Rudolf Piernay (born 8 December 1943 in Berlin) is a German vocal teacher and university lecturer.
Piernay spent his childhood, youth, and first studied in Berlin, then began the study of singing, piano, song accompaniment and conducting in London. He has been teaching since 1974 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [1] and has also been a professor at the Musikhochschule Mannheim since 1991 and at the Académie internationale d'été de Nice.
His pupils include, among others, Bryn Terfel, Ema Nikolovska, Markus Brutscher, Melanie Diener, [2] Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Caroline Melzer, Michael Volle, [3] Stephanie Hampl, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Jens Hamann, James Martin, Martin Wistinghausen and Konrad Jarnot.
Piernay also performs in the bass baritone tessitura as a concert and lieder singer. He is a lecturer for master classes.
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Emmanuel Ceysson is a French harpist and academic. He is principal harpist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Formerly, he was principal harpist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris (2005–2015). In 2004 he won the Gold Medal and a special performance prize at the USA International Harp Competition. In 2006 he earned First Prize and six special prizes at the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York City, and in 2009 he received First Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. He currently serves as professor of Harp at the Mannes School of Music, and was previously Professor of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 2005 to 2009. Since 2010 he has taught harp in the summers at the Académie internationale d'été de Nice.
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