MASTER CLASS

Title: Master class solo singing, interpretation and musical coaching

Course dates: Sunday 25th August - Saturday 31st August

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. with a two-hour lunch break

Course concert : Sa 31.8.2019 at 7 p.m. (admission 6:30 p.m.)

Location: Jazz Schmiede (Himmelgeister Straße 107g, 40225 Düsseldorf)

Course leader: Andreas Pascal Heinzmann

Pianist: Meghan Behiel

Additional coaching audition training: Yvonne Prentki (singer)

Costs per participant: € 360 (+ € 30 pp for optional audition training)

Registration deadline: July 31, 2019

To register or for more information: masterclasses@dlopera.com

Course description: Master course solo singing, interpretation and musical coaching

The course instructor Andreas Pascal Heinzmann works three hours individually with each participant. The last two hours are accompanied by the pianist Meghan Behiel, so that the course instructor can work with the participants from outside. On the last day of the course, there will be a final concert with a previous sample, in which the results of the course will be presented in front of an audience. Depending on the composition of the course participants, it would be possible to jointly prepare an opera ensemble for the concert. During the course, you can optionally book hourly audition training with the singer and coach Yvonne Prentki.

For whom ?: Advanced vocal students and professional singers

Number of arias to be prepared: 5 opera arias

Course leader : Andreas Pascal Heinzmann

Andreas Pascal Heinzmann studied conducting with S. Celibidache and E. Seipenbusch, musicology and philosophy in Munich, Paris and Innsbruck. At the LMU Munich he had a teaching position for over 8 years. Heinzmann has worked at the Los Angeles Opera since 2008 as James Conlon's first assistant conductor (including a rehearsal of R. Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen”) and regularly holds master classes for opera singers at the “Domingo Thorton Young Artist Program”. In 2003 he was invited as a guest conductor at "Munich's Smallest Opera House", which he has been since 2006

musical director shapes. Heinzmann was on the podium in several award-winning productions in over 700 performances. His instrumentation for chamber orchestra by Puccini's “Tosca”, Nicolai's “Lustigen Weibern von Windsor”, “La Bohème” and “Rusalka” by Dvorak have shaped the house ever since.

As chief conductor, Heinzmann has directed the “Munich-Andechs Symphonic Orchestra” and the “Munich Autumn Academy” for years.

Heinzmann, 2000-2003 was chief conductor of the "Munich Youth Orchestra", guest conductor of the "Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim", the "Orchestra of the Opera of Vancouver", the "Munich Bach Soloists", the "Süddeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz", the "Ensemble Amade" ( Wiener Symphoniker), the “Strauss-Ensemble Linz” (Bruckner Orchester Linz), at the “A. Everding - Theater Academy ", the" Stadttheater Ingolstadt ", the" Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt ", the Orquestra di Cordoba and others. He has already directed several productions for ISMG.

Recordings and live broadcasts were seen on BR, BRalpha and Arte. Heinzmann received several awards and prizes. Among others from the Richard Wagner Association, “Germany, Land of Ideas” and the Eugen Jochum Prize.

Pianist: Meghan Behiel

Born in Calgary, Canada, pianist Meghan Behiel performs regularly across Europe and North America. Meghan's “unique expression” and “her great understanding of musical details” is perceived as a sought-after soloist and chamber musician

(Berner Zeitung). Meghan recently went on a concert tour across Switzerland. Here she appeared as a soloist with the St. Paul Orchestra in the most important concert halls in the country and played both Schumann's Allegro Appassionata op.92 and Betthoven's Triple Concerto for piano, violin and violoncello. She has also given concerts with the Bern Symphony Orchestra under the direction of chief conductor Franck Ollu. Her interpretation of Liszt's Dance of Death was very well received by the audience and was broadcast live nationwide on the Swiss Radio Klassik. Meghan has been the official brand ambassador for Kawai Europe since 2016. As this she presents the latest models from the Kawai company throughout Europe. Because of their convincing performances, some of their concerts have been recorded by SWR, among others, and on both radio and TV

transfer. In addition to her solo work, Meghan devotes herself intensively to chamber music, with a particular focus on song accompaniment. In many master classes she deepened her studies in the field of song. She was especially influenced by her mentor Rudolf Jansen. She recently made guest appearances at song evenings in the Tonhalle Zurich, the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Casino Bern and the Theater Granit de Belfort. Meghan is also a répétiteur at the Düsseldorf Lyric Opera, where she also holds the position of musical director. Through her presence as a pianist and coach, Meghan was able to help numerous young, talented singers. Meghan Behiel completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Calgary with her professor Marilyn Engle. Here she won numerous prizes and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship. A full-time scholarship enabled Meghan to complete her studies at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. In the class of Professor Tomasz Herbut she passed the soloist diploma, the highest academic degree for musical solo instruments in Switzerland, with special distinction. During her time in Bern, Meghan devoted herself intensively to studying historical performance practice and learned to play the harpsichord. She also completed this course with the highest possible distinction. In addition, she worked with well-known artists such as Grigory Sokolov, Andras Schiff and Paul Badura-Skoda.