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).
After completing her initial studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, Anna Gebhardt trained in piano at the same school under professor Silke Avenhaus, and in Würzburg under professor Bernd Glemser. At present she is studying Lied Interpretation under professors Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber in Munich. Anna Gebhardt has won a number of prizes in different competitions, including second prize in the Harald-Genzmer Contest. Likewise, she has performed in the Swiss Chamber Music Festival and in the Espresso-Konzerte cycle at the Berlin Konzerthaus, and she collaborates in the children’s concerts of the Bavarian State Opera. Anna Gebhardt has received musical advice from Brigitte Fassbaender (at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade) and Ian Bostridge, and has been awarded grants on various occasions from the Deutschlandstipendium and Yehudi Menuhim-Live Music Now programmes. She also teaches at the Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum of the University of Augsburg.
Katja Maderer debuted recently in Copenhagen as a soprano soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion. She was one of the winners of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin in 2020 and, together with the pianist Amadeus Wiesensee, she won the special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary Lied at the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart in 2022. Katja has given concerts at the Festspiele Europäische Wochen in Passau and at the Musikfest ION in Nuremberg, as well as at the Kammermusikwoche Tabea Zimmermann and the Christian Gerhaher Liedwoche at Schloss Elmau. Having completed her studies under professors Christiane Iven and Sabine Lahm at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich (where she studied violin in addition to singing), Katja Maderer continued her training in the class of professor Lars Woldt.
Born in Barcelona in 1996, Elionor Martínez graduated at the Liceu Conservatory with a grant from Fundació Ferrer-Salat. She subsequently went on to win the Salvat Beca Bach 2016, a grant awarded by Fundació Bach Zum Mitsingen Barcelona. In 2019 she won four special prizes at the Josep Palet Singing Competition in Martorell. Elionor Martínez earned a master’s degree in Musical Interpretation at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, under the patronage of Fundació Salvat. As a soloist, she has interpreted Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C Minor, Vivaldi’s Gloria and both the Requiem of Fauré and of Brahms, as well as works by Bach, including the St John Passion and the Magnificat. Elionor Martínez has sung in several opera productions, such as Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte and La Cenerentola. She regularly sings with La Capella Reial de Catalunya, conducted by Jordi Savall, and with Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Phillipe Herreweghe.
Jonas Müller was born in Deggendorf in 1999. His soloistic focus is on lied singing, which is supported by his close collaboration with pianist Gerold Huber. Jonas Müller is a scholarship holder of the Liedakademie of the Heidelberger Frühling under the direction of Thomas Hampson. Since 2022 he attends the Lied class at the HMT Munich with Prof. KS Christian Gerhaher. In May 2021 Müller made his operatic debut as Papageno in a production at HMT Munich; in 2022 he sang Count Almaviva in Mozart's Figaro and Lubano in "Der Stein der Weisen" . Since 2021 he has been a scholarship holder at Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München e.V. and Fritz Wunderlich Gesellschaft e.V.; in the same year he received a grant from the Hans und Eugenia Jütting-Stiftung Stendal. In 2022/23 he is a scholarship holder of the Thomas Gotthold Greinwald Foundation.
Born in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria Region), in 2006 Carmen Santamaría entered the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country (Musikene), specialising in chamber music. With grants from the Cantabrian and Hungarian governments, in 2011 she travelled to Budapest, where she became a part-time student of piano and chamber music, and in 2013 she began her master’s degree studies in Interpretation. In 2015, Carmen took a master’s degree in Lied at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), where she collaborated as a pianist from 2016 to 2018. Since 2011, Carmen Santamaría has performed in various venues in Budapest, Barcelona, Alicante, Tarragona, Galicia, Mexico City, Bilbao, Santander and León, as well as in the LIFE Victoria, Aurora (Stockholm) and Talent Barcelona festivals. Likewise, since 2018 she has collaborated with the visual artist Inés García on the projects Winterreise and Sis cançons populars muntanyeses. She forms a duo with the soprano Mireia Tarragó.
Born in Tarragona in 1995, Mireia Tarragó took a bachelor’s degree in Singing and a master’s degree in Lied Interpretation at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). She now forms a duo with the pianist Carmen Santamaría, with whom she gives song recitals across Spain, making the work of a number of women composers more widely known. She also recently presented her first record in tribute to the Cantabrian composer Arturo Dúo-Vital. In the field of opera, Mireia Tarragó recently debuted as Contessa de Ceprano (Rigoletto) under the baton of Oliver Díaz. Her repertoire includes such roles as Lucy (The Telephone), Micaëla (Carmen) and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi). In 2020, Mireia Tarragó won the Catalunya Música prize in the contest El Primer Palau. She has performed on various occasions at the Schubertíada and at the LIFE Victoria festival in Barcelona. She has also sung in such outstanding venues as the Auditorium of the Opéra National de Bordeaux and L’Auditori in Barcelona.
