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Sune Hjerrild

CEO of Truelinked

Sune Hjerrild founder and CEO of Truelinked was born in Copenhagen in 1973. He is married to his high school sweetheart Christina and they live in the quiet countryside outside Copenhagen with their four children. Sune discovered his voice at the age of 17 and started dreaming of an Opera career when he was in high school. His dream came true after his participation in both the Placi...

Sofia Wilkman

Pianist, coach, repetiteur

A Finnish pianist and living in Copenhagen. Working currently at the Opera Academy of the Royal Danish Opera.

She began her career at Opera de Nice in 1986 with Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and went on to sing  at virtually every major opera house in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Teatro Colon, and London Covent Garden. A natural vocal evolution has lead her to more dramatic roles recently with “Lady Macbeth” in Verdi’s Macbeth, “Kostelnicka” i...

Darren Abrahams

High Performance Coach

Darren Abrahams is a singer and teacher. He has appeared in opera all around the world and has sung for such companies as the ROH, ENO, Wexford Festival and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He is also a coach and therapist with a private practice in Brighton in the UK, specialising in self awareness and re-regulating the nervous system. He is the creator of many programmes designed to expand the po...

Arlene Rolph

Vocal coach and singing teacher and partner at The Singing Entrepreneur

Scottish mezzo who trained at the a Royal College of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and at Lonfon's National Opera Studio. Operatic performances include roles for Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Theatre an der Wien, Berlin Staatsoper, Frankfurt Oper and Glyndebourne. In addition to performing, Arlene runs a successful teaching career within schools and her own private practice...

Mezzo, producer at McCaldin Arts, life and business coach, one third of the Singing Entrepreneur seminar at Operosa March 2014

Darina Takova

Opera Singer and Vocal Coach

Darina was born in Sofia, where she finished the music school at Lyoli Daskalov and Music Academy in the class of Prof. Mati Pinkas and Prof. Mila Dyulgerova. Darina has been a member of the National Opera for six seasons since 1989. During this period, she also performed at all national opera houses and concert halls in Bulgaria. She has won awards from Luisa Todi in Lisbon, Young Opera Singer...

Biography & discography Marijana Mijanovic Contralto The contralto Marijana Mijanovic was born in Serbia. After studying the piano at the Belgrade Academy of Music, she studied singing at the Conservatorium Sweelinck, Amsterdam, with Cora Canne Meijer. Marijana Mijanovic is the winner of several international awards, including First Prize at the National Competition for Young Singers in ...