Florian Störtz baritone
Aleksandra Myslek piano

Aleksandra is a Polish collaborative pianist and répétiteur. Previous awards include 1st prize in the International Chopin Competition in Budapest, Wilfrid Parry Brahms Prize, Brenda Webb Accompanist Prize, Tunnell Trust Award, Edith Poulsen Accompanist Prize and many others. She performed in Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Hungary, China and around the UK, where she appeared in venues such as the Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Anvil Basingstoke and ROSL. She was also a guest on BBC Radio 3 In Tune programme with her duo partner violinist Eleanor Corr.

Aleksandra is a staff pianist at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as being a frequent guest at the Royal Academy of Music for the Widening Participation and LRAM departments. Young Artist programmes include Schleswig-Holstein, Santander Encuentro de Música, Leeds Lieder, Solti Accademia, Britten Pears and Renée Fleming Song Studio. With baritone Florian Störtz, she is joining the Spanish Schubertíada as a part of the Lied the Future programme 2024.

Aleksandra graduated from the Royal Academy of Music (class of prof. Christopher Elton and prof. Hamish Milne) and the Guildhall School where she studied opera and was supported by International Opera Awards Foundation, Sybil Tutton Opera Awards and the Kathleen Trust. She was particularly influenced by working with artists such as Ferenc Rados, Fou Ts’ong, Leon Fleisher, Maxim Vengerov, Michel Beroff, Rodney Friend, James Ehnes and, in song repertoire specifically, Julius Drake and Hartmut Höll.

Florian Störtz (bass-baritone)
www.florian-stoertz.com
Instagram: @florianstoertz

Florian is the winner of the 2023 International Handel Singing Competition as well as the 2023 Helmut Deutsch Song Competition. This coming season he will be performing on a European tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and will be joining the Monteverdi Choir in a programme of Bach and Charpentier at major European concert halls. He recently returned to the London Handel Festival in a production of Esther directed by Laurence Cummings and featured in a celebrated tour of Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki. He is featured on the recording of Duruflé’s Requiem with the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge which has recently been awarded the Diapason d’Or.

On the recital stage, Florian will be performing at song festivals in Lewes (UK), the Schubertiada Vilabertran (Spain), and at Zell am See (Austria) alongside pianist Helmut Deutsch. Recent appearances include a concert of German song at Carnegie Hall with Renée Fleming’s SongStudio, as well as French song concerts at Salle Cortot, Paris and Wigmore Hall as part of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange. Together with pianist Mark Rogers, he has won the Prix de mélodie at the 2023 International Voice-Piano Competition ‘Lili et Nadia Boulanger’ in Paris.

Florian is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, London where during his studies he was awarded first prizes for both opera and song recitals, as well as the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Having enjoyed his musical upbringing in the vocal music scene around Trier Cathedral (Germany), he is now based in London.