SIMONE KERMES
MASTERCLASS
16-20.11.2022, görlitz
16-18 November 2022
Masterclass open to the public
Accompaniment: Ivo Mrvelj, piano
PEREGRINUS, Langenstrasse 37, Goerlitz
Samstag 19.November 2022, 18:00 Uhr
Barockoper-Gala
Kurhaus-Theater in Jelenia Góra (Zdrojowy teatr animacji im. Bogdana Nauki)
Sonntag 20.November 2022, 17:00 Uhr
Barockoper-Gala
Christuskirche in Görlitz
Simone Kermes is valued for her unique stage presence and enormous virtuosity. The focus is particularly in the concert area, where the artist successfully goes on tour with her own music projects. The concept albums that she develops herself are produced together with her record label Sony. There she sets no limits, but is at home in all styles of music. Their albums even storm the pop charts.
In 2017 Simone Kermes created her own orchestra called Amici Veneziani, based on years of experience playing with her musicians, it was a necessity. "To bring quality and humanity together in equal measure, to experience them and carry them on".
In the same year, Simone Kermes founded her own artist agency, Kermes Artists GmbH. and gives successful master classes all over the world. Supporting young people and passing on their own musical knowledge and experience is something that is particularly important to Simone Kermes.
Simone Kermes makes guest appearances at major opera houses and concert halls around the world. She is a Mendelssohn and Bach Prize winner and has received numerous awards, including the Echo Klassik as "Singer of the Year", an Echo for the opera recording of the year and the important Russian opera prize "The Golden Mask" for Mozart "Cosi fan tutte".
Her current album "Inferno e Paradiso" (2020) Deadly Sins and Virtues - storms the classical charts and Simone Kermes proves that all music has its roots in the Baroque. She combines pop with baroque, and her own orchestra, the "Amici Veneziani", supports her with full energy. The press is full of praise :
The Ars Augusta eV association had the pleasure of inviting the great singer to a master class for singers. The master class is aimed at opera singers between the ages of 20 and 40, students or graduates of a music academy or conservatory who would like to perfect their repertoire with Ms. Kermes.
Nadezhda Nesterova
soprano | Russia
Winner of international competitions, the soprano was the leading soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater (from 2014 to 2022)
Graduate of M.Glinka´s Novosibirsk State Conservatory (class of TV Gorbunova). In the ensemble of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater she worked 8 seasons. Participation in theatrical ensemble at concerts on the Astana Opera stage (Kazakhstan). She has performed with chamber and opera repertoire on the stages of Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Rostov Don Philharmonic, Mikhailovsky Theater (St. Petersburg), Vitebsk Philharmonic (Belarus). Participation in concerts by Mario Stefono Pietrodarchi in Italy, Russia and Belarus.
Cooperation with conductors such as Valentine Uryupin, Dmitri Jurowski, Carlo Bernini, Dmitry Korchak, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Anatoly Levin.
Her repertoire with the company includes over 25 roles,
including Adina (Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore), Nedda (Leoncavallos
Pagliacci), Iolanta (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), Alice Ford (Verdi´s
Falstaff), Kseniya (Musorgsky´s Boris Godunov), Musetta (Puccini´s
La Bohème), Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sylva Varesku (Die
Csardasfürstin) etc. In 2020 she received the Onegin National Opera Award in this category "Artistic Direction" for her portrayal of Alice Ford in Verdi´s Falstaff. Participation in a master class by Renata Scotto. She works with the répétiteur and conductor Angelo Michele Errico and took lessons from Paolo de Napoli.
Programm
1. Händel "Mio caro, caro bene" (Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi)
2. Purcell. "Thy hand Belinda... When I am laid"(Dido & Aeneas)
3, Händel "Piangeró la sorte mia" (Giulio Cesare)
4.Mozart "Nehmt meinen Dank"
5. Schubert "Du bist die Ruh"
Sofia Romanova
mezzo-soprano | Russia
In 2010 I entered the Irina Bogacheva Vocal School, where I studied singing under Natalia Biryukova, Honored Artist of Russia and soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theater. During my studies I took part in master-classes given by Irina Bogacheva,the People's Artist of the USSR.
In 2013 I entered the Vocal Arts programme at the St Petersburg State University (joint programme with the Mariinsky Theater and the Academy for Young Singers), class of Galina Gorchakova, the Honored Artist of Russia. During my studies I have taken part in master-classes given by People's Artist of Russia Larisa Gergieva. I regularly performed at academic venues in St Petersburg.
