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Of Michael Fabiano’s debut as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera, The Sunday Times in London wrote: “I can’t think of a Lensky at Covent Garden who has held the audience so spellbound in 40 years of Onegin-going… a glorious debut.” The recipient of the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2014 Richard Tucker Award, Mr. Fabiano is the first singer to win both awards in the same year, and is considered one of the greatest tenors in the world today.
Mr. Fabiano is the recipient of Australia’s prestigious Helpmann Award in the “Best Male Performance in an Opera” category, for his portrayal of the title role in Gounod’s Faust with Opera Australia. He is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Guild Artists’ Council and one of the founders of ArtSmart, a non-profit organization that provides free voice and instrumental lessons to students in public schools in under-served neighborhoods within the U.S., and the Chief Strategy Officer for Resonance, a social commerce platform that
Anna Saldadzé is a London-based author, publisher, and documentary film producer specializing in lifestyle and music-related books. Georgian-born, and French-educated, she is passionate about making different cultures relatable through stories.
After graduating in French and German Business Law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, she came back to her early passion for lifestyle by engaging in public relations for leading French designers.
In 2015, she co-founded two publishing imprints: Apricate Books and Beares Publishing, determined to explore the future of the books in the age of the Internet. She co-signed her first book Be My Guest – Georgian recipes for cooking success with David Gigauri, a fellow Georgian-born Londoner and published Untamed – 8000 vintages of Georgian wine in summer 2018. She is about to publish Antonio Stradivari: The Complete Works, the first ever complete catalogue of existing Stradivarius instruments.
Her first documentary film Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari was co-produced with Asterik Fims and Foxy Films and was be released in September 2021.
Robert Brewer Young stands among the world’s most active and respected violinmakers. Trained as a luthier in the artist’s studios of Carnegie Hall in New York, Robert has cared for scores of instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri and other classical Italian masters. He is now devoted exclusively to making signature instruments in the spirit of these Cremonese visionaries. Robert’s cellos, violins and violas are played by soloists and in orchestras around the world. His clientele includes members of The Stockholm, Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the San Francisco, Seattle and Shanghai Symphonies, The Kirov and Paris Opera Orchestras, Harvard University, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Alongside violinmaker Stefan-Peter Greiner, Robert heads the W. E. Hill & Sons workshop in London as one of the recently appointed directors of the historic firm, now located in the former coach house and stables of the Burgh House from 1704, in the heart of historic Hampstead.
As a cello maker, Robert Brewer Young is represented by J & A Beare in London, for whom he makes a limited number of instruments each year.
Before focusing on violinmaking, Robert studied Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and restored antiquarian books in Paris and New York. He uses these skills in his role as designated researcher and restorer of the Hill Archive. He is currently completing doctoral work in mathematics and logic and is on the faculty of the European Graduate School in Switzerland as a lecturer in philosophy.
Named “Emerging Opera Singer of the Year” by “Opernwelt” magazine and first-prize winner at the renowned NEUE STIMMEN Competition in 2019, Anna El-Khashem was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and completed her musical studies at the State Conservatory in her native city. She made her international debut at the Bregenz Festival in 2016 as Bastienne in Mozart’s “Bastien und Bastienne” and Soprano Solo in C. M. v. Weber´s “Jubelmesse”.
El-Khashem was subsequently invited to join the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 2017 she became a member of the company. She appeared in many new productions in Munich, singing, among other roles, Barbarina in “Le Nozze di Figaro”, the Mermaid in “Oberon”, Esmeralda in “Die Verkaufte Braut”, Inès in “La Favorite”, Ksenia in “Boris Godunov”, Suor Genovieffa in “Suor Angelica“ and Coryphée in “Alceste”.
She sang under the baton of many of today’s leading conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Constantinos Carydis, Ivor Bolton, Giacomo Sagripanti, Bertrand de Billy, Simone Young, Philippe Jordan and Riccardo Minasi.
In August 2019, Anna El-Khashem sang her first Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the New Generation Festival in Florence. She then joined the ensemble of the State Theater in Wiesbaden, where her roles included Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte”, Gretel in “Hänsel und Gretel”, 1st niece in “Peter Grimes”, the soprano in a staged version of “St. Matthew Passion”, Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Woglinde in “Das Rheingold” and “Götterdämmerung”. In the season 2021/2022 she sang, among other roles, Sophie in a new production of Massenet’s “Werther”.
Anna El-Khashem made her house and role debut at Opéra de Paris (Opéra Garnier) in June 2021 as Servilia in Mozart‘s opera “La Clemenza di Tito”, returning to Paris as Susanna in a new production of “Le Nozze di Figaro” in January 2022 and made her role debut as Zerlina in “Don Giovanni” on stage of Opéra Bastille in February 2022.
In July 2022 she performed for the first time at the Verbier Festival singing Zerlina in W. A. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and presenting a solo recital alongside Semion Skigin (piano).
Anna successfully debuted at the Zurich Opera House in a concert under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Minasi in April 2022. In the following season 2022/23 she returned to Zurich and made her role debut as Flavia Gemmira in a new production of Cavalli’s “Eliogabalo” directed by C. Bieito.
In March 2023 she gave her debut with the Vienna State Opera during their guest performance at Opéra de Monte-Carlo singing Susanna in W. A. Mozart‘s “Le Nozze di Figaro” under the baton of Maestro Philippe Jordan. She also performed for the first time at the Tonhalle Zürich with G. F. Händel‘s oratorio “Alexander‘s Feast” (conductor-Riccardo Minasi) and sang at Philharmonie de Paris and Festival de Pâques d‘Aix-en-Provence performing J. S. Bach‘s “Matthäus-Passion” together with Les Talens Lyriques under the baton of Maestro Christophe Rousset.
