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Le violoncelliste franco-allemand Nicolas Altstaedt est l’un des artistes les plus recherchés et les plus polyvalents d’aujourd’hui. En tant que soliste, chef d’orchestre et directeur artistique, il interprète un répertoire allant de la musique ancienne à la contemporaine.
La saison 2023/24 comprend des tournées avec l’Australian Chamber Orchestra, l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées avec Philippe Herreweghe, EUYO avec Gianandrea Noseda et Arcangelo avec Jonathan Cohen. Altstaedt fait ses débuts avec le Bamberger Symphoniker, le Philharmonia Orchestra, l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal avec Rafael Payare, l’Orchestre du CNA d’Ottawa avec Alexander Shelley, le Bergen Philharmonic, tandis qu’il est réinvité par le London Philharmonic Orchestra avec Ed Gardner, l’OPRF de Paris et le Tapiola Sinfonietta, entre autres.
Depuis ses débuts très remarqués avec les Wiener Philharmoniker et Gustavo Dudamel au festival de Lucerne, il a récemment effectué des résidences et collaborations notables, notamment avec l’Orchestre du festival de Budapest sous la direction d’Iván Fischer, le SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg sous la direction de Teodor Currentzis, le festival d’Helsinki sous la direction d’Esa-Pekka Salonen, le Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, le Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin sous la direction de Robin Ticciati, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam sous la direction de Lahav Shani, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra avec Philippe Herreweghe, Münchner Philharmoniker avec Krzysztof Urbánski, European Union Youth Orchestra avec Vasily Petrenko, Seoul Philharmonic et Osmo Vänskä, tous les orchestres de la BBC, y compris avec John Storgårds, Orchestre National de France avec Cristian Măcelaru, NHK et Yomiuri Nippon symphony orchestres, Washington’s National et Seattle Symphony Orchestra, et Sydney et New Zealand symphony orchestres. Il se produit aussi régulièrement sur instruments anciens avec des ensembles tels que Il Giardino Armonico, l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Arcangelo, Academy of Ancient Music et des chefs d’orchestre tels que René Jacobs, Phillippe Herreweghe, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini et Jonathan Cohen.
En tant que chef d’orchestre, il travaille en étroite collaboration avec les orchestres de chambre écossais et munichois, ainsi qu’avec l’OPRF de Paris. Au cours des dernières saisons, il a dirigé le Budapest Festival Orchestra, le SWR, l’OSI Lugano, le Warsaw Philharmonic, le Kyoto Symphony, l’Orchestra of 18th century, les Violins du Roy, l’Aurora et les orchestres de chambre de Zurich.
En 2012, Nicolas a été choisi par Gidon Kremer pour lui succéder en tant que nouveau directeur artistique du Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival et en 2015 par Ádám Fischer pour devenir le nouveau directeur artistique de la Haydn Philharmonie jusqu’en 2022, au sein de laquelle il s’est régulièrement produit au Konzerthaus de Vienne, au Festival Esterházy et récemment en tournée en Chine et au Japon. Nicolas a été directeur artistique du Pfingstfestspiele Ittingen 2019 et 2023.
En tant que chambriste, Nicolas compte parmi ses partenaires Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Christian Tetzlaff, Pekka Kuusisto, Barnabás Kelemen, Joshua Bell, Ilya Gringolts, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power, Antoine Tamestit, Martin Fröst, Alexander Lonquich, Jonathan Cohen, Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford, et le Quatuor Ébène. Il se produit au Festival Mozart et au Festival d’été de Salzbourg, à Verbier, à Utrecht, aux BBC Proms, à Lucerne, au Musikfest Bremen, au Schleswig-Holstein et au Rheingau.
Des apparitions conjointes avec des compositeurs tels que Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Thomas Larcher, Fazil Say et Sofia Gubaidulina consolident également sa réputation d’interprète hors pair de la musique contemporaine. Sebastian Fagerlund, Helena Winkelman, Anders Hillborg et Fazil Say ont récemment écrit des concertos pour Nicolas. De nouveaux concertos d’Erkki-Sven Tüür, Liza Lim et Márton Illés seront inaugurés en 23/24,
Ses derniers enregistrements pour le Lockenhaus Festival ont été récompensés par le BBC Music Magazine 2020 Chamber Award et le Grammophone Award 2020. Il a reçu le BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award 2017 pour son enregistrement des concertos de CPE Bach sur Hyperion avec Arcangelo et Jonathan Cohen et l’Edison Klassiek 2017 pour son enregistrement de récital avec Fazil Say sur Warner Classics.
