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VOCAL MASTERCLASS STOCKHOLM
Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
15th-26th July 2026
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop in conjunction with Vocal Masterclass Stockholm, The Luxon Rose Trust and The Mahler and LeWitt Studios.
After the success of the initial Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop in 2025, we are thrilled to announce to 2026 version,
Led by singers, dedicated to the next generation of singers and singing, Jeremy Carpenter and Matthew Rose will be joined by American Soprano and pedagogue Nicole Cabell and a team of world leading coaches which include, amongst others, Daniela Pellegrino (Dresden, Pesaro, Palermo), Martin Dubé (Atelier lyrique artist in residence program, Opera de Montreral) and Marco Rizello (Oper Stuttgart, Santa Fe Festival).
Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside joins the team as a song specialist and International stage Director and Artistic Director of Copenhagen Opera Festival, Amy Lane and conductor Daniel Cohen (Musical Director, Hessische Staatsoper Darmstadt) join us to work on dramatic performance.
The team will also include Special Artistic Advisor Brian Dickie (Garsington Opera) and Jonathan Friend (Casting Consultant Metropolitan Opera and Royal Swedish Opera).
Other members of the team to be announced. Please join us for two weeks of concentrated and joyful work on singing in the beautiful town of Spoleto in Umbria.
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Details subject to change.
The Team
Matthew Rose
Bass/Vocal pedagogue
Matthew Rose was born in Brighton, UK. He studied at The Curtis Institute of Music with Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen.He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera from 2003-2005. He has since performed many roles there, including Pimen, Baron Ochs, Polyphemus, Bottom, Colline, Sarastro, Sparafucile, and Masetto, amongst others. He was Artistic Advisor to the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann YAP, and has performed Phillippe II, Claudio, Oroveso, Ashby, Colline, Leporello, Masetto, Frere Laurent, Talbot, Bottom, Raimondo, and The Night Watchman for the Met. At Glyndebourne, where he was awarded the 2006 John Christie Award, he has sung Bottom, Leporello, Nick Shadow, Collatinus and Callistene.
He has also sung at Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real, Valencia, Chicago Lyric Opera, Semperoper, Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera de Bordeaux, Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera, Grange Park Opera and La scala, Milan.In concert he has sung with Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra , The Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Dutch Radio Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Radio France, Het Concertgebouw Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, Academy of Ancient Music, Arcangelo, and The English Concert amongst others.
He has sung at Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Georges Enescu, Salzburg, Berlioz, Verbier, Mostly Mozart Festivals and at BBC Proms.Amongst the conductors he has worked with are Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Jakub Hrusa, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Edward Gardner, Jonathan Cohen, Fabio Luisi, James Levine, Corrado Rovaris, Charles Dutoit, Robin Ticciati, Simone Young, Emmanuelle Haïm, Harry Bicket, Richard Hicox, Karina Canellakis, James Gaffigan, Donald Runnicles, Yannick Nezet Seguin, and Vladimir Jurowski.In recital he has performed at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Het Concertgebouw, with pianists Anna Tilbrook, Iain Burnside, Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton, Tom Poster, Vlad Iftinca and Helen Collyer.With Gary Matthewman he recorded a celebrated Winterreise, which they performed at Wigmore Hall, and he has recorded Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Malcolm Martineau. With Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo he recorded a recital of Arias for Benucci.
He can be found in many DVDs and CDs.As an educator he ran his own course in Urbania, Italy La Scuola di Belcanto, has run courses at Britten Pears Arts and has taught at Chautauqua Institution and Royaumont Academy. He has given masterclasses at Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and The Curtis Institute of Music.He is Artistic Director of Folkestone on Song, bringing song and singing to Folkestone and East Kent UK.
https://askonasholt.com/artist/matthew-rose
Matthew Rose was born in Brighton, UK. He studied at The Curtis Institute of Music with Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen.He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera from 2003-2005. He has since performed many roles there, including Pimen, Baron Ochs, Polyphemus, Bottom, Colline, Sarastro, Sparafucile, and Masetto, amongst others. He was Artistic Advisor to the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann YAP, and has performed Phillippe II, Claudio, Oroveso, Ashby, Colline, Leporello, Masetto, Frere Laurent, Talbot, Bottom, Raimondo, and The Night Watchman for the Met. At Glyndebourne, where he was awarded the 2006 John Christie Award, he has sung Bottom, Leporello, Nick Shadow, Collatinus and Callistene.
He has also sung at Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real, Valencia, Chicago Lyric Opera, Semperoper, Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera de Bordeaux, Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera, Grange Park Opera and La scala, Milan.In concert he has sung with Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra , The Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Dutch Radio Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Radio France, Het Concertgebouw Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, Academy of Ancient Music, Arcangelo, and The English Concert amongst others.
He has sung at Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Georges Enescu, Salzburg, Berlioz, Verbier, Mostly Mozart Festivals and at BBC Proms.Amongst the conductors he has worked with are Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Jakub Hrusa, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Edward Gardner, Jonathan Cohen, Fabio Luisi, James Levine, Corrado Rovaris, Charles Dutoit, Robin Ticciati, Simone Young, Emmanuelle Haïm, Harry Bicket, Richard Hicox, Karina Canellakis, James Gaffigan, Donald Runnicles, Yannick Nezet Seguin, and Vladimir Jurowski.In recital he has performed at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Het Concertgebouw, with pianists Anna Tilbrook, Iain Burnside, Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton, Tom Poster, Vlad Iftinca and Helen Collyer.With Gary Matthewman he recorded a celebrated Winterreise, which they performed at Wigmore Hall, and he has recorded Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Malcolm Martineau. With Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo he recorded a recital of Arias for Benucci.
He can be found in many DVDs and CDs.As an educator he ran his own course in Urbania, Italy La Scuola di Belcanto, has run courses at Britten Pears Arts and has taught at Chautauqua Institution and Royaumont Academy. He has given masterclasses at Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and The Curtis Institute of Music.He is Artistic Director of Folkestone on Song, bringing song and singing to Folkestone and East Kent UK.
https://askonasholt.com/artist/matthew-rose
Jeremy Carpenter
Baritone/Vocal pedagogue
The English baritone, Jeremy Carpenter, born into a musical family in Bournemouth first began singing as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, London. He was subsequently educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has, since 2016, been closely associated with the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where he is a member of the ensemble.