In the current season 2023/24, among other projects, the soprano is set to return to the Zurich Opera House making her role debut as Clarine/Thalie in a new production of J.-P. Rameau‘s “Platée”, to perform for the first time at the Dutch National Opera as Marzelline in L. van Beethoven‘s “Fidelio” and to give her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Zerlina in W. A. Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”.
In addition to her first-prize award at Neue Stimmen in 2019, Anna El-Khashem won the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in February of 2018 and received a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Mozart. In the same year she was awarded the Trude Eipperle-Rieger-Preis. She was also the first-prize winner at the Elena Obraztsova International Competition and the first-prize winner at the Zara Dolukhanova International Art Song Competition in Kaliningrad.
Jędrzej Luciński showed a passion for music from a young age, especially after he began music studies at school. His interest in ear training, harmony and formal analysis resulted in his participation in an ear training competition in Wrocław. It was there that he met a colleague who was studying sound engineering at the Frederic Chopin Music University. Drawing inspiration from this encounter, he applied and was accepted to the same programme. And so began his dream career—one that combines his passion for music, ability to sculpt the subtleties of sound, knowledge of music theory and the desire to connect with musicians.
Johanna Soller, conductor, harpsichordist and organist is one of the most versatile musicians of her generation.
She is chief conductor and artistic director of the baroque ensemble capella sollertia, which has its origin in a highly acclaimed performance of Bachs St. Matthew’s passion in 2019. She is also founder and artistic director of the Bach cantata series Cantate um 1715.
Johanna collaborates with ensembles such as Freiburger Barockorchester, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the Zürcher Singakademie, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hofkapelle München, Munich Symphony Orchestra and artists such as Julian Prégardien, Anna Prohaska, Hille Perl and Christine Schornsheim.
Among her chamber music partners are Kristin von der Goltz and Anne Katharina Schreiber. Previous engagements include Theater an der Wien, the International Handel Festival in Goettingen, Thueringer Bachwochen and AUDI summer concerts in Ingolstadt.
An acclaimed choral conductor, Johanna has taken rehearsals for ensembles such as the MDR Radio Choir Leipzig, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the Munich Bach Choir and the via nova choir and for conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Ulf Schirmer and Nicholas McGegan. From 2014 to 2020 she served as musical assistant to the Munich Bach Choir, with whom she continues to work. In 2021 she was a chosen finalist of the prestigious Eric Ericson Award in Stockholm and therefore worked with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and the St. Jacob’s Chamber Choir. A former fellow in the German Conductors Forum (Forum Dirigieren) of Deutscher Musikrat she also collaborated amongst others with the Bavarian Radio Choir.
Johanna is also in demand as an opera conductor and achieves an excellent reputation as Maestra al cembalo: In 2021 she returned to Theater an der Wien in Vienna as Studienleiter and musical assistant of Christopher Moulds in Claus Guth’s cheered production of Handel’s Saul, playing as well the harpsichord and carillon in the pit with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. As Laurence Cummings’ musical assistant, she was repeatedly invited to the International Handel Festival in Göttingen. In 2019 she was appointed musical director of the Munich Chamber Opera. She gave her debut as an opera conductor in 2017 with Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto.
Johanna is a lecturer for thorough-bass and score reading at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich and was appointed organist at St. Peter’s church in Munich in 2016. Prizewinner of the prestigious “Prague Spring” International Music Competition she has played recitals in some of the most important venues.
Johanna studied in Munich conducting with Michael Glaeser, harpsichord with Christine Schornsheim, organ and church music with Bernhard Haas and Edgar Krapp. She won a scholarship of the German National Music Competition 2013 and was therefore admitted to the Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Kuenstler, a funding programme of Deutscher Musikrat.
In 2020 she was awarded the Bavarian Kunstfoerderpreis.
Philipp Sussmann began playing violin at age three. Nine years later he changed to viola and became a Precollege student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He was principal violist of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle and, in 2021, won an audition for a fixed position in the NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. Philipp studied with Veronika Hagen at Mozarteum Salzburg and Volker Jacobsen at Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He has won several First and Special Prizes at international viola competitions, including the Szymon Goldberg and the MingClassics International Competitions. As a soloist he has performed with ensembles including the Berliner Camerata, Philharmonie Bad Reichenhall and Münchner Kammerphilharmonie DaCapo. Last year, he joined the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra as principal violist and received a Villa Musica Rheinland Pfalz scholarship.
Mari Kodama is known for her natural musicality, tonal expressiveness, and as a benchmark Beethoven interpreter. She is one of the few female pianists to record the composer’s complete sonatas. Kodama was born in Osaka and raised in Germany and Paris. At the Conservatoire National in Paris, she studied piano with Germaine Mounier and chamber music with Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux. She also studied with Tatiana Nikolaeva and Alfred Brendel. Since her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1995, she has performed with renowned orchestras and conductors in the world’s leading concert halls. Kodama co-founded the Forest Hill Musical Days festival, a chamber music festival in San Francisco, with her husband Kent Nagano, and she has also led the chamber music series at the Orford Music Festival. In 2018 she assumed artistic directorship at the festival Tra Luce e Sogno in Postignano, Italy.