Artists
After graduating from elementary school in Jeju Island, Soohong Park went to Detmold Germany at the age of 12 and joined as Jungstudent at Hochschule für Musik Detmold. After completing both Bachelor and Masters degrees in 2016, he moved to London in order to study further at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. As Guildhall Artist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and Barbican Hall in London, and has performed regularly with the orchestras in Germany and England. In 2018, he attended IMS Prussia Cove in the UK and in the following year, he was the finalist of Isang Yun International Music Competition in Tongyeong, South Korea. In 2020, he was the winner of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's most prestigious Gold Medal Competition. He has two masters degrees in both chamber music and vocal accompaniment, and an Artist Diploma degree as a soloist.
He discovered his passion for chamber music and vocal accompaniment during his studies in Dresden at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, and focused on these genres since fleeing the former German Democratic Republic in 1989. From 1997, Vienna has been the musical home of the pianist. He was the artistic partner of Siegfried Jerusalem and has accompanied a host of renowned singers, including Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberová, Günther Groissböck, Robert Holl and Marlis Petersen. He has performed at many major concert venues, among them the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Musikverein Vienna, Semperoper Dresden, Philharmonie Berlin, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Carnegie Hall and La Scala Milan, and is a frequent guest at international festivals such as Klangbogen-Festival at Theater an der Wien, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Salzburg Festival and Münchner Opernfestspiele.
Romanian pianist Teodora Oprișor specializes in collaborating with singers. Passionate about the art song repertoire, she has performed recitals in major venues and festivals such as the Wigmore Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, LIFE Victoria Festival or Musée d’Orsay. Having studied piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, she then pursued her Master’s Degree in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is a former scholar of the Heidelberg Lied Academy, the Académie Orsay-Royaumont and the Yehudi Menuhin LIFE Music Now Foundation. Teodora performs regularly with her duo partner, baritone Michael Arivony. Together, they have won the 1st prize at the International Student Lied Duo Competition in Groningen (2020), 3rd prize at the Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg (2019). Teodora is currently based in San Sebastián (Spain), where she is the pianist of the Orfeón Donostiarra choir.
Theresa Pilsl studied singing at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. At the same time, she studied medicine at the Charité Berlin, and she is currently doing her doctorate in phoniatrics at the LMU Munich. She has won numerous prizes, including at the 9th International Competition for Baroque Opera - Pietro Antonio Cesti, the National Singing Competition Berlin 2018 and the SWR Young Opera Stars 2020. She was a scholarship holder of the Atelier lyrique of the Verbier Festival, the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Theresa Pilsl has given recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival, at the HIDALGO Song Festival in Munich, at the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg, in the Pierre Boulez Saal and at the Luosto Soi Festival in Lapland, Finland. Her operatic repertoire includes Susanna and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Genius (Der Stein der Weisen)
Va començar la seva formació musical als cinc anys, estudiant violoncel i piano. Posteriorment, va estudiar orgue al Konservatorium für Kirchenmusik de St. Pölten, on va rebre les primeres classes de cant. Des de 2020 estudia a la Hochschule für Musik und Theater de Múnic. Ha guanyat premis com el Concurs de Cant Carl-Orff, el Premi Especial Fritz Wunderlich o el concurs “Prima la Musica”. Des de 2023, és becari del programa Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now i de l'Associació Richard Wagner de Múnic. El 2022 va debutar a l'òpera com Papageno (La flauta màgica). En concert, ha cantat Carmina Burana o el Rèquiem de Mozart; l'actual temporada cantarà també la Novena Simfonia de Beethoven i el Rèquiem Alemany, i oferirà recitals de lied amb el pianista Maximilian Kromer, amb obres com An die ferne Geliebte, Dichterliebe i altres lieder de Schumann, així com lieder de Schubert, Wolf i Schönberg.