A Dance of Death by John Neumeier based on the novella by Thomas Mann | Death In Venice
Gustav von Aschenbach
Christopher Evans
Principal
BORN
2.11.94 in Loveland, CO. American
EDUCATION
BalletMet Dance Academy
Canada's National Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Susan Dromisky, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2012, Soloist 2015, Principal since 2018
CREATIONS
Jim O'Connor in "The Glass Menagerie"
and solos in
Turangalîla
Beethoven Project
Ghost Light
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)
REPERTORY
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fabian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatjana"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Man I in "Bernstein Dances"
Gustav von Aeschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Mann in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Petrushka-Variations
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
At Midnight
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Soul Sketch"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"A Cosmic Second"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2010
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2015
Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother
Anna Laudere
Principal
BORN
19.2.83 in Sigulda. Latvian
EDUCATION
Riga Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Valentins Blinovs, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen, Irina Jacobson, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2001, promoted Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2011
CREATIONS
The Maiden-who-never-laughs in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Calliope in "Orpheus"
The Friend (Isadora Duncan) in "Duse"
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina in "Anna Karenina"
and solos in
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project
Ghost Light
A Foreign Sound (Thiago Bordin)
At Asyl-Um (Luva-Andrea Tessarini)
Anima (Edvin Revazov)
REPERTORY
Lady Capulet and Rosalind in "Romeo and Juliet"
Cinderella, Cinderella's Mother, A Stepsister and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Eleonora Bereda in "Nijinsky"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise and La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Giselle and Myrtha in "Giselle"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
Solveig and Aase in "Peer Gynt"
Eurydice in "Orphée et Eurydice"
Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Mauve and in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Wife and the Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio I-VI (she danced this role for the premiere)
Verklungene Feste
Saint Matthew Passion
Requiem
Vaslav
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Adagietto
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Messias
Turangalîla
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2008
Premio Positano 2018
Latvian Excellence Award in Culture 2019
The Russian-Italian Prize Benois-Massine 2019
Tadzio
Atte Kilpinen
Corps de Ballet
BORN
October 8, 1996 in Turku, Finland. Finn
EDUCATION
Taina Kovalainen Dance School
Turku Conservatory of Music and Dance
TEACHERS
Taina Kovalainen, Pia Karaspuro
ENGAGEMENTS
Finnish National Ballet 2015
Hamburg Ballet starting 2020/2021
CREATION
with the Hamburg Ballet
solo in
Ghost Light
REPERTORY
with the Finnish National Ballet
Aminta in "Sylvia (John Neumeier)
Lauri in Seven Brothers (Marjo Kuusela)
Tommy in Pippi Longstocking (Pär Isberg)
and solos in
Lonesome George (Marco Goecke)
Ballet Pathetique (Jorma Uotinen)
Breaking the Fury (Susanna Leinonen)
Isra (Emrecan Tanis)
with the Susanna Leinonen Company
Mercutio in "Romeo und Julia" (Susanna Leinonen)
and solo in
And the Line Begins to blur (Susanna Leinonen)
with the Pori Dance Company
Birk in "Ronja Robber's Daughter" (Marjo Kuusela)
with the Hamburg Ballet
Tadzio in "Death in Venice"
GUESTING
Kuopio Dance Festival, Finland 2017 and 2019
Origen Festival Cultural, Switzerland 2018
Dance Salad Festival, USA 2017
Susanna Leinonen Company 2016-2017
Pori Dance Company 2014
Turku City Theatre 2013
AWARDS
2019 Dance Award by Outi and Jan Vapaavuori Foundation
Frederick the Great
Edvin Revazov
Principal
BORN
30.12.83 in Sevastopol. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Moscow School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Boris Rachmanin, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2003, Soloist in 2007, Principal since 2010
CREATIONS
Tadzio in "Death in Venice"
Parzival in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Apollo in "Orpheus"
Gate Keeper in "Liliom"
Eugene Onegin in "Tatiana"
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky in "Anna Karenina"
Tennessee in "The Glass Menagerie"
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project
Ghost Light
Herr Sprüngli (Yohan Stegli)
Renku (Yuka Oishi / Orkan Dann)
REPERTORY
Günter and Arabian Dance in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo and Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Wolfgang Amadeus in "Windows on MOZART"
Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko in "The Seagull"
Cassio in "Othello"
The Angel in "The Legend of Joseph"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Kiefaber and Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Man in the Shadow and Count Alexander in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
A Man in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Serge Diaghilev and Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Albert in "Giselle"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
Peer Gynt in "Peer Gynt"
Orphée in "Orphée et Eurydice"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Madge, a Witch in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Man in Purple in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
and solos in
Requiem
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Verklungene Feste
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Afternoon of a Faun
Le Sacre
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Saint Matthew Passion
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Bolshoi Theatre), Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Coco Rosie"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2011
"Zozula"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2012
"Anima"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"Vesna"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"Closed Rooms"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
"Rain memories"
Premiere: National Youth Ballet, 2017
"Shakespeare – Sonnets"
Premiere: Hamburg Ballet, 2019
HE STAGED NEUMEIER'S BALLET
"Anna Karenina" for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2007
German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2007
Danza&Danza Prize – Best Upcoming Dancer 2008
Premio Positano 2018
La Barbarina
Hélène Bouchet
Principal
BORN
2.10.80, Cannes. French
EDUCATION
Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower, Cannes.
