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British bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a Bicentenary Scholar, studying with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Operatic engagements have included Sciarrone (Tosca), and Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) for English National Opera where he was a Harewood Artist; Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Dorset Opera Festival; Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Jupiter (Platée) for Garsington Opera. He made his international debut at Deutsche Oper, Berlin, singing Second Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) and Pietro (Simon Boccanegra).
He is a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Ballet and Opera, London. His roles this season include Marquis d’Obigny (La Traviata), Wagner (Faust), Mandarin (Turandot) and Angelotti (Tosca).
Ossian Huskinson’s continuing professional development is supported by Mascarade Opera.
Edward Birchinall is a member of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studies with Russell Smythe. His roles there include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Don Iñigo Gomez (L’heure espagnole). A keen recitalist, he has performed across the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings, where he is a Britten Pears Scholar for the 2024/25 season. His prizes include First Prize at the Edinburgh University Tovey Memorial Competition, the Anne Wyburd Prize for Lieder, and Third Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards. Edward is grateful to be supported by the Derek Butler Scholarship, Help Musicians UK, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. This summer, he joins the Glyndebourne Chorus and will cover the role of Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Da Ponte Festival in Vittorio Veneto.
Maksim Andreenkov made his operatic debut in 2015 as Petrus in Carl Orff’s Der Mond at the Pokrovsky Opera in Moscow. In 2018, he entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and began performing on the chamber stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2020, he joined the Young Artist Program at Helikon Opera in Moscow, where he appeared as Escamillo (Carmen) and Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera).
Since 2022, he has been based in Germany, where he made his debut as Sonora in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at Theater Hagen. In 2023 and 2024, he performed the title role in Il Re Teodoro di Venezia and Don Artabano in Cimarosa’s Le Trame deluse at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT). He also performed as Iarbe in Piccini’s Didon at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival in 2024.
A bass-baritone from the Veneto region, he began studying opera singing under the guidance of the Lieder soprano Argit Butzke; he is currently specialising with the American teacher Sherman Lowe.
In 2013 he won the First Prize at the XVI Giovan Battista Velluti International Competition and the Absolute Popular Jury Award.
He is a finalist in the O.M.E.G.A. International Competition in Florence and the Iris Adami Corradetti Competition. He was third prize winner at the Magda Oliviero opera competition and at the “Franco Federici” competition in Parma. Again in Parma, the following year, he won Second Prize at the Rinaldo Pelizzoni International Opera Competition, as well as the Popular Jury’s Appreciation Prize.
In Treviso, he won First Prize in the ‘Giovani Musicisti’ International Competition and First Prize in the ‘Premio Contea’ Competition. He graduated from the Faculty of ‘Letters and Philosophy’ at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. In 2014, he won the ‘Concorso Comunità Europea’ in Spoleto – the youngest winner in recent years – and made his debut in the role of Schaunard in La bohème by G. Puccini. In the same year, he also won the ‘Premio Etta Limiti’ competition in Milan, where he also received the ‘Young Male Talent’ award.
In 2016, he won First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di CantoLirico “Mauro Pagano” – Canneto sull’Oglio (MN) and the prestigious As.Li.Co competition for the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. In the A.A. 2016/2017 he was a full student at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento dell’Opera in Florence, under the direction of Maestro Gianni Tangucci.
In January 2018 he won the Mercedes Viñas Prize, at the Tenor Viñas competition in Barcelona and his recent and future engagements include: Acquagranda at the Teatro LaFenice, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rigoletto at the Filarmonico in Verona and at the Petruzzelli in Bari, La Bohème in a Japanese tour of the Sperimentale in Spoleto and at the Regio in Turin, La fanciulla del West at the San Carlo, Edipo re (Leoncavallo) at the Verdi in Pisa, Le songe d’une nuit d’été at the Wexford Festival, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Massimo in Palermo and at the Opéra in Paris, La Bohème in Turin and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Carmen in Palermo, Macerata and as Escamillo in Valladolid, Ariadne auf Naxos in Bologna, La Cenerentola in Salerno, Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Macerata, Naples and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Rinaldo in Venice Le nozze di Figaro in Sydney, Moscow and the Komische Oper in Berlin, Così fan tutte on tour with the Kammermorchester Basel in Paris and Hamburg.
William Socolof is an award-winning operatic bass-baritone and recitalist. He has appeared as a soloist with many top North American orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. The New York native graduated from The Juilliard School in 2022 with an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies and was awarded The Stephen Novick Grant for Career Advancement. Thereafter, he attended the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, singing Riolobo in selections from Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, as well as operatic scenes of Mozart and Berlioz with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. He also complete both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School, where he studied with Sanford Sylvan and William Burden. William was a winner of the 2020 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.
