Fakultät
Vladimir Chernov, Gründer
Der international renommierte russische Bariton VLADIMIR CHERNOV hat über 40 führende Rollen gesungen und ist an fast allen großen internationalen Theatern aufgetreten , darunter die Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, Teatro Colon, Pariser Oper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera und Vienna Staatsoper. Er hat mit vielen der großen Operndirigenten von heute zusammengearbeitet wie Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, James Levine und Seiji Ozawa.
Sein US-Debüt gab er in der Spielzeit 1989/90 an der Los Angeles Opera als Posa in Verdis Don Carlo an der Seite von Plácido Domingo. Zu den gefragtesten Rollen von Herrn Chernov gehören Germont in La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Eugene Onegin, Miller in Luisa Miller, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia und Prinz Yeletsky in The Königin von Pik. Herr Chernov ist jetzt Professor für Gesangsstudien an der University of California, Los Angeles.
Olga Toporkova, Mit-Gründer
OLGA TOPORKOVA ist eine Weltklasse-Expertin für Belcanto-Gesangstechnik. Sie hat ihr Leben der Erforschung des Mechanismus der menschlichen Stimme gewidmet. Sie ist Absolventin des Moskauer Konservatoriums, wo sie Opera Performance und dramatisches Schauspiel studierte. Frau Toporkova unterrichtet in Paris, New York, Los Angeles und Payerbach. Ihre Schüler haben große internationale Wettbewerbe gewonnen oder waren Finalisten, darunter Cardiff Singer of the World, Operalia, Loren L. Zachary Competition, Deborah Voigt Vero Beach International Competition, Giulio Gari Foundation und viele mehr.
Ekaterina Baranovskaia, Collaborative Pianist
Pianist, accompanist, and teacher based in Klagenfurt, Austria. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, EKATERINA BARANOVSKAIA graduated with distinction from the Mussorgsky College of Music in St. Petersburg before moving to Austria to continue her studies at the Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik in Klagenfurt. There, she is pursuing a degree in Piano Performance with a minor in Accompaniment and also Pedagogy under the mentorship of Prof. Ekaterina Rumyantseva. She is actively performing in Austria and abroad as both a soloist and chamber musician. As collaborative pianist, she participated in the Erasmus+ project "Le Nozze di Figaro" in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, where with the renowned bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie and in the "Belcanto Ossiach Academy". Alongside her concert activity, Ekaterina is dedicated to teaching and collaborative piano, with a particular focus on chamber music and vocal repertoire.
Claudia Goebl, Coach
CLAUDIA GOEBL works as a soprano, mental coach, and career coach. With a keen sensitivity for emotions, self-doubt, self-marketing challenges, and inner conflicts, she helps singers discover their strength – both on stage and in their personal lives – without losing their authenticity. Her work focuses in particular on topics such as stage fright, fear of self-promotion, and overcoming inner blocks as an artist.
She teaches mental coaching at the Department of Voice and Music Theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she supports singers and artists in their personal and professional development.
As a soprano, she feels especially at home in the fields of operetta and art song. Engagements have taken her to the Vienna Volksoper, the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, the Landestheater Linz, the Bühne Baden, and to various Austrian festivals, such as the Schlossfestspiele Langenlois, Oper Burg Gars, and the jOPERA Jennersdorf Festival Summer, where she frequently portrayed lively and spirited stage characters.
On the concert stage, she has performed with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, as well as András Schiff with the franz ensemble and the TrioVanBeethoven.
Ehemalige Gastfakultät
Svetlana Smirnova
Mitwirkender Pianist,
Repetitor
Karl Absenger
Regisseur
Leonard Prinsloo
Regisseur
Paolo Baiocco
Regisseur,
Schauspielcoach
Catherine Miller
Repetitor
Junghyun Elisabeth Lee
Mitwirkender Pianist
Barbara Burger
Sprachtrainer
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Tito Capobianco
Regisseur, Schauspielcoach
Nina Uhari
Mitwirkender Pianist,
Repetitor
