Ellen Pieterse is an all-round singer with an expressive stage presence. Coming from a classical education, she has developed into an allround performer with a great love for combining the beauty of classical music with the many musical possibilities of today. Ellen has become a much-sought vocal teacher and an important part of her students…
Prof. Charlotte Hug With her innovative musical-visual performances at special locations and her spatial scores with Son-Icons (visual music), she has created a new genre of transdisciplinary, spatial-scenic music and art. As an extreme musician with voice and viola, her specialty is hybrid sound mixtures. This creates her own unmistakable sound language. Hug holds degrees…
Luca Koch (es/they/no pronouns) does not shy away from boundaries. Luca trained and explored their means of artistic expression during their Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Voice at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Artistic Creation at the same school. With their voice and body as their primary tools,…
The mezzo-soprano Cornelia Kallisch began her musical career as an instrumentalist with violin and piano. She studied with Josef Metternich, among others, and completed her training at the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera. This was followed by engagements in Paris, Milan and at the Zurich Opera House, among others. Since the beginning of her career,…
I sing, compose, arrange, lead a choir, play the accordion and kantele, research and teach. I yodel, strum, croak, pluck, strum and write. All of these parts make up my musicianship. But without improvisation and challenging my folk singing skills in multi-style ensembles, I would feel incomplete. All of this, and the different projects that…
Prof. Dr. Veronika Jana Lubert is Professor of Musicians’ Health at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Music. She conducted research and taught in social and sport psychology at the University of Vienna, with fellowships leading her to the Swedish School of Sports and Health Sciences and the Royal Northern…
Education: Present positionsince 2020 – voice coach at Latvian Academy of Culturesince 2008 – Traditional singing teacher at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Musicology Department, Ethnomusicology Class. Theoretical courses of vocal methodology for Classical, Jazz and Vocal pedagogy students. Publications-2022-Human voice as instrument In:Skatuves runa un teksta analīze. p 15-22 (Methodological material), Latvijas Kultūras…
Zita is a Swiss mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and performance coach based in Zürich.After completing her studies in Basel and New York, she established her private studio, where she teaches both, in person and online. She is a member of the professional Ensemble “Canticum Novum Zürich” and performs regularly as a Soloist.As a performance coach she…
Prof. Margo Zālīte is a theater and opera director, researcher, and educator whose work lives at the restless intersection of performance pedagogy, digital cultures, and social justice. With over fifteen years of practice spanning rehearsal rooms, festival stages, and university seminars across Europe and beyond, she brings both intellectual rigor and genuine creative warmth to everything…
Prof. Nadja Räss was literally born singing. In her earliest childhood, she came into contact with Appenzell natural yodelling through relatives on her father’s side and yodelling was also omnipresent in her parents’ home. Nadja soon realised: “When I grow up, I’m going to be a yodeller. After graduating from Einsiedeln Abbey School, she studied…