Sunday 1 May, 19:30 h
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She is fast emerging as one of the most compelling lyric voices of her generation. An alumna of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program, Opéra National de Lyon Studio, and Verbier Festival, she is a first prize winner of the Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the Concours international de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. From the 2025/26 season, she is a BBC New Generation Artist. A passionate recitalist, Baikoff appears at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Heidelberg Festival, Schubertíada Villabertran, the Wiener Konzerthaus, or Lincoln Center. A member of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble, we find among her roles Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel). On the concert stage, she performs Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem.
Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry is a 2021-2023 BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the 2021 Carl Bechstein Foundation scholarship. He has commissioned and premiered works by Nico Muhly, Molly Joyce, Heloise Werner, Viktor Orri Árnason or Guðmundur Emilsson. Kunal has been invited to several young artist programs for pianists specializing in art song. In 2018, he was selected for the inaugural Royaumont-Orsay Academy. He also joined the first Song Studio, mentored by Renee Fleming, at Carnegie Hall, was invited by Thomas Hampson to participate in the Heidelberg Lied Academy. Originally from Gainesville, Georgia, Kunal was a Schulich Scholar at McGill University, and graduated with distinction in Song Interpretation, under the tutelage of Wolfram Rieger, from the Hochschule for Müsik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.
