Academy with professor Olaf Bär



Va començar la seva formació musical als cinc anys, estudiant violoncel i piano. Posteriorment, va estudiar orgue al Konservatorium für Kirchenmusik de St. Pölten, on va rebre les primeres classes de cant. Des de 2020 estudia a la Hochschule für Musik und Theater de Múnic. Ha guanyat premis com el Concurs de Cant Carl-Orff, el Premi Especial Fritz Wunderlich o el concurs “Prima la Musica”. Des de 2023, és becari del programa Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now i de l'Associació Richard Wagner de Múnic. El 2022 va debutar a l'òpera com Papageno (La flauta màgica). En concert, ha cantat Carmina Burana o el Rèquiem de Mozart; l'actual temporada cantarà també la Novena Simfonia de Beethoven i el Rèquiem Alemany, i oferirà recitals de lied amb el pianista Maximilian Kromer, amb obres com An die ferne Geliebte, Dichterliebe i altres lieder de Schumann, així com lieder de Schubert, Wolf i Schönberg.

Dutch soprano Noëlle Drost (1999) graduated with the highest distinction from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2023, and is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. Next to this, she participated in masterclasses with among others Philippe Herreweghe, Elly Ameling, Graham Johnson and Brigitte Fassbaender. She was invited with pianist Jorian van Nee to the masterclasses of the International Liedfestival in Zeist in 2021 and was a young artist during the Leeds Lieder Festival (UK) in 2023. Noëlle has won multiple prizes, including at the International Student LiedDuo Competition and the Prinses Christina Competition. She performed in several concert halls like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in the Hertz-zaal in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. She also performed at the Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, the dutch national radiochannel ‘Radio 4’ and for the SWR in Stuttgart.

As soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist, Maximilian Kromer has been the guest of multiple concert venues, such as the Viennese Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Konzerthaus Dortmund or the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and of music festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Rheingau, the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich or the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2023 he presented the release of a CD with baritone Daniel Gutmann, published by Gramola, including musical settings by Robert Schumann of poems by Heine. The same label has recently also presented Kromer’s debut solo album with recordings of virtuoso Viennese piano works. Since 2022 he has been in vivid musical exchange with one of the leading authorities in Lied accompaniment, Helmut Deutsch. Furthermore, the young pianist can look back on numerous concerts with outstanding musical partners such as Rolando Villazón, Daniel Müller-Schott or Michael Schade.

Jorian van Nee was born in 1999. He follows lessons from Frank Peters at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and also followed lessons and masterclasses from several pianists, including Ronald Brautigam and Jan Wijn. He played with various orchestras, including Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Yehudi Menuhin orchestra, and the Residentie Orkest in The Hague. In 2013, he won the first prize as well as a first prize at the composition competition at the Prinses Christina Concours. In 2015, he won the best accompaniment prize at the same competition. He also won prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation, the Peter de Grote Festival and, together with singer Noëlle Drost, at the International Student Lied Competition. Also with Noëlle, he participated in the Leeds Lieder Festival in 2023 and the International Lied Festival in Zeist in 2021. He has a Bechstein grand piano on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.
The musicians are recipients of grants from the "Lied the Future" program to promote young talent, sponsored by the Ferrer Music Foundation and the Banc Sabadell Foundation.