École Nationale de Danse de Marseille
MAIN TEACHERS
Raymond Franchetti, Ghislaine Verneuil, Dominique Khalfouni
ENGAGEMENTS
Ballet National de Marseille - Roland Petit
English National Ballet
Hamburg Ballet since 1998, Soloist since 2003, Principal since 2005
CREATIONS
Silvia in "Préludes CV"
La Barbarina in "Death in Venice"
Eurydice in "Orpheus"
Alma in "Purgatorio"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
The Servant (Désirée von Wertheimstein) in "Duse"
and solos in
Nocturnes and Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Verklungene Feste
Night and Echo
Ghost Light
Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
A Foreign Sound (Thiago Bordin)
My Dear Love (Orkan Dann)
Renku (Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
Countdown (Sasha Riva)
REPERTORY
in Marseille
Pas de deux in "100 Ans du Cinéma" (Roland Petit)
Pas de deux in "The Nutcracker" (Roland Petit)
in London
Romeo and Juliet (Derek Dean)
in Hamburg
Marguerite Gautier, Manon Lescaut and Olympia in "Lady of the Camellias"
Moyna, Zulma and Paesant-Pas de deux in "Giselle"
Princess Natalia, Princess Claire and The Butterfly in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Louise, Marie, The Beautiful Girl from Granada, La Fille du Pharaon and Mrs. Stahlbaum in "The Nutcracker"
The good Fairy, A Fairy, Princess Florine and Amors Segen in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Calipso and Circe in "Odyssey"
Hippolyta/Titania und Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Romola Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina und Olga Preobrajenska in "Nijinsky"
Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
Aloisia Weber in "Windows on MOZART"
Elaine in "The Saga of King Arthur"
A Stepsister in "A Cinderella Story"
The Little Mermaid and Henriette/The Princess in "The Little Mermaid"
Nina Michajlowna Saretschnaj in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Alexandra Baldina in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Sylvia in "Sylvia"
The Memory in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
Julie in "Liliom"
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Heather in "Préludes CV"
Viola in "VIVALDI or What you will"
The mother in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Myrtha in "Giselle"
Woman I in "Bernstein Dances"
Dolly in "Anna Karenina"
Gamzatti in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
La Sylphide in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Pink and in Mauve in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
and solos in
Winterreise
Messiah
Vaslav
Getting Closer
Magnificat
Requiem
Bach Suite 3
Third Simphony of Gustav Mahler
For Elizabeth
Spring and Fall
Mozart 338
Afternoon of a Faun
Saint Matthew Passion
Kinderszenen
The Song of the Earth
Birthday Dances
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Broadway's Pavlova
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
Prokofiev Pas de Deux (Christopher Wheeldon)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies/Diamonds (George Balanchine)
Tchaikovsky Pas de deux (George Balanchine)
Thaïs (Frederick Ashton)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
in Osaka, Luxemburg, Bremehaven, Munich, Houston, Moscow, Cannes, New York and Buenos Aires. At the Vail Intenational Festival 2009 and 2011 (Colorado, USA), at the World Ballet Festival 2009 in Tokyo, "Stars of Ballet Gala Concert" at the 10th International Ballet Festival of the Mariinsky Theaters in St. Petersburg, galas at the Milan Scala with Roberto Bolle. She danced the role of Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull" with the Stanislavsky Ballet in Moscow, Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" with the Tokyo Ballet in Tokyo and George Balanchine's "Jewels – Rubies" with the Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater.
