Since the initiation of IDRC, we have always acknowledged the importance of balancing work and leisure. GRF Davos offer ample entertainment side events during the IDRc Davos 2010
GRF Davos is pleased to present the IDRC Davos 2010 audience a very special cultural treat:
Tuesday, 01 June 2010, 7.15 pm
"Der heitere Mozart"
A music theatre presented by a quartet of the Opera House Zurich.Der heitere Mozart is a patchwork of cheerful male trios which Mozart used to play at home with friends. The trios contain aria, songs, duets and ensembles of Mozart’s operas. Central in all stories told is the three gentlemans’ courtship for one special lady.
The Artists
Anna Gütter (soprano) has made her first opera stage appearance at the age of 10 as a member of the children’s chorus of the Saarland Staatstheater. Ever since she has been fascinated by the opera and classical voice. In 2006 she began her studies in voice and incidental music at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Ute Trekel-Burckhardt. She performed her first solo parts at the Elblandfestspiele in 2008 and with the Brandenburg Concert Orchestra Eberswalde. Her stage debut made Anna Gütter in summer 2009 as Rosina in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.
Boguslav Bidzinski (tenor) was born 1973 in Boleslawiec (Southwest-Poland). From 1994 to 2000 he studied in the master class of Kazimierz Pustelak at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. 2001/2001 he continued his education at the International Opera Studio in Zurich. Boguslaw Bidzinski made his stage debut already in 1998 as Count René in The Count of Luxembourg.
Since 2001/2002 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House, where he among others performed Florindo («Le donne curiose»), Nathanael («Les Contes d'Hoffmann»), Abdallo («Nabucco»), Francesco («Benvenuto Cellini»), Victorin («Die tote Stadt»), Biscroma
(«Axur»), Tamino («The Magic Flute for Children») und Edmondo («Manon Lescaut»).
Son of Spanish-Slovenian parents, Ruben Drole (baritone) was born in 1980 in Switzerland. He studied voice at the Musikhochschule Zürich, where he graduated in 2005. He was prize winner of several singing competitions (Friedl Wald Foundation in 2002, MGB/cultural department, Pro Europa Foundation in 2005). In 2008, he was awarded with the prize of the Carl-Heinrich-Ernst-Kunststiftung Winterthur (Switzerland).
During the season 2004/05, Ruben Drole was engaged at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, and since the beginning of 2005/06, he has been engaged as a soloist at the Zurich Opera. Concert highlights include the Coronation Mass with Ton Koopman and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, a Japan tour with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus (Mozart’s Requiem and Händel’s Messiah), Händel’s Israel in Egypt with Concerto Köln under Emmanuelle Haïm and numerous recitals within the series of Swiss Chamber Concerts.
Reinhard Mayr (basso) was born in Austria and began to study voice in Linz and then Basel. From 1997 to 2001 he continued his studies in voice and oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Robert Noll. In 1998 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera. In 2001 he joined the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House.
In the past years Reinhard Mayr has acted out in many prominent concert halls such as the Viennese Music Association, the Royal Albert Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Tonhalle Zurich, and at the Syriarte. He has performed parts such as the Speaker in the Magic Flute, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Antinoo in The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland, and Frank in The Bat.
Michael Richter (piano) was born 1994 in Vienna. He studied orchestra conductor and vocal coaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as a répétiteur with conducting duty at the Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he among others conducted The Bate, "Le nozze di Figaro", and "Romeo and Julia".
Since 2003 Michael Richter is solorépétiteur at the Zurich Opera House, where he has been assisting to prominent conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Adam Fischer.
Claudia Blersch (production/direction) has studied political science and Italian in Constance and Milan and completed a piano education over several years. In 1998 she participated in the master class for opera direction of Ruth Berghaus and started thereafter her work as assistant director and later director at the Zurich Opera House. In 2003 she and her team were awarded the direction price “ring.award.03” for the project “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”. From 2004 to 2006 she studied cultural sciences at the Zurich University of the Arts. Claudia Blersch restages besides operas also multi-media theater projects and art installations that deal with the phenomena of voice, seduction, and identity.
Conference Dinner
A highlight in our social activities programme during IDRC Davos 2010 is the conference dinner taking place on Thursday, June 3, 2010. All conference attendees are welcome to join the conference dinner. This event is going to provide ample networking possibilities and will be an appropriate finish for the conference.
Special guests Dinner
Duo "Arpalino"
Brother and sister which inspire the audience as "Duo Arpalino" and have already won among other awards the Jecklin-Music-Meeting-Award 2009.
15 year old Johannes Zeller is a member of the youth Symphony Orchestra Zurich and is already since 4 years part of the violin-class of Jens Lohmann at the Zurich Conservatory.Johannes Zeller worked already on several projects with Howard Griffiths , including the European premiere of a fireworks concert at the Zürifäscht 2007, which approximately one million people have been following. He already won several awards, including a first Price at the Swiss Youth Music Competition 2006 with the "Trio 94".
Annina Eva Zeller plays the harp since she was 8 years old and is now already doing her preparatory studies at the Zurich Conservatory at the class of Mrs. Inge Böck. In addition, she also takes classes in viola with Michel Rouilly. Like her three siblings she plays in the youth symphony orchestra of the Conservatory of Zurich.
She already won nomerous awards: 2001 along with her three siblings, the first Price of the MZO music competiotion. Solo, she won first and second prizes. Even with her brother John, as "Duo Arpalino", in 2006 a second Price at the Zurich Music Competition. Solo 2008 she reached the final SJMW and finally was awarded with a third prize.But most of all she likes to touch the audience in concerts, either solo or with her siblings in a chamber music.
