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Sebastian
Vittucci
Is
currently Professor of Voice Performance at the University
of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Born in
New York, he performed his first leading roles in drama
and musical productions. After graduating magna cum lauda
from the Eastman School of Music (studying voice with Yi
Kwei Sze, Anna Kaskas and John Maloy) he obtained his Masters
Degree in Voice at the University of Michigan (studying
with Eva Likova and Stanley Cornett). Further intensive
training for three years in the Lake George Summer Opera
Studio with Cynthia Auerbach. A Rotary Fellowship brought
him to Vienna, Austria where he received his Masters Degree
in Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing
Arts (studying with Anton Dermota and Gerhard Kahry). Advanced
studies with Carol Blaickner-Mayo, Hilde Zadek, Elena Nicolaidi,
Sena Jurinac and Cornelius Reid. Sebastian Vittucci trained
intensively for four years in the Feldenkrais Method®
and received his official license as a Practitioner in 1995
by the International Feldenkrais Foundation. He has performed
in all of the major concert halls of Vienna as a soloist
with orchestra with many well known conductors (Luciano
Berio, Lothar Zagrosek, Erwin Ortner) Soloist debut at the
Salzburg Music Festival 1985 in the opera "Saint Francois
d'Assise" by Olivier Messiaen, with the composer present.
For the past twenty-five years Sebastian Vittucci has been
teaching singing in Vienna. Since 1995 he also taught as
a Feldenkrais Practitioner. In 1990 he was appointed to
the voice teaching faculties of both the University of Music
and Performing Arts and at the Konservatorium Wien where
he developed and taught the course "Feldenkrais®
for Singers". Vittucci was chosen to head the Vocal
Studies Program and held this position until 2003 when he
appointed Professor of Voice at the Vienna University for
Music and Performing Arts.
For
more information:
www.belcanto-balancing.com
Email:
sebastian.vittucci@chello.at
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Stephen Delaney.
Irish/Australian pianist Stephen Delaney was born in Sydney,
Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Music in performance
at the University of Sydney studying under Neta Maughan and
graduating with high distinction. He continued his studies
in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende
Kunst and later at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. He
completed a diploma at the Conservatory specializing in accompaniment,
again graduating with high distinction.
Upon the completion of his studies, Stephen Delaney became
a member of the faculty at both the Vienna Conservatory of
Music and at the Universität für Musik und darstellende
Kunst Wien, working as a vocal coach.
Stephen Delaney has been engaged to teach at various festivals
and master classes including master classes with Gundula Janowitz
at the Schubertiade Festival (Schwarzenberg, Austria), the
Gutensteiner Cartusianer Festival (Gutenstein, Austria) and
the Allegro Vivo Festival (Horn, Austria).
Stephen Delaney was also musical director of the Viennese
theatre ensemble L.E.O. and has been responsible for the productions
of Donizetti’s Rita, Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne,
as well as the world premiere of three operas by Italian composer
Marco Pontini, Der Gast, Der Bär und Die
Schädlichkeit des Tabakrauchens and many music theatre
productions. He has also assisted productions for the Wiener
Taschenoper.
As a specialist in the field of vocal accompaniment, Stephen
Delaney has performed numerous vocal recitals with many well-known
artists, including Gundula Janowitz, with whom he performed
several song recitals in the season 2000 and 2001. He has
participated in the Vienna Festival, the Banff Chamber Music
Festival (Canada), the Royaumont Festival (France), La Strada
Festival (Graz, Austria), Classics in the City Festival (Graz,
Austria), for the Herbert von Karajan Center (Vienna, Austria)
the Festivale di Musica Perugia (Italy), the Haydn Festival
(Austria), for the Anglo-Suisse Artistic Foundation (Switzerland)
and for the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival (Urbania,
Italy). Stephen Delaney has appeared in both Austrian and
Australian radio and on Austrian and German television, he
has recorded with the University of Vienna Choir.
As well as a song recitalist, Stephen Delaney is active as
a chamber musician and soloist and has appeared across Europe,
Australia, North America and Japan.
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