In Stockholm he has appeared as Germont in La Traviata, the title roles in Don Giovanni and Gianni Schicchi, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Dr. Pangloss in Candide, Zhou Enlai in John Adams Nixon in China, the Protector in Written on Skin, Escamillo in Carmen, Gérard i Andrea Chénier, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Marcello in La Bohème and the Count in The Marriage of Figaro.
Jeremy has also appeared at The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, ROH Covent Garden in London, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera de Dijon and Angers/Nantes Opera in France and Folkoperan and Malmö opera in Sweden.
Jeremy is Artistic Advisor to Musikalliansen where he runs their mentorship program for newly graduated opera singers and in 2017 founded Vocal Masterclass Stockholm since when he has created the opportunity for hundreds of young singers to meet and work with some of the world’s foremost artists, vocal coaches and conductors.
He is delighted to be a part of this exciting new venture.
https://www.jeremyrcarpenter.com/
The English baritone, Jeremy Carpenter, born into a musical family in Bournemouth first began singing as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, London. He was subsequently educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has, since 2016, been closely associated with the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where he is a member of the ensemble.
In Stockholm he has appeared as Germont in La Traviata, the title roles in Don Giovanni and Gianni Schicchi, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Dr. Pangloss in Candide, Zhou Enlai in John Adams Nixon in China, the Protector in Written on Skin, Escamillo in Carmen, Gérard i Andrea Chénier, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Marcello in La Bohème and the Count in The Marriage of Figaro.
Jeremy has also appeared at The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, ROH Covent Garden in London, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera de Dijon and Angers/Nantes Opera in France and Folkoperan and Malmö opera in Sweden.
Jeremy is Artistic Advisor to Musikalliansen where he runs their mentorship program for newly graduated opera singers and in 2017 founded Vocal Masterclass Stockholm since when he has created the opportunity for hundreds of young singers to meet and work with some of the world’s foremost artists, vocal coaches and conductors.
He is delighted to be a part of this exciting new venture.
https://www.jeremyrcarpenter.com/
Nicole Cabell
Soprano/Vocal Pedagogue
Nicole Cabell, who earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman in 2001, is returning to the school with an appointment as Associate Professor of Voice. Named 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Ms. Cabell’s ensuing career has taken her to the most important opera stages and concert halls in the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Metropolitan Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Teatro Colòn Buenos Aires; and many more. As a concert soloist and recitalist, she has sung throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. Her recordings include Soprano, an opera recital disc debut for Decca; Silver Rain, songs of Ricky Ian Gordon; Chanson D’Avril; Mademoiselle—Première Audience, Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger for Delos; and Musetta in La Bohème with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, as well as in La Bohème: The Film.
“I’m incredibly honored to join the peerless, distinguished faculty of the Eastman School of Music,” Cabell says. “It has been a dream of mine since my graduation at Eastman in 2001 to be part of this community and I greatly look forward to serving Eastman to the very best of my abilities.”
Katherine Ciesinski, the Chair of Eastman’s Voice, Opera, and Vocal Coaching Department, welcomes Nicole Cabell: “Her mastery of technique and its application in expressive communication will galvanize our students’ growth at all levels. In addition, her desires to promote the performance of new works by diverse composers and to reach out into the greater Rochester community will bring inspiration and new voices to our concert halls.”
Nicole Cabell, who earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman in 2001, is returning to the school with an appointment as Associate Professor of Voice. Named 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Ms. Cabell’s ensuing career has taken her to the most important opera stages and concert halls in the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Metropolitan Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Teatro Colòn Buenos Aires; and many more. As a concert soloist and recitalist, she has sung throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. Her recordings include Soprano, an opera recital disc debut for Decca; Silver Rain, songs of Ricky Ian Gordon; Chanson D’Avril; Mademoiselle—Première Audience, Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger for Delos; and Musetta in La Bohème with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, as well as in La Bohème: The Film.
“I’m incredibly honored to join the peerless, distinguished faculty of the Eastman School of Music,” Cabell says. “It has been a dream of mine since my graduation at Eastman in 2001 to be part of this community and I greatly look forward to serving Eastman to the very best of my abilities.”
Katherine Ciesinski, the Chair of Eastman’s Voice, Opera, and Vocal Coaching Department, welcomes Nicole Cabell: “Her mastery of technique and its application in expressive communication will galvanize our students’ growth at all levels. In addition, her desires to promote the performance of new works by diverse composers and to reach out into the greater Rochester community will bring inspiration and new voices to our concert halls.”
Amy Lane
Stage Director
Born in London, Amy began her career in stage management, where she worked for three years in London's West End on An Inspector Calls, for four seasons with Diva Opera, finally joining The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2005, where she was involved with over twenty-five productions.
As a young singer, she performed with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park and was a backing singer for Barry Manilow at Wembley Arena.
From 2015 to 2019 she was the Head Staff Director at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Director:
Amy is the Stage & Video Director of Wagner’s The Ring Cycle for Longborough Festival Opera (2019-2024).
In 2019, Amy directed a new production of La Bohème in Copenhagen's Østre Gasværk, winning the CPH Culture Award for Best Opera Production and a nomination for Best Opera Production at the Reumert awards.
Amy has also co-directed with Kasper Holten, Drot og Marsk for the Royal Danish Opera (winner of the Best Production Reumert Award 2019) and a new commission of Marco Polo, starring Peter Lodahl in Guangzhou, Beijing and Quanzhou.
