Song Recital

Elena SverdiolaitėThe young soprano Elena Sverdiolaitė comes from Vilnius, Lithuania. Her voice is characterized by its wide vocal range, but above all by its bright metallic color and even intensity across all registers. The soprano prefers to sing Mozart’s opera repertoire, but is also a passionate creator of original song recitals. In the 2024/25 season, Elena will become a member of the opera studio at Theater Münster. In 2018 Elena completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (singing class of Saulė Šerytė). She then studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and graduated in 2023 with a Master’s degree with distinction in Music Drama Performance in the opera class of Prof. Christoph U. Meier and Prof. Michael Sturminger. Elena’s repertoire includes Elettra in “Idomeneo”, Donna Anna in “Don Giovanni”, Rodelinda in “Rodelinda”, Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte”, Musetta in “La bohème”, Lauretta in “Gianni Schicchi”, Najade in “Ariadne auf Naxos”. Elena was an Anny-Felbermayer scholarship holder in 2021/2022. This year, she was also supported by “Amicitia”, the association founded on the initiative of KS Ildiko Raimondi. In August 2023, Elena won two special prizes at the Carl Orff Competition in Munich – the Carl Orff Center Prize and the Richard Strauss Institute Prize.

Isabel GrüblBorn in Nuremberg in 1998, mezzo-soprano Isabel Grübl studied with Gerhild Romberger at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, where her roles included Sesto in Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Händel. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Pedagogy, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Opera/Concert with top marks in June 2023. She is currently continuing her studies with Jochen Kupfer at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, where she most recently sang the role of the Drummer in Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and the role of Eva in Bohuslav Martinů’s Komödie auf der Brücke. Isabel worked as a chorus assistant at the Landestheater Detmold in the new productions of Aida and Der jüngste Tag, as well as a chorus soloist at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in the production of the opera Martha. As a concert singer, she has worked with the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, the baroque orchestras “Concerto Con Anima” and “La Réjouissance”, as well as musicians from the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to her work with Sibylla Rubens and Christiane Oelze, she has received artistic inspiration from masterclasses with the King’s Singers, Christiane Iven and Joyce DiDonato. Isabel is a former scholarship holder of the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Hochschule für Musik Detmold and is currently a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium.

Lucca Verdi PiresLucca Verdi began his musical education with piano lessons at the age of 15 with Prof. Luiz Guilherme Pozzi at the State Music School of São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently continuing his studies with Prof. Ana Mirabela Dina at the University of Music in Würzburg. Lucca has also won national and international competitions and has been engaged for numerous solo concerts and chamber music concerts in many cities in his home country.

Gustas RaudoniusLithuanian pianist Gustas Raudonius graduated in piano and composition from the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius in 2015. In the same year, he began his piano studies with Prof. Donaldas Račys at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. In 2016, he went on the EMCY (European Union of Music Competitions for Youth) concert tour through Luxembourg and Germany. The following year, he took part in the concert cycles “Complete Etudes-tableaux by Sergei Rachmaninov” in Lithuania and Poland (2017) and “On the Beach with Debussy” (Complete Preludes by Claude Debussy, 2018) in Lithuania. He discovered his passion for vocal accompaniment and song in 2017, the same year he released an album of French songs with his stage partner, tenor Ilya Aksionov. This was later followed by the recitals “Gedichte von Eduard Mörike in Liedern” (2019) and “Si mes vers avaient des ailes” (“If my verses had wings”, songs by Reynaldo Hahn, 2020) with the Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Saulė Šerytė. From 2020, he studied piano and lied interpretation at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, both with Prof. Lisa Eisner-Smirnova and Prof. Hans Eijsackers, as well as accompanying the singing class of Prof. Konrad Jarnot. Since then, he has taken part in numerous masterclasses and competitions. In 2023 he won 1st prize with the British baritone at the Sieghard Rometsch Chamber Music Competition in Düsseldorf.