AWARDS
Silver medal at the "20th International Ballet Competition - Varna 2002"
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2004
"Benois de la danse 2010" for her interpretation of Eurydice in "Orpheus"
Aschenbach's Concept
Silvia Azzoni
Principal
BORN
3.11.73, Turin. Italian
EDUCATION
Baletna Skola in Torino
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Dragica Zach, Marianne Kruuse, Ilse Wiedmann, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
The Hamburg Ballet since 1993, Soloist in 1996, Principal in 2001
CREATIONS
Olga Preobrajenska in "Nijinsky"
Silvia in "Préludes CV"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
The Angel in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
The Rival (Sarah Bernhardt) in "Duse"
Woman in "Rennen hinter dem was flieht" (Stephan Thoss)
Teresina in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
and solos in
Time after Time from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Verklungene Feste
Pizzicato Polka (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Um Mitternacht
Ghost Light
Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
VIII (Christhopher Wheeldon)
Equilibrio (Sasha Riva)
Renku (Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
Ouroboros (Yuka Oishi)
The Episodes of Absence (Miljana Vracaric)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)
REPERTORY
Pallas Athena und Nausikaa in "Odyssey"
Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ballerina in "Petrushka"
Hippolyta/Titania and Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier, Manon Lescaut and Prudence in "Lady of the Camellias"
Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Aurora, The Good Fairy and Princess Florine in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Marie, The Chinese Bird and Esmeralda and the Clowns in "The Nutcracker"
Cinderella, the Stepmother and a Stepsister in "A Cinderella Story"
Odette, Princess Claire and The Queen Mother in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Giselle, Peasant Pas de deux and Moyna in "Giselle"
Elaine in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Rosalind in "As You Like It"
The Other - Ingrid, The green One, Anitra in "Peer Gynt"
Tamara Karsavina and Romola Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Constanze Weber in "Windows on MOZART"
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Michajlowna Saretschnaj in "The Seagull"
Sylvia in "Sylvia"
Tamara Karsavina in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desir"
Contemplator of the Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
Alma in "Purgatorio"
Ophelia (Pas de deux) in "Hamlet"
Eleonora Duse in "Duse"
Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
Nikiya in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Lise in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
La Sylphide in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
An Old Woman, 300 years old and The Choosen one in "Le Sacre du Printemps" (Millicent Hodson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
Woman in Blue and in Pink in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
and solos in
Now and Then
Bernstein-Serenade
Saint Matthew Passion
Petrushka-Variations
Bernstein Dances
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Shall we dance?
Spring and Fall
Désir
Bach Suite 2
Sounds of Empty Pages
Rückert-Lieder
Winter Ways from "Images from Bartók"
Requiem
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
She was black (Mats Ek)
Light Beings (Mats Ek)
Mercurial Manoeuvres (Christopher Wheeldon)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
Thaïs Pas de deux (Frederic Ashton)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Not without my Head (Natalia Horecna)
Bella Figura (Jirí Kylián)
Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Easter Concert 2000 and 2002), Moscow, Ludwigsburg, Warsaw, Milano, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010; Christmas Charity Gala 2008), Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), Italy (Alessandra Ferri & Friends, Roberto Bolle & Friends Galas, Alessandra Ferri's Farewell Gala and Silvia Azzoni & Friends Gala), New York (Stars of the 21st Century Gala), St. Petersburg (Open Dance Festival), Taipei (International Ballet Gala 2010), Australia and Manuel Legris Galas in Vienna and Tokyo. She danced the role of Nikiya in "La Bayadère" with the Royal Ballet in London.
She worked on Donya Feuer's documentary: "The Work of Utopia".