Amadeus Wiesensee was born in 1993 and debuted at the age of twelve with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described his interpretation of Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 as “top-class, poetic and captivating”, while the Münchner Abendzeitung named him the Cultural Star of the Year in the classical music category. Amadeus Wiesensee has performed at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Würzburg Mozartfest, among other venues. In 2021, he was awarded the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis. Amadeus Wiesensee was the first resident artist of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in the 2021/22 season, and he debuted in the Frauenkirche in Dresden, at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, at Die Glocke in Bremen and at the Schloss Elmau with the Goldberg Variations.
Olivia Zaugg (Bern, 1995) is living in Basel where she studied classical piano at the Musik-Akademie. She completed her post-graduate studies with Prof. Anton Kernjak in summer 2021. Her specialization in Lied has led to various duo collaborations: with Elionor Martínez Lara (focus French-Catalan repertoire), Sarah Widmer (focus folk song arrangements) and with Maria Laschinger (duo Blickwechsel, focus female composers). Interdisciplinary projects form an important part of her artistic work such as the participation in the music theater piece Triptychon or her solo performance Gaspis wundersame Reise, in which she combines text, movement and music. Her broad musical interests are reflected in cross-stylistic projects such as the duo GGCK with Martin Reck (live electronics and piano) or the Trio Weón with South American folk music, in which she participates as a singer and accordionist.
Katja Maderer & Jonas Müller & Julius Drake
Programme to be determined
Festival Atrio Musical, Cáceres 11 February 2024
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Jonas Müller & Anna Gebhardt
Programme to be determined
Cercle del Liceu (Barcelona) 5 April 2024
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Mireia Tarragó & Bernardo Rambeaud
Toldrà, Fauré, Morera & García-Morante
2 June 2023
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Katja Maderer & Amadeus Wiesensee
Programme to be determined
Festival Clàssic Pals 25 August 2023
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Mireia Tarragó & Carmen Santamaría
Respighi, Mel Bonis, Wolf, Alma Mahler, Toldrà, Schubert & Clara Schumann
Festival Clàssic Pals 25 August 2023
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Mireia Tarragó & Carmen Santamaría
Alma Mahler, Respighi, Toldrà, Mel Bonis & Wolf
Figueres 16 September 2023
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Ferran Albrich & Victoria Guerrero
García Abril, Brahms, Wolf & Toldrà
1 October 2023
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Arvid Fagerfjäll & Malte Schäfer
Works by Wolf & Caplet
10 October 2023
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Jonas Müller & Anna Gebhardt
Winterreise | Franz Schubert
19 November 2023
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Katja Maderer & Amadeus Wiesensee
Schumann, Duparc & Liszt
Casa Alegre de Sagrera, Terrassa 25 November 2023
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Katja Maderer & Amadeus Wiesensee
Schumann, Duparc & Liszt
Ateneo, Madrid 30 November 2023
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Ferran Albrich, baríton (Catalonia)
Carmen Artaza, mezzosoprano (Basque Country)
Erika Baikoff, soprano (USA)
Mar Compte, piano (Valencian Community)
María Díaz Coca, soprano (Andalusia)
Mercedes Gancedo, soprano (Argentina)
Jaesung Hong, piano (South Korea)
Kunal Lahiry, piano (USA)
Catriona Morison, mezzosoprano (Scotland)
Johanna Wallroth, soprano (Sweden)
Constantin Zimmermann, contratenor (Lucerne)
Ferran Albrich, baríton (Catalonia)
Jesús López Blanco, piano (Galicia)
Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano (Bavaria)
Ema Nikolovska, mezzosoprano (Macedonia)
Cecilia Rodríguez, soprano (Canary Islands)
Kota Sakaguchi, piano (Japan)
Marc Serra, piano (Catalonia)
Violeta Alarcón, soprano (Catalonia)
Irene Mas, soprano (Balearic islands)
Marc Serra, piano (Catalonia)
Eric Varas , piano (Catalonia)
Victoria Guerrero, piano (Andalusia)
Francesc Ortega , tenor (Catalonia)
Marina Pelfort, piano (Catalonia)
Mireia Tarragó, soprano (Catalonia)
Juliane Banse
Matthias Goerne
Christoph Prégardien
Wolfram Rieger
Dorothea Röschmann