ELUSIVE AFFINITY Anna Gourari & Susanne Bernhard

ELUSIVE AFFINITY

Anna Gourari

is a classical concert pianist. She received her first piano education at the age of five from her parents, professors at Kazan Academy of Music. In 1979 she performed her first public concert. From that year onwards she studied at further renowned piano schools and with famous piano tutors. In 1990 she relocated together with her parents to Germany in order to study at the Hochschule für Musik with Ludwig Hoffmann in Munich

Susanne Bernhard

from Munich started studying voice in 1995 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Since the beginning of her studies she took part in numerous productions of the Bayerische Theaterakademie. In 1997 she made her debut as Susanna in Mozart´s Le Nozze di Figaro in Munich´s Prinzregententheater. In 2000, at the age of 23, she became member of the ensemble of the Opera House Kiel and performed in numerous roles, amongst others, as “Lisa” in Schreker´s Christophorus and as „Violetta“ in Verdi’s „La Traviata“. She guest performed in several Opera Houses and in 2008 made her debut in the Frankfurt Opera with the role of „Violetta“ in Verdi’s „Traviata” . At the Dresden State Opera she performed as “Isotta” in Richard Strauss‘ „Schweigsame Frau“.