15 - 25 February 2012 - ShowMe ™ South Africa

Ann Katrin Naidu (mezzo-soprano)
Born in Stuttgart, Naidu studied at the Art Conservatory with
Luisa Bosabalian and with Brigitte Fassbaender. She was awarded a diploma
with distinction. Various engagements took her to several Opera houses in
Germany and Switzerland. Naidu performed at the Prague Autumn Festival
singing Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer and sang the third Symphony by Mahler
with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo. With Lorin Maazel
she went on a concert tour to Valencia, Spain and La Scala in Milan. Zubin
Mehta has engaged her to appear at the Nationaltheater in Munich to sing
Wellgunde and Waltraute in the Ring des Nibelungen as well as Meg Page in
Falstaff. The Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where she is living, is her
home company.
Sebastian Noack (baritone)
Noack began his vocal studies in 1992 in Berlin and graduated with
distinction. Several master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert
Reimann completed his training. He was awarded 1st prize at the Bundeswettbewerb
Gesang in Berlin and at the Paula Lindberg-Salomon Competition. In
1997 he won second prize at the International Song Competition at Wigmore
Hall in London. Noack has made a name for himself particularly as a concert
singer, but is also especially interested in Lied. He continues to work regularly
in this genre with Thomas Quasthoff. In 2009 he made his debut at the Schubertiade
Schwarzenberg. In 2010 he appeared as Wolfram von Eschenbach in
Richard Wagners Tannhäuser (Opera Halle) and sung his first Kurvenal (in
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde) in the Deutschen Nationaltheater Weimar in 2011.
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Amanda Kleinbart (french horn)
Amanda was born in 1986 in Luxembourg. After completing her
Examen Supérieur at the conservatory of Luxembourg, she continued her
studies in Frankfurt-am-Main. And later with Prof. Marie-Luise Neunecker.
In 2010 she finalised her studies with a Master degree at the Hanns Eisler
conservatory in Berlin. From 2005 - 2008 Amanda performed within an
orchestra, as a soloist but also as a musician at international chamber music
festivals. She was awarded first prize at the Concours Artistique d’Epinal
and was a laureate at many international competitions. As the recipient of
the Ferenc-Fricsay bursary in 2008, Amanda performed with the Deutschen
Symphonie Orchester Berlin. In 2010, she got a fixed term contract of the
Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, became awardee of the Deutschen Musikrat
and was chosen in the Bundesauswahl Konzerte for Young Artists.
Franz Peter Fischer (violin)
Franz Peter Fischer studied violin in Munich and Düsseldorf. As
concertmaster of the “Junge Deutsche Philharmonie” (Young German Philharmonic)
he travelled throughout Europe, performing under numerous
renowned conductors, including Lorin Maazel and Daniel Barenboim.
During this period, Fischer had already started his studies on old instruments,
namely the violins of the Baroque era. Fischer has consequently
become a sought after performer of Baroque era music. He performed with
“Concentus Musicus Wien” under conductor Nicholas Harnoncourt and also
with “Musica Antiqua Köln”, conducted by Reinhard Goebel. He has given
concerts in many European countries as well as Japan, the USA and South Africa.
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