Haydn – Die Schöpfung

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Born in Bishkek, Katharina Konradi is the world's first Kyrgyz-born soprano in lied, concert and opera. In 2009 she began her vocal training with Julie Kaufmann in Berlin, followed by a master's degree in lied interpretation with Christiane Iven and Donald Sulzen in Munich. Master classes with Helmut Deutsch and Klesie Kelly-Moog gave her further musical and artistic impulses. In 2018 she was engaged by the Hamburg State Opera and made her debut as Zdenka in Straussʼ opera Arabella at the Semperoper in Dresden. In the spring of 2021, she sang Sophie in the new production of Straussʼ Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the first production of designated principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski. In the summer of 2021, she made another guest appearance at the Bayreuth Festival as the Junger Hirte in Tannhäuser. In the 2021 Musikfest Stuttgart, she was heard in three cantatas of the "Views on Bach" with Hans-Christoph Rademann. In March 2021 her Lied CD "Liebende" was released, accompanied by Daniel Heide.

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Julian Habermann was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen, was a young student with Christian Elsner in Würzburg and studied singing in Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender and Thilo Dahlmann. In 2017, he was the youngest participant in the finals of the international song competition "Das Lied." A year later, he was awarded the Rosenbaum Foundation Prize at the National Singing Competition Berlin. Since the 2019/20 season, he has been an ensemble member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where his roles have included the Helmsman in Der Fliegende Holländer, the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Dancairo in Carmen, Fiorillo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ottokar in Der Zigeunerbaron, First Officer in Candide, Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, Oronte in Alcina, Malcolm in Macbeth, Gastone in La Traviata, Brother in Die sieben Todsünden, and others. among others. In the 2021/22 season he can be heard as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, among others.

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Born in Berlin, he began his musical training in the Dresden Kreuzchor. He studied with Hermann Christian Polster in Leipzig and continued his training with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. His teachers also include Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Quasthoff, Wolfram Rieger, Norman Shetler and Irwin Gage. As a concert singer Tobias Berndt has meanwhile established himself far beyond the borders of Germany. More recently, he has worked with conductors such as Hans-Christoph Rademann, Philippe Herreweghe, Christoph Spering, Michael Sanderling, Andrey Boreyko, Teodor Currentzis, Joshard Daus, Enoch zu Guttenberg and Ludwig Güttler and has sung concerts at the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonie, the Tonhalle in Zurich and in Düsseldorf, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Herkulessaal Munich. Furthermore Tobias Berndt made guest appearances at important festivals such as Prague Spring, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Musikfest Stuttgart and Herrenchiemsee.

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Conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann is an exceptionally versatile artist with a wide-ranging repertoire. He is equally passionate about the performance and rediscovery of early music and the premiering and promotion of contemporary music. Born in Dresden and raised in the Ore Mountains region of Saxony, he was influenced from an early age by the great central German tradition of music and church music directors. During his studies he founded the Dresdner Kammerchor, developing it into a top international choir which he continues to direct today. Since June 2013 Hans-Christoph Rademann has been Akademie Director of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Regularly he works with leading choirs and ensembles on the international music scene. Hans-Christoph Rademann is Professor of Choral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He is also Artistic Director of the Erzgebirge Music Festival, an ambassador for the Ore Mountains region and patron of the Christian Hospice Service Dresden.