Faculty-- Past & Future Collaborations

Jim Meredith, Vocal Coach

Private Coaching, Performance Pianist, 2019 As a solo pianist, vocal and instrumental accompanist, and conductor in America, Europe and Asia, Mr. Meredith's work has brought him to collaboration with Elly Ameling, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Eleanor Steber, and Gerald Moore.  He is a also frequent musical partner with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, and just performed with her at Christmastime. 
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Francesco Cocco, Stage Director

Stage Direction, Dramatic Coaching, Set Design & Lighting, Theatre Education
Francesco has worked as set designer for both national and international opera productions (awarded the Dutch Opera Design Award in 2015), most notably the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. His approach as a stage director veers towards the contemporary and experiential. This year's production of Don Giovanni  will reveal the title character as a mythical figure in the form of psychological seducer, and one who ignites the auto-evolution of all the other characters.  ​Read full bio HERE

Ricardo Cambri, Pianist

Collaborative Pianist, 2019
A much-requested coach and accompanist, Ricardo is also the principal piano instructor at the Luigi Mancinelli School of Music in Orvieto. Riccardo has won a number of Italian Piano Competitions including the Torre Orsaia in 1993, San Gemini in 1994, the Genzano in Rome, 1995, and the San Giovanni Valdarno, 2001.
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Marco Bellussi

Theater & Stage Direction, 2019
Mr. Bellussi has directed operas at the Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Goldoni di Venezia, Biennale Musica, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Teatro Comunale di Treviso, Mittelfest, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Palais des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles, among many others at grand opera houses both Italian and international.
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Toomas Kaldaru

Collaborative Pianist, 2019 
Toomas is an Estonian vocal coach based in Rome who has collaborated with  l'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino of Florence, the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome, NarniOpera, Kammeroper Köln (Germany), L'Opera di Shymkent (Kazakistan), the Teatro Comunale of Tartu (Estonia), Opernwerkstatt Rhein (Germania), among many others. An optimal and sensitive coach for our singers, he also boasts a professional operatic career as a lyric tenor...
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