Hugh Cutting
Hugh Cutting is currently a member of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio. He is a former choral scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Music, and a Vocal Masters graduate of the Royal College of Music. His concert engagements include the English Concert […]
ANA VIEIRA LEITE
Graduated from the Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2020, Portuguese soprano Ana Vieira Leite Also was awarded the 1st Prize at the “Concours International de Chant Baroque de Froville”. Particularly active in the field of Early Music, she has sung roles such as Spesin Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, Une Bohémienne in André […]
William Christie
Co-musical Director, Founder William Christie, harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, is the inspiration behind one of the most exciting musical adventures of the last 40 years. A pioneer in the rediscovery of Baroque music, he has introduced the repertoire of 17th- and 18th-century France to a very wide audience across the globe. Born in Buffalo, and educated at Harvard and […]
Les Arts Florissants
An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists specialized in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants are renowned the world over. Founded in 1979 by the Franco-American harpsichordist and conductor William Christie, the Ensemble, named for a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, has played a pioneering role in the revival of a […]
ALBERTO MIGUELEZ ROUCO
He was born in La Coruña (Spain) in 1994, where he studied singing with tenor Pablo Carballido del Camino and Piano with Cristina López. In 2012 he began his singing studies at the Musik Akademie Basel, where he studies with the mezzosoprano Rosa Domínguez, finishing his Master in Performance in 2017. In 2019 he obtained […]
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
For more than three decades, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed world-wide, recorded more than 50 albums, and built a reputation as one of today’s finest pianists. He plays a range of solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire – from Beethoven through Liszt, Grieg, and Saint-Saëns; to Khachaturian and Gershwin, and to Olivier Messiaen, Qigang Chen, James MacMillan, […]
East-West Chamber Orchestra
The East-West Chamber Orchestra – the orchestra-in-residence at the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival, was founded in 2015 by famous pianist and conductor Rostislav Krimer and understands itself as an Orchestra-for-Peace, which strengthens the bonds and cultural co-operations between Eastern and Western Europe as well as East and West. Comprised of outstanding soloists, including laureates […]
FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA
Filarmonica della Scala is an independent orchestra founded by Claudio Abbado together with the musicians of La Scala Opera House in 1982 with the primary aim of developing a symphonic repertoire in order to add a further dimension to La Scala’s great operatic tradition. The Orchestra has collaborated with some of the greatest conductors of the time: Carlo Maria Giulini, Georges Prêtre, Lorin Maazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch, […]
Arabella Steinbacher
Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, which comprises pinnacles of the classical and romantic eras, alongside modernist concerto works of Bartók, Berg, Britten, Glazunov, Gubaidulina, Hartmann, Hindemith, Khachaturian, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Schnittke, Shostakovich and Szymanowski. The 2020/2021 season begins with a performance with the Tonkünstler-Orchester […]
Elisa Balbo
Praised for her luminous and silky voice combined with her great musicality, Elisa Balbo is increasingly regarded as one of the most promising young singers on the opera scene. Balbo has appeared in some among the world’s major theatres under the conduction, among others, of Riccardo Muti. She sang in venues such as Teatro dell’Opera […]
Malcolm Martineau
Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela […]
Roxana Constantinescu
Roxana Constantinescu is a romanian mezzosoprano renowned for the complexity of her musicianship, her ability to approach differing styles with the same beauty, commitment and honesty. Recently she debuted at the Greek National Opera in the title role of Vivaldi’s “Juditha Triumphans”, new production filmed by MEZZO TV and soon to be broadcasted worldwide. She […]
Sonya Yoncheva
Superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva has been heralded as one of the most acclaimed and exciting performers of her generation. After studying piano and voice in her hometown Plovdiv with Nelly Koitcheva, she obtained her master’s degree in voice in Geneva, studying with Danielle Borst. Sonya is an alumna of William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix. […]
Stephan Koncz
Stephan Koncz comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and when he was eight began his studies at the Musikhochschule of his native Vienna. In 2000 he became a pupil of Róbert Nagy at the Vienna Conservatory, and from 2002 he also studied composition and conducting at the University of Vienna. His training and development […]
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music. Formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958 from a group of leading London musicians, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in November 1959. Through unrivalled live performances and […]
London Mozart Players
The London Mozart Players, the UK’s longest established chamber orchestra, was founded in 1949 by Harry Blech to delight audiences with the works of Mozart and Haydn, and the orchestra is known for its unmistakable British roots. Over the last seventy-three years, the LMP has developed an outstanding reputation for adventurous, ambitious programming from Baroque […]