Nicolas a reçu le Beethovenring Bonn 2015 et le Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg 2018. Nicolas a été artiste de la nouvelle génération de la BBC de 2010 à 2012 et lauréat de la « Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship » en 2009.
Amihai Grosz looks back on a very unusual career path: At first a quartet player (founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet), then and until today Principal Violist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and also a renowned soloist.
Initially, Amihai Grosz learned to play the violin, before switching to the viola at age 11. In Jerusalem, he was taught by David Chen, later by Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Tel Aviv by Haim Taub, who had a formative influence on him. At a very early age, he received various grants and prizes and was a member of the “Young Musicians Group” of the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding young musical talents.
As a soloist, Grosz has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Tugan Sokhiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Ariel Zukermann, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Vedernikov and Lionel Bringuier. He performs internationally with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
In the world of chamber music, Amihai Grosz collaborates with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Hope & Friends, Eric le Sage, Janine Jansen & Friends, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto and David Geringas. Internationally, he can be heard regularly at the most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Philharmonie Luxembourg, as well as at leading festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Evian, Verbier and Delft Festivals, the BBC Proms and the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival.
The highlights of the season 22/23 are concerts with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, performances with the Orchestra Del Teatro Massimo di Palermo & Omer Meir Wellber, the Filarmonica de Gran Canaria & Beatriz Fernandez and the Musikalische Akademie Mannheim & Ingo Metzmacher amongst others. In the winter of 2023 Amihai will be touring Japan extensively. Performances are planned with the NHK Symphony Orchestra & Tugan Sokhiev, play-lead with the Aichi Chamber Orchestra, as well as solo performances.
Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle Amihai will perform the Martinu Viola Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In the upcoming summer 2023 Amihai will perform at the Verbier Festival the Sinfonia Concertante together with Janine Jansen and be involved in the festivals chamber music concerts.
As part of an important round of chamber music projects Amihai will return to perform at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Collaborations and/or tours are planned together with with Emmanuel Pahud & Anneleen Lenaerts, the Modigliani Quartett & Nathalia Milstein and Made in Berlin.
The next recording to be released by Alpha Classic is the Bartok Viola Concerto together with the Orchestra National de Lille under the lead of Alexander Bloch. The release dates of this recording is to be announced at a later stage.
In the season of 21/22 Amihai Grosz has been appointed as Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht
Amihai Grosz plays a Gaspar-da-Salò viola from the year 1570, which is a lifelong loan made available to him by a private collection.
L’une des ambassadrices musicales les plus aimées et célébrées de notre époque, la soprano Renée Fleming captive le public par sa voix somptueuse, son art accompli et sa présence scénique impressionnante. Surnommée « la diva du peuple » et lauréate du Grammy Award 2013 du Meilleur Solo Vocal Classique, elle continue d’illuminer les plus grandes scènes d’opéra et salles de concert du monde entier. Ces dernières saisons, Fleming a animé une grande variété de programmes télévisés et radiophoniques, notamment la série Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD et Live From Lincoln Center sur PBS. Plus récemment, elle a reçu la Médaille nationale des arts à la Maison Blanche des mains du président Obama pour son excellence artistique, sa créativité et son innovation.
En tant qu’« envoyée musicale », Fleming a été sollicitée à de nombreuses occasions prestigieuses, depuis la cérémonie du Prix Nobel de la Paix en 2006 jusqu’à des performances à Pékin lors des Jeux Olympiques de 2008 et du Super Bowl 2014. En janvier 2009, Fleming a participé au concert télévisé We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration au Lincoln Memorial pour le président Obama. En 2012, pour la première fois dans l’histoire, elle a chanté sur le balcon du palais de Buckingham lors du concert du Jubilé de Diamant pour Sa Majesté la Reine Elizabeth II. Fleming s’est également produite devant la Cour suprême des États-Unis et, en novembre 2009, a célébré le 20ᵉ anniversaire de la « Révolution de velours » de la République tchèque sur invitation de Václav Havel. En 2008, elle a reçu une distinction supplémentaire en devenant, brisant un précédent, la première femme de l’histoire de 125 ans du Metropolitan Opera à être la soliste principale lors d’une soirée d’ouverture.