In 2018 I got a bachelor degree as a ‘Concert and Chamber Singer and Lecturer in the Academic Singing field’. In the same year, I joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers.
In March 2019, I took part in the German PhonArt Festival, where I performed the alto solo part in Bach's cantata "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" BWV 2 in Wadersloh. I have taken part in international competitions such as "Neue stimmen" and "Ineses Galantes talanti".
In 2021 I became a second-degree laureate at the City Competition for Academic Singing and Musical Performance.
In the same year I was honored with a diploma of Competition of Old Romance named after A.A. Alyabyeva. In addition to that year I sang the part of Olga in Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin" at the "Musical Educational Theater for young artists”.
In 2022, I sang the part of Rita Osyanina in a concert performance of K. Molchanov's opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" on the stage of the youth "Musical Educational Theater".
Programm
1. Händel "L´aura che spira" (Giulio Cesare)
2. Vivaldi "Gelido in ogni vena" (Farnace)
3. Pur ti miro (Monteverdi, Poppea)
4. Händel "Cara sposa" (Rinaldo)
5. Mozart "Parto, parto... ma tu ben mio" (Clemenza di Tito)
6. Mozart "Voi che sapete" (Nozze di Figaro)
participants
Aldona Bartnik
soprano | Poland
Aldona Bartnik studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with a focus on early music performance. She received singing lessons from Rita Dams, Peter Kooij, Michael Chance, Pascal Bertin and Jill Feldman.
Before receiving her master's degree, she received two bachelor's degrees from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław - one in violin and later in classical singing. She specializes in solo and ensemble singing. Since 2008 Aldona has been collaborating with numerous renowned groups including: Collegium Vocale Gent, Capella Cracoviensis, Collegium 1704, La Risonanza, Vox Luminis, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Gabrieli Consort, Hespèrion XXI and Wrocław Baroque Ensemble. She has also worked with Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Bonizzoni, Philippe Herreweghe, Konrad Junghanel, Ton Koopman, Václav Luks, Paul McCreesh, Andrew Parrott, Jordi Savall and Jos van Veldhoven.
In 2019 she received a prestigious grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, which supports her artistic research and analysis of music manuscripts kept in the Ossolineum - one of the largest scientific libraries in Poland. Continuing this activity, her new solo album A Few Words About Love... was released in 2021 as part of the grant from the Mayor of Wroclaw, containing undiscovered songs and arias from scientific sources in Wroclaw. (...) More: http://aldonabartnik.com/en/biography/
Programm
1. Händel "Tornami a vaneggiar" (Alcina)
2. Händel "Da tempeste il legno infranto" mit Rezitativ (Giulio Cesare)
3. Händel "Lascia ch'io pianga"(Rinaldo)
3. Bach "Ich will Dir mein Herze schenken" mit Rez. (Matthäus-Passion)
4. Jan Gall "Bleibt ihr Lippen" & "O komm in mein Schiffchen"
Elena patsalidou
soprano | Greece
The Greek-Cypriot soprano Elena Patsalidou completed her master;s degree in opera singing at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden and her bachelor;s degree at the Ionian University of Corfu. Her engagements include Serpina (»La Serva Padrona«) at the International Kypria Festival 2020, Clorinda (»La Cenerentola«) at Opera Classica, Echo (»Ariadne auf Naxos«) at the Landesbühnen Sachsen, Barbarina (»Le Nozze di Figaro«) and Sand-/Daumännchen (»Hansel and Gretel«) at the Mittelsächsisches Theater as well as appearances with the Dresden State Operetta Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Rhein-Main Philharmonic. Her repertoire also includes the roles of Pamina (»The Magic Flute«), Aennchen (»Der Freischutz«) and Musetta (»La Bohème«). In addition, she maintains an extensive concert and song repertoire. The soprano has won numerous singing competitions, such as 1st prize/Kyrenia Opera Vocal Competition 2019, 3rd prize/International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition 2013 and she is a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Dresden. Concert tours have taken her to Italy (Basilica San Marco, Venice), Austria (Villach Congress Center), Armenia (Jerevan Opera Theatre), Serbia (Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade) and