Amy's productions include: Romeo et Juliette (Malmö Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival), Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company), La Bohème (Den Norske Opera & Ballett), Noye's Fludde (Amiens, Compiegne, Cambridge), The Yellow Wallpaper (Aveny-T, Copenhagen and Sadlers Wells, London)
For Sir Bryn Terfel, Amy has stage and video directed Bryn Terfel at 50 (Royal Albert Hall), Tosca (Abu Dhabi Festival, RLPO, Welsh National Opera, Eisteddfod) and Falstaff (RLPO).
Associate Director:
The Ring Cycle (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Brothers (Armel Opera Festival – Budapest, Den Jyske Opera, The Icelandic Opera, Copenhagen Opera Festival),The Great Gatsby (Semperoper, Dresden), The Merchant of Venice (The Bregenz Festival, Polish National Opera, Welsh National Opera at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden).
Revival Director:
Tosca (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Don Giovanni (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Canadian Opera Company, Liceu, Barcelona) and Krol Roger (Opera Australia).
Stage & Video Direction:
In 2016, Amy stage and video designed War Horse in Concert, and it has been performed at The Royal Albert Hall with Joanna Lumley and Michael Morpurgo and recorded as an audio book. It was also recorded for BBC Radio 2, with Simon Callow, Juliet Stevenson and the BBC Concert Orchestra and performed in Edinburgh and Leeds in November 2018.
Born in London, Amy began her career in stage management, where she worked for three years in London's West End on An Inspector Calls, for four seasons with Diva Opera, finally joining The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2005, where she was involved with over twenty-five productions.
As a young singer, she performed with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park and was a backing singer for Barry Manilow at Wembley Arena.
From 2015 to 2019 she was the Head Staff Director at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Director:
Amy is the Stage & Video Director of Wagner’s The Ring Cycle for Longborough Festival Opera (2019-2024).
In 2019, Amy directed a new production of La Bohème in Copenhagen's Østre Gasværk, winning the CPH Culture Award for Best Opera Production and a nomination for Best Opera Production at the Reumert awards.
Amy has also co-directed with Kasper Holten, Drot og Marsk for the Royal Danish Opera (winner of the Best Production Reumert Award 2019) and a new commission of Marco Polo, starring Peter Lodahl in Guangzhou, Beijing and Quanzhou.
Amy's productions include: Romeo et Juliette (Malmö Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival), Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company), La Bohème (Den Norske Opera & Ballett), Noye's Fludde (Amiens, Compiegne, Cambridge), The Yellow Wallpaper (Aveny-T, Copenhagen and Sadlers Wells, London)
For Sir Bryn Terfel, Amy has stage and video directed Bryn Terfel at 50 (Royal Albert Hall), Tosca (Abu Dhabi Festival, RLPO, Welsh National Opera, Eisteddfod) and Falstaff (RLPO).
Associate Director:
The Ring Cycle (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Brothers (Armel Opera Festival – Budapest, Den Jyske Opera, The Icelandic Opera, Copenhagen Opera Festival),The Great Gatsby (Semperoper, Dresden), The Merchant of Venice (The Bregenz Festival, Polish National Opera, Welsh National Opera at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden).
Revival Director:
Tosca (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Don Giovanni (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Canadian Opera Company, Liceu, Barcelona) and Krol Roger (Opera Australia).
Stage & Video Direction:
In 2016, Amy stage and video designed War Horse in Concert, and it has been performed at The Royal Albert Hall with Joanna Lumley and Michael Morpurgo and recorded as an audio book. It was also recorded for BBC Radio 2, with Simon Callow, Juliet Stevenson and the BBC Concert Orchestra and performed in Edinburgh and Leeds in November 2018.
Daniela Pellegrino
Repetiteur/Conductor/Vocal Coach
Daniela Pellegrino attended the “V. Bellini” Conservatory in her hometown Catania (Italy), where she graduated with honors in Piano Studies under the guidance of M° Corrado Ratto.She then continued her studies with M° Vincenzo Balzani, and from 2009 to 2011she trained and qualified as répétiteur and vocal coach at the “Scuola dell’Opera” of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.At the Semperoper Dresden in Germany she worked from 2011 to 2016 as arépétiteur and vocal coach. In addition she held the post of “Director of the YoungArtist Program” in that theater, with which she continues to collaborate. Working with young singers is an activity to which she has devoted particular attention and gathered considerable experience.She has also been vocal coach at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier(2013 - “Madame Sans Gene” by U.Giordano, 2014 - “Gli Zingari” byR.Leoncavallo and 2017 - “I puritani” by V.Bellini).
During the 2010-11 seasons she was répétiteur at the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca, on the following porductions: “Gianni di Parigi” byG.Donizetti, “Il novello Giasone” by F.Cavalli and “Aureliano in Palmira” byG.Rossini - (DVD Edition).Since 2010 she has regularly been associated with the Teatro Regio in Parma as a part of the “Verdi Festival” for the operas: “Il Trovatore”, “Un ballo in maschera“, “ I vespri siciliani “, “ Don Carlo”, “ Giovanna d’Arco “.Recently Ms. Pellegrino has been invited as répétiteur by Teatro Regio in Turin,Spoleto Festival dei due mondi, Wexford festival and the Rossini OperaFestival (Pesaro), where she was involved in their production of “La donna delLago”, conducted by M° Michele Mariotti and directed by Damiano Michieletto,and also for the productions of “La pietra del paragone”, “ Ricciardo e Zoraide “,“Demetrio e Polibio” and “ La cambiale di matrimonio”In 2018 saw her at the Teatro Bolshoi in Moscow for the production of Verdi’s“Un ballo in maschera “ and the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona for the operas :“Manon Lescaut “ by G. Puccini and “L’Italiana in Algeri” by G. Rossini, also playing cembalo during the performances.
Most recently, her collaborations include· Cartagena Festival in Columbia forMozart’s “Così fan tutte“, the Semperoper Dresden for “Don Giovanni” by W. A.Mozart and “Il viaggio a Reims“ by G. Rossini, the Spoleto Festival dei dueMondi for the contemporary Operas “Il Minotauro” and “Proserpine” by S.Colasanti, and the Donizetti Opera Festival In Bergamo for “ Lucrezia Borgia”“Marino Faliero”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “La Favorite”, “Il Diluvio Universale” and“Roberto Devereux.In January 2020 she began a collaboration with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Musical Assistant of Maestro Omer Meir Wellber, opening the season with a production of “Parsifal” by R. Wagner directed by Graham Vick.
