Our LIEDER ALIVE! founding program was the Vocal Master Workshop series, which brought outstanding master artists together with highly accomplished emerging and established professional singers for intensive training and performance. Master Workshops were presented by baritone Thomas Hampson (2008), mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (2009), soprano June Anderson (2011), followed by the distinguished Swedish baritone Håkan Hagegård, who collaborated with pianist John Parr in a public master class at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in September 2012.
Upcoming Master Artist Workshops – Coming Soon
Featuring Thomas Kinch
Welsh tenor Thomas Kinch is a highly in-demand singing teacher based in San Francisco, where he is currently an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera, singing mainstage roles including Don José in Carmen. He runs an international studio of students, both in-person and online, who range from Conservatorium level to professional A-house singers. His teaching is based on a holistic view of the body and the voice, drawing upon his studies of vocal pedagogy alongside his background as a personal trainer. His students have performed at Glyndebourne, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Opera Australia, Opera du Rhin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Merola Opera Program, and State Opera South Australia.…
Past Master Artists
Håkan Hagegård brought his innovative Singers’ Studio to us for an intensive five-day program, concluding with a public Master Class in September 2012.
Watch Håkan Hagegård’s Goethe Institut interview with Ruth Felt, August 2012
We were honored to welcome the illustrious June Anderson, who generously sang a Gala Benefit Concert for us and taught both an inspiring public Master Class, The Art of Singing, and also three days of private studio classes in October 2011.
We are profoundly grateful — one and all — that our initial season culminated in June 2009 with an expansive three-day program exploring the art of singing and expressing Romantic German Lieder, led by the marvelous Marilyn Horne.
Thomas Hampson inaugurated our unique program with a Mostly Mahler intensive two-day Master Workshop in October 2008. Our gifted artists and a wonderful audience were thrilled to learn abundantly from his insightful brilliance.