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Ardalan Jabbari (* Born August 25, 1984 in Tehran, Iran) is an Austrian Baritone and Vocal pedagogue.

Life
Ardalan Jabbari was born in Tehran and completed three master degrees in “Master of Voice”, “Lied and Oratorio” and “Music Theater/Opera” at the University of Art in Graz as well as the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna. [1] His teachers and mentors include inter alia Natela Nicoli, Vladimir Stoyanov, Giorgio Zancanaro, [1] Paolo Rumetz, [1] Wicus Slabbert, [1] Angelika Kirchschlager [2] and Artur Ruciński.After having received a scholarship in 2008, he was chosen the finalist in the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz [1], the finalist in the international singing competition ‘Ravello città della musica’ [3] in Italy, not to mention the international competition ‘Žďár nad Sázavou’. [1] In 2013 he was awarded the emerging artists prize „Startstipendium“ for the Performing Arts by The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. [2] In 2016 he won third place at the international singing competition ‘Accademia Belcanto’ in Graz. [4]

As an opera singer he sang four roles in the opera ‘Die Antilope’ by Johannes Maria Staud at the Neue Oper Wien [5] as well as the Bolzano City Theater led by Walter Kobéra. [6] He sung the Germont in La Traviata at the Milan auditorium with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi [7], performed in the Rossini gala concert in the Alte Oper Frankfurt led by Peter Falk [8] as well as Ford in Falstaff in the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. [9] His repertoire also includes Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte), Lord Sydney (Il viaggio a Reims) Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), the Chamberlain ( Le Rossignol) and Simone in Gianni Schicchi. [1]

As a concert singer, he appeared in the "Italian Opera Night" in the Darmstadt Residence Festival in 2016. [10] He also gave recitals “Wiener Lieder Herbst” with his Pianist Hafez Babashahi in Vienna and Carinthia - u. a. with works by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss and he sang Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook in Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, and Graz [11] [12] [13] - not to mention that he sang the Messa per Rossini in Ulm for the first time. [14] Open-air concerts took him to the Graz Casemates [15] and the Styriarte Festival.

Jabbari teaches as a singing master [16] [17] and has so far held master classes in London, Ravello, Milan, Tehran, Shiraz, and Tabriz.

Weblinks

 * Ardalan Jabbari bei Operabase (Engagements und Termine)
 * Website Ardalan Jabbari