridge, Hannover, Berlin and Cologne. He was awarded the Donald Wort Prize for Performance at Cambridge University in 2003 as well as 1st Prizes at the Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award (2005) and at the German Music Competition (2006 & 2011). Healso toured internationally as organist for the renowned Clare College Choir, gaining critical acclaim for his recording of the John Rutter Requiem on the Naxos label. Nicholas has performed with orchestras such as the Manchester Camerata and Aurora orchestra. He has appeared at festivals such as Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein and Ludwigsburg and he has given concerts and piano masterclasses in Nagoya, Japan. In 2011 he released his debut recording of solo piano works titled ‘Acht Sauschneider and other Improvisations’ for the German independent label MVH Music. Since 2007 he has formed a regular duo with the violist Nils Mönkemeyer, with whom he won the Parkhouse Award in 2009 and whose debut CD ‘Without Words’ for the Sony label received an ECHO-Klassik Award.Other labels for which Nicholas Rimmer has recorded include cpo, Genuin, Naxos, Rondeau, and Thorofon. Another major focus in his career is the Leibniz piano trio, founded in 2005 with whom he has played across Germany, Holland, UK, Poland and the Republic of Macedonia. His strong interest in the song repertoire has led him to important venues such as the Wigmore Hall working with established singers such as Philip Langridge as well as many younger song recitalists. In addition he formed the ‘Trio Belli-Fischer-Rimmer’, which performs music in the unique combination of trombone, percussion and piano. July 7-10, 2014 |
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Chanda VanderHart: collaborative piano
Chanda VanderHart graduated from high school a National Merit Scholar, and attended the prestigious Eastman School of Music on a George Eastman Merit Scholarship, graduating with distinction with a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance under Dr. Douglas Humpherys. A Fulbright Grant recipient, Chanda did her graduate work in Milan and Vienna, studying under numerous teachers including David Aronson, Maria Grazia Bell’Occhio,·Julius Drake, Anna Fre, Carolyn Hague, David Lutz, Kristin Okerlund,·Antoinette Van Zabner and the Altenberg Trio. She received a Performance Diploma in Opera Coaching from the Vienna Conservatory in 2005, and completed her Master’s Degree in Lied and Oratorium Accompaniment in·2006. She is currently a working on a PhD at the University of Music in Vienna after receiving a post-graduate diploma with honors in vocal accompaniment under the renowned·Julius Drake·in July, 2012. She has also participated in master classes with outstanding musicians including·Barbara Bonney,·Helmut Deutsch, Matthias Goerne, Rober Holl,·Wolfgang Holzmair,·Rudolf Jansen, Paul Katz,·Angelika Kirchschlager, Anne Murray,·Jard van Nes,·Wolfram Rieger, Birgid Steinberger,·Roman Trekel·and·Roger Vignoles. A specialist in collaborative and chamber music, both with singers and instrumentalists, Chanda has performed throughout Europe and North America on stages including London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein, and has coached, collaborated with and/or accompanied musicians such as Johan Botha,·Katarina Bradic, Frederike Faust, Ronald Fuchs, Günter Haumer, Magdalena Hofmann,·Wolfgang Holzmair, ·Falko Hönisch, Alexander Kaimbacher, Christina Lamberti, Rusalina Mochucova, Rebecca Nelsen,·Dominik Nostitz, Jennifer O’Loughlin, Deborah Polaski, Emilio Pons, Jörg Schneider and Michael Spyres among many others. In 2008, Chanda recorded, with cellist Ronald Fuchs, both sonatas for cello and piano on the historical “Brahmsflügel” in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, and was featured in a radio report on Ö1 playing solo Brahms on the historical instrument. She released a further historical instrument CD for cello and piano in 2010 featuring the little-known works of Brahms’ contemporary, Robert Fuchs. She has won prizes at the Brahms International Lied Competition in Poertscharch (2008), and Gradus ad Parnassum in Italy (2005), and was a semi-finalist at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition (2007). She enjoys good working relationships with numerous additional organizations including including the Broadway Connection, Ensemble LUX, Mid-America Music (New York, Zlin, Viena, Syros), the Brahms Museum Mürzzuschlag, the Feldkirch Festival (Feldkirch), Prayner Conservatory for Music and Dramatic Arts (Vienna), Proscenium Artists’ Management, the Vienna International School, Austroconcert (Vienna), Festspielhaus (St. Pölten), the Performing Arts Company (Vienna), Schönherr (Bulgaria, Vienna, Serbbia), Vacha Voice+Music (Markt Piesting), Verein 08 (Vienna) and Chor Jung-Wien (Vienna). June 23-26, 2014 |
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Jory Vinikour: collaborative piano
Jory Vinikour is recognized as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation. A highly diversified career brings him to the world’s most important festivals and concert halls as recital and concerto soloist, partner to several of today’s finest artists. Born in Chicago, Jory Vinikour came to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert. First Prizes in the International Harpsichord Competitions of Warsaw (1993) and the Prague Spring Festival (1994) brought him to the public’s attention, and he has since appeared in festivals and concert series throughout much of the world. A concerto soloist with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Poulenc to Nyman, he has performed as soloist with leading orchestras including Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic of Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra,Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with conductors such as Stéphane Denève, Martin Haselböck, Marek Janowski, Armin Jordan, Benjamin Levy, Fabio Luisi, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Gordan Nikolic, Constantine Orbelian, Victor Yampolsky, et al. He participated in a recording of Frank Martin’s Petite Symphonie Concertante with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Armin Jordan (Suisse Romande, 2005). Well-known as an accompanist, he has worked extensively with artists such as David Daniels, Hélène Delavault, Vivica Genaux, Magdalena Kozena, Annick Massis, Marijana Mijanovic, Dorothea Röschmann, Rolando Villazon ... He has accompanied legendary Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in recitals in Sweden, Norway, Spain and Paris and at La Scala in Milan. With lutenist Jakob Lindberg, their programme of English and Italian music of the 17th century, entitled Music for a While was released by Deutsche Grammophon in early 2005. Mr. Vinikour appears regularly as harpsichordist at the finest opera houses and festivals in Europe : Paris Opera, Netherlands Opera, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Real de Madrid, Baden-Baden, Glyndebourne, etc. in Baroque and Classical repertoire, as well as in more contemporary works (notably Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Zimmermann's Die Soldaten) and is heard on many recordings from Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Erato, Sony Classics et al. His recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 2001, of Bach’s Toccatas in 1999, of Handel’s 1720 Suites for Harpsichord, of Bach’s sonatas for flute and harpsichord (with Joshua Schmidt) and of the complete harpsichord works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, have been hailed by the critics and the latter was even nominated for a Grammy® award in the category of Best Classical Solo Instrumental Recording in 2012.. Recent appearances include his debut as conductor/soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as an appearance with the Chicago Lyric Opera in Handel's Rinaldo - earning exceptional praise from the press. He performed Poulenc's Concert Champêtre with the Nertherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, under Benjamin Levy's direction. Mr. Vinikour directed the Korea Chamber Orchestra (Seoul) in an all-Bach programme in May, 2012, and was guest director of musicAeterna (based in Perm, Russia) in a mixed programme, and has co-directed (with violinist Monica Huggett) Juilliard415 Baroque Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, accompanying soprano Dorothea Röschmann and counter-tenor David Daniels. Mr Vinikour has given master-classes for Rocky Ridge (Colorado) Music Center, the Austrian Baroque Academy in Gmunden, Austria; the European Academy at the Palazzo Ricci Montepulciano; the University of Chicago, the Gnessin Academy, and the Tchaikowsky Conservatory. June 2-12, 2014 |
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