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Elena Moșuc

Romanian-Swiss soprano Elena Moșuc, born in Iași (Romania), studied at the Conservatory George Enescu in Iași and won already several international competitions even before graduating (e.g. the international music competition organised by the German Broadcasting Network ARD). She received many prestigious awards (e.g. Siola d’oro,Premio Zenatello di Verona), and was awarded the title Officer of the Arts by the Romanian president in 2005, in recognition of her significant contribution to the arts. In 2009, she earned her doctorate in music history with a thesis on the theme “Madness in the Italian opera in the first half of the 19th century”.

Since the beginning of her career, Elena Moșuc maintained a tight connection to the Zurich Opera House, from where she launched her international career. Frequent guest appearances have led her to some of the most famous opera houses and festivals all over Europe, USA, Japan, China, and South Korea (e.g. Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and the opera houses of Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Verona, Amsterdam, as well as the Metropolitan Opera in New York). Over the course of her career, Elena Moșuc has established herself as one of the most versatile and expressive sopranos of our time. Signature performances include: the Queen of the Night, Gilda, Violetta Valéry, Lucia, Mimi, Marguerite, Donna Anna, Zerbinetta, Luisa Miller, Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella, Norma, Nedda, Lucrezia Borgia, Anna Bolena, and Maria Stuarda.

In addition to her opera performances, she also likes to lend her talent to other projects that spark her interest. One of them is called OPERFADO, where she interprets together with the great fado singer Gonçalo Salgueiro music from a variety of genres (e.g. opera, fado, and musical).

Her discography not only includes her solo albums Au jardin de mon coeur, Mozart Portrait and Notre amour (recently re-released as a three CD box set entitled A Portrait) and Donizetti Heroines by Sony Classical, but also various opera recordings on CD and DVD (incl. Rigoletto, Ariadne on Naxos, The Magic Flute). Forthcoming projects include the recording of a Verdi recital, a song cycle with orchestra Tragédie d’amour by Swiss composer Emile Jacques-Dalcroze and the complete recording of the opera La Rondine.

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Adam Mital

Adam Mital was born in Lucerne in 1979. Having repeatedly won national and international competitions, he today pursues a variety of concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician. His numerous competition successes include the second prize at the International Adam Cello Competition in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2009, second prize and Bach Prize at the international Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2004, first prizes at the Concours Avant-Scènes Paris, the International Prague Spring Festival Competition and the Concours International de Douai Georges Prêtre. He also won first prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and the Concours du Festival du Jura, and was awarded bursaries by Migros, the Friedl Wald Foundation, the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation and the Yamaha Music Foundation.

Adam Mital’s concert activities have taken him to countries in Europe and overseas. He has given solo concerts and recitals at famous venues like the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Culture and Convention Centre in Lucerne, the Cité de la Musiqueand the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, the Martinu Hall in Prague and the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest. He has also performed at major music festivals like the Lucerne Festival, the Menuhin Festival and the SommetsMusicaux in Gstaad, the International Handel Festival in Halle, the Martinu Festival in Deauville, the Festival Internacional de Santanderand in concert series at the Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava and the Burghof in Lörrach. He has made numerous solo appearances with orchestras like the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum in Leipzig, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Ploiesti and chamber orchestras like the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen, the Slovak Sinfonietta in Zilina and the Lucerne Festival Strings at the Culture and Convention Centre during the Lucerne Festival in 2010. He has worked with conductors like Achim Fiedler, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati and Leos Svarovsky. He has made various radio and television recordings with stations like Bayerischer Rundfunk, Schweizer Radio DRS 2, Radio Espace2, MDR and Radio Classique France.

An impassioned chamber musician, Adam Mital devotes himself intensively to the cello and piano duo with his wife Olimpia Tolan, giving recitals regularly throughout Europe. He also performs in piano trios and other chamber groupings, and has played with personalities like Peter Frankl, Zakhar Bron, Hansjörg Schellenberger and Eric Le Sage. His interest and repertoire ranges from early Baroque works to the present and he has worked with contemporary composers like Richard Dubugnon, who dedicated Folia (2007), a piece for solo cello, to him.

