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Aleksan Chobanov (Counter-tenor)

Born: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The Bulgarian counter-tenor, Aleksan Chobanov-Parnakyan (Алексан Чобанов-Парнакян), obtained in 2016 his Bachelor of Music from the Early Music Vocal Department at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where he studied with Rita Dams, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Peter Kooy, Pascal Bertin, Robin Blaze, and Dorothee Mields. He is continuing his studies at the Royal Conservatoire’s Master of Early Music program (October 2016-June 2018).

Aleksan Chobanov has performed and recorded with some of Bulgaria’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio and the Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera. He is involved in both sacred and operatic-music projects in the Netherlands and around Europe and has worked under the guidance of Michael Chance, Kenneth Montgomery, Patrick Ayrton, Peter Van Heyghen, Hidemi Suzuki, Charles Toet, Peter Coin, and Frans Brüggen, among others.

Source: Juilliard Website (November 4, 2016); Aleksan Chobanov-Parnakyan profile on Facebook
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Aryeh Oron (December 2016)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

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Works

Dóra Király [recorder/bassoon]

Alto

[CV-1] (2018, Video): Improvisation on Chorale from BWV 248/6; BWV 150

Jean-Loup Gagnon

Alto

Video (2015):BWV 36

Ton Koopman

Alto

[V-18] (2016, Audio): BWV 232 [2nd recording]
[V-19] (2016, Video): BWV 232 [3rd recording]

Links to other Sites

Juilliard and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague Perform Together for the First Time in Bach's Mass in B Minor, Conducted by Ton Koopman on Saturday, November 19, 2016, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall (Juilliard)
Aleksan Chobanon on Facebok


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