Greece (Festival of Sacred Music, Patmos). She received important artistic impulses from master classes with Christophe Rousset (workshop on Claudio Monteverdi's operas), Walter Moore and Helga Wagner. In 2021 she took part in the "Song of Hellas" project at Ars-Augusta eV, where she recorded a selection of philhellenic songs for the accompanying CD. In 2022 she sings Valencienne (»The Merry Widow«) with Opera Classica Productions and sings as a soloist with the Ensemble Musica Sancta, among others in the French Church on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt. At the Semperoper she can be seen as the first Jente in the new production »Peer Gynt«. www.elenapatsalidou.com
Programm
1. Händel "Mio caro, caro bene" (Rodelinda)
2. Händel "Da tempeste il mare infranto" (Gulio Cesare)
3. Pur ti miro (Montverdi, Poppea)
4. Rossini: "L´ora fatal s´appressa... Giusto ciel" (Assedio di Corinto)
5. Schubert "Du bist die Ruh"
yUKA FUKUDA
Sopran | Japan
Yuka Fukuda, born in Osaka in 1994, completed her bachelor's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts (Prof.E.Suga) at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz in 2021 (Prof.A.Lebeda, Prof.R.Holzer, Prof. A. Kurt). She is the winner of the advancement prize of the Yuai Competition for German Songs and the Basel International Online Vocal Competition 2022. You are a regular member of the Salzburg Festival Choir and have appeared as a soloist in the following roles: Patina and First Lady in the university production of Linz, Gianetta in Elixir d'amor in Japan. In her repertoire she has most of the soprano roles of Mozart, Amina, Micaela in "Carmen", Agate and Ännchen in "Freischütz" as well as a lot of oratorio and song. She lives in Vienna.
Programm
1. Händel "Tornami a vagheggiar" (Rodelinda)
2. Händel "Piangeró la sorte mia" (Giulio Cesare)
4. Bach "Zerfliesse, mein Herze" (Johannes Passion)
5. Brahms: Die Mainacht
4. Mozart "Ach, ich fühl´s" (Zauberflöte)
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Karolina Parmas
Sopran | Litauen
Karolina Parmas (soprano) studied classical voice with Assoc. Prof. Nomeda Kukulskiene and Lect. Raminta Vaicekauskaite (Chamber music) at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Since 2019 untill today Karolina is performing together with pianist Diana Kaziulyte as Essence duet – a musical tandem that enjoys performing classical music from the romantic and modernist eras. In 2019 Karolina and Zlata Oliinyk (piano) won the third prize at "XI Concorso Musicale Citta di Filadelfia" in Italy as a Chamber Duo. Karolina complimented her formal studies being coached by Dr. Remigijus Sabaliauskas (baritone) in Vilnius. After her bachelor studies, in 2019, soprano began an apprenticeship in Baroque vocal performance with conductor and harpsichordist Assoc. Prof. Maris Kupcs (Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga Early Music Centre). In 2022 Karolina completed her master's in Baroque Opera at Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy with voice tutors: Lect. dr Saule Seryte, Lect. MM (bis) Monta Martinsone and Lect. dr Ruta Vosyliute. Karolina has sung the role of Flora in MR de Lalande's opera "Les fontaines de Versailles" at "Radviliada Festival 2021". In 2022 Karolina has brought to life the character of Euridice in G. Caccini's opera "Euridice" at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. Karolina is actively working with colleagues in Latvia, performing in Riga and Bauska Castle. In 2022 soprano participated at the French Baroque Summer Course organized by CMBV – Center de musique baroque de Versailles together with 38. Régi Zenei Napok / Early Music Festival in Vác, Hungary. Karolina took part in masterclasses by Prof. Anna Samuil (Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden) and pianist Matthias Samuil at VERÃO CLÁSSICO 2022 Summer Academy in Lisbon, Portugal. Recently Karolina has sung the role of Aurora in S. Landi´s opera "La morte d´Orfeo" which premiered on the 3rd of September 2022 at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. At the moment Ms. Parmas is preparing the role of Livietta in opera buffa "Livietta e Tracollo" composed by GB Pergolesi which will premiere at Marco Scacchi Early Music Festival 2023 in Vilnius. Karolina´s musical interests stretch from Early Baroque to XX century music. The soprano enjoys combining the discipline of classical singing with dance and acting on stage.