In 2021 she has started a collaboration with Teatro Real di Madrid as PianoCoach and Continuo Player for the recits in the Season Opening Production “LaCenerentola” under the baton of M.o Riccardo Frizza while continuing to work as Piano Coach at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2023 “Macbeth” production conducted by Musical Director M.o Josep Pons followed by “La Cenerentola” with M.o Giacomo Sagripanti in 2024.Among other engagements as Concert Pianist she has been at Festival d’Aix enProvence and recently (February 2024) at the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse in a Rossinian Concert with Karine Deshayes and Florian Sempey.
Ms. Pellegrino also holds a Doctorate Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Catania, where she graduated with honors. In addition to her native Italian, She is fluent in French, English and German. She considers the command of these languages fundamental to her skills as a Vocal Coach and teacher of young singers.
Daniela Pellegrino attended the “V. Bellini” Conservatory in her hometown Catania (Italy), where she graduated with honors in Piano Studies under the guidance of M° Corrado Ratto.She then continued her studies with M° Vincenzo Balzani, and from 2009 to 2011she trained and qualified as répétiteur and vocal coach at the “Scuola dell’Opera” of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.At the Semperoper Dresden in Germany she worked from 2011 to 2016 as arépétiteur and vocal coach. In addition she held the post of “Director of the YoungArtist Program” in that theater, with which she continues to collaborate. Working with young singers is an activity to which she has devoted particular attention and gathered considerable experience.She has also been vocal coach at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier(2013 - “Madame Sans Gene” by U.Giordano, 2014 - “Gli Zingari” byR.Leoncavallo and 2017 - “I puritani” by V.Bellini).
During the 2010-11 seasons she was répétiteur at the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca, on the following porductions: “Gianni di Parigi” byG.Donizetti, “Il novello Giasone” by F.Cavalli and “Aureliano in Palmira” byG.Rossini - (DVD Edition).Since 2010 she has regularly been associated with the Teatro Regio in Parma as a part of the “Verdi Festival” for the operas: “Il Trovatore”, “Un ballo in maschera“, “ I vespri siciliani “, “ Don Carlo”, “ Giovanna d’Arco “.Recently Ms. Pellegrino has been invited as répétiteur by Teatro Regio in Turin,Spoleto Festival dei due mondi, Wexford festival and the Rossini OperaFestival (Pesaro), where she was involved in their production of “La donna delLago”, conducted by M° Michele Mariotti and directed by Damiano Michieletto,and also for the productions of “La pietra del paragone”, “ Ricciardo e Zoraide “,“Demetrio e Polibio” and “ La cambiale di matrimonio”In 2018 saw her at the Teatro Bolshoi in Moscow for the production of Verdi’s“Un ballo in maschera “ and the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona for the operas :“Manon Lescaut “ by G. Puccini and “L’Italiana in Algeri” by G. Rossini, also playing cembalo during the performances.
Most recently, her collaborations include· Cartagena Festival in Columbia forMozart’s “Così fan tutte“, the Semperoper Dresden for “Don Giovanni” by W. A.Mozart and “Il viaggio a Reims“ by G. Rossini, the Spoleto Festival dei dueMondi for the contemporary Operas “Il Minotauro” and “Proserpine” by S.Colasanti, and the Donizetti Opera Festival In Bergamo for “ Lucrezia Borgia”“Marino Faliero”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “La Favorite”, “Il Diluvio Universale” and“Roberto Devereux.In January 2020 she began a collaboration with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Musical Assistant of Maestro Omer Meir Wellber, opening the season with a production of “Parsifal” by R. Wagner directed by Graham Vick.
In 2021 she has started a collaboration with Teatro Real di Madrid as PianoCoach and Continuo Player for the recits in the Season Opening Production “LaCenerentola” under the baton of M.o Riccardo Frizza while continuing to work as Piano Coach at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2023 “Macbeth” production conducted by Musical Director M.o Josep Pons followed by “La Cenerentola” with M.o Giacomo Sagripanti in 2024.Among other engagements as Concert Pianist she has been at Festival d’Aix enProvence and recently (February 2024) at the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse in a Rossinian Concert with Karine Deshayes and Florian Sempey.
Ms. Pellegrino also holds a Doctorate Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Catania, where she graduated with honors. In addition to her native Italian, She is fluent in French, English and German. She considers the command of these languages fundamental to her skills as a Vocal Coach and teacher of young singers.
Marco Rizello
Pianist/Repetiteur/Vocal Coach
Marco Rizzello, born in Rimini in 1997, is an Italian Pianist and Opera Coach. Based in Germany, Mr. Rizzello is currently serving the full-time music staff at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, holding the positions of Solorepetitor and Italian Diction coach since season 2024/2025.
His current season at the opera house includes engagements as a fortepiano and recitative player for Don Giovanni and as a repetiteur, orchestral pianist and backstage conductor for the productions of Sancta, Otello, Rigoletto, Cenerentola, La Sonnambula, Der Rote Wal, Station Paradiso, Carmen and Turandot. A passionate recitalist, this season he will also make his UK debut – performing at the North Norfolk Music Festival with tenor Jonah Hoskins – and will be the pianist for the show Häßlich as fuck with mezzosoprano Itzeli del Rosario at JOiN – Junge Opera im Nord in Stuttgart.
Marco Rizzello’s career has led him to multiple engagements throughout Europe and the States. In the course of Season 2024/2025, in Stuttgart, he has been a repetiteur for seven productions (Sancta, Idomeneo, Игрок, Parsifal, Otello, Zaide and Rigoletto), he performed as an orchestral pianist and organist in four concerts with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart (the last one including Mahler’s Eight Symphony) and has played the fortepiano for Barrie Kosky’s iconic production of Die Zauberflöte.
