Christina Landshamer is a versatile artist who, as recitalist as well as with her varied concert and opera repertoire, is in international demand. Her collaborations with renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck, Alan Gilbert, Marek Janowski and many others regularly result in concerts with major international orchestras – from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to the Orchestre de Paris. In The States, this soprano has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Montreal Symphony Orchestras.

Christina Landshamer has given opera performances at the Komische Oper Berlin, at the Theater an der Wien with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and also with Sir Simon Rattle at the Salzburg Festspiele. At the Nationaloper Amsterdam, she has sung ›Pamina‹ in Simon McBurney’s ›Zauberflöte‹ and ›Woglinde‹ in Wagner’s ›Rheingold‹ at the Bayerischen Staatsoper with Kirill Petrenko conducting. She has also performed in a spectacular La-Fura-dels-Baus production of Haydn’s ›Schöpfung‹ in Paris as well as at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. With her warm, lyric soprano voice, Christina Landshamer is as welcome as a Lieder singer at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade as she is in London, New York or Tokyo.

She has over 50 CD and DVD recordings to her name and was called to take up a professorship for Vocal Studies at the Trossingen College of Music in 2021.

The 1984 Frankfurt-born singer received his musical education with the Limburg Cathedral Choir and at the Conservatory of Freiburg. The young tenor has received a lot of attention particularly for his interpretations of J.S. Bach’s Evangelist roles.

Among his numerous acclaimed appearances in the course of the 2015/2016 season, Julian Prégardien’s rendition of Hylas in ›Les Troyens‹ (Berlioz) caused a sensation at the opening night of the Hamburg Staatsoper under the baton of Kent Nagano. In July 2017, the young tenor will give his debut performance at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in the title role of Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon.

Concert appearances during the 2016/17 season will include concerts with Bach’s St Matthew Passion with René Jacobs, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with András Schiff and Handel arias with Berlin’s Akademie für Alte Musik. He will return to the Salzburger Festspiele with Ádám Fischer.

At Dresden Musikfestspiele and other venues, Julian is scheduled to appear in a special Monteverdi project along with his father Christoph Prégardien and Anima Eterna Brugge conducted by Jos van Immerseel.

Julian Prégardien is also one of the renowned soloists featured in a major project co-hosted by the Schubertiade in Hohenems/Schwarzenberg (Austria) and by London Wigmore Hall, consisting in the complete performance of all Schubert lieder in a series of recitals held between 2015 and 2017.

The RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin, founded 77 years ago, is one of the world’s leading professional choirs. Thirty-four professionally trained singers make up the multinational ensemble, which is known for its precise sound. Its repertoire ranges from historically informed Renaissance and Baroque interpretations to works from the Classical and Romantic periods, as well as regular world premieres.

Since the 2017–18 season, Justin Doyle has been principal conductor and artistic director of the ensemble which is one of the country’s most important touring choirs, enjoying up to 50 concerts per season on stages in Germany and around the world.  In its home city, the ensemble presents six subscription concerts, including the renowned New Year’s Concert.

Music education projects include choral sponsorships for Berlin school choirs and the RIAS Chamber Choir Studio under the direction of Justin Doyle. In addition, the ensemble organises the final concert of the German Prize for Choral Conducting every two years in collaboration with the German Music Council. It collaborates regularly with major ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Freiburger Barockorchester, as well as conductors such as René Jacobs, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Joana Mallwitz, Pablo Heras-Casado and Krista Audere. The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin is an ensemble of the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre gGmbH Berlin (ROC). Its shareholders are Deutschland Radio, the Federal Republic of Germany, the State of Berlin and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.

Sir Roger Norrington played the violin and sang from a young age. After studying History and English Literature, he gained several years’ experience of top-class amateur music making, before returning to musical studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the start of his professional career as a singer and conductor. In 1962 he founded the Schütz Choir.

In 1969, Roger Norrington was appointed Music Director of the Kent Opera. He founded the London Classical Players in 1978 in order to study historically informed performance practices on period musical instruments from the time between 1750 and 1900. As a guest conductor he has worked at the Covent Garden Opera House, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland orchestras, among others.

Sir Roger Norrington was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and of the Camerata Salzburg. At both locations he established a historically informed performance style in a ›modern‹ setting. With The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen he has enjoyed a long and friendly collaboration.

Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis first studied voice in her home town and then at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Meanwhile, Marie-Claude Chappuis can regularly be seen on Europe’s most prestigious operatic stages including the Berlin State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Theater an der Wien and many more. Under the baton of conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Philippe Herreweghe, John Eliot Gardiner, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Sir Roger Norrington, she has performed roles from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires.

On the opera stage, Marie-Claude Chappuis has performed over 30 roles including Sesto in ›La Clemenza Di Tito‹, Idamante in ›Idomeneo‹, Carmen, Charlotte in ›Werther‹. In the role of Dorabella in ›Cosi fan tutte‹ she could be heard at the Salzburg Festival in 2013, among others.

Recordings encompass the alto part in the St. Matthew Passion under Chailly, Annio in ›La Clemenza Di Tito‹ under Jacobs and Telemann’s Brockes-Passion (Prix du Midem 2009). Highly acclaimed new releases include ›La Finta Gardiniera‹ under René Jacobs, ›Le Miroir de Jesus‹ by André Caplet and Mozart’s Requiem.

Berlin-born Tobias Berndt began his musical training with the Dresden Choir of the Church of the Holy Cross. He studied with Hermann Christian Polster in Leipzig and continued his training with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. During further studies and masterclasses, he worked with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff.

He has won several scholarships and prizes at international competition, including the highly endowed ›Das Lied‹ Song Competition in Berlin and 1st Prize at the International Johannes-Brahms Contest in Pörtschach and at the Cantilena Song Contest in Bayreuth. As an established concert singer, Tobias Berndt has recently worked with such conductors as Hand Christoph Rademann, Philippe Herreweghe, Helmuth Rilling, Sir Roger Norrington, Andrea Marcon, Frieder Bernius and Teodor Currentzis. He has performed at renowned venues including Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Zürich, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Herkulessaal in Munich and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Tobias Berndt has also appeared at major international festivals such as the Prague Spring Festival, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Bachfest Leipzig, Oregon Bach Festival, Halle and Göttingen Handel Festivals, as well Rheingau Musik Festival and the Beijing International Music Festival. Among many opera engagements he performed at the Wagner Cycle in the Meistersinger under Marek Janowski.

In addition to his successes in international song contests, Tobias Berndt is also a sought-after Lied singer and has held singing evenings at the Festivals in Bergen, Norway, the Baden-Baden Festival Hall, the Vienna Musikverein and the Lucerne Festival. In 2014, he worked with renowned pianists, for example Alexander Fleischer, Daniel Heide and Eric Schneider.