Festival. Hohe Tauern.
presented:
Singing master class with KS Michael Schade.
Hohe Tauern Festival 2022
As part of the festival's youth training program, a master class in singing, led by lecturer KS Michael Schade, will take place on September 28 and 29, 2022 at the BORG Mittersill - Hall for AllFelberstraße 3 in Mittersill will take place. The scholarship holders are all already at the beginning of their singing careers and will receive practical tips and fine-tuning from one of the world's leading tenors.
The master class on September 28 and 29 from 10:00 - 13:00 and 15:30 - 18:00 is open to the public and guests are welcome!
To conclude the master class, we cordially invite you to join us on Friday, September 30 at 8:00 pm at the SCHUBERTIADE
with
KS Michael Schade, tenor
Justus Zeyen, piano
Lisa Gonnella, piano
and the scholarship holders of the master class
at Schloss Mittersill - Auditorium.
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Participants in the master class
Lea Bodner, soprano
The soprano Lea Bodner was born in Lienz in 1997.
In 2021, she completed her singing diploma at the Tyrolean State Conservatory with Prof. Maria Erlacher-Forster and her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In fall 2021, Lea began her Master's degree in Historical Performance Practice and studies with Michael Schade at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In addition, she is now completing a Bachelor's degree in instrumental and vocal pedagogy with Tanya Aspelmeier. She received further musical impulses through master classes with Edita Gruberová, Emma Kirkby, Karlheinz Hanser and Juliane Banse.
Lea has already performed in various opera productions at the Tyrolean State Conservatory. She sang the role of Serpetta in "La finta giardiniera" (W.A. Mozart), the First Witch and Second Woman in "Dido and Aeneas" (H. Purcell), Kriemhild in "Die lustigen Nibelungen" (O. Strauss) and was heard as Flaminia in the opera "Il mondo della luna". The soprano has taken part in the Prima la Musica competition several times and was the national winner in the Vplus age group in 2018. She has also performed twice at the Musica Juventutis Wien competition.
Lea is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Society Bayreuth. She also gained concert experience and performed with the InnStrumenti chamber orchestra as part of the "Young Soloists on the Podium" concert series. At another concert in 2019, Lea sang with the Lienz Chamber Choir at the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna, where she was the soprano soloist in Vivaldi's Magnificat. In June 2022, she performed two concert arias together with the InnStrumenti chamber orchestra as part of Klassik am Thermenplatz, Klassik am See and Klassik am Berg and gave concerts at three different concert venues (Merano, Mutterer Alm, Hechtsee Kufstein).
Anna-Maria Fischer, mezzo-soprano
The Austrian mezzo-soprano Anna-Maria Fischer (née Nunzer) was born in Spitz an der Donau and received her first singing lessons at the Wachau Music School.
After completing a degree in German studies, she studied solo singing and vocal pedagogy at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Andreas Lebeda and Christa Ratzenböck. During her studies, she made her role debut as the 3rd lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Bad Hall Municipal Theater. Engagements have taken her to the Bayreuth Festival, among others, where she took part in the world premiere of Klaus Lang's opera Der verschwundene Hochzeiter in 2018.
Anna-Maria has a special love for early music. She is currently studying for a master's degree in historical performance practice at the MDW with KS Michael Schade. As part of this, she performed the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in June 2022. She has been working as a singing teacher at the Upper Austrian State Music School since 2021. She can often be heard as a soloist at the Upper Austrian State Concerts and at masses as well as oratorio and passion concerts in Vienna, Lower and Upper Austria.
Christopher Willoughby, Tenor
Christopher Willoughby was born in England and began his musical career at the age of 10 as a boy singer in Westminster Abbey. He graduated with distinction from Royal Holloway University in London in 2021 before moving to Vienna to continue his vocal studies on the MA course at the mdw with Prof. Klaushofer.
In summer 2021 he took part in the choir of the Waterperry Opera Festival in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, and he embodied the role of Grimoaldo in Handel's opera Rodelinda in May 2022 at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn after 3 performances as Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion in England.
This summer he is a member of the vocal faculty at the Music Academy of the West in California.
Stephen Whitford, baritone
British baritone Stephen Whitford grew up in the South West of England and is currently a Britten Pears Young Artist. In September he was a semi-finalist at the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. This season he will premiere the role of Kerel in Episodes of K. and G., a new opera by Daniel Linton-France, at the Schoenbrunn Palace Theater.
He sings a recital in November at The Red House, the home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and Schubert's Winterreise at the Gesellschaft für Musiktheater Wien. Stephen previously studied at King's College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music London. He is doing his master's degree with Prof. Sebastian Vittucci at the mdw in Vienna.
Lisa Gonnella, concert pianist & accompanist
The American pianist Lisa Gonnella has been working as a répétiteur in Vienna since 2012.
After completing her master's degree in song accompaniment and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, she received further musical training in opera accompaniment from Prof. Konrad Leitner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has worked as a répétiteur on various projects with the Wiener Singakademie at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Vienna Boys' Choir, the Theater MuTh, the Arnold Schönberg Choir, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the University of Miami School of Music at Salzburg, Gonzaga University and the Interlochen Center of Arts.
Other musical projects have taken her to South America, China and Cyprus.
Please send your inquiries by e-mail to anfrage@festivalhohetauern.at.
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