Zane Šmite

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…
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Rabih Lahoud

Rabih Lahoud is the singer of the successful jazz band Masaa, with whom he has already released 5 albums, and member of the band around Markus Stockhausen Eternal Voyage. As a soloist, he has also been involved in numerous productions and festivals, including the Handel Festival in Händel Festival in Halle (2012), the “düsseldorf Festival!”…
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Cornelia Kallisch

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,…
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Ellen Pieterse

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…
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Edward Rushton

Edward Rushton has been teaching chamber music and piano accompaniment at the Musikhochschule Luzern since 2000. He has performed recitals all over Europe and recorded many CDs, including music by lesser-known composers. His love for song led him in 2015 to found the association “Besuch der Lieder” in order to further the performance of Lieder…
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Nadja Räss

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 classical…
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Alvaro Schoeck

Before and during his directing studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, Alvaro Schoeck worked as an assistant director at various theatres such as the Stuttgart State Opera, the Mainz State Theatre and the Lucerne Theatre. Since then, he has worked as a freelance director for both spoken and musical theatre in…
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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 speciality is hybrid sound mixtures. This creates her own unmistakable sound language. Hug holds degrees in degrees in…
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Sirkka Kosonen

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…
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Zita Zimmermann

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…
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Cord-Friedrich Berghahn

studied German and English at TU Berlin and is Associate Professor of Modern German Literature at the Carolo-Wilhelmina University of Technology in Braunschweig; he has also been President of the Lessing Academy since 2012 and President of the Israel Jacobson Network, of which he is one of the founders, since 2020. Dissertation: Moses Mendelssohn’s “Jerusalem”….
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Luca Koch

Luca Koch (es/they/no pronouns) does not shy away from boundaries. Luca trained and explored his means of artistic expression during his 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 his voice and body as his primary tools,…
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Margo Zälite

Margo is a passionate and visionary theater and opera director, educator, and cultural leader with over 15 years of experience in shaping innovative artistic practices. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Margo is currently serving as the Artistic Director at the Sustainable Theater Lab at Ligeti Center, where they focus on developing socially and ecologically sustainable theater…
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Veronika Lubert

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 College of…
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