Student Accomplishments
Below you will find the outstanding achievements of my students in regional, national, and international performing organizations and competitions. Names in red have links to individual websites.
Current students and graduates have appeared as soloists in concerts and festivals at:
Wigmore Hall, St. David’s Hall (BBC Orchestra with Bryn Terfel), Theater Champs-Èlysèe,Paris, London Händel Festival, Salzburg Festspiele, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Sydney Opera, Bamberg Festspiel, Münchener Bienalle, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Israeli Opera, Zürich Opera, Hamburg Opera, English Touring Opera, Pisa Opera, Lautten Company Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, Bad Hersfeld Festspiele, Schloß Rheinsberg Festspiele, Leipzig Opera, Händel Festspiele Halle, Philharmonie Berlin, National Theater Seoul, Teatro del Lago (Chili), Opera Biwak Hall, Tokyo, Musicalvienna (Rancher/Vienna), Oper an der Wien Studio, Lyon Opera, Oper Köln, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Nationaltheater Weimar, Mecklenburgische Staatstheater Schwerin, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theater Freiburg, Oper Rostock, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Braunschweig, Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, Theater Neustrelitz, Theater Münster, Oper Magdeburg, Oper Dessau, Oper Gera/Altenburg, Seefestspiele Mörbisch, Theater Trier, Edinburgh International Festival
Fest Solo Theater Engagements of Students during studies or directly upon graduation (both private and Hochschule):
Moran Abouloff Theater Braunschweig
Nitzan Alon Opera Studio TelAviv
Gunda Baumgärtner Musikalische Komödie Leipzig
Natalija Cantrak Nationaltheater Mannheim, Junges Ensemble
Menna Cazel Davies Young Artists Semperoper, Dresden
Yoon Cho-Cho Theater Münster
Anat Edri Young Artists Hamburg Opera
Salzburg Festspiel
Daniel Ewald Oper Pforzheim
Johanna Knauth RIAS, Berlin
Monja Meißner Young Artists Schweizer Opernstudio Bern
Jean-Baptiste Mouret Oper Leipzig
Ji-Su Park Thüringer Opernstudio
Shira Patchornik Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Jennifer Porto Oper Leipzig
Derek Rue Theater Trier
Mark Sampson Theater Osnabrück / Theater Rostock
Laura Scherwitzl Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, Theater
Neustrelitz
Hannah Schlott Landesbühne Sachsen
Akio Tsujii Thüringer Opera Studio
Simon Wallfisch Opera Studio Zürich
Major guest contracts during studies or directly upon graduation:
Constanza Dörr
Teatro Municipal, Santiago (World Premier „Gloria“ by Errazriz - Title role)
Active concert career with: Gewandhaus Orchester, Leipzig, Staatskapelle, Dresden, Thomanerchor, Leipzig, Händel Festspiele
Komische Oper Berlin (Königen der Nacht)
Semperoper Dresden (Königen der Nacht)
Oper Frankfurt (Königen der Nacht)
Leipziger Oper (Königen der Nacht)
Sydney Opera (Ping, Evangelist, St. John’s Passion)
Opera Studio Lyon
Bregenzer Festspiel (Tatijana, Eugen Onegin)
Nationaltheater Weimar (Malatesta)
Bamberg Symphonie Summer Festival (Almaviva/ Figaro , Captain Hook/ Peter Pan)
Gewandhaus, Leipzig (Carmina Burana, Katherine von Bora)
Anli Sasaki
Staatstheater Kassel (Fiordiligi)
Landestheater Neustrelitz (Butterfly)
Bad Heresfeld Festival (Donna Anna)
Sapporo, Japan (Suor Angelica)
Bad Heresfeld Festival (Don Giovanni)
Opera Biwako Hall, Tokyo (Phillip/ Don Carlos)
Fest Chorus (with solo) Engagements in Theaters upon graduation:
Laura Atkinson Oper Braunschweig
Franziska Faust Oper Halle
Rachel Haar Semperoper Dresden
Pei-Ying Lee Nationaltheater Mannheim
Anastasiya Peretyahina Bayrische Staatsoper
Katja Rosenberg Staatssoperette Dresden
Fest Radio Choruses:
Anna Rad-Markovska MDR, Leipzig
Friederike Stübner-Garbade MDR, Leipzig
Contests: Prize Winners and Finalists:
Belvedere
Akio Tsujii
Welsh Singer of the Year
Otto Edelmann International Competition Vienna
Shira Patchornik
International Schumann Wettbewerb
Hugo Wolf International LiedDuo Competition
Lilli and Nadia Boulanger Competition, Paris
Lauren Swan Edwards
Antonin Dvorak Singing Competition, Song Division
Natasha Drake
Paula Salomon-Lindberg Wettbewerb
International Voice of the Future Competition, Llanglollen
International Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig
American Bach Society Competition
Greifswald Bach Competition
„Ton und Erklärung“
Robert Stolz Wettbewerb
International Gebrüder Graun Wettbewerb
International Telemann Wettbewerb
Podium Junge Gesangssolisten
International Gesang Wettbewerb für alte Musik Schärdingen
AVIV
Voix Etouffnées
Pei-Ying Lee
Schloss Rheinsberg
Shira Patchornik
Gut.Immeling
Giulio -Perotti Competition
Competizione Riccardo Zandonai
Anna Rad-Markowaka
Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico, Cittadella
Natasha Drake
Musica Sacra International Competition Rome
Yoon Cho-Cho
Concorso die Musica Antica Vincenza
Euregio Vokalwettbewerb
Yamaha Wettbewerb für Gesang
Moran Abouloff
Anneliese Rothenberger Competition
Carla Frick
Joseh-Suder Liedwettbewerb
Pei-Ying Lee
Klavierlied/Verfremte Musik
Pei-Ying Lee
EMCY Excellence in Performance/ European Union
Pei-Ying Lee
Lortzing Wettbewerb, Leipzig
Akio Tsujii
Carla Frick
Natalija Cantrak
Shira Patchornik
Sächsische Sängerakademie, Torgau
Natasha Drake
Lauren Swan Edwards
Madeline Cain
Grandi Voci International Competition
Madeline Cain
DAAD Competition, Leipzig
Scholarships and Grants (during our collaboration):
Fulbright
Jennifer Porto, Elisabeth Marshall, Laura Atkinson, Cathy Compton
DAAD
Anastasia Peretyahina, Anat Edri, Akio Tsujii, Laura Atkinson
Thomas Elder Overseas Scholarship (from Australia)
Robert Macfarlane
Tywyn Roberts Scholarship
Menna Cazel Davies
Föderstipendium Hamel Stiftung
Johanna Knauth, Carla Frick, Anli Sasaki
Körber Stiftung
Anat Edri
America-Israel-Culture Foundation Scholarship and IVAI Scholarship (New York)
Moran Abouloff
Shira Patchornik
Bayreuth Festspiel Scholarship
Anli Sasaki, Ji-Su Park, Monja Meissner, Manuela Fraikin, Derek Rue
Ad Infinitum
Ji-Su Park, Hannah Schlott, Laura Atkinson, Ashkan Rosat, Natalija Cantrak, Meredith Nicoll
ERASMUS
Katherine Broderick, Rita Ziem
America-Israel-Culture Foundation Scholarship
Shira Patchornik 2016-17