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Antonia Cifrone**
Cellia Costea
Anna Dragan
Abbie Furmansky
Vassiliki Karayanni
Elena Kelessidi**
Irini Kyriakidou
Irina Samoylova*
Lolitta Semenina
Anna Shafajinskaia**
Svetlana Sozdateleva*
Nina Warren
Anne Williams-King
Elena Zelenskaya*
Fredrika Brillembourg**
Louise Callinan**
Irina Dolzhenko*
Irini Karaianni**
Alexandra Durseneva*
Thomas Michael Allen (IT)
Fernando del Valle**
Howard Haskin
Antonis Koroneos**
Vadim Zaplechny*
Marcin Bronikowski**
Mauro Buda**
Massimiliano Gagliardo**
Yasuo Horiuchi
Marcello Lippi**
George Mosley**
Dimitri Platanias
Sergei Stilmachenko**
Johannes von Duisburg**
Matteo De Monti**
Askar Abdrazakov**
Andrey Antonov*
Arutjun Kotchinian**
Christophoros Stamboglis
Mikhail Svetlov**
Manlio Benzi**
Alistair Dawes (IT)
Niels Muus**
Sergio La Stella (IT)
Benjamin Davis
Bronowski Productions
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Danish conductor and pianist Niels Muus was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1958. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, Denmark, and later studies at places such as Convervatorio San Martino (Bologna), Mozarteum (Salzburg) as well as California State University (Los Angels) with Franco Ferrara, Carlo Zecchi, Tatjana Nikolajewna and Jakob Gimpel.
In 1992-1999, Niels Muus was Principal conductor at the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck. Besides being responsible of the development of one of the "most prolific European opera ensembles", he conducted several operas to a great international acclaim. Most notably, Carl Nielsen' "Maskarade" - a performance that led to the new National Edition of the composer's complete works:- and Ruud Langgaard's "Antikrist"- The recording of this world premiere was selected as "Critics Choice" for the best opera recording of 2000 in the classical music magazine "Gramophone". In 1999-2003, Niels Muus was engaged as a conductor and casting director at the Volksoper Wien.
As a symphonic conductor Niels Muus has given performances in concert halls such as Berliner Philharmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Academia di Santa Cecilia, Theatre des Champs Elysees and Tivoli Copenhagen. With the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, he enjoys a long time relationship that has resulted in several broadcasts and recordings. Recognized as an expert in Italian opera Niels Muus has an extensive activity at Italianopera houses and has conducted major productions around the world:-Donizetti's "L`elisir dŽamore" at the Macerata Festival (worldwide broadcasted by the RAI, DVD by TDK, "Critics pick" in The New York Times), Rossini's "LŽAssedio di Corinto" in Corinth, Greece for the Culture-Olympics.
As the artistic producer/pianist for "La Pastorella" CD with the Preiser Records, he has been responsible in discovering some unknown and less known Italian songs and was nominated for the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik in 2005. The 2nd CD from the same label has been recently released, this time as the artistic producer/conductor. Upcoming recordings include the Mahler 4. Symphony and Arnold Schoenbergs "Pierrot Lunaire" by Preiser Records, and a collection of Italian art songs for the Italian label, Dynamic.
Niels Muus has given master classes in institutions such as Conservatorio Monteverdi (Bolzano), Opera Högskolan (Gothenburg), Netherlands Opera Studio (Amsterdam), and has been jury-member in many major international competitions such as Belvedere (Vienna), Concorso Toti dal Monte (Rovigo) and "Musician of the future"(Dublin). Currently he acts as the chairman of the jury of the "Concurso de Composicion Musical Association des Orchestras Symphoniques Espanol" (Madrid).
In collaboration with internationally renowned Swedish musicologist Anders Wiklund he has rediscovered the opera "Die Heimkehr des Verbannten" (1844) by Otto von Nicolai. A full critical edition is under preparation.
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