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Raquela Sheeran
Soprano |
As an active performer of opera,
recital and concert repertoire,
north American born soprano
Raquela Sheeran has performed
extensively throughout the
United States and Europe. Ms.
Sheeran currently is singing
with Deutsche Oper Berlin. Among
the roles that Ms. Sheeran has
been engaged to perform with the
company are Gretel in Hänsel und
Gretel, Anna in Nabucco, Ein
junges Mädchen in Moses und Aron,
Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte,
Erste Magd in Daphne, Amore in
Orfeo ed Euridice, Zweites
Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, Nimwe
and Merryll Bee in the premiere
of Wilfried Maria Danner's
chamber opera Merlin in Soho,
Sophie in Werther, |
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Azema in Semiramide,
Elster in the premiere of Paul Hertel and Paul
Flieder's children's opera, Elster und Parzival
as well as Olympia, Giulietta and Antonia in Opa/er
Hoffmann erzählt, a children's version of Les
Contes d'Hoffmann.
Other roles in Ms.Sheeran's repertoire include
Karolina in Smetana's Two Widows, Marzelline in
Fidelio, Yvette/Georgette in La Rondine, Naïade
in Ariadne auf Naxos, Serafina in Donizetti's Il
Campanello di Notte, and Blonde in Die
Entführung aus dem Serail. She has performed
with New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Chautauqua
Opera in New York, Central City Opera in
Colorado and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
Prior to moving to Germany, Ms. Sheeran
completed her training as a young artist at the
Juilliard School Opera Center. With the Opera
Center, she was featured in their productions of
La Cenerentola as Clorinda and in the U.S.
premiere of Kurt Weill's operetta, Der Kuhhandel
as Juanita.
In New York, Ms. Sheeran has been featured in
recitals at the Lincoln Center Library, the 92nd
Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, the Harvard Club,
the Juilliard School and Chautauqua Institution.
As a Piatigorsky Foundation Artist, she
performed a recital tour throughout southern
Louisiana and will perform another one
throughout eastern Texas in January, 2003.
Ms. Sheeran has been the soprano soloist in
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Fauré's Requiem,
Shostakovich's Yiddish Folk Songs, Orff's
Carmina Burana, Brahms' Requiem and Mozart's
Requiem. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall,
the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony
Orchestra, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia,
Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, Il
Duomo in Spoleto, Italy as part of Il Festival
dei due Mondi, the Mann Auditorium with the
Jerusalem Symphony in Tel Aviv and at the
Musikhochschule in Leipzig, Germany with the
Juilliard Contemporary Ensemble. In December
2002, Ms. Sheeran will have the honor of singing
as the soprano soloist in the world premiere of
Spanish born composer Lorenzo Palomo's new
composition to be written for the Barcelona
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of renowned
conductor, Jesús López Cobos.
Among the awards Ms. Sheeran has received are
the Lotte Lenya Singing Competition/Kurt Weill
Foundation for Music Award, the American Berlin
Opera Foundation Scholarship, the Licia
Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award, the Opera
Index Grant and most recently, the Franz-Josef-Weisweiler
Stipendium.
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Efi Hackmey
Piano
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Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Efi Hackmey studied
piano and orchestral conducting at Tel Aviv
University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music
degree (2002) and Master of Music degree (2004)
with highest honors. His teachers in Tel Aviv
were the legendary pianist Pnina Salzman and
conductor Noam Sheriff. During his studies in
Tel Aviv he won the second prize in the Tel Aviv
Academy Piano Competition (2003). Hackmey
currently studies with Menahem Pressler at
Indiana University in Bloomington, where he is
pursuing a Doctor of Music degree in piano
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Mr. Hackmey
was featured on Israeli TV Channel 2, as
well as on the Voice of Music channel of
the Israeli National Public Radio. He
has performed in chamber concerts
organized by the Arthur Rubinstein
International Music Society in Eilat,
Israel (2005). Other performances
include concerts in Germany, Austria,
and the United States. His recording of
songs by Israeli composer Yoav Essing,
together with soprano Noa Danon, won the
first prize in the Heinrich Heine
Composition Competition in Israel
(2002).
Mr. Hackmey served as associate
instructor in piano and music theory at
Indiana University and is currently on
the piano faculty at DePauw University
(Greencastle, Indiana) |
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