Quatre fois lauréate d’un Grammy, Fleming a remporté en 2013 le Grammy Award du Meilleur Solo Vocal Classique pour Poèmes, un recueil de musique française du XXᵉ siècle. Ces dernières années, cette artiste quatorze fois nominée aux Grammy a enregistré tout, de l’opéra complet Daphne de Strauss à l’album jazz Haunted Heart, en passant par la bande originale du film Le Seigneur des Anneaux : Le Retour du Roi. Ses enregistrements ont été honorés par des prix allant de l’Echo Award 2009 pour Four Last Songs de Strauss au Prix Maria Callas Orphée d’Or décerné par l’Académie du Disque Lyrique pour la production DVD de Capriccio chez TDK. En février 2012, Fleming a reçu la Victoire d’Honneur, la plus haute distinction des Victoires de la Musique françaises.
Militante pour la lecture, Renée Fleming a participé à des campagnes de promotion pour l’Association of American Publishers (Get Caught Reading) et pour l’American Library Association via la campagne READ des Magazine Publishers of America. Son livre The Inner Voice a été publié en 2004. Ce récit intime de sa carrière et de son processus créatif a également été publié en France, au Royaume-Uni, en Allemagne, au Japon et en Russie.
Fleming est actuellement membre du conseil d’administration de Carnegie Hall Corporation, du conseil de Sing for Hope et du conseil consultatif de la White Nights Foundation of America. En 2010, elle a été nommée première consultante créative de l’histoire au Lyric Opera de Chicago.
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).
Described as having “all the makings of a star” in the Guardian and hailed as “a lyric tenor clearly going places” in Opera magazine, tenor Sam Furness has sung major roles for Scottish Opera, Garsington Opera and the Teatro Real, Madrid, always earning praise for his compelling acting and innate musicality.
In the 2022/23 season he sings Kudryas Katya Kabanova at Grand Théâtre de Genève followed by performances at National Theater Brno, Andres Wozzeck at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Tybalt Roméo et Juliette at Savonlinna Opera Festival. He also sings Dvořák Requiem with St Alban’s Bach Choir.
Recent operatic engagements include Kudryas Katya Kabanova (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); Turiddu Cavalleria rusticana and Beppe Pagliacci (Åbo Svenska Teater, Turku); Pang Turandot (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Albert Gregor The Makropoulos Case (Opernhaus Zürich); White King/Mad Hatter Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Rodolphe Guillaume Tell (Theater an der Wien); Glass Maker Death in Venice (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Lensky Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera, Royal Academy Opera and at the Ryedale Festival); Novice Billy Budd (Royal Opera House, Teatro Real Madrid and Teatro Municipal Santiago); Simpleton Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House); Vitek The Makropulos Case (Grand Théâtre de Genève, Vlaanderen Opera); Kavalier Cardillac (Vlaanderen Opera); title role Albert Herring (Opera di Firenze, Opera Holland Park and Théâtre du Capitôle Toulouse); Don José Carmen (Jyväskylä Opera); Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Turku Music Festival); Hoffmann Les contes d’Hoffmann (English Touring Opera); Jaquino Fidelio (Garsington Opera and Philharmonie de Paris); Peter Quint/Prologue The Turn of the Screw (Northern Ireland Opera); Števa Jenůfa (Scottish Opera); The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Shadwell Opera); and Flamand Capriccio, Baron Lummer Intermezzo, Gaspar in the world première of David Sawer’s The Skating Rink and Jack in the world première of Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch (all for Garsington Opera).
On the concert platform he has recently sung Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Mass in C Minor with Hertfordshire Chorus in St Alban’s Cathedral, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
His oratorio and concert repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Samson, Britten’s St Nicholas and Les Illuminations, Verdi’s Requiem, and Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims.
Michael König is a heroic tenor who performs in the world’s most prestigious opera houses including Semperoper Dresden, Opéra National de Paris, Hamburg State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Festival Bayreuth, Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Covent Garden London, Glyndebourne, Zurich, Oslo, Tokyo and La Scala, Milan. His voice and powerful stage presence is in demand for renowned roles such as Florestan (Fidelio), Max (Der Freischütz), Lohengrin, Siegmund (Die Walküre), Erik (Der Fliegende Holländer), Kaiser (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Jim Mahoney (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Andrey Khovansky (Khovanshchina), Grigory/The Pretender (Boris Godunov), and Sergey (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) amongst others.