Born into a family of musicians, he came in contact with piano and chamber-music literature at a very early age and began playing the cello at the age of seven. At the Basel Academy of Music, where he completed his teacher’s diploma, he studied the cello with Reinhard Latzko and chamber music with Gérard Wyss. He went on to study with Miklós Perényi at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, with Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (“Cycle de perfectionnement”) and with Frans Helmerson at the CologneHochschule für Musik, where he passed the concert examination in 2007. He also attended the courses of Mario Brunello, Boris Pergamenschikov and János Starker. Christophe Coin and Rainer Zipperling gave him important stimulus regarding historical performance practice.

With the “Benefitconcerts Mital-Tolan”, the society he formed in 2008, Adam Mital strives to connect the joy wonderful music brings with humanitarian projects and help for the needy.

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Liv Migdal

Liv Migdal discovered her love of the violin at just three years of age. She is now considered one of the younger generation of outstanding violinists.Her charismatic stage presence, profound understanding of music and her natural, expressive and song-like style of play are appreciated by her listeners and performance partners in equal measure.

Liv Migdal started her studies as an eleven-year-old protégée at the Rostock College of Music and Drama under the tuition of Christiane Hutcap. She graduated with distinction there. She continued her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she attended the master class of Igor Ozim and completed her master’s programme with distinction. In 2015, she was honoredinSalzburgwith the”Paul-Roczek Award” for her outstandingviolin play.

Having won numerous awards at international competitions and received scholarships from many renowned institutions, she now gives guest performances in leading concert halls worldwide, including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Taipei Concert Hall, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and the Konzerthaus in Berlin.
Liv Migdal has performed in many European countries, in Israel and in Asia. She regularly performs at major international festivals, including the Schumann Festival in Bonn, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Sándor Végh Festival, the Ludwigsburg Festival, the Heidelberg Spring Festival and as a soloist with such renowned orchestras and conductors as Reinhard Goebel, Wojciech Rajski and Cornelius Meister.

Her much-celebrated debut concert at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg was followed by the release of her first CD, featuring sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Strauss, with her late father Marian Migdal at the piano. The recording received high acclaim in international reviews and won the Supersonic Award.
A further CD, again featuring the legendary pianist Marian Migdal, was released by Naxos in November 2015, presenting the first ever recording of works for violin and piano by the brothers Henryk and Józef Wieniawski. This recording too has already been internationally praised as a brilliant rendering of forgotten, but highly recommended music.
Liv Migdal has a number of radio and television recordings, performances at festivals and tours in Germany, Norway, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel and the USA lined up for 2016/17. The violinist will perform her Jahreszeiten programme, comprising the “eight seasons” of Vivaldi and Piazzolla, at her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie in the autumn of 2016.

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Alexander Maslov

Alexander Maslov wurde 1985 in St. Petersburg geboren. Von 1992 bis 2003 studierte er unter L. Rudowa an einer Musikschule für sonderbegabte Kinder in St. Petersburg.

Von 2003 bis 2005 setzte er seine pianistische Ausbildung an der Musikhochschule Hannover unter Professor Krajnew fort. Seit 2005 studiert Alexander Maslov am Konservatorium St. Petersburg unter Professor Zajtschik.

Alexander Maslov hat bereits eine Reihe von Wettbewerben gewonnen, so den ersten Preis des Krajnew-Wettbewerbs in der Ukraine. 2007 wurde er mit dem zweiten Preis des Internationalen Klavierwettbewerbs “Anton G. Rubinstein” in Dresden ausgezeichnet. Er musiziert regelmäßig mit der Sankt Petersburger Philharmonie und war als Gastpianist in Deutschland, Frankreich, Österreich, Polen und der Schweiz.

