Dorottya Lang & Mehrdokht Manavi

Dorottya Lang

mezzo-soprano

Third Prize Winner 2011

Dorottya Lang was born in Budapest in 1986. She started her official studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2008, studying with Claudia Visca.

Simultaneously, she works Lied-interpretation with Carolyn Hague. Dorottya has participated in masterclasses with Christa Ludwig, Susan Manoff and Stephen Delaney.

She was a finalist in the Hilde Zadek Competition (2011). Her highly acclaimed interpretation of Hänsel and Cherubino performed in Schlosstheater Schönbrunn has brought her future engagements including solo recitals in Germany and Hungary with Matthias Lademann and a joint recital with Mark Padmore and Julius Drake next season in the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see pictures of Dorottya during rehearsals for the Song Competition and to watch the video of her recital in The Final.

Mehrdokht Manavi

piano

Mehrdokht Manavi was born in Tehran in 1988. In 2005, she commenced her studies in Austria with Stanislaw Tichonow in Eisenstadt and with Natasa Veljkovic at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Since 2010 she has been studying at the Vienna Conservatory under Carolyn Hague in the Masters Program for pianists for Lied and Oratorio.

Mehrdokht has participated in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Pavel Gililov and Peter Schreier. She has won First prize at the Piano Monterosa 2007, the Ernesto Falla 2008, the 24th International “Fadjr Music Festival”, Tehran and the Bösendorfer Scholarship Competitions.