During Season 2023/2024, Rizzello was a Studio Artist at the Houston Grand Opera, where he served as a repetiteur for Jake Heggie’s Intelligence, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni and appeared in recitals and other performances. In Summer 2024, he worked as a staff pianist for the Ravinia Festival and as an Italian Diction coach at the Santa Fe Opera.
Highlights from past seasons include engagements as an Opera Coaching Fellow for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in 2023 and for the Aspen Music Festival in 2022. In addition,
Rizzello is an alumnus of the Georg Solti Accademia 2023, has performed for Classical Music Station WQXR in New York and has been part of the music staff at Manhattan School of Music and NYU Steinhardt. Rizzello is a pianist with an extended repertoire that ranges from Bach to Ligeti and includes more than 20 active operatic titles. He has collaborated with conductors such as Harry Bickett, Nicholas Carter, Valerio Galli, Dame Jane Glover, Roberto Kalb, Cornelius Meister, Stefano Montanari, Marc Piollet, Corrado Rovaris, Marit Strindlund, Patrick Summers, Andriy Yurkevich,
His passion for the vocal repertoire led him to study several languages. In addition to being a native Italian speaker, he speaks English, German, French and elementary Russian.
Marco Rizzello holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Piano from the Conservatorio “Bruno Maderna” in Cesena and Master’s Degrees in Solo and Collaborative Piano from the Conservatorio “Gioachino Rossini” in Pesaro. He also studied at the International Piano Academy in Imola and at the Manhattan School of Music (PPD 2023). He studied solo repertoire with Giorgio Farina, Marlies Van Gent, Boris Petrushansky and Giovanni Valentini, and collaborative repertoire with Ubaldo Fabbri, Warren Jones and Thomas Lausmann.
Marco Rizzello, born in Rimini in 1997, is an Italian Pianist and Opera Coach. Based in Germany, Mr. Rizzello is currently serving the full-time music staff at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, holding the positions of Solorepetitor and Italian Diction coach since season 2024/2025.
His current season at the opera house includes engagements as a fortepiano and recitative player for Don Giovanni and as a repetiteur, orchestral pianist and backstage conductor for the productions of Sancta, Otello, Rigoletto, Cenerentola, La Sonnambula, Der Rote Wal, Station Paradiso, Carmen and Turandot. A passionate recitalist, this season he will also make his UK debut – performing at the North Norfolk Music Festival with tenor Jonah Hoskins – and will be the pianist for the show Häßlich as fuck with mezzosoprano Itzeli del Rosario at JOiN – Junge Opera im Nord in Stuttgart.
Marco Rizzello’s career has led him to multiple engagements throughout Europe and the States. In the course of Season 2024/2025, in Stuttgart, he has been a repetiteur for seven productions (Sancta, Idomeneo, Игрок, Parsifal, Otello, Zaide and Rigoletto), he performed as an orchestral pianist and organist in four concerts with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart (the last one including Mahler’s Eight Symphony) and has played the fortepiano for Barrie Kosky’s iconic production of Die Zauberflöte.
During Season 2023/2024, Rizzello was a Studio Artist at the Houston Grand Opera, where he served as a repetiteur for Jake Heggie’s Intelligence, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni and appeared in recitals and other performances. In Summer 2024, he worked as a staff pianist for the Ravinia Festival and as an Italian Diction coach at the Santa Fe Opera.
Highlights from past seasons include engagements as an Opera Coaching Fellow for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in 2023 and for the Aspen Music Festival in 2022. In addition,
Rizzello is an alumnus of the Georg Solti Accademia 2023, has performed for Classical Music Station WQXR in New York and has been part of the music staff at Manhattan School of Music and NYU Steinhardt. Rizzello is a pianist with an extended repertoire that ranges from Bach to Ligeti and includes more than 20 active operatic titles. He has collaborated with conductors such as Harry Bickett, Nicholas Carter, Valerio Galli, Dame Jane Glover, Roberto Kalb, Cornelius Meister, Stefano Montanari, Marc Piollet, Corrado Rovaris, Marit Strindlund, Patrick Summers, Andriy Yurkevich,
His passion for the vocal repertoire led him to study several languages. In addition to being a native Italian speaker, he speaks English, German, French and elementary Russian.
Marco Rizzello holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Piano from the Conservatorio “Bruno Maderna” in Cesena and Master’s Degrees in Solo and Collaborative Piano from the Conservatorio “Gioachino Rossini” in Pesaro. He also studied at the International Piano Academy in Imola and at the Manhattan School of Music (PPD 2023). He studied solo repertoire with Giorgio Farina, Marlies Van Gent, Boris Petrushansky and Giovanni Valentini, and collaborative repertoire with Ubaldo Fabbri, Warren Jones and Thomas Lausmann.
Jonathan Friend
Casting Consultant Metropolitan Opera, Royal Swedish Opera.
Jonathan Friend was born in London, England, and educated in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He joined English National Opera in 1974, becoming the Archivist in 1977. In 1979 he became Company Manager for English National Opera North in Leeds. In 1981, he was invited by James Levine to come to the Metropolitan Opera, becoming Company Manager in 1982. In 1984 he was appointed Artistic Administrator, responsible for the planning of future seasons and engaging singers and conductors, in which capacity he served until 2020.
He is currently Casting Consultant for the Metrolpolitan Opera and The Royal Swedish Opera and frequently serves as a judge on vocal competitions.
Jonathan Friend was born in London, England, and educated in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He joined English National Opera in 1974, becoming the Archivist in 1977. In 1979 he became Company Manager for English National Opera North in Leeds. In 1981, he was invited by James Levine to come to the Metropolitan Opera, becoming Company Manager in 1982. In 1984 he was appointed Artistic Administrator, responsible for the planning of future seasons and engaging singers and conductors, in which capacity he served until 2020.
He is currently Casting Consultant for the Metrolpolitan Opera and The Royal Swedish Opera and frequently serves as a judge on vocal competitions.
