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Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Sebastian Schwab, composer and wristling
Ina Kutulas, lyrics
Markus Zugehör, piano
Sebastian Schwab, composer and wristling
Ina Kutulas, lyrics
Johanna
Krumin studied
in her home city of Berlin and was at the same time engaged as a full
member of the RIAS chamber choir. Since completing her studies, she has
performed both as an opera and concert singer: at the Ruhrtriennale,
the Leipzig Bach Festival, and the MDR Music Summer; with the
Gewandhaus Chamber Ensemble, the German Chamber Orchestra, the
Bratislava Chamber Orchestra, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin
Bach Academy and Bach Collegium, the Berlin Singakademie, the Berlin
Symphony Orchestra, and the New Westphalia Philharmonic. She has also
performed in concerts broadcast on German radio (Deutschlandradio
Kultur, among others). Johanna Krumin also devotes her time to New
Music and has sung numerous premiere performances, including some with
live-electronics (with such projects as the MDR Music Summer, Phase 7
performing art, and musica reanimata).www.krumin.de
Markus Zugehör lives
in Berlin and pursues an international career as an accompanist and
coach. He has been a Musical Assistant to Riccardo Chailly, Herbert
Blomstedt, and Philippe Herreweghe. Since 2009, he has involved himself
with various approaches to bodywork and its integration into musical
activities (Cranial/Sacral Therapy and Continuum Movement). Zugehör has
performed in radio and CD productions, e.g. for Mitteldeutscher
Rundfunk (MDR) and several record labels.
Sebastian Schwab was
born in 1993 and lives in Munich, where he studies composition, violin,
and conducting. He received the Prize in Memory of Leonhard and Ida
Wolf from the city of Munich in 2013 for his arrangements of thirteen
melodies by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. In 2015, two of his
choral motets were published www.schwab-music.com
Ina Kutulas
was born in 1965 and lives as a freelance author in Berlin. In addition
to essays, she has published numerous translations from Greek. Since
2010, she has also worked as a screenplay author. Many of her projects
are based on the works and biography of Mikis Theodorakis, whom she has
known personally since 1985. © photo Ina Kutulas: Ina Kutulas