Biographies & programs
28.5.24
14:30
Jared Andrew Michaud
USA
Semifinalists
Christina Koti
Greece
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vier Arietten und ein Duett, Op.82
3. Arietta buffa "L'amante impaziente" (Pietro Metastasio) - 1R
Franz Schubert
Im Frühling, D 882 (Erst Schulze) - 1R
Pensa, che questo istante D 76 (Pietro Metastasio)
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
17. Zwei Venezianische Lieder I (Moore/Freiligrath)
18. Zwei Venezianische Lieder II (Moore/Freiligrath)
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
1. "Nun bin ich dein" (Juan Ruiz de Hita/Heyse)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
4. Extase (Jean Lahor)
12. La vie antérieure (Charles Baudelaire) - 1R
Mathilde Kralik von Meyerswalden
Jugend Lieder
2. Sonett (Thibault, König von Novara)
Emile Paladilhe
Psyché (Corneille)
Roger Quilter
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.6
1. Come Away, Death
3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Gerald Finzi
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op.18 (WIlliam Shakespeare)
2. Who Is Silvia? (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 2)
4. O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3)
5. It Was a Lover and His Lass - 1R
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Jared Andrew Michaud
Baritone
Year of birth:
1996
Franco-American baritone Jared Andrew Michaud is a 2023-2024 Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar in Paris, studying with François Le Roux and Pascal Rogé on a song duo course at the École Normale de Musique and working privately with Susan Manoff and Valérie Guillorit. With his duo partner, pianist Christina Koti, Jared has won first prize at the 2022 Federation of Art Song Fellowship Competition (NYC), the 4th International SGSM Singing Competition (Slovenia), and the 2022 Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Competition (London). They are currently representing France in the 2023-2024 Young Europe Sings program. Jared received his MA from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London and his BA from Yale University.
Christina Koti
Pianist
Christina Maria Koti is a Paris-based Greek pianist pursuing an artist diploma on the voice/piano duo course at École Normale de Musique de Paris with Pascal Rogé and François Le Roux, while studying privately with Susan Manoff. She holds an MMus in Piano Performance under Professor Deniz Gelenbe-Arman from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance and previously graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class honors Bachelor of Music degree. Beyond success in many solo piano and song duo competitions, Christina has also been chosen to play for the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange, the Young Europe Sings academy, and the Toronto Summer Music Art of Song Program.