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.

Born in Biberach (Baden-Württemberg), she received her first singing lessons at a very young age. At the age of fourteen, she gave her first solo concerts and received a "Jugend musiziert" prize. She studied in Dresden and Leipzig; her training was complemented by masterclasses with Vesselina Kasarova, Rudolf Piernay, Christine Schäfer, and Hedwig Fassbender, among others. Eva Zalenga is the winner of the SWR Junge Opernstars 2023, a competition where she also received the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis and the Orchestra Prize of the Deutschen Radio Philharmonie. In 2023, she also won the International Music Competition Vienna. She recently debuted as Sophie (Werther) and Adele (Die Fledermaus) and is a member of the opera companies at the theaters of St. Gallen and Regensburg. Passionate about song, her debut CD will soon be released, featuring pianist Doriana Tchakarova, which includes recordings of premieres and rarely recorded romantic pieces.

The prize-winner of national and international competitions, including the Robert Schumann International Competition in Poland and Frédéric Chopin International Competition in Hungary, and having won two of the chamber music prizes at the Royal Academy of Music, Aleksandra established herself as a sought-after chamber musician and now cooperates with both instrumentalists and singers. Aleksandra is a staff pianist at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as well as a frequent guest at the Royal Academy of Music, where she works as an accompanist and a piano and ensemble tutor for the Widening Participation Department. She was a Santander Encuentro de Música, Leeds Lieder, and Solti Accademia Young Artist and is a Britten Pears Young Artist 2023-24. 2024 is a year of her Carnegie Hall debut as a participant of the Renée Fleming Song Studio.

Florian Stoertz won in 2023 the International Handel Singing Competition, the Helmut Deutsch Song Competition and the Prix de mélodie at the International Voice-Piano Competition 'Lili et Nadia Boulanger' in Paris. On the recital stage, Florian’s recent appearances include French song concerts at Salle Cortot and Wigmore Hall, as well as at song festivals in Zeist and Leeds. The current season further sees his recital debut alongside pianist Helmut Deutsch at the International Music Festival Zell am See. Operatic roles include, among others, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Masetto and Commendatore (Don Giovanni). Florian is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, London where during his studies he was awarded first prizes for both opera and song recitals, as well as the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Having enjoyed his musical upbringing in the vocal music scene around Trier Cathedral (Germany), he is now based in London.

Llicenciat en Piano a Musikene i en Història i Ciències de la Música a la Universitat de La Rioja, aquest pianista gallec (Lugo,1990) s'especialitza en música de cambra i acompanyament vocal. Cursa el màster de Lied “Victoria de los Ángeles” a l'ESMUC becat pot la Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles, i un màster de Liedgestaltung a la Hochschule für Musik de Freiburg im Breisgau. Guardonat com a integrant de duos de cant i piano en diversos concursos, la seva activitat com a intèrpret l'ha dut a tocar a Alemanya, Itàlia, França i Espanya, participant en festivals com Volcadiva, LIFE Victoria o la Schubertíada, i acompanyant Josep Ramon Olivé, Cecilia Rodríguez, Belén Roig, Sebastià Peris, o Rocío Pérez. Actualment, compatibilitza la seva faceta interpretativa amb la docència en el Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears i l'Escola Superior de Canto de Madrid.

Lucas Huber Sierra was raised in Madrid, where he began his musical training. He completed his studies in Cologne and Lübeck with the highest marks in the classes of Joseph Anto Scherrer and Konrad Elser. Further mentors include Claudio Martínez Mehner, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Anthony Spiri, Thomas Quasthoff and Christoph Prégardien. During the academic course 24/25 he is a scholarship holder of the Heidelberger Frühling lied academy, under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson. In addition to his occupation as a piano teacher, he works as an accompanist at the HfM Hanns Eisler for the voice class of Stephan Rügamer. As a prize winner of major international competitions, Lucas has recorded for broadcasts by various German radio stations. Currently, he is studying song accompaniment with Wolfram Rieger in Berlin.

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.

Èlia Farreras-Cabero, born in 1999, studied with Elisenda Cabero at the Escola de Música i Conservatori Professional de Sabadell. She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Britta Schwarz. She complements her studies with great specialists, including Wolfram Rieger, Martin Bruns, Christoph Prégardien, Thomas Quasthoff, Lluís Vilamajor or Ulrich Messthale. She has performed in such emblematic halls as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Palau de la Música Catalana, L'Atlantida in Vic or La Farándula in Sabadell.

After her junior studies at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, she studied piano there with Prof. Silke Avenhaus and Prof. Bernd Glemser in Würzburg and is currently continuing her studies in Lied accompaniment with Prof. Christian Gerhaher, Prof. Gerold Huber and Prof. Fritz Schwinghammer. She has won numerous prizes at various competitions such as 2nd prize at the Harald Genzmer Competition. She also performs at concert series such as the Swiss Chamber Festival, the Espresso concerts at Konzerthaus Berlin or Schubertíada Vilabertran and takes part in children's concerts at the Bavarian State Opera. She received musical impulses from Brigitte Fassbaender (Schubertiade Schwarzenberg) and Ian Bostridge, among others. In addition, she is a multiple recipient of the Deutschlandstipendium and participant in the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now program. Furthermore, she holds a teaching position at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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).