Facoltà
Vladimir Chernov, Fondatore
VLADIMIR CHERNOV, baritono di fama internazionale, ha cantato oltre 40 ruoli principali ed è apparso in quasi tutti i principali teatri internazionali tra cui Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, Teatro Colon, Opera di Parigi, Lyric Opera di Chicago , Opera di San Francisco e Staatsoper di Vienna. Ha lavorato con molti dei grandi direttori d'opera di oggi come Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, James Levine e Seiji Ozawa.
Il suo debutto negli Stati Uniti è stato alla Los Angeles Opera nella stagione 1989-90 come Posa nel Don Carlo di Verdi, al fianco di Plácido Domingo. I ruoli più richiesti di Chernov includono Germont ne La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Eugene Onegin, Miller in Luisa Miller, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Figaro ne Il Barbiere di Siviglia e il principe Yeletsky in La dama di picche. Mr. Chernov è ora professore di studi vocali presso l'Università della California, Los Angeles.
Olga Toporkova, Co-Fondatore
OLGA TOPORKOVA è un'esperta di livello mondiale nella tecnica vocale del Bel Canto. Ha dedicato la sua vita allo studio del meccanismo della voce umana. Si è diplomata al Conservatorio di Mosca, dove ha studiato opera performance e recitazione drammatica. La signora Toporkova insegna a Parigi, New York, Los Angeles e Payerbach. I suoi studenti hanno vinto o sono stati finalisti in importanti concorsi internazionali tra cui Cardiff Singer of the World, Operalia, Loren L. Zachary Competition, Deborah Voigt Vero Beach International Competition, Giulio Gari Foundation e molti altri.
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.
Facoltà degli ospiti passati
Svetlana Smirnova
Pianista collaboratore,
Maestra di Canto
Carlo Assente
Regista teatrale
Leonardo Prinsloo
Regista teatrale
Paolo Baocco
Regista teatrale,
Maestro di recitazione
Caterina Miller
Maestra di Canto
Junghyun Elisabeth Lee
Pianista collaboratore
Barbara Burger
Maestra di dizione
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Tito Capobianco
Regista teatrale,
Maestro di recitazione
Nina Uhari
Pianista collaboratore,
Maestra di Canto
