Simone Kermes & Gianluca Geremia
Biography Simone Kermes & Gianluca Geremia
Simone Kermes
studied under Professor Helga Forner at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, her home town. She completed her studies and two additional courses of study with distinction. She is the holder of many prizes awarded at international singing competitions.
Opera performances have taken her as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Giunia, Rosalinde, Lucia, Gilda, Ann Truelove, Alcina and Laodice, among other roles, to New York, Paris, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Moscow, Beijing and German state opera houses. She has given solo concerts and lieder evenings all over Europe, as well as in the USA, Australia, the Sultanate of Oman, China, Russia, Mexico and Japan.
In addition to many radio and television productions, she has recorded numerous CDs. For her solo albums she has received a number of international awards, such as the annual award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik, the Diapason d`Or, Midem Award, Choc Le Monde de la Musique and Gramophone magazine’s Recording of the Month. For her album entitled Colori d`amore she was the winner of the Echo Klassik in the highest category, Female Singer of the Year, in 2011. In 2012 the Munich Abendzeitung awarded Simone Kermes its Star of the Year Award, and in April 2013 she received one of Russia’s highest cultural awards, the Golden Mask, for her performances as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Tchaikovsky State Academic Theatre in Perm.
Simone Kermes received the Echo Klassik 2014 award for the opera of the year.
Gianluca Geremia
started his studies of the lute at the SMAV (Ancient Music School of Venice) under the guidance of Maestro Massimo Lonardi. In 2014 he obtained a bachelor degree in Renaissance Lute with honors from the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in Venice and a master’s degree in Tiorba from the same institute under the guidance of Maestro Tiziano Bagnati. He attended courses in contemporary composition and Renaissance counterpoint at the Venice Conservatory followed by Maestro Riccardo Vaglini and Maestro Marco Gemmani.
Gianluca is part of the ensemble La “Vaghezza” with which he won the first prize of the international competition “Maurizio Pratola” (L’Aquila, 2016) and the first prize, the prize of the public and the Barenraiter prize of the “Handel Competition” (Göttingen, 2018) . Currently the group is an ensemble in residence at the European Eeemerging project.
He is constantly collaborating with some of the most important early music formations including: “Modo Antiquo”, “Il Pomo d’Oro”, “Les Musiciens du Louvre”, “Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia”, “Orchestra of the La Fenice Theater”, “Rai National Symphony Orchestra”, “Mare Nostrum”, “The soloists of the Marciana Chapel”, “Venice Baroque Orchestra”.
