Joanne D’Mello, soprano and Sung-Ah Park, piano
In a programme of arias by Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Wolf, Strauss, Puccini, Dvořák and Lehár
Joanne D’Mello comes from Goa where she studied the violin and singing at the Kala Academy. Joanne won prizes at the All India Voice Competitions organised by The Poona Music Society. She has a B. Mus from the Royal College of Music in London where she studied with Patricia Rozario OBE. In 2013, Joanne was awarded a DAAD Artist Scholarship to pursue higher studies in Germany at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig with Regina Dietrich-Werner. Joanne just made her debut in the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Weikersheim (Germany).
South Korean born pianist Sung-Ah Park has just completed a Meisterklasse degree at the Conservatory in Leipzig on a German Scholarship, where she studied vocal co-repetition and song accompaniment with Alexander Schmalcz. She has a wide range of experience as a soloist and accompanist. She has performed extensively in South Korea, notably the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 with Pusan Symphony Ochestra. In 2007, she was awarded “Young Artist of the Year 2007” by PBC Broadcasting, Pusan in South Korea. Sung-Ah Park completed a Master’s degree in Solo Piano (from South Korea) before moving to Germany to pursue a Master’s degree in vocal co-repetition.