Programm
1. Pergolesi "Caro perdonami" (Livietta e Tracolo)
2. Händel "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo)
3. Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Aux langueurs d'Apollon" (Platée)
4. Mozart "Una donna a quindici anni" (Cosi fan tutte)
marianna ntinou
soprano | Greece
Marianna Ntinou is a Greek soprano. She graduated with honors from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. She also holds degrees in violin, counterpoint and harmony, also with distinction.
In October 2022 she sang scenes and arias from the role of Morgana, Alcina, by GF Handel in the Matthäuskirche Steglitz in Berlin as part of the 30th International Steglitz Days for Early Music. In September and October 2022 she sang the role of Adina, Der Liebesrank, G. Donizetti and in March 2022 she sang the role of Zerlina, Don Giovanni, WA Mozart in collaboration with the Associazone Bel Canto as a member of the International Opera Studio Puglia, under the Direction by F. Bardazzi, "Teatro Umberto Giordano di Foggia", "Teatro dell' Opera di Lucera", "Auditorium Carapelle", Puglia, Italy. She worked as an actress and performer from 2015 to In 2019 he collaborated with the State Theater of Northern Greece and the University of Macedonia, as a member of the group "Polyphonic Analogues", directed by N. Voudouris. She also collaborated with choreographer and director S. Spyratou and performed the role of Dulcinea, Don Quijote in the 2018-2019 season at the Colosseum Theatre, Gr. In 2016 and 2017 she played the role of Selene in the play "The tree that was glad and happy" performed in cooperation with Municipal and Regional Theaters in Northern Greece._cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ In 2016 she sang the role of Barbarina, Le nozze di Figaro, WA Mozart conducted by N. Vasileiou, Lefkada, Gr. From January 2018 to March 2020 she was a member of the women's vocal ensemble "Voci Contra Tempo" conducted by S. Gioldasi and also sang with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra.
In March 2020 she moved from Greece to Dresden to broaden her artistic horizons. She is currently accompanied vocally by the Polish soprano Lucja Zarzycka.
Programm
1. Händel "Ama sospira" (Alcina)
2. Händel "Tornami a vagheggiar", Alcina
3. Mozart "Giunse alfin il momento.. Deh, vieni, non tardar", Le nozze di Figaro
jakub borowczyk
Countertenor | Poland
He graduated with honours from the Master's studies at the Faculty of Vocal and Acting of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, in the class of prof. zw. dr Piotr Kusiewicz. He participated in master classes conducted by prominent singers and pedagogues such as Professor Piotr Łykowski, Marek Rzepka DMus or Ewa Podleś. Jakub was awarded a distinction ( 2nd and 3rd places were not awarded) at the First National Vocal Competition in Jelenia Góra “Vox Populi”. In 2015, being a student of the first year of undergraduate studies, Jakub performed the part of one of the Three child-spirits in the W. A. Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, conducted by Sylwia Janiak-Kobylińska and staged in the St. John’s Centre in Gdansk. In 2018 he sang the part of the Spirit in the opera “Dido and Aeneas” conducted by Przemysław Stanisławski. In June 2017, he took part in recording of the play “Shakespeare in Love” directed by Paweł Aigner, where he performed a solo part. The play was staged at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, and recorded at Radio Gdańsk’s Studio. In 2017 Jakub started his collaboration with the Baltic Opera in Gdansk taking part in a project “Mor(ż)e Opera”, whose finale took place on the stage of the opera house in 2018. 28th of July 2019 he performed in Warsaw Chamber Opera as Apollo in “Apollo et Hyacinthus” by W.A. Mozart. 17th of November 2019 he sang in the modern composition “Goetia.72. In umbra lucis” composed by Lera Auerbach. Concert took place in Minoritenkirche in Vienna. Since March 2020, he has been cooperating with the Polish Royal Opera in Warsaw on the production of the opera "Hiob" by Krzesimir Dębski (world premiere). In 2021, he made his debut at the Opera na Zamku in Szczecin in the role of Giasone in Antonio Bioni's opera "Issipile".
