Title role in 'Michael's Jugend' and Michael in 'Invasion-Explosion' from
'AUS LICHT' on Holland Festival
with Dutch National Opera

After almost two years of preparing, finally the premier of Stockhausen's opera cycle is in the Gashouder in Amsterdam!
As leading role in Michael's Jugend, Georgi had the opportunity to show his variety in singing and performing.
A touching story of a difficult childhood, based on autobiographic elements of the composer, Stockhausen (and also resembling some elements of his own past), the 70 minutes piece shows how the character grows from a young child with sick Mother and troubled Father, through adolescence with flirting with a half-bird, half- alien bassethorn-player girl, finally growing up into a young man applying to be accepted as Tenor in the Heavenly Conservatory, facing the ghost of his parents and reliving the past in order to get above it.
Challenging after losing both of his parents last year, more than just therapeutic, this preparation process was also a dedication to his memories of his parents.

Photos by Ruth&Martin Walz
For more info, visit the Shows Day 1 or Day 3,
and check out the National Opera's special website here:

auslicht.com/en/

ART IN CORONA

Everyone was affected by the global pandemic of Covid-19. 
Next to the enorm losses that everyone had to experience, it also gave us a chance to reinvent ourselves, our beliefs, values and reset our priorities.
As artists, deprived from the joy and importance of working together and communicating with an audience, new forms and means of making art came to life. A beautiful example is Jan-Peter de Graaff's mini opera series, the 
Bonsai Garden.
Watch the episode written for Georgi singing, playing organ, violin and flute.

Blessing - with Babylon Quartet

​A touching piece, written for the celebration of the 25-year wedding anniversary of Davo and Margriet van Peursen, based on a psalm by Sir Isaac Watts, by Composer Maxim Shalygin. 
Our first recording and certainly not the last - with the Babylon Quartet!
In the gorgeous recording and design by TRPTK - The New Music Movement.
Check out also their recording of movements of the Music Theatre piece VULNUS.

Master Singing Diploma
9,5 with distinction 

With a mix of surprising repertoire, mixing old and new, own pieces and transcriptions, with excerpts of the music theatre piece 'Vulnus' and the new ensemble 'The Odd 7'!
Soon to be seen in video excerpts!

Extended Tenor -Gyula Csapó: Trilce 

The recording of this magnificent piece, written for guitarist Katalin Koltai, and Georgi himself, still shows the possibilities of an extension to the voice combining tenor with countertenor and with low vocal fry, just as the 8 stringed guitar has one extra string below and above. 

Extended techniques - The Gift

As part of the Staged music production VULNUS Manuel Sanchez wrote a piece specially for Georgi, to 'unshow' his secure patterns and tools as a performer, and make him discover sides of his voice, that would make him truly vulnerable during performing this monodrama. 

Hinse Mutter: Dirge pour Charlie

My good colleague friend, Hinse Mutter wrote this piece as a reaction to the brutal happenings in Paris. With respect to all. Let there be change.

Some older recordings of premieres
​as singer

Singing and (co)composing - VULNUS
A music theatre piece for Gaudeamus

A successful collaboration with Irene Sorozabal (voice, recorders) and Manuel Sanchez Garcia (composer), observing the power of vulnerability more then just as a content, but also as a state in which the performers have to exist.
With the lights and dramaturgic advice of Emese Csornai, premiered on Gaudeamus music week in 2018 September.  

Curious for more from VULNUS?
Check out the videos below!

An Odd Passion

On his master presentation as singer, Georgi rearranged several pieces (from different genres, times and languages) for his ensemble, The Odd7.
One of the possible outcomes is an album with such modernised versions of excerpt of Bach: Matthëus Passion, the well treasured tradition of Holland during easter times. The idea of 'An Odd Passion' showing this timeless music from new angles is even more valid, as this year most of passion concerts were cancelled.
Listen to an excerpt of Georgi's arrangement on the Tenor Aria 'O Schmerz'.

The New VocalFederation6:
Six Things that are but One

The New Vocal Federation Six is a vocal ensemble, focused on exquisitely extravagant modern music. 
Its members put together their knowledge, skills and experience of different genres, being all masters of their voice, bringing their uniqueness to all blend in a colorful and exciting unity. 
The group is recently (re)formed under the leadership of their tenor, Georgi Sztojanov, whose compositions are forming the debut program of this promising collaboration.

The New VF6 (Vocal Federation6) has recorded a full album of Sztojanov's vocal ensemble works. Listen to the album on Soundcloud (click on the pic)
or watch the live recording session from The Hague Barthkapel (see below).

Examples of combining artistry

An 'Aria', composed on the chords of Faure: Green, on the wise words of his former pianist-(life) coach, Phyllis Ferwerda, mixed with some own texts, 
playing 7 instruments for the 7 chakras, from
OUT OF THE BLUE - a one man show about becoming a tenor.
To see the whole show, click on the video below!

OUT OF THE BLUE
​Bachelor dipoma concert
9 with a distinction for
'multitalented artistry'
with new performance, written by/from/about Sztojanov

Check out the one man show of a 30 year old man, facing his roots, his path, and his process of ... well, becoming a TENOR:)

Dialogues from my head- mini opera for two

The recording from our premier with Orsolya Juhasz and the composer singing the tenor role 
in the second concert of the GoedLaak music collective, 'Big Mouth strikes again' in 2013 december!

Read more about the piece here!

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