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Marcela Arroyo

Marcela Arroyo
verleiht dem Tango, diesem seltsamen lebenslustigen Wehmut, eine Stimme. Eine Stimme, die unter die Haut geht ­– sinnlich und warm klingt. Sie schwebt uber der Melodie, schwelgt in Melancholie und schwärmt fur die Liebe. Marcela weiss das Publikum in ihren Bann zu ziehen. Die in Buenos Aires geborene Sängerin lebt heute in Zürich und tritt im Duo, im Trio oder im Oktett auf.
Marcela studierte Gesang am Musikkonservatorium «Manuel de Falla» und besuchte darauf die Musical-Schule von Julio Bocca. Sie nahm Musikunterricht und Interpretation bei verschiedenen Künstlern wie die Pianistin Hilda Herrera, die Sängerin Leda Valladares, der Gitarrist Anibal Arias und der Opernsänger Juan Manuel Miró. 1996 erhielt sie ihre erste Hauptrolle in einem Tangomusical in Buenos Aires. Darauf trat sie im «Centro Cultural San Martín», im «Caballito Blanco» und in weiteren Kulturzentren als Tango-Solistin auf.
Seit 2000 singt Marcela Arroyo in Argentinien und Europa, mit Sitz in der Schweiz. In dieser Zeit hatte sie zahlreiche Auftritte mit verschiedenen Formationen und trat mit Musikern wie Quique Sinesi, Marcelo Nisinman, Juan Pablo Navarro, Daniel Almada, Daniel Zisman, Michael Zisman, Gilberto Pereyra, Eric Chalan, Carlos Dorado und Camerata Zürich auf.
Ihre erste CD «Puerta Sur» im Trio mit dem Bassist Daniel Schläppi und dem Geiger Andreas Engler hat aufgezeichnete Kritiken erhalten und ist 2009 produziert bei Schweizer Radio DRS2 und dem Catwalk Jazz Label. Auf Zürcher, Wiesbadener und Darmstädter Bühnen spielt sie die Hauptrolle in María de Buenos Aires.In September 2012 erscheint ihre neueste CD mit dem Bandoneonist Marcelo Nisinman und Saxismtango, unter dem deutschen Label Solo Musica.

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Sergey Malov

Sergey Malov is a creative artist. He brings music of different styles and epochs to his audience in an authentic way.
He performs on 4 instruments: violin, viola, violoncello da spalla and baroque violin.

As a violinist Sergey Malov won international prizes at the Paganini Competition in Genova, Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Heifetz Competition in Vilnius and Michael Hill Competition in Queenstown. On the viola he was a prize winner at the ARD Competition in Munich and the Tokyo Viola Competition. As a soloist on both instruments he performed with BBC Symphony Orchestra London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Enescu Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
In the 2017-18 season he will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Helsinki Philharmonic and the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with Tampere Symphony Orchestra.

Sergey Malov received a special prize at the Bach Competition in Leipzig and plays a baroque violin by Gioffredo Cappa from the “Jump Start Junior” Foundation Amsterdam. As a soloist and conductor he performed with AKAMUS, Venice Baroque Orchestra, “Musica Viva” Orchestra Moskow, Camerata Salzburg, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Sevilla Baroque Orchestra.

Malov’s videos featuring his Violoncello da spalla were watched over a million times online. Apart from the 6 Cello Suites by J.S.Bach, he performs a large scale of solo and chamber repertoire on this rare instrument.

In his performances he combines elements of composed music and free improvisation. He combines several instruments in his unique multi-track recordings.

In September 2017 Sergey Malov was appointed as a Professor at the Zürich University of Music.

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Jens Peter Maintz

“Vergleiche mit Heroen sind stets ungerecht: aber Casals, Rostropowitsch, Harrell oder Maisky haben in Jens Peter Maintz einen ebenbürtigen Kollegen in der neuen Cellisten-Generation”
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17 Jahre lang war die höchste Auszeichnung im Fach Violoncello beim ARD-Wettbewerb in München nicht mehr vergeben worden, bis Jens Peter Maintz 1994 den ersten Preis bei diesem bedeutenden Wettbewerb gewann. Seitdem hat er eine äußerst facettenreiche Konzerttätigkeit entwickelt, die ihn zu einem der vielseitigsten Cellisten unserer Zeit macht. Er sammelte einige Jahre wertvolle Orchestererfahrung als Solocellist des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters Berlin und bereiste als Cellist des renommierten Trio Fontenay die Welt. Seit 2006 ist er Solocellist des Lucerne Festival Orchesters unter Claudio Abbado. Seine Solistenkarriere brachte ihn mit Dirigenten wie Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Franz Welser-Möst , Carl St. Clair und Bobby McFerrin zusammen, er musizierte dabei mit Klangkörpern wie dem Radiosinfonieorchester Berlin, dem MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, dem RSO Stuttgart, dem Residenzorchester den Haag und dem Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin. Neben dem klassischen Repertoire brachte er dabei auch viele Werke zeitgenössischer Komponisten zur Aufführung, so z.B. die Cellokonzerte von Isang Yun, Jan Müller-Wieland und Georg Friedrich Haas.

