Artists

After graduating from elementary school in Jeju Island, Soohong Park went to Detmold Germany at the age of 12 and joined as Jungstudent at Hochschule für Musik Detmold. After completing both Bachelor and Masters degrees in 2016, he moved to London in order to study further at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. As Guildhall Artist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and Barbican Hall in London, and has performed regularly with the orchestras in Germany and England. In 2018, he attended IMS Prussia Cove in the UK and in the following year, he was the finalist of Isang Yun International Music Competition in Tongyeong, South Korea. In 2020, he was the winner of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's most prestigious Gold Medal Competition. He has two masters degrees in both chamber music and vocal accompaniment, and an Artist Diploma degree as a soloist.

He discovered his passion for chamber music and vocal accompaniment during his studies in Dresden at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, and focused on these genres since fleeing the former German Democratic Republic in 1989. From 1997, Vienna has been the musical home of the pianist. He was the artistic partner of Siegfried Jerusalem and has accompanied a host of renowned singers, including Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberová, Günther Groissböck, Robert Holl and Marlis Petersen. He has performed at many major concert venues, among them the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Musikverein Vienna, Semperoper Dresden, Philharmonie Berlin, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Carnegie Hall and La Scala Milan, and is a frequent guest at international festivals such as Klangbogen-Festival at Theater an der Wien, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Salzburg Festival and Münchner Opernfestspiele.

Romanian pianist Teodora Oprișor has performed recitals in venues and festivals such as the Wigmore Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, LIFE Victoria Festival or Musée d’Orsay. Having studied piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, she then pursued her Master’s Degree in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is a former scholar, among others, of the Heidelberg Lied Academy and the Lied the Future programme of the Schubertíada. She has been awarded the best piano accompanist at the John Warner Singing competition in Chichester (United Kingdom) and the Robert Schumann Song Competition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Teodora has served as pianist of the Orfeón Donostiarra choir for five years, and from the 2024-25 academic year, she is Accompanying Pianist Professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music.

Theresa Pilsl studied singing at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. At the same time, she studied medicine at the Charité Berlin, and she is currently doing her doctorate in phoniatrics at the LMU Munich. She has won numerous prizes, including at the 9th International Competition for Baroque Opera - Pietro Antonio Cesti, the National Singing Competition Berlin 2018 and the SWR Young Opera Stars 2020. She was a scholarship holder of the Atelier lyrique of the Verbier Festival, the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Theresa Pilsl has given recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival, at the HIDALGO Song Festival in Munich, at the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg, in the Pierre Boulez Saal and at the Luosto Soi Festival in Lapland, Finland. Her operatic repertoire includes Susanna and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Genius (Der Stein der Weisen)