Artists
Russian American Soprano, Erika Baikoff, is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. As a Lindemann Young Artist, she sang the roles of Xenia (Boris Godunov) and Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro). From 2018 to 2020, Erika was a member of the Opéra National de Lyon Studio. Equally passionate about chamber music, she made her debut with Schubertíada and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, both of which she will return to in future seasons. Erika is the first-prize winner of the 2019 Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the 10th Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. Erika is an alumni of the Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier Festival, where she sang Musetta (La Bohème), and the Académie Vocal Residency of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Music from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Born in Barcelona, she graduated in piano performance at ESMuC under the guidance of Jordi Camell and obtained the Lied Master's degree 'Victoria de los Ángeles'. She has been a collaborative pianist in this Master's program and received lessons from Francisco Poyato, Pep Surinyac, Anne Le Bozec, Pauliina Tukiainen, Wolfram Rieger, Roger Vignoles, Sholto Kynoch and Graham Johnson, among others. She has been awarded Best Lied Pianist and received the Yamaha Award at the II AESPIRE Prize. She has participated in the Mastercourse of the Oxford International Song Festival and in the 14th Liedakademie of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, and has been a ‘LIFE New Artist’ at the ‘LIFE Victoria’ Lied Festival. She holds a degree with honours in Literary Studies and a Master's degree in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona.
Format a l'Escolania de Montserrat i la Chetham's School of Music (Manchester), el pianista Eudald Buch es va graduar a l'ESMUC, i al Conservatori Txaikovski de Moscou amb Elisso Virsaladze, amb qui actualment amplia els seus estudis a Fiesole, Florència. Ha participat als festivals de Buxton i Hellens (Anglaterra), The International Holland Music Sessions (Holanda), Weltklassik (Alemanya), la Schubertíada i el Festival Chopin de Valldemossa, i ha tocat en sales com el Palau de la Música, L'Auditori, l'Auditorio Nacional i la Fundación Juan March a Madrid, l’Auditori de Girona, L'Atlàntida, l'Auditori Enric Granados i l'Auditori Pau Casals . Com a solista ha col·laborat amb l'Orquestra de Cambra de Vic, la Chetham's Symphony Orchestra i membres de l’OBC. Ha estat becat per la Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles i ha obtingut el premi “El Primer Palau” 2021.
Born in Biberach (Baden-Württemberg), she received her first singing lessons at a very young age. At the age of fourteen, she gave her first solo concerts and received a "Jugend musiziert" prize. She studied in Dresden and Leipzig; her training was complemented by masterclasses with Vesselina Kasarova, Rudolf Piernay, Christine Schäfer, and Hedwig Fassbender, among others. Eva Zalenga is the winner of the SWR Junge Opernstars 2023, a competition where she also received the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis and the Orchestra Prize of the Deutschen Radio Philharmonie. In 2023, she also won the International Music Competition Vienna. She recently debuted as Sophie (Werther) and Adele (Die Fledermaus) and is a member of the opera companies at the theaters of St. Gallen and Regensburg. Passionate about song, her debut CD will soon be released, featuring pianist Doriana Tchakarova, which includes recordings of premieres and rarely recorded romantic pieces.
Professor of cello at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Fernando Arias combines his pedagogical vocation with an intense concert career. As a soloist, he has played with orchestras such as the Orquesta de Radiotelevisión Española, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i National de Catalunya or the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, among other. Especially interested in chamber music, he shares the stage with artists as important as David Kadouch, Antje Weithaas, Anthony Marwood, or the Cosmos and Quiroga Quartets, and more usually with the VibrArt Trio, of which he is a member and founder. Fernando Arias studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, and completed his training at the Universität der Künste Berlin.