Janina Staub
Yao Hou
Janina Staub
soprano
The German, Northern Irish soprano Janina Staub (born 1994) is currently a member of the opera studio in Freiburg and at the same time is taking the concert exam with Prof. Mareike Morr at the Freiburg University of Music. Before that, she completed her bachelor's and master's degree at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. Janina Staub gained stage experience as Barbarina at the Freiburg Theater 2020, as the Sandman at the Weikersheim Palace Opera, as a soprano soloist in the education project of the Potsdam Chamber Academy and as a soprano in the contemporary chamber opera "Die Voiceless" at the Deutsche Oper. 2021 it will be on
Theater Freiburg appear as Second Woman / Spirit in Dido and Aeneas, as Quartilla and Criside in Madernas Satyricon and Gretchen in the jukebox opera. Janina Staub was a concert performer in the oratorio "Elias" and in the "Mozart Requiem" 2019 in the Philharmonie Berlin under
conducted by Jörg-Peter Weigle and the Brandenburg State Orchestra. In October 2021 she will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Gülke / Alexander Lebek at the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2018 she was heard in cooperation with the Heidelberger Frühling in the reconstruction of the Brahms Requiem in Heidelberg. In 2016 she was a representative at a commemorative event of the First World War and made music with the Hallé Orchestra. She received important song impulses from Wolfram Rieger, Matthias Alteheld, Graham Johnson, Julius Drake and Anne Le Bozec.
Yao Hou
pianist
Yao Hou was born in 1995 in Sichuan, China, and began playing the piano at the age of five. She first attended the local music high school and later began her studies at the Sichuan University of Music. From 2014-2020 she studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Prof. Pi-hsien Chen and Prof. Hardy Rittner, where she completed her master's degree.
Since 2020 she has been studying song design with Prof. Matthias Alteheld. She received important impulses from master classes with Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl, Till Fellner, Alfonso Gomez, Klaus Bässler, Georg Sava, Jerome Rose and Hansjacob Staemmler.