AWARDS
Dr.-Wilhhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1996
Danza & Danza Prize 2004 - Best Italian Dancer Abroad
Rolf Mares Prize for the Hamburg Theaters 2006/2007 in the category "Outstandig Performance" for "The Little Mermaid"
"Benois de la Danse 2008" for her performance of the main role in "The Little Mermaid"
Les Étoiles de Ballet2000 Dance Award
Premio Positano 2013 – Best Italian Female Dancer of the Year
Premio Roma 2014
Aschenbach's Concept
Alexandre Riabko
Principal
BORN
20.2.78 in Kiev. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Kiev Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Vladimir Denisenko, Anatoli Nisnevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 1996. Soloist in 1999, Principal in 2001
CREATIONS
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Sascha in "Préludes CV"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
Pas de deux "For Elizabeth" (Osterkonzert 2004, Munich)
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
creator spiritus in "Purgatorio"
The young Man in "Rennen hinter dem was flieht" (Stephan Thoss)
Gennaro in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
and solos in
Yondering
Winter Ways from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
For Elizabeth
Pizzicato Polka (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Ghost Light
VIII (Christhopher Wheeldon)
Beautiful Freak (Marco Goecke)
Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
You Never Know (Yaroslav Ivanenko)
Ouroboros (Yuka Oishi)
Ricochet (Sasha Riva)
From a "C-Utopia" (Lizhong Wang)
The Episodes of Absence (Miljana Vracaric)
REPERTORY
Theseus/Oberon, Philostrat/Puck and Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Sir Andrew in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Drosselmeier, Günter and Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
The King and Count Alexander in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Albert and Paesant-Pas de deux in "Giselle"
Mordred in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Aminta and Eros/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Peer's Aspects – Aggression and Vision in "Peer Gynt"
Orlando in "As You Like It"
Don Juan in "Don Juan"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Blue Bird in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
The War in "Odyssey"
Wolferl in "Windows on MOZART"
Parzival in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Edvard/The Prince and The Sea Witch in "The Little Mermaid"
A Shepherd and an Angel in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Jago in "Othello"
Joseph in "The Legend of Joseph"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Hamlet (Pas de deux) in "Hamlet"
Orpheus in "Orpheus"
Contemplator of the Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
The Man (Vaslav Nijinsky) in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
The Mentor (Arrigo Boito) in "Duse"
A Mushik in "Anna Karenina"
The Knight in "Light Beings" (Mats Ek)
Solor in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Colas in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
James in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Man in Brown in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
and solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Spring and Fall
Bach Suite 2
Désir
Saint Matthew Passion
Shall we dance?
Getting Closer
Spring and Fall
Opus 100 – for Maurice
Rückert-Lieder
Requiem
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Remanso (Nacho Duato)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Triple Self (Petr Zuska)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
Thaïs Pas de deux (Frederic Ashton)
Glinka Pas de trois (George Balanchine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Bella Figura (Jirí Kylián)
Thaïs (Kevin Haigen)
Not without my Head (Natalia Horecna)
Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
Trio (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Dresden, Prag, Dusseldorf, Munich (Easter Concert 2004), Japan (Ballet World Festival 2003 and 2006, Christmas Charity Gala 2008), Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), Étoiles Gala 2008 and 2010 in Tokyo, Cremona, Verona, Macerata, Taormina (Alessandra Ferri and Friends), Italy (Roberto Bolle & Friends Galas, Alessandra Ferri's Farewell Gala and Silvia Azzoni & Friends Gala), Berlin (Malakov and Friends Gala), St. Petersburg (Open Dance Festival), Monte-Carlo (Ballets Russes Centennial Gala in Honor of HRH The Princess of Hanover), Tapei (International Ballet Gala 2009 and 2010), Australia and Manuel Legris Galas in Vienna and Tokyo. 2012 he was a guest with Alina Cojocaru in galas in London and Tokyo, with Yuan Yuan Tan in San Francisco. He danced Nijnsky as a guest in John Neumeier's ballet "Nijinsky" with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto.
AWARDS
Finalist of the Prix de Lausanne
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2001
Les Étoiles de Ballet2000 Dance Award
Premio Roma 2014
Benois de la Danse 2016
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, ...
Marc Jubete
Soloist
BORN
25.12.89 in Reus. Spanish
EDUCATION
Estudio de Danza María de Avila
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
María Pilar Sanz, Lola de Avila, Yolanda Plaza, Carmen Aldana, Amador Castilla, Myriam Agar, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2011, Soloist since 2016
CREATIONS
The three wise men in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Zaretsky in "Tatiana"
The Audience in "Duse"
Malvolio in "The Glass Menagerie"
and solos in
Beethoven Project
Trencadís (Aleix Martínez)
Yes we Could (Konstantin Tselikov)
Mizaru – Kikazaru – Iwazaru (Miljana Vracaric)
Ricochet (Sasha Riva)
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Little Requiem (Aleix Martínez)
REPERTORY
Gate Keeper and Ficsur in "Liliom"
Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Tybalt and Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Peer's Aspect – Doubt in "Peer Gynt"
The Golden Slave in ‘Sheherazade' and The Faun in 'L'Après-midi d'un faune' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
The Man in the Shadow in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker"
Bottom/Pyramus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
and solos in
Messiah
Saint Matthew Passion
The Song of the Earth
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Dictionary Page Today"
Premiere: National Youth Ballet, 2013
"Hide and Seek"
Premiere: National Youth Ballet, 2013
"Exsultet" (with Sasha Riva)
Premiere: National Youth Ballet, 2013
"If"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, 2015
"Matamorphosis"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"In our Hands"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
"Shakespeare – Sonnets"
Premiere: Hamburg Ballet, 2019
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2016
Erik Bruhn Prize 2016 – Best Choreograhy
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, ...