Michael made his debut at La Scala in 2017 as Max in Der Freischütz. Recently he could be heard in a new production of Lohengrin at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florestan (Fidelio) in Luxembourg and Stuttgart, Ariadne auf Naxos in Lausanne and at La Scala in Milan, Jim Mahoney at the Korea National Opera in Seoul, Siegmund (Die Walküre) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse as well as in Amsterdam. As a concert performer he sang Beethoven’s 9th symphony at La Scala and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel in Los Angeles and on tour in Washington, London and Paris.
Michael is also in high demand on the concert stage. His extensive repertoire includes the tenor parts in Beethoven’s 9th symphony and Missa solemnis, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Das Klagende Lied and the 8th symphony and he has performed with top orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic , the BR and SWR Symphony Orchestras and the San Francisco Symphony.
He has worked with celebrated conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, Daniele Gatti, Seji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Jurowski, Gennadi Rozhdesventsky, Hartmut Hänchen, Sebastian Weigle, Teodor Currentzis and Christoph von Dohnányi.
Michael König was born in Mutlangen, Germany and began his singing career as a member of the Schwäbisch Gmünd St. Michael’s boys’ choir. He studied music at the Mannheim Conservatory with Rudolf Piernay. His early engagements included Jeník (The Bartered Bride) for Glyndebourne Festival, Narraboth (Salome) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in Frankfurt and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) in Baden – Baden, Basel and Paris.
When he is not touring, Michael lives with his family in Haida Gwaii, BC Canada.
Future projects include a concert performance of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (Tambourmajor) at the Verbier Festival as well as Die Walküre and Die Frau ohne Schatten in Stuttgart and again Die Walküre at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Mezzo soprano Elena Zhidkova made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival. Claudio Abbado invited her for the concert version of PARSIFAL, for Schumann’s FAUSTSZENEN and for his farewell concert at the Berlin Philharmonic where she appeared again in Händel’s JEPHTA under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
At the Teatro Real in Madrid she debuted as Waltraute (GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG) and as Brangäne in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE. A highly sought after guest performer in Tokyo as well she could be heard at the New National Theatre Tokyo among others as Octavian (DER ROSENKAVALIER), Fricka (DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN) and Brangäne (TRISTAN UND ISOLDE). She debuted very successfully as Judith in Bartok’s DUKE BLUEBEARD´S CASTLE at the Teatro alla Scala, a role she has also created at the Barbican Hall London with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valéry Gergiev (published on CD).
Her interpretation of Judith (DUKE BLUEBEARD´S CASTLE) at the Mariinsky Theatre gained her the „Golden Mask“ award as best singing actress in Russia. She was invited to sing the same part under Seiji Ozawas at the Saito Kinen Festival (also published on CD). Her appearance as Fricka (DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN) could be witnessed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in the new production of the tetralogy at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She could be seen as Venus in TANNHÄUSER at the Semperoper Dresden, as Ortrud in PARSIFAL at the Bayreuth Festival and sang Marie (WOZZECK) with the BBC Orchestra under Donald Runnicles and in a new production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. As Kundry (PARSIFAL) she appeared in Lyon, Vienna, Mannheim and Düsseldorf. She has sung La Principessa di Bouillon (ADRIAnA LECOUVREUR), The Foreign Princess (RUSALKA), Eboli (DON CARLO) and Kundry (PARSIFAL) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Charlotte (WERTHER) under Michel Plasson, as well her debut as Ortrud (LOHENGRIN). She enjoyed great success as Didon in Berlioz’ LES TROYENS, as Amneris in AIDA and Eboli (DON CARLOS) at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, as Nicklausse in LES CONTES D´HOFMMANN at ABAO Bilbao Opera, as Eboli at the Bolshoi, as Judith in BLUEBEARD´S CASTLE in Dresden and as Santuzza in CAVALLERIA RUSTIVANA at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Opéra Bastille Paris.
She celebrated a triumphant success at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2019. Shortly before the festival premiere of the new production of TANNHÄUSER, she took over the role of Venus and was warmly acclaimed for her performance by the international press.
