Jeremy Cooke

Jeremy Cooke, pianist at the Vienna Opera Academy / Festival.

Jeremy Cooke was born in Colchester, Essex in 1970. After reading music at New College, Oxford he spent two years on the piano accompaniment course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the assistance of the Countess of Munster Trust. His teachers there included Graham Johnson, Nelly Ben-Or and Gordon Back, and he […]

Pantelis Polychronidis

Pantelis Polychronidis, painist and repetiteur at the Vienna Opera Academy / Festival.

Dr. Pantelis Polychronidis is a collaborative pianist, educator and scholar who performs regularly in both the U.S. and Europe. He is Senior Lecturer at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Department of Voice/Opera) and also teaches at Vienna Konservatorium. He served as an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Nevada, Las […]

Karin Hofer

Karin Hofer, pianist, Head of operations and Arts Management and German diction coach at the Vienna Opera Academy/Festival.

Head of Operations and Arts Management. Karin Hofer is a classically trained pianist, piano pedagogue and opera chorus singer with German as her mother tongue and Italian as a second language. At the Wiener Festspiele she holds the leading position in Head of Operations and Arts Management. She has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele, Easter […]