Monday 22 August, 18:00 h
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La soprano argentina va realitzar estudis superiors de cant al I.S.A Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires i va continuar la seva formació a Europa amb Eduard Giménez, Alicia Nafé, Teresa Berganza, Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé i Cecilia Bartoli, entre d'altres. Ha cantat els papers d'Elle (La voix humaine), Prilepa (Pikovaia Dama), Pamina i Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) o Micaela (Carmen), al Gran Teatre del Liceu, el Festival Castell de Perelada, el Theater am Delphi (Berlin), el Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo, el Teatro Jovellanos de Gijon o La Farándula de Sabadell, entre d'altres. La seva carrera com a liederista l'ha portat a cantar a festivals i sales com l'Oxford Lieder, la Schubertiada, la Fundación Juan March, el LIFE Victoria, el Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival, el Palau de la Música Catalana o L’Auditori de Barcelona.
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).
Alexander Schmalcz received his first piano lessons as a chorister in Dresden Kreuzchor; studied at the Conservatory of Dresden and Utrecht and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has won numerous awards, including the contest Nederlands Impressariat 1995 (together with his piano trio) the Gerald Moore Award and the award of companion Megan Foster in 1996. He acts regularly in the most important concert halls as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House in London or the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He works regularly with singers like Matthias Goerne, Konrad Jarnot or Stephan Loges. His companions of chamber music include the Petersen Quartet and the cellist Keys Reichardt. He is a professor at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Dusseldorf from 1999.
