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Georgian theatre and opera director, arts manager and composer, David Sakvarelidze is internationally recognised for his innovative productions and for transforming the cultural life of Georgia. After graduating from the Tbilisi Theatrical University, Sakvarelidze studied with Giorgio Strehler and Luca Ronconi in Milan; Peter Brook at the Royal National Theatre Studio in London; at the […]

Anna Lucia Richter comes from a large family of musicians. A long-time member of the girls’ choir at Cologne Cathedral, she received singing lessons from her mother Regina Dohmen from the age of nine. She was subsequently trained by Prof. Kurt Widmer in Basel and completed her singing studies with distinction with Prof. Klesie Kelly-Moog […]

Romanian Soprano Iulia Maria Dan’s “richly coloured, beautifully finished but still radiantly clear sound” (Sydney Morning Herald) has made her highly in demand in the most prestigious houses across Europe. This season, she makes anticipated company debuts with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Opera National de Bordeaux and looking further ahead, […]

Dr. Hannah Chan-Hartley is a musicologist, active as a writer, program book editor, content producer, instructor, speaker, and researcher with various organizations, including Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Detroit Opera, and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. In 2023, she returns to the Verbier Festival as Musicologist-in-Residence at the invitation of the Verbier Festival Academy and […]

Born in 1956, Nils Landgren began playing drums at the age of six, before finally discovering the Trombone at age 13. Between 1972 and 1978 Nils studied classical Trombone at the music college in Karlstad with David Maytan , as well as at the University in Arvika with Ingemar Roos. Meeting the legendary Swedish Folk-Jazz pioneer […]

After starting his career as a teacher, René-Claude Emery changed direction in 2002 and became an actor. He graduated from the Serge Martin Theatre School in 2005. At the Teatro Comico in Sion, Les Artpenteurs and Le Pulloff in Lausanne, and the Théâtre des Osses in Fribourg, he has tried his hand at classics such […]

Praised for her “seraphically poignant” artistry (Bachtrack) and “bright and buoyant” singing (Houston Chronicle), soprano Erika Baikoff is quickly emerging as one of the most compelling lyric voices of her generation. In the 2025/26 season, she returns as a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper, making a series of role debuts: Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), […]

Né à Hyères en 1999, Kim BERNARD étudie le piano dès l’âge de 5 ans avec Michelle MARY. Il rencontre début 2008 Bernard d’ASCOLI et Eleanor HARRIS et devient dès lors étudiant de “Piano Cantabile”. Il intègre parallèlement la même année le conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Toulon en troisième cycle dans la classe de […]

Maurice Steger now lives in Zurich, where he began to study the recorder at an early age with Pedro Memelsdorff and Kees Boeke. This was followed by study of performing practice in early music and then training as a conductor. A number of distinctions and the award of the Karajan Prize in 2002 encouraged him […]