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Austrian pianist Kiron Atom Tellian regularly performs with some of the greatest artists worldwide. Having finished his preparatory studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he now studies with Sergei Babayan at The Juilliard School, where is the recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Kiron has won numerous top prizes at international piano competitions, among them the First Prize and the Haydn Prize at the 17th Ettlingen International Piano Competition. Recent performances include concerts at the Viotti Festival in Italy, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Germany, and recitals in the Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus. Concerts next season will include performances with the Wiener Concertverein orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein and the opening recital of the music festival Kulturfest Schloss Walpersdorf.
Music has been part of Jeremias Thiele’s life since an early age. He began trumpet at age 8 and pursued both instrumental and voice studies, as well as music theory, history and choral conducting. After a short period away from music to study architecture in Berlin, he returned to his first passion to study sound engineering in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst à Vienne (MDW). After only his first year, he regularly recorded independently for a wide variety of ensembles, and after this third year of studies, he began a specialisation in classical music recording. He now continues his studies in Vienna at MDW and in Paris at CNSMD.
Rebekka Homburg’s interest in classical music recording is began with her own violin, piano and voice studies and performances as a soloist and ensemble member from an early age. She has studied sound engineering at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (MDW) and, beginning in fall 2023, will take part in an Erasmus year at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin. While the primary focus of her studies is music recording, she is also studies film sound. She has received scholarships of merit from the MDW and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Marta Hinderer is a sound engineering student from Warsaw, Poland. She received her Bachelor degree from the Chopin University of Music, and is currently studying in the École National Supérieure Louis Lumière in Saint-Denis, France, as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Her main focus is sound in film, but she also participates in recordings, which she has conducted in Poland, France, Germany and Switzerland. Above all genres, Marta enjoys recording classical music. From 2020 to 2022 she has developed her phonographic skills as a member of the Music Multimedia Management Project organised by the Szczecin Philharmonic. As a part of this programme she had individual tutoring sessions with Moritz Bergfeld, a head of Coviello Classics label, with whom she now often collaborates. In her time at the Chopin University of Music, Marta received multiple scholarships for academic performance.
Canadian-Armenian bass-baritone Vartan Gabrielian is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company’s ensemble programme and the Santa Fe Apprentice programme. The 2023/24 season sees numerous roles and debuts for him, including Dottore Grenvil (La Traviata) at the Paris Opera, Basilio (The Barber of Seville), Frère Laurent (Romeo and Juliet), and Capitán (Florencia en el Amazonas) at Opera San Jose, as well as Fasolt (Das Rheingold) with the Edmonton Opera. A sought-after concert performer, Vartan will also be performing Handel’s Messiah with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. In 2022/23 he appeared as Masetto and Commendatore (Don Giovanni) at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Nourabad (Les pêcheurs de perles) at Vancouver Opera, and returned to the Canadian Opera Company to perform Dottore (Macbeth) and cover Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Banquo (Macbeth), and Angelotti (Tosca). Vartan is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, having earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree after studies with Marlena Malas and Armen Boyajian.
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.
Felix is a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. Next season he will be appearing in several productions at the Zurich Opera House, most notably as Phileas Fogg in the world premiere of Around the World in 80 Days by Jonathan Dove.
Felix is a Samling Artist and a National Opera Studio Young Artist 2022/23. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
He was a member of the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival 2023, where he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer. In January 2024, he participated in the Carnegie Hall SongStudio under the patronage of Renée Fleming.
Felix is a passionate Lieder singer and regularly performs in recitals in the UK, France, and Switzerland with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski. He made his US debut performing Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat at the Boston Text and Tone Festival.
Baritone Henry Griffin is pursuing his bachelor’s in Classical Voice at the Manhattan School of Music with Marlena Malas. His recent roles include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Castleton Festival, covering the role of the Commentator in Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg at the Chautauqua Opera Company in 2021 and returning in 2022 to sing the role of The Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. This year, he sings Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Manhattan School of Music and will be the inaugural Voice Fellow at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, USA.
English tenor Christopher Willoughby began his training as a chorister at Westminster Abbey. He graduated Royal Holloway, University of London in 2021 with a First Class degree in Music before moving to Vienna to continue his studies at the MDW with Margit Klaushofer and Michael Schade KS. In 2021 Christopher was chorus in L’Elisir d’Amor with Waterperry Opera Festival and made his debut in the role of Grimoaldo in Handel’s opera, Rodelinda at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn Palace. Last summer, Christopher debuted at the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which was broadcast live on national television, before travelling to California to take part in The Music Academy of the West. Christopher appeared as Osmida in Holzbauer’s Der Tod der Dido, with the Teatro Barocco in Vienna, and performed the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo this spring. He joins the Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich next in the fall.
Sam Harris is a British tenor studying with Peter Savidge. He is supported by the Dr Martin Schwartz scholarship. Born in Edinburgh, Sam began his musical career as a boy chorister at Winchester Cathedral, and, as a treble soloist, premiered James Macmillan’s Mouth of the Dumb for the NMC record label. He was subsequently a choral scholar at New College, Oxford. Sam’s operatic highlights include Pluto in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at Royal College of Music (London), Fenton in Sir John In Love with British Youth Opera, and Cecco in Il Mondo Della Luna with Bampton Classical Opera. On the concert stage, highlights have included Stravinsky’s Mass with the London Symphony Orchestra, and Pärt’s Passio with Ensemble Pro Victoria. A prolific vocal arranger, his work has been featured on national television, in major national ad campaigns, and included on worldwide best-of compilations.