IVAAP

Faculty

Vladimir Chernov, Founder

Internationally renowned baritone VLADIMIR CHERNOV, has sung over 40 leading roles and has appeared at nearly every major international theater, including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, Teatro Colon, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and Vienna Staatsoper. He has worked with many of today's great opera conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, and Seiji Ozawa.

His U.S. debut was at Los Angeles Opera in the 1989-90 season as Posa in Verdi's Don Carlo, opposite Plácido Domingo. Mr. Chernov's most requested roles include Germont in La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Eugene Onegin, Miller in Luisa Miller, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades. Mr. Chernov is now a professor of vocal studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Olga Toporkova, Co-Founder

OLGA TOPORKOVA is a world-class expert on Bel Canto vocal technique. She has devoted her life to studying the mechanism of the human voice. She is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied opera performance and dramatic acting. Mrs. Toporkova teaches in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Payerbach. Her students have won or have been finalists in major international competitions including Cardiff Singer of the World, Operalia, the Loren L. Zachary Competition, Deborah Voigt Vero Beach International Competition, Giulio Gari Foundation, and many more.

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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.

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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.