Jens Peter Maintz ist aber auch ein überaus engagierter und gefragter Kammermusiker. Zu seinen Partnern auf diesem Gebiet zählen so eminente Musiker wie Kolja Blacher, Janine Jansen, Hélène Grimaud, Isabelle Faust, Mikhail Simonyan und Wolfram Christ, außerdem Ensembles wie das Artemis-Quartett, das casalQuartett und das Auryn-Quartett. Zusammen mit Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt bildet er das Cello-Duo „Cello Duello“.

Jens Peter Maintz trat bei bedeutenden Festivals wie dem Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, dem Lucerne Festival und dem Rheingaufestival auf. Er ist gerne gesehener Gast bei den Kammermusikfestivals in Utrecht, Dubrovnik und Kuhmo.

In der Saison 2010/11 wird Jens Peter Maintz erstmals bei der Kronberg Academy ein Solorecital geben und einen Meisterkurs abhalten. Ferner wird wieder bei der Celloakademie Rutesheim zu Gast sein, mit „Cello Duello“ und der Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie auf Tournee gehen und als Solist bei den Belgrader Philharmonikern debütieren.

Ähnlich breit gefächert wie sein Repertoire ist auch die Diskographie von Jens Peter Maintz: Seine bei SonyClassical erschienene Debüt-CD mit Werken von Bach, Kodaly und Dutilleux wurde mit dem ECHO-Klassik-Preis ausgezeichnet. Weiterhin legte er eine Aufnahme von Isang Yuns Cellokonzert bei Capriccio und eine CD mit romantischem Repertoire aus dem Tschaikowski-Kreis bei Arte Nova vor. Bei Oehms Classics erschien eine Aufnahme mit Werken des Cellisten/Komponisten Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. Im Frühjahr 2008 veröffentlichte das Label Berlin Classics seine viel beachtete Aufnahme mit den Cellokonzerten von Joseph Haydn, begleitet von der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Jens Peter Maintz studierte bei David Geringas und absolvierte Meisterkurse bei Heinrich Schiff, Frans Helmerson, Boris Pergamenschikow und Siegfried Palm. Schon während des Studiums wurde er vielfach ausgezeichnet, so gewann er 1993 den dritten Preis beim Leonard-Rose-Wettbewerb in Washington sowie erste Preise beim Internationalen Cellowettbewerb in Scheveningen und beim Deutschen Musikwettbewerb.

Seit 2004 ist Jens Peter Maintz Professor an der Universität der Künste Berlin.

Jens Peter Maintz spielt ein Violoncello von Vincenzo Ruggeri aus dem Jahr 1696 und eines von Wolfgang Schnabl, gebaut 2005.

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Münchner Hofkantorei

Schon zur Zeit der Entdeckung Amerikas (1492) gab es wohl am Münchner Hof eine „Kantorei“. In den Annalen heißt es, der 1523 berufene Komponist Ludwig Senfl habe sie „reorganisiert“ und ihr einen über München hinausreichenden Namen verschafft. Aus ihnen formierte sich 1530 die Münchner Hofmusik, die Keimzelle für das Bayerische Staatsorchester und den Staatsopernchor. Ich freu mich sehr, dass auf Initiative von Wolfgang Antesberger die alte Tradition der Hofkantorei zu neuem Leben erweckt wird und die Bayerische Staatsoper ihr weitgefächertes musikalisches Programm durch eine hochkarätige A Cappella Chorformation erweitert wird. Ich wünsche der „Münchner Hofkantorei“ viel Erfolg.

