Bineta Diouf
Niki Liogka
Anna Bineta Diouf
Mezzo-soprano
The German-Senegalese mezzo-soprano Anna Bineta Diouf comes from Cologne. In early childhood she received her first music and piano lessons at home. During her studies at the HfM Detmold, she made her operatic debut as a guest at the Landestheater Detmold as Flosshilde im Rheingold in her second year. After moving to HMTM Hannover, she studied singing and lied with Jan Philip Schulze with Marina Sandel, among others. After graduating, she became a member of the Opera Studio of the Hanover State Opera and studied in the solo class until 2016. She has been a member of the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Annaberg ensemble since 2017/18, where she made her debut with Carmen, among others. Apart from the opera stage, Anna Bineta Diouf gives concerts regularly and dedicates herself to chamber music and lied. In 2017 and 2018 she recorded two CDs with a Russian repertoire in the USA, the first of which has already been released by hänssler, the second is about to be completed and is dedicated to Russian composers of the Enlightenment. Anna Bineta Diouf is a scholarship holder of the Hamel Foundation, the Richard Wagner Association and
Prize winner of various competitions. She is also an alumna of the German National Academic Foundation.
Niki Liogka
pianist
Niki Liogka was born in Kavala, Greece in 1989. From 2007 to 2011 she studied at the “Macedonia University” in Thessaloniki, where she completed her “Bachelor in Piano Performance” with distinction. After completing her bachelor's degree, she switched to Péter Nagy's class at the “Franz Liszt Academy” (University) in Budapest and studied piano in the artistic master’s course. From 2013 to
In 2019 she studied at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, first in the master's degree in song design with Prof. Jan Philip Schulze, and then in the master's degree in opera accompaniment with Prof. Paul Weigold and Prof. Martin Brauß.
She gives concerts regularly in Germany and Greece. She received artistic impulses in master classes from Thomas Hampson, Wolfram Rieger, Justus Zeyen, Yonty Solomon and Malcolm Bilson, among others. She received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association in Hanover and the Greek Foundation for Education and European Culture. She was also a prizewinner of the international competition "Karl Drechsel" in Nuremberg and the "Grand Konzertum" in Athens. In 2017-18 she had a teaching position for accompaniment at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since December 1, 2018, she has been the director of studies at the Central Saxon Theater.
