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 RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin counts as one of the world’s leading professional choirs and sets the benchmark in almost all areas of music culture – from historically informed performances of Renaissance and Baroque Music, to Romantic works through to challenging premieres. Founded over 70 years ago, the choir acts as a cultural ambassador to Germany and, with its guest performances in some of the world’s most significant musical centres, is leading the legacy of German choir culture into the 21st century.

The RIAS Chamber Choir has been declared by the British journal »Gramophone« as one of the ten best choirs in the world. Since the 2017-18 season, Justin Doyle has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the choir. Their joint Japanese debut in autumn 2018 was given to great public acclaim. Numerous awards document the choir’s international reputation. Ongoing collaborations link the choir to the Academy of Ancient Music Berlin, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Ensemble Resonanz and the Capella de la Torre. In addition, the Ensemble has worked together with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Rene Jacobs, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Ivan Fischer and Rinaldo Alessandrini.

The RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin is part of the Radio Orchestras and Choirs GmbH (ROC). Partners include Deutschland Radio, the Federal Republic of Germany, the State of Berlin and Radio 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.