Anna Prohaska made her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden aged 20, where despite an acclaimed international career she remains a member of the ensemble. She attracted attention early on for her incredibly versatile repertoire, which ranges from Handel’s operas to world premieres, working with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim or Sir Simon Rattle. She was soon performing on the world’s most prestigious stages, including Milan’s La Scala, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden or the Paris Opera.

She performs regularly at leading concert houses around the world. Appearances on the concert platform include the Cleveland Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic or the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has sung under Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Yannick Nézét-Séguin or Franz Welser-Möst.

On the early music scene, Anna has worked with Nicolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus and performs regularly with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Freiburger Barockorchester or the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

With her thematic Lied recitals, she is a popular guest at recital halls such as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, London’s Wigmore Hall, in Vienna or Berlin.

Numerous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon have earned her awards such as the ECHO Klassik. Her latest album Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido and Cleopatra (released in June by alpha) went straight to the top of the classic charts.

Peter Ruzicka is one of the established greats of the international music scene – as a frequently performed composer, as a much sought-after conductor and as artistic director of, among others, the Staatsoper Hamburg and the Hamburger Philharmoniker (1988-1997), the Salzburg Festival (2001-2006) and the Salzburg Easter Festival, which he directed until 2020. He has been awarded numerous prizes and awards for his compositions. Renowned conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Mariss Jansons, Christian Thielemann, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Kent Nagano have championed his music, which has been performed by some of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin and Wiener Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouw-Orchester Amsterdam, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as well as all the German Radio Symphony orchestras.

Ruzicka’s most recent premieres include his opera ›Benjamin‹ at the Hamburg Staatsoper in the 2018/19 season. In the 2019/20 season, Ruzicka was Composer in Residence at the Grafenegg Festival and directed the premiere of his orchestral work ›Furioso‹. The acclaimed premiere of his chamber symphony took place in 2021 and in 2022, the work ›Depart‹ for viola and orchestra, commissioned by the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, was premiered by Nils Mönkemeyer. This versatile musician has enjoyed an exciting artistic collaboration with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.