Artists

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.

Born in 1990, he starts his musical studies as a cellist. He graduates at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany) He starts his singing studies in Germany in 2013 and afterwards he graduates suma cum laude in Barcelona at the Liceu Conservatoire He was selected in 2019 to participate in the Primer Palau competition in Barcelona and since then has had the opportunity to debut in some of the most recognized festivals in Spain, like the Schubertíada (Spain) o the Barcelona Spring Festival. He has also sung in concert halls such as Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditori de Barcelona, Teatro Calderón de Valladolid, Auditorio Príncipe de Asturias de Oviedo o Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao. In the lied genre he has performed works by Schubert (Winterreise), Schumann (Liederkreis and Dichterliebe), Beethoven (An die ferne Geliebte), Brahms (Vier ernste Gesänge), Debussy (Fêtes Galantes), Poulenc (Tel jour telle nuit) or Copland (Old American Songs).

Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is counted as one of today’s foremost Lieder interpreters with appearances at the most important concert halls. He has been an artist in residence at the Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Theater an der Wien and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. As a frequent guest on the concert platform, Florian Boesch has worked with leading orchestras and conductors, and he worked particularly closely with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. An equally compelling performer on the opera stage, Florian Boesch’s most recent productions included Handel’s Saul and Orlando conceived by Claus Guth at the Theater an der Wien. Major productions of his career include Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in Cologne and Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival. Florian Boesch has been Professor of Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since autumn 2015.

Florian Stoertz won in 2023 the International Handel Singing Competition, the Helmut Deutsch Song Competition and the Prix de mélodie at the International Voice-Piano Competition 'Lili et Nadia Boulanger' in Paris. On the recital stage, Florian’s recent appearances include French song concerts at Salle Cortot and Wigmore Hall, as well as at song festivals in Zeist and Leeds. The current season further sees his recital debut alongside pianist Helmut Deutsch at the International Music Festival Zell am See. Operatic roles include, among others, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Masetto and Commendatore (Don Giovanni). Florian is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, London where during his studies he was awarded first prizes for both opera and song recitals, as well as the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Having enjoyed his musical upbringing in the vocal music scene around Trier Cathedral (Germany), he is now based in London.