Programm
1. G.F. Händel - Duett "Ah mia cara, se tu resti" aus der Oper "Floridante"
2. A. Vivaldi "Qual serpe tortuosa" aus der Oper"La fida nimfa"
3. G.F. Händel, "Coperta la frode" aus der Oper"Ariodante"
Karolina borowczyk
Mezzosopran | Polen
Programm
1. G.F. Händel - Duett "Ah mia cara, se tu resti" aus der Oper "Floridante"
G. F. Händel "Ho tanti affanni in petto" aus der Kantate "Mi palpita il cor HWV 132c (mit Recitativ)
3. G. F. Händel Aria von Bradamante "È gelosia" aus der Oper "Alcina"
Karolina is a graduate of master’s studies at the Faculty of Vocalism and Acting of the Stanislaw Moniuszko Music Academy in Gdansk, in the class of Ewa Marciniec DMus Hab. In 2015 in Elbląg, Karolina sang in G.B.Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater conducted by Michał Krężlewski. In May 2015 Karolina personally organised a staging of concert version of G.F.Haendel Orlando in which she performed the titular part. It was a part of her Bachelor’s diploma recital, for which she was graded a Distinction. In 2016 she passed the eliminations and joined Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck conducted by Rolf Beck. With the ensemble Karolina performed solo parts in G.F. Haendel’s Messiah and G. Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Thanks to this cooperation Karolina was able to take part in masterclasses conducted by Calmus Ensemble and, as one of the chosen soloists, with Margreet Honig and Marcel Boone. Karolina Borowczyk graduated from the Academy in June 2017. As her final project she sang a role of Bradamante in G.F.Haendel’s Opera Alcina, her final recital contained of, e.g., part of Farance from W.A.Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto and Erda of R.Wagner’s Das Rheingold.
Karolina Borowczyk performs numerous songs of contemporary composers of Gdansk origins: Anna Racławska, Wojciech Frycz, Piotr Jędzjejczyk and Joanna Zlotowska. On the 6th February 2015, within the confines of vocal course in Duszniki-Zdrój, Karolina Borowczyk was taking part in a closing concert and was awarded a Honorous diploma for an outstanding performance. Since the beginning of 2018 Karolina is collaborating with vocal and instrumental ensemble Cappella Gedanensis, in alto voice. She performs with this ensemble in choral and solo parts. She gives concerts in Poland and abroad. The most important event of the last time was the concert called “Beautiful Handel” at the Gorzów Philharmonic (2021) and the receipt of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport for the project entitled "Mickiewicz." (2021)
Das lausitzer Barockensemble
Konzertmeister: Szczepan Dembiński
The Lausitzer Barockensemble was founded in 2017 in Görlitz-Zgorzelec with musicians from both sides of the Neisse, young artists who share a love of early music and who like to make music together. They deal with the musical history of the region and above all want to bring unknown or forgotten works of the Polish, German or Bohemian Renaissance and Baroque to life, as well as to promote awareness of the European idea and international understanding. Their first performance was dedicated to Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most important composers of Central German Baroque: the ensemble performed, among other things, as part of the Telemann anniversary in Sorau in June 2017 and in the baroque palaces of Rammenau and Hainewalde in Upper Lusatia.
In 2018, a small trio formation of the ensemble performed Polish and German baroque music compositions in the former evangelical church in Ruszów. The trio also played several chamber concerts at the association´s headquarters in Görlitz and also recorded the CD "Telemann-Crossing borders". With five musicians (2 violins, viola, basso continuo), the ensemble has performed several times: in the Baroque Rammenau Palace, in Hainewalde Palace and the Horka Fortified Church, in the Gosswitz mansion, in the OP-ENHEIM Foundation in Breslau with Baroque music by Jewish composers or during the "Entrance of the Oranges"; in the Dresden Zwinger and the opening of the Saxon Castle Land in 2019 (Palais in the large garden, Dresden).
The ensemble´s concerts in the Bürgersaal Zittau and in the crypt of St. Peter´s Church in Görlitz were also very successful. In 2019 the ensemble performed as part of the KUS festival (Project INTERREG Poland-Saxony). The premiere in modern times of Antonio Lotti's opera "Giove in Argo" as part of the celebrations for the 300 years since the Planet Festival in September 2019 in the Kurtheater in Bad Salzbrunn and in the Palais in Großer Garten in Dresden was a great success. The project was funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the Görlitz department store. The opera was repeated in 2020 at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Görlitz and the Municipal State and University Library in Dresden, with funding from the Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik eV
The baroque ensemble met in September 2021 at the OP ENHEIM Foundation and recorded the first sound recording of the opera Issipile (Wroclaw, 1724) by the Venetian court composer of the Wroclaw Opera Antonio Bioni and integrated it into a film production of the Theater am Schloss in Szczecin.
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