Ian Burnside
Pianist/Broadcaster/Vocal coach
Thanks to prolific careers both as pianist and award-winning broadcaster, Iain is one of the UK’s best-known musicians.
Iain has worked with a broad roster of international singers: Dame Margaret Price, Rosa Feola, Ailish Tynan, Joyce DiDonato, Laurence Brownlee, Roderick Williams, and Bryn Terfel, among many others. He has recorded more than 60 CDs, often created around neglected composers, where his curatorial skills are displayed to the full. He is a great champion of young singers, playing a crucial role in introducing them to a wider audience. Recent highlights include a Rachmaninov Song Series at Wigmore Hall with outstanding Slavic singers, following his acclaimed Delphian recordings of Rachmaninov and Medtner. Other Delphian collaborations range from Schubert Lieder to songs from each of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.
Innovative programme planning has led Iain to expand his concert work into a hybrid form of music theatre, creating staged work around Brahms (Shining Armour), Wagner (The View from the Villa) and Gurney (A Soldier and a Maker). He has broadcast extensively on both radio and TV, notably as host of BBC R3’s acclaimed Voices series.
In addition to a long association with London’s Guildhall School, Iain is Visiting International Artist at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. Competitions where he has served as a jury member include Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, Busoni and Honens piano competitions and Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera, Surrey.
Thanks to prolific careers both as pianist and award-winning broadcaster, Iain is one of the UK’s best-known musicians.
Iain has worked with a broad roster of international singers: Dame Margaret Price, Rosa Feola, Ailish Tynan, Joyce DiDonato, Laurence Brownlee, Roderick Williams, and Bryn Terfel, among many others. He has recorded more than 60 CDs, often created around neglected composers, where his curatorial skills are displayed to the full. He is a great champion of young singers, playing a crucial role in introducing them to a wider audience. Recent highlights include a Rachmaninov Song Series at Wigmore Hall with outstanding Slavic singers, following his acclaimed Delphian recordings of Rachmaninov and Medtner. Other Delphian collaborations range from Schubert Lieder to songs from each of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.
Innovative programme planning has led Iain to expand his concert work into a hybrid form of music theatre, creating staged work around Brahms (Shining Armour), Wagner (The View from the Villa) and Gurney (A Soldier and a Maker). He has broadcast extensively on both radio and TV, notably as host of BBC R3’s acclaimed Voices series.
In addition to a long association with London’s Guildhall School, Iain is Visiting International Artist at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. Competitions where he has served as a jury member include Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, Busoni and Honens piano competitions and Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera, Surrey.
Brian Dickie
Artistic Advisor
Brian Dickie was the General Director of Chicago Opera Theater from 1999 until 2012. In the last three years the company's growing reputation has brought it great applause, most notably after its recent participation with the Netherlands Opera and Les Arts Florissants in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Monteverdi cycle. After the extraordinary success of his first season with the company he was honored by the Chicago Tribune as a Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts for 2000.
Brian Dickie was born in England in 1941 and joined Glyndebourne Festival as an administrative assistant in the Music and Planning Departments in 1962. As assistant to the Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser, he worked closely with Günther Rennert, Carl Ebert, John Pritchard and Vittorio Gui.
From 1967 to 1973 he was Artistic Director of the Wexford Festival and simultaneously the first Administrator of Glyndebourne Touring Opera where a high proportion of leading British singers begin their careers. From 1973 to 1984 he was Artistic Adviser successively to the theatres in Angers, Nancy and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In 1981 he became General Administrator of Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he continued to work with many distinguished Directors and Conductors including Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Bernard Haitink, Simon Rattle, and Andrew Davis.
After 27 years with Glyndebourne, he went to Toronto as General Director of Canadian Opera Company in 1989 where he remained for 5 years leading the company to major successes. In 1994 he became Artistic Adviser of Opéra de Nice and in 1997-98 was General Director of the European Union Opera, sponsored by the European Commission in Brussels.
Since his return to London he has been Artistic Adviser and Consultant to Garsington Opera and English National Opera.
Brian Dickie is serving as Head of Auditions during the preliminary rounds of Neue Stimmen since 1999.
Brian Dickie was the General Director of Chicago Opera Theater from 1999 until 2012. In the last three years the company's growing reputation has brought it great applause, most notably after its recent participation with the Netherlands Opera and Les Arts Florissants in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Monteverdi cycle. After the extraordinary success of his first season with the company he was honored by the Chicago Tribune as a Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts for 2000.
Brian Dickie was born in England in 1941 and joined Glyndebourne Festival as an administrative assistant in the Music and Planning Departments in 1962. As assistant to the Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser, he worked closely with Günther Rennert, Carl Ebert, John Pritchard and Vittorio Gui.
From 1967 to 1973 he was Artistic Director of the Wexford Festival and simultaneously the first Administrator of Glyndebourne Touring Opera where a high proportion of leading British singers begin their careers. From 1973 to 1984 he was Artistic Adviser successively to the theatres in Angers, Nancy and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In 1981 he became General Administrator of Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he continued to work with many distinguished Directors and Conductors including Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Bernard Haitink, Simon Rattle, and Andrew Davis.
After 27 years with Glyndebourne, he went to Toronto as General Director of Canadian Opera Company in 1989 where he remained for 5 years leading the company to major successes. In 1994 he became Artistic Adviser of Opéra de Nice and in 1997-98 was General Director of the European Union Opera, sponsored by the European Commission in Brussels.
Since his return to London he has been Artistic Adviser and Consultant to Garsington Opera and English National Opera.
Brian Dickie is serving as Head of Auditions during the preliminary rounds of Neue Stimmen since 1999.
Daniel Cohen
Conductor/Music Director
Daniel Cohen has served as General Music Director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt since 2018 and recently extended his tenure through the 2026–27 season. Highlights in Darmstadt include Wagner’s Lohengrin (directed by Andrea Moses), Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann (Dirk Schmeding), Strauss’s Elektra and Berg’s Wozzeck (Karsten Wiegand), Verdi’s Otello (Paul-Georg Dittrich), as well as Berg’s Lulu and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Eva-Maria Höckmayr).
