Artists
Nascut el 1989, inicia els seus estudis de piano a Oviedo als sis anys. Després d'estudiar a l'Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, es trasllada a Londres per estudiar al Royal College of Music. Posteriorment, continua la seva formació a la Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst de Viena. Actualment, compagina la seva activitat docent a l'Escola Superior de Música Reina Sofía amb una àmplia activitat internacional com a solista i com a músic de cambra, que l'ha dut a actuar a sales com el Wigmore Hall, l'Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, el Palau de la Música Catalana, la Fundación Juan March y el Ateneu de Bucarest, a més d'haver fet gires de concert per Llatinoamèrica i Xina.
In 2004, she made her debut at the Opéra-Bastille in Paris as Pamina. Julia Kleiter has already been heard as the Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Ilia (Idomeneo), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) or Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Recently, she could be heard with Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Requiem, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. Haydn's Creation and Bruckner's Te Deum. Julia Kleiter can also be heard in numerous recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, in Paris, Madrid, Munich and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. She performs regularly with the pianists Michael Gees and Julius Drake and has also appeared at the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Philharmonie in Essen.
With her varied and extensive repertoire, few artists of her generation have achieved the success of soprano Juliane Banse. Her operatic roles range from the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), and Genoveva, to Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Arabella, and Grete (Der ferne Klang). Lieder recitals and chamber music have always been an integral part of her artistic life, with appearances at the Schubertiade Vilabertran and the Boulez Hall in Berlin, as well as a CD recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with Martin Helmchen. Deeply committed to teaching, she has served as a voice professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
Julius Drake lives in London and enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field, collaborating with many of the world’s leading artists. The New Yorker has described him as the “collaborative pianist nonpareil”. He appears regularly at all the major music centres and festivals. His passionate interest in song has led to invitations to devise song series for Wigmore Hall, London, the BBC and The Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. His annual series of song recitals – Julius Drake and Friends – in the historic Middle Temple Hall in London, has featured recitals with many outstanding vocal artists including Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Iestyn Davies, Veronique Gens, Felicity Lott, Simon Keenlyside, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Prégardien.
Jyri Mishukov is one of Finland’s leading collaborative pianists. Trained at the Joensuu Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he spent a year at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. He later completed the Konzertexamen in lied at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. In 2024 he was selected for the “Young Artists” project of the Zeist International Lied Festival and in 2026 for the Lied the Future scheme of the Associació Franz Schubert. He has received scholarships from institutions including the Pro Musica Foundation, the Sibelius Academy and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now programme. He has worked as a collaborative pianist and lied coach in the voice department of the Sibelius Academy. In September 2025 he won the second special prize for pianists at the Helmut Deutsch International Lied Competition.