Featured Teachers

Basak is an experienced recitalist and performer with operatic and chamber ensembles around the world. She has offered singing and piano workshops and taught as Visiting Assistant Professor in UK, USA, Turkey and Italy. She has been teaching for 20 years. Recently, based upon the high demand for concerts and recitals, she has extensively toured Europe and United States and appeared as the guest soloist of Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra. Her recent performances in New York were Contessa La Nozze di Figaro, Jessy Mahagonny Songspiel, Pamina The Magic Flute; and also in Italy as a soloist of the Orchestra Filarmonica Campana and the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese. During her vocal studies, she was awarded the 3rd Prize at the 41st International Choral Competition C.A. Seghizzi, in Gorizia and she sang the lead roles in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with ICMA awarded Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. As a grant winner of the Italian Institute of Culture, she studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena, where she joined the vocal studio of renowned soprano Raina Kabaivanska. She had also the opportunity to attend masterclasses of Leone Magiera and Maestro Luciano Pavarotti. Her recent highlights in opera have included Eugenie Onegin as Larina in Moscow Opera Festival, La Boheme as Musetta in Jerusalem Opera Festival, Macbeth as Lady Macbeth and Elektra. She also worked as the Musical Director in Broadway Project with acclaimed Broadway conductor Phil Reno, who recently conducted famous musicals “Cats” and “Something Rotten”. She has given concerts in prestigious musical centres of Europe and the United States such as Palau de la Música Catalana, Community Theatre of Modena, Amfiteatre Caixa de Sabadell, Neuschwanstein Musical Theatre, BAM Opera House. She currently works as a vocal instructor and continues to give frequent opera performances, recitals, concerts and chamber repertoire across the world.

Antonia is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocal coach from Italy who also teaches piano and violin. She began studying the violin as a child. She later joined a choir and studied singing with Michael Aspinall and Candace Smith. In 2010, she obtained her first degree in Literature, music and performance’ from the University ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome, Italy. She later graduated in singing from the Conservatory of Music in Benevento, Italy, where she also sub-studied piano as a second instrument. For more than fifteen years, Antonia has been performing as a singer and violinist in bands, choirs, and early music ensembles with concerts all over Europe and in the United States. She has also trained as an actor and stage musician and collaborated with several theatre companies. In 2016, Antonia obtained a MA degree in renaissance and baroque singing from the ‘Santa Cecilia’ Conservatory of Rome, under the guidance of Sara Mingardo. Given her interest in different genres of music, acting and the theatrical voice, Antonia developed her own voice method and has been coaching singers and actors in various settings including schools, theatre companies, workshops, and community centers in Italy and in the UK. In recent years, Antonia has been writing and producing her own music, and she is currently working on a solo project. She is currently studying for an MA in music therapy at the University of the West of England in Bristol and will qualify in 2023.

Andrea B. comes from a family of musicians and from an early age he has distinguished himself in many National Piano Competitions and completed his piano grades up to Grade 8 as well as theory. He then achieved several degrees, first one was a Law degree at La Sapienza in Pisa, in Drama at Link Academy in Rome then carried on studying another BA in Performing Arts at the Link Campus University of Malta then in 2013 completed a Master's Degree in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting where one of his main focuses was singing. He has worked as a workshop Leader at The Prince of Wales Theatre as well as giving workshops for Schools on The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia and Les Mis. He has always pursued both Performing and Teaching careers going on tours and leading workshops in Italy within the Shakespeare Drama Company in Tuscany, Spain, as a Singer, in New York, for the MTVNY and in London also at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the West End. He achieved to apply the “Mimic Method” for actors by Orazio Costa to singing, creating a didactic for students to master both prosody and melody. He is now teaching piano and singing at London School of Arts.