Erasmus+ Masterclass with Dora Kutschi

From 18 to 20 May 2022, as part of the Erasmus exchange programme, a masterclass with Dora Kutschi, professor of singing at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch, will be held on the interpretation of Mozart’s songs and German songs and various didactic focuses.

Dora Kutschi (1969) studied opera singing with Prof. Ressa Koleva at the State Conservatory in Sofia, Bulgaria, and subsequently at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (AUT), where she studied solo singing/opera/song and oratorio with Professors Karusso/Parjik/Nikler/Moore.

Dora Kutschi won numerous prizes; 2002 scholarship of the “Richard Wagner Stipendiumstiftung” Vienna (AUT), 2001 prize winner at the IGW “Kammeroper Schloß Rheinsberg” Berlin (BRD), 2000 prize winner at the IGW “Kammeroper Schloß Rheinsberg” Berlin (BRD), 1999 prize winner at the IGW “Gianfranco Masini” Reggio Emilia (IT), 1998 prize-winner at the IGW “Tito Schipa” Lecce (IT), 1996 scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Science Vienna (AUT), 1992 prize-winner at the soloist competition “Svetoslav Obretenov” Provadia (BG).

She has given concerts at the Volksoper Wien, Schönberg Zentrum Wien, Schoenbrunn Palace Theatre, Salzburg Festival / Summer Academy, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Stadttheater Brandenburg, Landesbühnen Sachsen Dresden/Radebeul, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, Städtebundtheater Hof/Bayreuth, Gethsemane- und Heiligenkreuzkirche Berlin, Erlöserskirche Potsdam, Philharmonie Offenburg, Teatro Politeama Greco Lecce, Teatro Municipale Valli Reggio Emilia, Festival della Musica Sacra “Anima Mundi” Pisa, Opera de Bastille Paris, De Vlaamse Oper Antwerpen/Gent, Forum Philharmonisch Enschede, Teatre de Beausobre Morges/Lausanne, Oper Vaduz, Operette Liechtenstein, Bratislava Philharmonie, Oper Pilsen, Cankaya Conzert Hall Ancara etc.

Master class coordinator: Director Giacomo Fornari