In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debuts with the English National Opera in London and Manchester in Britten’s Albert Herring, the New National Theatre Tokyo in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Staatsorchester Stuttgar. He will also return to the Israel Philharmonic and Munich Symphony Orchestras.
Cohen maintains strong artistic ties with Berlin’s opera houses. In 2015–16, he served as Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducting productions including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and La Traviata, and has returned regularly ever since, most recently for the widely acclaimed world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Il Teorema di Pasolini. Deutsche Bühne noted: “Conductor Daniel Cohen and the Deutsche Oper orchestra perform (...) at the quality level of a top international opera house.” At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he debuted in 2016–17 with Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, he has since returned for Il barbiere di Siviglia and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, among others.
Further opera engagements have taken him to the Canadian Opera Company (La clemenza di Tito with David Alden), the Macerata Opera Festival (The Magic Flute with Graham Vick), the Israeli Opera (Wozzeck and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Teatro Massimo di Palermo (Idomeneo and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Theater Essen (Wozzeck), and the Norwegian Opera, Oslo (The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro). In July 2025, he conducts the highly praised Italian premiere of Britten’s Owen Wingrave at the Festival della Valle d’Itria.
In the symphonic field, Cohen has conducted leading ensembles including the Staatskapelle Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Munich Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Israeli Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Camerata Salzburg, and Basel Symphony Orchestra. In 2021, he recorded Hindemith’s Clarinet Concerto with the HR Frankfurt Radio Orchestra and soloist Sharon Kam for Orfeo.
Cohen’s long-standing association with the Bregenz Festival began in 2019 with his debut conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, directed by Mariame Clément. The production, later released on DVD and broadcast by the BBC, won the 2020 Austrian Music Theater Prize for “Best Overall Opera Production.” He returned in 2021 for Rigoletto and in 2022 and 2024 to conduct the Akademieorchester Bregenz.
A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Cohen served as Pierre Boulez’s assistant at the Lucerne Festival (2009–2010) and participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Project (2011–2013), making his KKL debut under Boulez’s guidance.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Cohen was for many years a violinist in the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, where he also served as assistant to Daniel Barenboim. He was a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013–14 and a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2014.
Daniel Cohen has served as General Music Director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt since 2018 and recently extended his tenure through the 2026–27 season. Highlights in Darmstadt include Wagner’s Lohengrin (directed by Andrea Moses), Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann (Dirk Schmeding), Strauss’s Elektra and Berg’s Wozzeck (Karsten Wiegand), Verdi’s Otello (Paul-Georg Dittrich), as well as Berg’s Lulu and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Eva-Maria Höckmayr).
In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debuts with the English National Opera in London and Manchester in Britten’s Albert Herring, the New National Theatre Tokyo in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Staatsorchester Stuttgar. He will also return to the Israel Philharmonic and Munich Symphony Orchestras.
Cohen maintains strong artistic ties with Berlin’s opera houses. In 2015–16, he served as Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducting productions including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and La Traviata, and has returned regularly ever since, most recently for the widely acclaimed world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Il Teorema di Pasolini. Deutsche Bühne noted: “Conductor Daniel Cohen and the Deutsche Oper orchestra perform (...) at the quality level of a top international opera house.” At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he debuted in 2016–17 with Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, he has since returned for Il barbiere di Siviglia and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, among others.
Further opera engagements have taken him to the Canadian Opera Company (La clemenza di Tito with David Alden), the Macerata Opera Festival (The Magic Flute with Graham Vick), the Israeli Opera (Wozzeck and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Teatro Massimo di Palermo (Idomeneo and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Theater Essen (Wozzeck), and the Norwegian Opera, Oslo (The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro). In July 2025, he conducts the highly praised Italian premiere of Britten’s Owen Wingrave at the Festival della Valle d’Itria.
In the symphonic field, Cohen has conducted leading ensembles including the Staatskapelle Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Munich Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Israeli Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Camerata Salzburg, and Basel Symphony Orchestra. In 2021, he recorded Hindemith’s Clarinet Concerto with the HR Frankfurt Radio Orchestra and soloist Sharon Kam for Orfeo.
Cohen’s long-standing association with the Bregenz Festival began in 2019 with his debut conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, directed by Mariame Clément. The production, later released on DVD and broadcast by the BBC, won the 2020 Austrian Music Theater Prize for “Best Overall Opera Production.” He returned in 2021 for Rigoletto and in 2022 and 2024 to conduct the Akademieorchester Bregenz.
A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Cohen served as Pierre Boulez’s assistant at the Lucerne Festival (2009–2010) and participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Project (2011–2013), making his KKL debut under Boulez’s guidance.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Cohen was for many years a violinist in the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, where he also served as assistant to Daniel Barenboim. He was a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013–14 and a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2014.
Martin Dubé
Pianist/Vocal Coach
Martin Dubé was born in Montmagny and studied piano with Michel Franck and Robert Weisz at Laval
University before completing a Master’s degree in chamber music with Marina Mdivani at McGill University. He also worked with Dale Bartlett and Michael McMahon. He then became a fellow of the Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying vocal coaching and piano accompaniment with the
distinguished teacher Warren Jones.
He collaborated with the American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux to perform a recital at the Caramoor
International Music Festival, New York, and also in Juneau, Fairbanks, San Diego, Pittsburgh, and San Remo in Italy. He made a recording, “An evening of Arias and Songs”, dedicated to the works of Rossini
with Ms. Genaux at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall. Martin Dubé has performed in many recital halls including Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, Weill Hall, and Merkin Hall of New York, and in many cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Santa Barbara, Huntsville (Chamber Music Guild), Damascus, Toronto,
Montréal, and Québec. With the soprano Hélène Guilmette, he has performed in recitals at the Istanbul
Music Festival in Turkey, and at the Bastille Amphitheatre of the Opéra National de Paris, the Capitole de
Toulouse and in Tours in France. This collaboration gave birth to a recording in 2015 under the Analekta
label. The album, “L’heure Rose”, is dedicated to French melodies of female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
From 1997 to 2000, Martin Dubé was an associate vocal coach at the Juilliard School in New York, and
since the summer of 1997, at the Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory) in the United States, where he teaches alongside the renowned voice teacher Marlena Malas. For the
2005-2006 season, Monsieur Dubé worked at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was also a rehearsal pianist for the productions by Opera Philadelphia. He was a vocal coach for the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier lyrique for more than 20 years and is one of the official accompanists for the Concours musical international de Montréal for voice.
