Artists
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.
Awarded the best pianist prizes at the Das Lied-International Song Competition in Heidelberg (2017) and at the Paula-Salomon-Lindberg-Liedwettbewerbs at Universität der Künste Berlin (2015), Guerrero has extensive training as a soloist. Established in Germany, she has in recent years focused exclusively on the lieder repertoire, after discovering her affinity for it in 2014. She is coursing the Master in Liedgestaltung programme at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and is currently enrolled in Solistenexamen postgraduate studies at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. She received scholarships from FrauenFörderStipendium and Asociación de Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, and has been a guest of several lied cycles in Germany, such as the 19 Bonner Schumannfests im Schumann-Haus in Bonn, the Festival im Frühling in Heidelberg, and the LiederAbend.de cycle in Freiburg.
Wolfram Rieger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Erik Werber and Helmut, and attended several masterclasses with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He began teaching at the Munich Hochschule in 1991 while still a student. In 1998 he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and regularly holds masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan. He is frequently invited to important venues and festivals around the world, such as the Feldkirch and Vilabertran Schubertiades, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Vienna Musikverein. He has accompanied Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Bonney, Juliane Banse, Michelle Breedt, Thomas Hampson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Matthias Goerne, and Thomas Quasthoff, among others.
Director titular de l’Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, el Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana, el Cor de Cambra de l’Auditori Enric Granados de Lleida i l'Orquestra de Girona. Nascut a Cervera (1973), començà els estudis musicals amb el piano i el violí, estudià composició al Conservatori Professional de Badalona i direcció coral amb Josep Prats, Johan Duijck, László Heltay, Jordi Casas i Pierre Cao; amplià la formació orquestral amb Salvador Mas a Barcelona i amb Leopold Hager a la Universitat de Viena. Ha estat director assistent de la JONDE i de l’OBC, i convidat de diverses orquestres del país. És professor d’orquestra i direcció a l’ESMUC i dirigeix el Curs de Direcció d’Orquestra de Terrassa des del 2017. Fou fundador i director artístic del Festival de Pasqua de Cervera els sis primers anys.
The Chinese tenor Zhuohan Sun is often praised for his a unique vocal timbre, brilliant technique and power of expression. He has a personal inclination towards the Art Song but is equally comfortable in the genres of concert and oratorio, having recently performed Das Lied von der Erde, The Dream of Gerontius and Beethoven's "Symphony 9". He began his studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and is currently studying with Mitsuko Shirai at the Karlsruhe Music University in Germany. He has won numerous prizes at competitions, including the International Summer Academy Mozarteum 2018, the International Robert Schumann Competition Zwickau 2021 and the 13th International Art Song Competition Stuttgart. Moreover, Zhuohan is a laureate of the Heidelberger Frühling Song Academy and the International Seiji Ozawa Academy.