Born in 1986 in São Paulo, Brazil, the young conductor, Vinicius Kattah, was the winner of the 1st-Prize at the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition 2011. As winner of this Competition, he earned engagements during the 2011-2012 season with the Slovak National Opera Bratislava, the Dnepropetrovsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ukraine), and the Bulgarian State Opera Plovdiv as well as a Gala performance of La Traviata with the Bulgarian State Opera Bourgas.
Mr. Kattah has conducted in opera houses and other musical theatres throughout Europe, the US, and South America. He is currently living in Vienna, Austria, where he is completing a master’s degree in Conducting and “Opera Korrepetition” with Georg Mark and Kristin Okerlund at the Konservatorium Wien Universität. Recently he accompanied such well-known singers as Eliane Coelho and Juremir Vieira and performed with the vocal artists, Roxana Constantinescu, Lothar Odinius, Zoltan Nagy and Anita Hartig.
In March of 2011, Mr. Kattah conducted four performances of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi in Vienna’s Theater Akzent. In 2009, he founded the Opernstudio Vienna whose purpose is to study, play, sing and conduct the entire repertoire from Vienna State Opera with professional musicians and friends.
Vinicius Kattah completed a bachelor’s degree in Opera Conducting in São Paulo, Brazil at the “Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado” under the guidance of conductors Abel Rocha and Naomi Munakata, and pianist João Carlos Martins. Mr. Kattah undertook piano and harpsichord masterclasses with the Mozart expert, Robert Levin (student of Nadia Boulanger) and Maria Eugênia Sacco. He also received voice lessons with the important Brazilian baritone, Carmo Barbosa.
One of Mr. Kattah’s mentors is the renowned German conductor, Helmuth Rilling, from whom he received numerous “Stipendiums” to study during 2006 – 2009. Vinicius Kattah participated in masterclasses and conducted concerts in Stuttgart, Germany with the Bach Collegium Stuttgart and Gächinger Kantorei, and in Eugene, Oregon U.S.A., conducting the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Choir.
In 2008, Mr. Kattah traveled for the first time to Vienna, where he did research for and completed a book about Emanuel Schikaneder: “DAS LABYRINTH, ODER DER KAMPF MIT DEN ELEMENTEN: Schikaneder e a Parte II de Die Zauberflöte”, a complete study in Peter von Winter’s opera, the Magic Flute, Part II. In May of 2008, Vinicius Kattah was selected to participate in a masterclass in opera conducting with Bulgarian conductor, Boris Hinchev, conducting three Pucinni Operas: La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.<br />
Born in 1986 in São Paulo, Brazil, the young conductor, Vinicius Kattah, was the winner of the 1st-Prize at the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition 2011. As winner of this Competition, he earned engagements during the 2011-2012 season with the Slovak National Opera Bratislava, the Dnepropetrovsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ukraine), and the Bulgarian State Opera Plovdiv as well as a Gala performance of La Traviata with the Bulgarian State Opera Bourgas.
Mr. Kattah has conducted in opera houses and other musical theatres throughout Europe, the US, and South America. He is currently living in Vienna, Austria, where he is completing a master’s degree in Conducting and “Opera Korrepetition” with Georg Mark and Kristin Okerlund at the Konservatorium Wien Universität. Recently he accompanied such well-known singers as Eliane Coelho and Juremir Vieira and performed with the vocal artists, Roxana Constantinescu, Lothar Odinius, Zoltan Nagy and Anita Hartig.
In March of 2011, Mr. Kattah conducted four performances of Puccini’s [...]