Monsieur Dubé has accompanied masterclasses given by several renowned artists including Elly
Ameling, Sherill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Martin Katz, Marlena Malas, Licia Albanese, Leontyne Price,
Benita Valente, Renata Scotto, Dawn Upshaw and Michael Eliasen, to name but a few.
In February 1999, he was the rehearsal pianist and harpsichordist for the production of Così fan Tutte by San Diego Opera. His performances have been broadcast on WQXR-FM, New York Public Radio, and
many times by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
During his studies, Martin Dubé received scholarship awards from the Fondation Desjardins, the Richelieu Clubs, the Fonds FCAR, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, and the Music
Academy of the West in California.
Monsieur Dubé is currently one of the most sought-after accompanists and coaches by professional
singers in the province of Quebec. He also has taught at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec and
served as a voice coach at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Most recently, he has been appointed to be the head coach of Atelier lyrique, artist-in-residence program, of Opera de Montreal,
starting this September.
Martin Dubé was born in Montmagny and studied piano with Michel Franck and Robert Weisz at Laval
University before completing a Master’s degree in chamber music with Marina Mdivani at McGill University. He also worked with Dale Bartlett and Michael McMahon. He then became a fellow of the Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying vocal coaching and piano accompaniment with the
distinguished teacher Warren Jones.
He collaborated with the American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux to perform a recital at the Caramoor
International Music Festival, New York, and also in Juneau, Fairbanks, San Diego, Pittsburgh, and San Remo in Italy. He made a recording, “An evening of Arias and Songs”, dedicated to the works of Rossini
with Ms. Genaux at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall. Martin Dubé has performed in many recital halls including Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, Weill Hall, and Merkin Hall of New York, and in many cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Santa Barbara, Huntsville (Chamber Music Guild), Damascus, Toronto,
Montréal, and Québec. With the soprano Hélène Guilmette, he has performed in recitals at the Istanbul
Music Festival in Turkey, and at the Bastille Amphitheatre of the Opéra National de Paris, the Capitole de
Toulouse and in Tours in France. This collaboration gave birth to a recording in 2015 under the Analekta
label. The album, “L’heure Rose”, is dedicated to French melodies of female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
From 1997 to 2000, Martin Dubé was an associate vocal coach at the Juilliard School in New York, and
since the summer of 1997, at the Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory) in the United States, where he teaches alongside the renowned voice teacher Marlena Malas. For the
2005-2006 season, Monsieur Dubé worked at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was also a rehearsal pianist for the productions by Opera Philadelphia. He was a vocal coach for the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier lyrique for more than 20 years and is one of the official accompanists for the Concours musical international de Montréal for voice.
Monsieur Dubé has accompanied masterclasses given by several renowned artists including Elly
Ameling, Sherill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Martin Katz, Marlena Malas, Licia Albanese, Leontyne Price,
Benita Valente, Renata Scotto, Dawn Upshaw and Michael Eliasen, to name but a few.
In February 1999, he was the rehearsal pianist and harpsichordist for the production of Così fan Tutte by San Diego Opera. His performances have been broadcast on WQXR-FM, New York Public Radio, and
many times by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
During his studies, Martin Dubé received scholarship awards from the Fondation Desjardins, the Richelieu Clubs, the Fonds FCAR, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, and the Music
Academy of the West in California.
Monsieur Dubé is currently one of the most sought-after accompanists and coaches by professional
singers in the province of Quebec. He also has taught at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec and
served as a voice coach at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Most recently, he has been appointed to be the head coach of Atelier lyrique, artist-in-residence program, of Opera de Montreal,
starting this September.
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Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
Spoleto, Umbria, Italy June 15-26 July 2026
Directors: Matthew Rose and Jeremy Carpenter
In association with Mahler LeWitt Sudios and Vocal Masterclasses, Stockholm
We are very pleased to announce the second course for singers in the beautiful town of Spoleto in Umbria, Italy.
Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshops bring together the work of Jeremy Carpenter and Matthew Rose to help the next generation of vocal performers. Participants will work on all aspects of vocal and dramatc training with world experts, with many collective years of experience working at the highest levels in the classical vocal arts.
Jeremy and Matthew will teach daily voice lessons, along with the internationally renowned soprano Nicole Cabell.
Joining us to work with the singers, this year, is the director Amy Lane, the pianists and vocal coaches Daniella Pellegrino, Ian Burnside, Jonathan C Kelly, Marco Rizello and Martin Dubé who have all worked as pianists and vocal coaches at the very highest level.
We are also very excited to be able to offer masterclasses with Brian Dickie, Glyndebourne, Wexford, Chicago and Corrado Rovaris, Opera Philadelphia.
We will work each day individually, and as a group, and there will be performance opportunites and masterclasses with guest teachers.
The course has limited number of spaces available.
Accommodation etc to be organised separately with the help of Mahler LeWitt Studios.
Cost 2000 Euros
Scholarships will be available.
HOW TO APPLY
12 day course is 1500 euros
The course is aimed at Post Graduate level students or young professional singers
Last day for application is 15th April 2026
Accomodation is not provided although we are on hand to help with advice. For more infor info regarding accomodation please contact Tommaso Faraci on tommaso@mahler-lewitt.org
Application by submission of;
CV in PDF format
Two contrasting opera arias
One Art song
At least one media file in italian
Application and costs: Who We Are
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