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Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi was born in Genoa in 1959 and began to play piano at the age of four. Luisi received his diploma exam in piano at the Niccoló Paganini Conservatory in Genoa in 1978. He then continued his piano studies with Antonio Bacchelli and Aldo Ciccolini in Paris. Further Luisi began conducting studies under Milan Horvat at the Musikhochschule
in Graz. Luisi received his conducting diploma with honours in 1983 and took up his first position as an opera coach and conductor at the Graz Opera that same year. In 1984, he made his conducting debut with Cimarosa’s Requiem in Martina Franca. Luisi left the Graz Opera to begin his international career in 1987. In 1989, he debuted in Il barbiere
di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, and Tosca (which he calls his “fateful opera”) at the Wiener Staatsoper. Since making successful debuts at the aforementioned houses, he has been a regular guest conductor for repertory productions, revivals and new productions. He celebrated his American debut in 2000 with a new production of Rigoletto at Chicago’s Lyric Opera. In 2002, he debuted at the Salzburger Festspiele in a new production of Die Liebe der Danae, followed by a concertante performance of Die Ägyptische Helena that led to an ongoing collaboration with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. Luisi’s path in the symphonic realm also began in the city where he studied conducting. Th e Grazer Symphonisches Orchester was re-established under his artistic direction in 1990. The second half of the 90s was marked by career building in terms of live concerts, radio recordings
and CD projects, and three orchestras took part in these activities: In 1995, he became Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and in 1996 Artistic Director of the Symphonieorchester des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks in Leipzig. In 1997 Luisi was appointed Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. In February 2000, Fabio Luisi made his U.S. debut with the New York Philharmonic. Moreover, beginning in the 2007–08 season, Luisi was appointed Musical Director of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and Principal Conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle, following in the footsteps of such figures as Fritz Busch,
Karl Böhm, Josef Keilberth, Rudolf Kempe and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Since 2005 Luisi has been Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, beginning in the 2012–13 season, he became Music Director of the Zurich Opera. In September 2011, Luisi has also been appointed as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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Eva Lind

A native of Innsbruck, Austrian soprano Eva Lind started her career at the age of 19 with a sensational debut as Queen of the Night at the Vienna State Opera as well as Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel. Since then her important international career has brought her invitations to the major concert- and opera houses around the world. At the Vienna State Opera she also sang Nannetta (Falstaff), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Sophie (Werther), Celia (Lucio Silla), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)

and Adele (Die Fledermaus).
Eva Lind’s appearances have taken her to the leading opera houses in Milan (La Scala), Paris (Theatre des Champs Elysées), London (Royal Albert Hall), New York (Carnegie Hall), Berlin (Staatsoper), Stockholm (Opera House), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colòn), Madrid (La Zarzuela), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Shanghai, Hongkong, Bejing, Tokyo, Osaka and many others as well as at the Festivals of Salzburg, Arena di Verona, Glyndebourne, Schubertiade Feldkirch, Festival of Ancient Music in Innsbruck.
Her repertoire includes roles of the Italian bel canto like Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Amina (La Sonnambula), Marie (La Fille du Régiment), Elvira (I Puritani), Violetta (La Traviata) and Gilda (Rigoletto), roles by Mozart and Strauss like Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) as well as roles from French repertoire such as Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Manon, Ophélie (Hamlet), Micaëla (Carmen).
Eva Lind has shared the stage with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Alfredo Kraus. She has become a favourite of conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Georg Solti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir André Previn, Sir Neville Marriner, Daniel Barenboim, Jeffrey Tate and Seiji Ozawa. Apart from singing opera Eva Lind is also an accomplished concert singer, appearing in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Haydn’s The Creation, Orff’s Carmina Burana.etc. In her worlwide recitals she sings songs by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Strauss, Liszt, Mahler, Fauré, Satie or Debussy.

Eva Lind regularly appears on German TV where she hosts various music programs. Her extensive discography shows the versatility of the artist. She has released numerous complete opera recordings, ten solo recitals and three DVDs.
„Bijoux“ is her first recording for Solo Musica

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