Christina Landshamer, Ludwig Mittelhammer, RIAS Kammerchor, Kammerakademie Potsdam & Justin Doyle
Biography Christina Landshamer, Ludwig Mittelhammer, RIAS Kammerchor, Kammerakademie Potsdam & Justin Doyle
Christina Landshamer
studied singing at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. She has performed at numerous opera houses, including the National Opera in Amsterdam, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Theater an der Wien, the Stuttgart State Theater, the Semperoper Dresden and the Komische Oper Berlin, as well as the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals. Her repertoire includes roles such as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Frasquita (Carmen), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), and Almirena (Rinaldo). She is also an active concert singer and has performed with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the Munich Philharmonic, among others.
Ludwig Mittelhammer
born in 1988 in Munich, was a member of the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding. His vocal training was enriched by masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray, and Edith Wiens. The multiple award-winning baritone has performed at renowned venues such as the Frankfurt Opera, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, and the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. His repertoire includes roles such as Schaunard (La Bohème), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Herr Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Albert (Werther), Peter Besenbinder (Hänsel und Gretel), and the title role in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf. He also appeared as Falke (Die Fledermaus) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.
As a concert soloist, Ludwig Mittelhammer is in demand with prestigious orchestras and conductors, including the Orchestre de Paris (Jaap van Zweden), the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Harding), the Orquesta Nacional de España (David Afkham), the Orquesta de València (Alexander Liebreich), the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic (Franz Welser-Möst).
He has given song recitals in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, the Cologne and Essen Philharmonics, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Boulez Hall in Berlin, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, at the Kissinger Sommer Festival, and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems. His first solo album, featuring songs by Schubert, Medtner, and Wolf, was released in 2019 by Berlin Classics.
Justin Doyle
has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin since 2017.
Born in Lancaster in 1975, he was initially a chorister at Westminster Cathedral in London and later a Choral Scholar at the renowned King's College, Cambridge. His international breakthrough as a conductor came in 2006 with a second prize at the prestigious Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition in Barcelona and a scholarship with the BBC Singers, marking the beginning of an ongoing collaboration.
He has guest-conducted ensembles such as the Swedish Radio Choir, the MDR Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, the Norwegian Soloists' Choir, and Genesis Sixteen, as well as orchestras such as the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Doyle is also in demand as an opera conductor, particularly for works by Mozart, Haydn, and Britten. In recent years, he has conducted productions for Garsington Opera, the Buxton Festival, the Orchestra of Opera North, and the Potsdam Winter Opera at the Schlosstheater there.
With the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, he has initiated an annual cycle of major new commissions, focused on the works of Handel in collaboration with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and expanded the choir's repertoire in polyphonic Renaissance music. With the singers, he performs a broad spectrum of choral works, ranging from Heinrich Biber's monumental Missa Salisburgensis to intimate settings of folk songs from around the world.
He is also particularly passionate about the music of non-European cultures and about musical education. From 2018 to 2022, he was a visiting professor in the Choral Conducting program at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Doyle also served as Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting and Early Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 2019 to 2024.
Justin Doyle's future engagements include his debut with the Zurich Sing-Akademie and renewed collaborations with the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra.