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, hailed by the The Economist as “opera’s newest star”, has taken the classical music world by storm since winning the much coveted Operalia competition in 2015. Her resounding debuts in all the most prestigious international venues have garnered overwhelming critical attention: “It’s been a long time since a singer has generated as much buzz,” wrote Gramophone in the review of her debut album for Decca, which debuted at number one in the UK Classical charts. Released on 31 May 2019, her recordings of music by Strauss and Wagner inspired the magazine to declare that “she is one of the greatest vocal talents to have emerged in recent years, if not decades.” Since then, she has released two further solo albums on the label to equal acclaim: an orchestral recital featuring Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi and a
stunning Grieg recital together with with famed Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
This season, Davidsen’s many highlights include starring in the BBC’s much coveted Last Night of the Proms, the biggest classical music event in Britain; three major roles debuts: as Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera, as Giorgetta Il Tabarro at Gran Teatre del Liceu and as Elisabetta Don Carlo at Royal Opera House, where she also appears as Elisabeth Tannhäuser; and an artistic residency at the Bergen International Festival where she can be
heard singing her first Tosca in concert and Verdi Requiem as well as masterclasses and a song recital. Other appearances include Tannhäuser at Staatsoper under den Linden in Berlin and numerous concert appearances in Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona and at the Verbier Festival.
Last season saw her make a triple appearance at the Metropolitan Opera as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos, and as Chrysothemis in Elektra. She returned twice to the Wiener Staatsoper as Ellen Offord alongside Sir Bryn Terfel and Jonas Kaufmann in an all-star performance of Britten’s dramatic opera Peter Grimes, as well as Sieglinde Die Walküre; and Leonore Fidelio at Maggio Musicale in Florence under the baton of Zubin Mehta. On the concert platform, she joined Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestra de Paris for
Strauss Op. 27 and was an Artist in Focus at the Barbican, where London audiences saw her in recital with Leif Ove Andsnes; an opera gala evening together with Freddie De Tommaso and pianist James Baillieu and a performance of Berg Seven Early Songs together with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä as well as a public masterclass with the students of the Guildhall
School of Music & Drama. She also made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko with Zemlinksy Lyric Symphony and toured together with Leif Ove Andsnes in Madrid, Munich, Vienna, Berlin and at the Bergen and Turku Festivals, earning rapturous reviews for their recital of Grieg, Strauss and Wagner songs. Her solo concerts included Hamburg State Opera, Moscow and the Peralada Festival and in summer 2022 she made another triumphant return to Bayreuth Festival, starring as Sieglinde in the much anticipated new Ring tetralogy and as Elisabeth Tannhäuser.
Despite the Covid crisis, Davidsen’s astonishing ascent has been unstoppable: in August 2020 she was one of the first stars featured by the Metropolitan Opera as part of their celebrated series: Met Stars Live in Concert. Davidsen’s rendition of Grieg En Svane and Ved Rondane from the recital was then broadcast together with the New Year’s Speech of King Harald V of Norway and in April 2021 she was a guest on Norway’s most popular chat show, Lindmo. Shortly after this in May 2021, she re-opened the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with a solo concert under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Chailly, and Bayerische Staatsoper with a concert performance of the 1st Act of Die Walküre alongside Jonas Kaufmann, and in the same week was awarded Female Singer of the Year by the International Opera Awards. Further highlights include Sieglinde Die Walküre in a new production at Deutsche Oper Berlin and in concert at Opera de Paris; the title role of Jenůfa at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Elisabeth Tannhäuser at Bayerische Staatsoper; a return to Bayreuth in Tobias Kratzer’s production of Tannhäuser and concert performances of Die Walküre; as well as a Strauss film project with the Norwegian National Opera. On the recital platform, her appearances include recitals at home in Oslo, for the Norwegian National Opera, in Germany at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, in Spain at the Palau de les Arts Valencia; and together with Leif Ove Andsnes in Trondheim and Rosendal Chamber Music Festival in Norway.
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music.
Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principals of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world.
Born to Polish parents what is today Lyvov, Ukrain, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. Mr. Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.
In fall 2021 he resumed a post-COVID touring schedule that included concerts with the Colorado, Pacific, Cincinnati and Houston symphonies as well as Minnesota, Los Angeles, New York Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. 2022/23 will include a tour with Itzhak Perlman “and Friends” and a continuation of the “Beethoven For 3” touring and recording project with partners Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma, this year on the west coast.
In recital he can be heard in Palm Beach, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, Las Vegas and New York and with orchestras in Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Naples, Portland OR, Toronto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Touring in Europe in the fall and spring includes concerts in Germany, UK, Switzerland and France.
Mr. Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987 and following the success of the Brahms Trios with Kavakos and Ma, the trio launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged for trio of which the first two discs have recently been released. He has received GRAMMY® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. In the 2004/05 season Mr. Ax contributed to an International EMMY® Award-Winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. Ax’s recording Variations received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).
Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University. For more information about Mr. Ax’s career, please visit www.EmanuelAx.com.