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The Swiss bass, Jonas Jud, began his vocal studies in 2014 with Svetlana Afonina. To complete his studies and to improve his Italian he decided to move to Italy to study classical singing at the conservatory of music Agostino Steffani in Castelfranco Veneto with Professor Enrico Rinaldo. To pursue his Masters, he moved in 2020 to the USA studuy at the Yale School of Music in the studio of Adriana Zabala where he will graduate in May 2022.
Jonas Jud's first stage experience was in 2015 when he won the first prize at the “Schweizerischer Jugendmusikwettbewerb” in Switzerland followed by his debut as Caronte in the opera L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi in 2016 at the ouverture-opera-production in Sion, Switzerland. Shortly after, he received the Grand-Prix at the Young Vocalists Competition in Syktyvkar, Russia, which marked a big step towards his career as an opera singer.
Since 2018, Jonas Jud has appeared as Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and Skomorokh/3rd Sailor in The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the 30th & 31st Isny-Opera Festival in Germany, as Colline in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini at the Opernspiele Munot-Festival in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and as Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Civico di Schio.
Since the Covid Pandemic Jonas Jud has performed Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte at Yale Opera and covers Bartolo in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Theseus in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Singer. He recently won first prize at the NSA Student Auditions 2021.
In addition to his opera performances Jonas Jud has had the opportunity to sing various concerts in many places in Europe. |
