Biographies & programs
27.5.24
15:30
Lara Rieken
Germany
Doriana Tchakarova
Bulgaria
Program
Franz Schubert
Ständchen D 889 "Horch! Horch, die Lerch" (Shakespeare) - 1R
Der Musensohn D 764 (Goethe)
Ludwig van Beethoven
La Partenza "Ecco quel fiero istante" WoO 124 (Metastasio)
Giacchino Rossini
Soirées musicales
La Partenza "Ecco quel fiero istante" (Metastasio) - 1R
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
12. In dem Schatten meiner Locken (Anonymous/Heyse)
Eichendorff-Lieder
3. Verschwiegene Liebe
Edvard Grieg
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall, Op.48, No.4 (von der Vogelweide)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
9. Chanson triste (Lahor)
Reynaldo Hahn
A Chloris (de Viau) - 1R
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
4. Sleep (Fletcher)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op.31
4. When birds do sing - 1R
Richard Strauss
Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op.67
1. Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb
2. Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag
3. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
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Lara Rieken
Soprano
Year of birth:
2001
Lara Rieken, soprano, born in Münsterland in 2001, is already a winner of the 2022 Federal Singing Competition, as well as a scholarship holder from the “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now e.V.” association, the “Fritz Wunderlich Society 2023”, and the “Giovanni Omodeo Foundation”.
Her engagements included: to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Oper Frankfurt and to the E.T.A. Hoffmann Theater Bamberg, where she made her debut as “Rossane” in Handel’s “Alessandro” under the direction of Gottfried von der Goltz. Lara Rieken began her studies as a young student at the HfMDK Frankfurt and then moved to the HMDK Stuttgart for her bachelor's degree with her teacher Prof. Thilo Dahlmann.
Doriana Tchakarova
Pianist
Doriana Tchakarova was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the Stuttgart University of Music she completed her bachelor's and master's degree in piano with Prof. Fernande Kaeser and Prof. Friedemann Rieger and studied in Prof. Konrad Richter's song class. In the same year she played Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Varna Philharmonic.
Since October 2003 she has been teaching singing accompaniment at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. In addition, Doriana Tchakarova develops a lively, international concert activity as a chamber musician and song pianist.
She is a sought-after accompanist at numerous singing master classes and international singing competitions. The CDs with the sopranos Judith Erb and Felicitas Erb with songs and duets by Robert Schumann, Hugo Kaun (world premiere recordings) and Louis Spohr on ARS production received a lot of attention in the specialist press. Another CD with duets by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel was released by ARS in 2016, met with an overwhelming response across Europe and was nominated for the Echo Prize in 2017, among other things.
Together with Konstantin Krimmel, she won first prize in the song duo category at the “Rising stars Grand Prix international music competition” in Berlin in May 2018. Doriana Tchakarova performs as a song pianist on important concert stages in Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hanover, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Lugano and many others.
Konstantin Krimmel released a CD with ballads by Schubert, Loewe, Schumann and Jensen in 2019 on the renowned label Alpha Classics. This recording was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) and Opus Klassik and was awarded the Diapason découverte.