Artists
Hamish Brown is a British pianist, arranger, and composer, based in London, UK. An award-winning and versatile artist, Hamish has performed as a vocal accompanist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist and soloist at numerous prestigious venues across the UK and abroad. Hamish is a regular and acclaimed recital partner of many of the UK’s finest singers. His work as a song accompanist has taken him to Oxford International Song Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, Aldeburgh Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling, Leeds Lieder Festival or Wigmore Hall. Alongside his vocal collaborations, Hamish is active as a chamber musician, performing with a wide range of outstanding instrumental artists on diverse repertoire. As an orchestral pianist, Hamish has performed with orchestras including the RCM Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia and Southbank Sinfonia.
For decades, Hartmut Höll has been one of the most sought-after piano partners. Among other singers, he was the partner for decades of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming and Mitsuko Shirai. As a professor at the University of Music Karlsruhe, he is closely connected to the younger generation of artists, being also partner of mezzo-soprano Yajie Zhang, tenors Ilker Arcayürek and Kieran Carrel and baritone Gabriel Rollinson. Chamber music partners have included Tabea Zimmermann, Eduard Brunner, Jörg Widmann and Sabine Meyer. He has recorded around sixty CDs that represent a highly diverse, wide-ranging repertoire. Many have received international awards such as the Diapason d'Or and German Record Critics' Prize. A CD of songs by the African American composer William Grant Still is being produced in collaboration with Gabriel Rollinson, and Chinese art songs with Changyong Liao.
Hilko Dumno teaches how to sing Lieder at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He studied piano at the Detmold/Münster Music University before studying at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. Artists with whom Hilko Dumno regularly works include Christoph Prégardien, Hedwig Fassbender, Julia Kleiter and Johannes Martin Kränzle. They performed at organizations all over Europe including the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Dresden Music Festival, Lucerne Festival and the Amadeus Festival in Geneva and at Oper Frankfurt. His artistic achievements are documented by recordings for the North German and Hessische Rundfunks and Radio Suisse Romande and various CD recordings such as Richard Strauss' Songs of Love and Death with Hedwig Fassbender, Hugo Wolfs Italienisches Liederbuch with Christoph Prégardien and Julia Kleiter and a highly praised recording, Das ewige Rätsel, with Johannes Martin Kränzle.
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Born in Istanbul and raised in Vienna, he has emerged as one of the most exciting and versatile vocal artists in recent years. Ilker has been a member of the studio of Zürich Opera (2009-2013), and a member of the ensemble of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (2013-2015) and Staatstheater Nürnberg (2015-18). Recent successes include his Canadian Opera Company debut as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte) with Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the role of Alfred (Die Fledermaus) at Musikverein Graz. Often described as having the gift of storytelling, Ilker is a passionate exponent of Lied. He has presented programmes at Edinburgh International Festival, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Schubertiade, Oper Frankfurt, Schubertíada Vilabertran, Life Victoria Barcelona, Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart or the Park Avenue Armory in New York, among other venues.
Nascuda en 1999, es va graduar a l'Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid (ESCM) el 2022 i hi va rebre el premi de l'Asociación de Amigos de la ESCM al Premio Fin de Carrera Lola Rodríguez Aragón. Ha estat guardonada també amb el 2n premi i el premi Nuevo Talento en el III Concurso Nacional de Canto “Ciudad de Albacete”, el Premio de Zarzuela en el XXXIX Concurso Internacional de Canto “Ciudad de Logroño” i el 2n Premi i el Premio de Zarzuela en el II Concurso Internacional de Canto “Alcalá de Henares”. Va ser finalista en el IX Concurso Internacional de Canto “Alfredo Kraus” i ha estat beneficiària de la beca Deutschlandstipendium. Actualment, realitza un màster d'òpera en la Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst de Stuttgart. En el terreny del lied, va ser seleccionada com LIFE New Artist pel Lied Festival Victoria de los Ángeles i col·labora sovint amb el pianista Jesús López Blanco.