Albert Dohmen can look back on a long international career with a first highlight in 1997 performing Wozzeck at the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festival with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Peter Stein. He subsequently worked with famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, James Conlon and many others. Albert Dohmen has been interpreting the important roles of his fach (like Kurwenal, Pizarro, Wotan, Amfortas, Holländer, Scarpia, Bluebeard, Hans Sachs) at all major opera houses such as the Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, at the opera houses of Zurich, Amsterdam, the Liceo Barcelona, the Vienna State Opera, the opera in Los Angeles etc. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Jochanaan / Salome.
Albert Dohmen established himself as one of the leading Wotan singers of his generation. He sang this part in complete Ring cycles in Trieste, Geneva, Catania, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera, at Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and at the MET, just to name a few.
Recent highlights include his debut as Hans Sachs / Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Geneva and Barcelona, as Gurnemanz / Parsifal in Geneva, as Barak / Frau ohne Schatten in Florence under the direction of Zubin Mehta as well as productions Elektra / Orest in Baden-Baden under Christian Thielemann, Salome / Jochanaan in Amsterdam, Don Giovanni / Commendatore at the Vienna State Opera, Flying Duchman/ Daland in Paris, Falstaff in Stuttgart, Tristan/ König Marke in Barcelona and Meistersinger/ Pogner at La Scala in Milan.
Albert Dohmen made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival 2007 performing Wotan / Wanderer in the Ring cycles with revivals in the following years. At the 2022 Bayreuth Festival he made his debut as Hagen / Götterdämerung and Landgraf / Tannhäuser.
Albert Dohmen is also a very successful concert singer: He has sung the entire bass repertoire from Bach to Schönberg in all important concert halls and at international festivals, for example Beethoven´s 9th symphony under Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms´ Requiem, again under Kurt Masur at the St. Denis Festival, Mahler´s 8th Symphony under Valery Gergiev and Gurre-Lieder, Beethoven’s 9th under James Levine. He also has various recital programmes, which he can be hears with in the renowned concert halls.
Among the numerous CDs documenting his artistic output, special mention should be made of his recordings of Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly and his three recordings under Sir Georg Solti (Frau ohne Schatten, Fidelio and Meistersinger).
Originally from Québec city, Jean-Philippe Mc Clish holds a master’s degree and an artist diploma in opera performance from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he studied with soprano Dominique Labelle. Previous roles include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (Opéra de l’Université de Montréal) as well as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Re in Ariodante, Készakállú in Bluebeard’s Castle, Falke in Die Fledermaus, Garibaldo in Rodelinda and Dulcamara in Elisir d’amore (Schulich School of Music). He also sang the King in Fête Galante (Smyth) with opera5. As a soloist, he has performed in Handel’s Messiah (Ensemble Sinfonia), Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle (Chœur polyphonique de Rimouski), Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (Kingston Symphony), along with the Requiems of Brahms (Orchestre symphonique de Lévis) and Mozart (Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières). With l’Opéra de Montréal, Jean-Philippe sang in 2019-2020 the part of the Captain in Eugene Onegin, the Second Prisoner in Fidelio, as well as covering Raimondo in Lucia di Lamermoor. He was supposed to sing the role of the second Armoured guard and covering Papageno in the Komishe Oper production of Zauberflöte at Opéra de Montréal. A production cancelled due to Covid19. He was also singing with the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (2018-2019). Who gave him the opportunity to sing with Regensburg Opera. He is a grant recipient from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation (2019) and the Art Song Foundation award (2019). Jean-Philippe will be singing this year the role of Antonio and covering Figaro in Nozze di Figaro with Opéra de Montréal. He would also normally have been singing the rôles of Dr. Grenvil in Traviata and the Mayor in Jenufa. Two production that will be presented in the season of 2021-2022 instead. He will be part of the prestigious Verbier Festival for the summer 2021. Jean-Philippe is currently a resident artist at Opera de Montreal.
Hailed for his “fiery and persuasive vocal presence ” (Bachtrack) and “a heartbreakingly intense singing that took one`s breath away” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), the 34-year-old Milan Siljanov returns to the Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in the 2021-22 season for productions of Der Freischütz, The Nose, Die Zauberflöte, Tosca, and The Cunning Little Vixen working with such distinguished conductors and directors as Vladimir Jurowski, Ivor Bolton, Daniel Oren, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Barrie Kosky and Dimitri Tcherniakov. This season also marks the Irish National Opera debut of the Swiss-Macedonian bass-baritone in a production of Carmen led by Kenneth Montgomerry and directed by Paul Curran.
In the coming season 2022-23, he will debut in the role of the Forrester in The Cunning Little Vixen with Theater an der Wien led by Giedre Slekyte and directed by Stefan Herheim. He will come back to the Bavarian State Opera to sing in Hänsel und Gretel, La Traviata, Die Zauberflöte, and La Calisto.