Félix Paquet
Soloist
BORN
May 24, 1994 in Québec, Canada. Canedian
EDUCATION
Canada's National Ballet School
MAIN TEACHERS
Sergiu Stefanschi, Peggy Baker
ENGAGEMENTS
The National Ballet of Canada in 2012, Soloist in 2017
Hamburg Ballet starting September 2019 as Soloist
CREATIONS
in Toronto
Le Petit Prince in "Le Petit Prince" (Guillaume Côté)
Guy Glover in "Frame by Frame" (Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté)
and solos in
Self and Soul (Robert Binet)
The Dreamers Ever Leave You (Robert Binet)
Being and Nothingness (Guillaume Côté)
The Sea Above, The Sky Bellow (Robert Binet)
in Hamburg
Tom Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie"
and solo in
Ghost Light
REPERTORY
in Toronto
Levin and A Mushik in "Anna Karenina"
The Golden Slave in ‘Sheherazade' and The Faun in 'L'Après-midi d'un faune' in "Nijinsky"
Shaw in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Polixenes in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Paris in "Romeo and Juliet" (Alexei Ratmansky)
Icicle in "The Nutcracker" (James Kudelka)
Frog & Gardeners and Caterpillar/Raj in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Apollo (George Balanchine)
The Second Detail (William Forsythe)
Emergence (Crystal Pite)
The Four Seasons (James Kudelka)
Chroma (Wayne McGregor)
Genus (Wayne McGregor)
Cacti (Alexander Ekman)
in Hamburg
Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
and solo in
Vaslav
Félix Paquet represented the National Ballet of Canada in the 12th International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize
A young Aschenbach
Louis Musin
Student of the Ballet School
There is no information yet.
photo: Silvano Ballone
Jaschu, Tadzio's friend
Artem Prokopchuk
Corps de Ballet
BORN
1.1.98 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Accademia Nazionale di Danza Roma
Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet
TEACHERS
Irina Rosca, Brunella Vidau, Manuela Cerreto, Janusz Mazon, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENTS
Le Vie del Teatro in Terra di Siena
National Youth Ballet 2017-2019
Hamburg Ballet since 2019
REPERTORY
Flute/Thisbe in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Jaschu, Tadzio's friend in "Death in Venice"
Piano
Sebastian Knauer
Pianist
The pianist Sebastian Knauer was born in Hamburg in 1971 where he made his debut aged 14. He now looks back on a career lasting more than 25 years. His intense musicality which characterises his unique style of playing, has led to innumerable successes, establishing his name throughout the international world of music.
He has given performances in more than 50 countries on four continents, each time appearing on the most reputable stages like the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Philharmonie of Cologne and Munich, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London's Wigmore Hall, the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Auditori Barcelona, the Sala Verdi in Milano and, looking further afield, the Lincoln Center New York, the Herbst Theater San Francisco, Miami's Knight Concert Hall, the Téatro Municipal in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the Oriental Concert Hall in Shanghai, the Forbidden City Concert Hall Peking, the Toppan Hall Tokyo and the Performing Arts Center Hong Kong.
For many years he has collaborated with his close friend, the conductor Sir Roger Norrington, and in 2006 Warner Classics published his all-Mozart CD with the Camerata Salzburg under Sir Roger's baton. The German periodical Die Zeit claimed this as one of the best Mozart recordings of all times. Five years later he recorded for Berlin Classics "Bach & Sons", this time with the Chamber Orchestra of Zurich, again conducted by Sir Roger Norrington. This recording too won international acclaim. Amongst the reviews were the German magazine Stern with "brilliant", The Neue Zürcher Zeitung with "fantastic" and Die Presse, Vienna, with "excellent". Past October saw a third collaboration on CD with Sir Roger Norrington. Sebastian Knauer as soloist and acting as producer recorded piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven under the title "Vienna 1789". Fono Forum, RBB Berlin and BR Klassik excelled themselves with praises like "Huge Hit", "Pure Enjoyment" and "Incredibly tasteful touch".
