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VOICE & INTERPRETATION – Prof. Karola Theill (University of Music Rostock)/Peter Sefcik
29 July 2024 - 4 August 2024
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As one of the few female pianists specializing in song interpretation, Karola Theill has made her name as a performer, teacher and university lecturer.
She appears in concert throughout Germany and abroad (f.e. Musikverein Wien, Opéra de Bastille, Paris) as well as in Israel, the USA and China.
She has been the collaborate partner of singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Bruns, Okka von der Damerau, Angela Denoke, Matthias Goerne, Klaus Häger, Fionnuala McCarthy, Thomas Mohr, Martina Rüping, Nadine Weissmann and others.
Karola Theill teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she is an honorary professor, and conducts a song-interpretation class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock.
In addition she gives regular masterclasses in song interpretation in Berlin, at the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy (Germany), at the Music Academies in Poznan and Warsaw (Poland), Riga (Latvia), Castelfranco and Alessandria (Italy), Jerusalem (Israel), Los Angeles (USA) and Hang Zhou (China).
Photo: © Steffen Höft
After studying singing at Hannover’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Peter Sefcik launched an active concert career in Germany and abroad. From 1972 to 1977, he also undertook intensive studies in Munich with the renowned baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender – the father and sole teacher of Brigitte Fassbaender – who encouraged him to make pedagogy a professional focus.
From 1970 to 2002, Sefcik worked as voice coach of the Knabenchor Hannover and, as vocal trainer of the soloists, took part in the first complete period-instrument recording of the Bach Cantatas, featuring the TÖLZER KNABENCHOR and directed by Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Hochschule teaching posts followed in Hannover and Essen as well as a 12-year professorship at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater. In 2006 Sefcik took up an appointment as vocal coach and soloist advisor of the Tölzer Knabenchor. Additionally, he conducts seminars and courses at conservatories in Europe and the USA.
Sefcik coaches professional singers currently engaged by leading opera companies, among them the Vienna Staatsoper (lyric tenor), Düsseldorf (character tenor), Glyndebourne Festival (lyric soprano), Geneva (dramatic soprano), Bremen (tenor) and Berlin’s Komische Oper (several singers).
