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 CHANNA MALKIN

Soprano Channa Malkin is known for her compelling musical personality and unbridled creativity. She was recently praised by Opera Today for “her pure and smooth voice, but full of feeling.” She excels in a broad repertoire, from Italian baroque opera to Sephardic chamber music.
A recent nominee of the Grachtenfestivalprijs 2020, she debuted at the age of 16 as Barberina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Dutch National Opera. In 2021, her second solo album called This is not a lullaby was released by the high-end audio label TRPTK, including songs by Weinberg, Tavener as well as Russian songs by her father, Josef Malkin.
In the upcoming season, Channa will perform the role of Second Niece (Peter Grimes) in a spectacular seaside production for Wadopera, led by Arnaud Oosterbaan and Paul Carr. She will also make her Spanish recital debut at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, followed by a recital at the Philharmonie Haarlem.
Channa has demonstrated her unbridled creativity and entrepreneurship with the creation of her own multimedia opera pastiche Handel goes Tinder, together with violinist Anastasia Kozlova and writer/director Michael Diederich. Channa has performed this production 33 times for sold-out venues and festivals in the Netherlands. In 2022, Handel goes Tinder will play at the Handelfestpiele in Göttingen.   
She creates profound bonds with her audiences by presenting musical programmes combined wth personal storytelling. Her song programme This is not a lullaby explores aspects of motherhood and her Jewish-Eastern European cultural heritage through song and poetry. The album was particularly well received by the press, with Opernglas writing “Following this wonderful young singer through the diverse emotional moods is an experience of a very special kind." And Volkskrant: “Listening to Channa Malkin's clear-flowing voice is a real pleasure, but her new album, dedicated to her little son, is much more than an aesthetic experience”.
Recent highlights include the one-woman opera Non muore mai at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival 2021, where she was reinvited after various song recitals in 2020. Handel goes Tinder keeps playing for sold-out halls and open-air venues. She recently jumped in at a one day’s notice for Holland Baroque and Alexander Weimann in Handel’s Dixit Dominus and the world premiere of Hayes’ The Fall of Jericho. Other past highlights were her performances of the Boy Solo in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons,  and the world premieres of Yizkor and Black Flowers, a cantata and song cycle for soprano, orchestra and chorus by Josef Malkin, in New York City, Salt Lake City, Sofia (Bulgaria), and with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. She sang the soprano solos in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passion and B Minor Mass with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and various orchestras within the Netherlands. Channa regularly works as a soloist with baroque ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa led by theorbist Mike Fentross, with whom she recently performed Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres.
Channa’s performed opera roles include Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Charite (Cadmus et Hermione), Eve (In the beginning, a world premiere by Carlijn Metselaar), and all female roles in a staged production of Grieg’s Peer Gynt at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. As a Young Artist at the Rotterdam Opera Days she debuted Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), which became one of her dream roles.
Channa was born in Amsterdam into a family of classical musicians. She studied at the Utrecht Conservatoire with Charlotte Margiono, while simultaneously performing as a soloist in the Netherlands and abroad. After graduating with honours from the conservatoire, Channa went on to study with Rosemary Joshua, with whom she discovered her love for early music. She continues working with her vocal coaches Manuela Ochakovski and Roberta Alexander on new repertoire.

DANIEL JESÚS GARCÍA DE CASTRO DOMÍNGUEZ

Born in Malaga in 1991. He began his violin studies at the Manuel Carra Professional Conservatory in Malaga and went on to higher studies at the conservatories of Granada and Malaga, training with professors Ana Luque, Janos Nagy and Ara Vartanian.
He has been a member of different orchestral ensembles such as the Malaga Provincial Youth Orchestra, the Andalusian Baroque Youth Orchestra, the Cordoba Youth Orchestra and the Extremadura Youth Orchestra. He has also collaborated with other young and professional ensembles such as the Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga and Orquesta Sinfónica Provincial de Málaga, having played under the baton of conductors such as Enrique García Asensio, Manuel Hernández Silva, Andrés Salado, Pablo González, Aarón Zapico, Salvador Vázquez Sánchez and Michael Thomas, among others.
In 2017, together with the conductor Santiago J. Otero, he founded the Orquesta Málaga Camerata, of which he is concertmaster and with which he has performed several concerts in the province of Málaga.
He is currently studying the historical violin degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) with professors Manfredo Kraemer and Alba Roca. She has also received classes of historical viola and chamber music from Emilio Moreno and from different teachers of the Early Music department of the same centre such as Lorenzo Coppola, Xavier Blanch, Pedro Estevan.

SANTIAGO J. OTERO

Santiago Jesús Otero Vela was born in Málaga (Spain), where he studied piano, trombone and percussion.
Despite his extensive instrumental training, conducting has always been his strongest vocation, in which he has focused all of his efforts by always searching for a distinctive value and the highest interpretative and technical quality.
At the moment, he is finishing his postgraduate studies in conducting at Conservatoire de Strasbourg under the guidance of Theodor Guschlbauer and Miguel Etchegoncelay.
He has participated in the ConductingAcademy Opus 23 in Madrid, with the conductors Andrés Salado and Miguel Romea, who he considers his mentor. He has also expanded his knowledge in the lyrics repertoire with Miquel Ortega.
Moreover, he has had the chance to study with and to be advised by Pablo Heras-Casado, Karel-Mark Chichon, Álvaro Albiach, Matthias Foremny and Johanes Schlaefli.
He recently completed postgraduate studies in conducting at Basel's MusikAkademie under Rodolfo Fischer's guidance, and has been selected by the Royal Northern College of Music of Manchester to participate in one of its prestigious masterclasses. He has worked with the Varna Philarmonic.
At a national level, he has been in charge of great ensembles like the Orquesta de Extremadura and the Filarmónica de Las Palmas. He is currently conducting the Choir of the Universidad de Málaga and the Málaga Camerata Ensemble.