Olaf Bär
Christiane Karg & Wolfram Rieger
Nascuda a Barcelona, inicia els estudis de piano als sis anys amb el Mètode Suzuki; posteriorment va estudiar al Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu amb la pianista Alba Ventura. Recentment, ha acabat el màster de Lied “Victoria de los Ángeles” a l'ESMUC, sent premiada com a millor pianista de Lied en la primera edició del Premi AESPIRE. Per altra banda, actualment estudia clavicèmbal al Conservatori Regional de Toulouse i al Conservatori Professional de Badalona. Ha estat premiada i becada en diverses ocasions; entre els guardons destaca el primer premi en la modalitat de pianista acompanyant en el Concurs Internacional de Música d'Estocolm. Com a solista (pianista i clavecinista) i músic de cambra, ha actuat en diverses sales de Catalunya, França i Itàlia.
Jana Corominas, nascuda l’any 2002, és una mezzosoprano de Barcelona. Comença els seus estudis musicals als cinc anys seguint el mètode Suzuki i finalitza el grau professional de Cant amb Marisa Roca al Conservatori Professional del Liceu el 2020. El 2024 es gradua al Conservatori Superior del Liceu sota l’ensenyament del baríton Joan Martín Royo, amb qui, juntament amb Marta Pujol, actualment realitza el màster d’Interpretació de Cant en el mateix centre. Ha sigut finalista de la Salvat Beca Bach 2024. Ha complementat la seva formació de cant amb masterclasses i cursos amb grans professionals com Sophie Koch, Didier Laclau-Barrère, Emma Kirkby, Mireia Barrera, Marta Infante, Carmen Bustamante, Valerie Guillorit i Wolfram Rieger, entre d’altres.
Dutch soprano Noëlle Drost (1999) graduated with the highest distinction from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2023, and is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. Next to this, she participated in masterclasses with among others Philippe Herreweghe, Elly Ameling, Graham Johnson and Brigitte Fassbaender. She was invited with pianist Jorian van Nee to the masterclasses of the International Liedfestival in Zeist in 2021 and was a young artist during the Leeds Lieder Festival (UK) in 2023. Noëlle has won multiple prizes, including at the International Student LiedDuo Competition and the Prinses Christina Competition. She performed in several concert halls like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in the Hertz-zaal in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. She also performed at the Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, the dutch national radiochannel ‘Radio 4’ and for the SWR in Stuttgart.
Belén García (Alicante, 2000) began voice studies at 14 with mezzo-soprano Concha Marcos de León. In 2019, she started her degree at ESMUC with soprano Enedina Lloris, graduating in 2023 with honors and the Anna Riera Scholarship. She then pursued the official Lied Master “Victoria de los Ángeles” at ESMUC with Francisco Poyato. Currently, she is studying for a Postgraduate in Lied at Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) with Pauliina Tukiainen. She has performed at various festivals and concerts. In 2024, she debuted at Palau de la Música Catalana with OSVA at the “Life Victoria” festival, where she was also a “Life New Artist.” She has given recitals with “Juventudes Musicales de España” and was a finalist in their 106th singing competition.
As soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist, Maximilian Kromer has been the guest of multiple concert venues, such as the Viennese Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Konzerthaus Dortmund or the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and of music festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Rheingau, the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich or the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2023 he presented the release of a CD with baritone Daniel Gutmann, published by Gramola, including musical settings by Robert Schumann of poems by Heine. The same label has recently also presented Kromer’s debut solo album with recordings of virtuoso Viennese piano works. Since 2022 he has been in vivid musical exchange with one of the leading authorities in Lied accompaniment, Helmut Deutsch. Furthermore, the young pianist can look back on numerous concerts with outstanding musical partners such as Rolando Villazón, Daniel Müller-Schott or Michael Schade.
Va començar la seva formació musical als cinc anys, estudiant violoncel i piano. Posteriorment, va estudiar orgue al Konservatorium für Kirchenmusik de St. Pölten, on va rebre les primeres classes de cant. Des de 2020 estudia a la Hochschule für Musik und Theater de Múnic. Ha guanyat premis com el Concurs de Cant Carl-Orff, el Premi Especial Fritz Wunderlich o el concurs “Prima la Musica”. Des de 2023, és becari del programa Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now i de l'Associació Richard Wagner de Múnic. El 2022 va debutar a l'òpera com Papageno (La flauta màgica). En concert, ha cantat Carmina Burana o el Rèquiem de Mozart; l'actual temporada cantarà també la Novena Simfonia de Beethoven i el Rèquiem Alemany, i oferirà recitals de lied amb el pianista Maximilian Kromer, amb obres com An die ferne Geliebte, Dichterliebe i altres lieder de Schumann, així com lieder de Schubert, Wolf i Schönberg.
Jorian van Nee was born in 1999. He follows lessons from Frank Peters at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and also followed lessons and masterclasses from several pianists, including Ronald Brautigam and Jan Wijn. He played with various orchestras, including Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Yehudi Menuhin orchestra, and the Residentie Orkest in The Hague. In 2013, he won the first prize as well as a first prize at the composition competition at the Prinses Christina Concours. In 2015, he won the best accompaniment prize at the same competition. He also won prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation, the Peter de Grote Festival and, together with singer Noëlle Drost, at the International Student Lied Competition. Also with Noëlle, he participated in the Leeds Lieder Festival in 2023 and the International Lied Festival in Zeist in 2021. He has a Bechstein grand piano on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.
Born in Barcelona, she graduated in piano performance at ESMuC under the guidance of Jordi Camell and obtained the Lied Master's degree 'Victoria de los Ángeles'. She has been a collaborative pianist in this Master's program and received lessons from Francisco Poyato, Pep Surinyac, Anne Le Bozec, Pauliina Tukiainen, Wolfram Rieger, Roger Vignoles, Sholto Kynoch and Graham Johnson, among others. She has been awarded Best Lied Pianist and received the Yamaha Award at the II AESPIRE Prize. She has participated in the Mastercourse of the Oxford International Song Festival and in the 14th Liedakademie of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, and has been a ‘LIFE New Artist’ at the ‘LIFE Victoria’ Lied Festival. She holds a degree with honours in Literary Studies and a Master's degree in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona.
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