Performance highlights during his tenure in the Munich ensemble thus far include Leporello in Don Giovanni, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Schaunard in La bohème, Donner in Das Rheingold, Peter Besenbinder in Hänsel und Gretel, Montano in Otello, Harashta in The Cunning Little Vixen, and Kilian in Der Freischütz working with Kirill Petrenko, Antonello Manacorda, Bertrand de Billy, Hans Kupfer, Lotte de Beer, and many more.
Equally in demand on the concert platfrom, his recent engagement incule Bach’s Mass in B minor with Klaus Mäkelä (Oslo Filharmonien); Verdi’s Messa da Requiem (Residentie Orkest Den Haag); Bach’s St Mattew Passion at KKL Lucerne (Orchstra La Scintilla); Puccini’s Messa da Gloria (MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra); Mozart’s Requiem with Constantinos Carydis (Mozarteumorchester Salzburg); and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Erik Nielsen (Bilbao Symphony Orchestra).
Passionate about Art Song, Milan and collaborative pianist Nino Chokhonelidze have been regular guests at international venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Tonhalle Zurich,Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Oxford Lieder Festival.
Milan Siljanov is a member of the Verbier Academy 2016 where he has been awarded the Prix Yves Paternot, the festival’s highest honour for young musicians. He is the winner of the prestigious Wigmore Hall Song Competition 2015. He won both the Audience Prize and the Second Prize at the ARD International Vocal Competition in 2018 and was a finalist at the Moniuzsko Competition in Warsaw in 2019.
Milan Siljanov was graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under the tutelage of Rudolf Piernay. A Samling alumnus, his studies at GSMD where generously sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers and Independent Opera. Previously, he had studied at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under Scot Weir, where he finished his Master Pedagogy Diploma cum laude.
Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel has established an extraordinary career, performing regularly on the prestigious concert stages and opera houses of the world.
After winning the Song Prize at the 1989 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Sir Bryn made his professional operatic debut in 1990 as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Welsh National Opera. He made his international operatic debut in 1991 as Speaker in Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels and made his American debut in the same year as Figaro with Santa Fe Opera. Other roles performed during his career include Méphistophélès in Faust, both the Title Role and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Jochanaan in Salome, the Title Role in Gianni Schicchi, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Balstrode in Peter Grimes and Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann.
Sir Bryn marked his 50th birthday and twenty-five years in the profession with a special one-off Gala Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Hollywood star Michael Sheen. The celebrations continued at Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre, where he sang Scarpia in a special concert performance of Tosca with Welsh National Opera.
Recent performances include Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Balstrode for Wiener Staatsoper and Royal Opera House, Holländer in Der fliegende Holländer for Grange Park Opera, Falstaff for Zürich Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper, Münich, Scarpia for Zürich Opera and Opera National de Paris, Don Pizarro in Fidelio at the Schloßberg, Graz, Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House and Boris Godunov for Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera House.
Other operatic highlights to date include his debut in the role of Hans Sachs in the critically acclaimed production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Welsh National Opera, Wotan in The Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, his debut in the role of Reb Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof for Grange Park Opera, Sweeney Todd for English National Opera and hosting a four day festival, Brynfest, at the Southbank Centre, London as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World.
Equally at home on the concert platform, his highlights range from the opening ceremony of the Wales Millennium Centre, BBC Last Night of the Proms and the Royal Variety Show to a Gala Concert with Andrea Bocelli in Central Park, New York and curating a special Christmas concert and live international stream for the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Met Stars Live in Concert’ series from Brecon Cathedral, Wales. He has given recitals all around the world and for nine years, he hosted his own festival in Faenol, North Wales. Recent performances include a 9-date recital and concert tour of the UK, orchestral concerts in Antwerp and Belgrade, and voice, harp and piano recitals in Stockholm and Geneva.
Sir Bryn is a Grammy, Classical Brit and Gramophone Award winner with a discography encompassing operas of Mozart, Wagner and Strauss, and more than fifteen solo discs including Lieder, American musical theatre, Welsh songs and sacred repertory.
Bryn was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to Opera in 2003, was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2006, received a knighthood for his services to music in 2017, was honoured with the title of Austrian Kammersänger for his services to the Wiener Staatsoper and awarded an European Cultural Award at the Tonhalle, Zurich, in recognition of his extraordinary music career in 2022. He was the last recipient of the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation and in 2015, he was given The Freedom of the City of London.
For nearly four decades, Thomas Quasthoff has established himself on the international stage, overwhelming countless listeners with his art. He completed his outstanding singing career in 2012, earning multiple titles and awards However, the German bass-baritone has kept close links with singing and music as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and in various masterclasses. This dedication led him to found the International Singing Competition Das Lied in the German capital in 2017. He has explored many other fields, revealing his talents as a conductor, jazz singer, actor, narrator and actor, from Shakespeare’s works to the colourful world of cabaret.