Other conductors with whom Sebastian Knauer has collaborated are Fabio Luisi, Thomas Hengelbrock, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Fedosseyew, Vladimir Spivakov, Ingo Metzmacher, John Axelrod, Jesús López Cobos, Simone Young, Michael Sanderling, Philippe Entremont and Jaap van Zweeden, with orchestras like Dresdner Staatskapelle, Bamberg Symphony, NDR Symphony, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Hamburg Philharmonic and Symphony, Orchestre Les Siècles, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, New York City Opera Orchestra, Russian National Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the chamber orchestras from Basle, Vienna and Tel Aviv.
Another aspect of his creativity is his unique programme planning, such as solo recitals, revealing relevant connections between the different compositions, or many projects in which he performs with his longstanding friend and duo-partner, the violinist Daniel Hope. Whether they appear in Europe, the USA or Japan – this duo earns enthusiastic acclaim from their audiences and the press. Their CD "East meets West", issued in 2005, was rewarded with nominations for Klassic Echo and Grammy.
Sebastian Knauer has a particular affection for chamber music and has appeared with a number of renowned colleagues like the Emerson String Quartet, Phiharmonia Quartet Berlin, cellists Sol Gabetta and Jan Vogler, singers Anne Sofie von Otter, Bernarda Fink, Michael Schade, Olaf Bär, Hermann Prey, choreograph John Neumeier and Steward Copeland, percussionist of "The Police" in a variety of projects. He is a regular and welcome guest at many Festivals like Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Rheingau Musikfestival, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikfest Bremen, Schubertiade Hohenems, Vienna, Salzburg Festspiele, Gstaad, Vevey/Montreux, Bath, London, Colmar, Lincoln Center New York, Ravinia, Savannah, Santo Domingo and the Shanghai Arts Festival.
His repertoire is exceptionally extensive and multi-facetted. Time and again he is eager to discover new key areas, essential to his work. With his CD of George Gershwin's entire solo repertoire he celebrated in 1998 the 100th birthday of this great composer, including the solo version for piano of "Rhapsody in Blue". Another recording from 2001 featured the three great American composers, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
Together with the Hamburg Philharmonic Sebastian performed all of Mozart's 27 piano concertos which he conducted from the piano between the years 1999 and 2002. This concert cycle had been specially designed for him. In 2007 he recorded the hitherto unknown "Sonate Oubliée" by Franz Schubert. A world premier recording, it received the highest praise from the press as being "masterful and a miracle in sheer elegance".
As well as celebrating in 2009 Felix Mendelssohn's 200th birthday with a CD entitled "Pure Mendelssohn", which appeared by Berlin Classics and became the Gramophone Magazine's "Editor's choice", he devised, played and conducted a programme of all of Haydn's piano concertos on four evenings during the same year together with the Bamberger Symphoniker.
In the course of 14 years Sebastian created 28 programmes, entitled "Wort trifft Musik". Each time one composer is brought centre-stage and various readings, relevant to his life, are being given alongside the music, performed by Sebastian himself. For these evenings he engages famous German speaking actors such as Hannelore Elsner, Martina Gedeck, Iris Berben, Gudrun Landgrebe, Barbara Auer. For special projects he appears together with the Golden Globe winner Klaus Maria Brandauer. Some of these programmes have been recorded by Deutsche Grammophon, as, for instance "Bettina v. Arnim und Ludwig v.Beethoven in einem Weltmeer von Harmonie".
There is no stopping Sebastian Knauer when it comes to his enthusiasm for organising events. In 2012 he established his very own Festival mozart@augsburg of which he is artistic director. During the first half of September he offers concerts in Mozart's city Augsburg, presenting artists like András Schiff, Menahem Pressler, Philippe Entremont, Sir Roger Norrington, Daniel Hope, Jan Vogler, the Emerson String Quartet, Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, the Artemis Quartet, Hannelore Elsner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Concert-Verein.
Sebastian Knauer has retained his home in his birthplace Hamburg, where he has traced his roots back to the 18th century, but by now he has become a true World Citizen.
photo: © Steven Haberland
