Biography

Mag.phil. Mag.art. Bakk.art

Please read more about this in "Completed fields of study"

Please read more about this in "Completed fields of study"

• Solo vocals
• Vocal pedagogy
• Musicology

Nazanin studied and graduated with honors in solo singing and vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Prof. Margit Klaushofer and Prof. Maria Bayer and completed her studies in musicology at the same time.

Right from the start of her studies, her outstanding achievements were rewarded with various international performance scholarships and prizes.

During your studies, you were given their special achievements a "Welt Stipendium - the World Scholarship", one of the scholarships awarded by nonAustrians:inside The most difficult scholarships to obtain in Austria.

She also received a scholarship from the Thyll-Dürr Foundation, Switzerland, which is only awarded to exceptionally successful MDW students.

The soprano Nazanin Ezazi was the winner of the Media Prize at the International "Hans Gabor Belvedere" Singing Competition. 

In 2011 she took part in the final rounds of Placido Domingo's International Singing Competition "Operalia" in Moscow as the only person and singer from Austria to be admitted and in the course of this received 3 offers from Plácido Domingo to choose from, 2 years fixed engagement as a soprano soloist in the young ensemble of the Los Angeles Opera House, the Washington Opera House and the Valencia Opera House.

Nazanin was also the only "soprano" finalist in the "Hilde Zadek" singing competition in Vienna.

In 2014, Nazanin was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize (Golden Schikaneder) for her stage performance in various roles. 

In 2018, Nazanin was awarded the Nicolaus Bruhns Prize for Singing at the Lied Art Competition in Husum Castle (Germany).

After 1 year Nazanin fixes became a member of the Graz Opera ensemble and has developed a large repertoire there, singing Adina/L'ELISIR D'AMORE, Pamina/DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE and Dido/DIDO AND AENEAS, among others.

In 2010-2011, after several auditions, the Graz Opera only engaged one person for the young ensemble, and that was Nazanin Ezazi.

After 1 year, Nazanin became a permanent member of the Graz Opera ensemble and has developed a large repertoire there, including Adina/L'ELISIR D'AMORE, Pamina/DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE and Dido/DIDO AND AENEAS. She has also appeared as Nannetta/FALSTAFF, Helene/EIN WALZERTRAUM, Carlotta/GASPARONE and Inès/LA FAVORITE. She has also sung the roles of Sand and Taumännchen/HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, Antonia Musical : DER MANN VON LA MANCHA and CARMINA BURANA.

As part of her international appearances, Nazanin sang in 

France ( Nancy ) in an open-air concert in front of their biggest audience to date with 10,000 people. 

Nazanin also had Manon/Manon-Massenet on her program, she was again to be seen as Pamina/DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, as Jemmy/WILHELM TELL and as Mistress and EVITA in the musical Evita.

In the 2016-17 season, Nazanin made her debut at the Theater an der Wien and the National Theater of Mannheim (Young Opera). She also made her house debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Brahms Requiem at St. Peter's Church in Salzburg. 

Since 2018 to date, various concerts and recitals, including with various guest artists in the Ezazi Musik Salon.

List of conductors with whom Nazanin Ezazi has worked:

• Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• David Zinman
• Antonio Fogliani
• Erwin Ortner
• Domingo Hindoyans
• Tecwyn Evans
• Marius Burkert
• Giacomo Sagripanti
• Dirk Kaftan
• Oliver Ostermann
• José Miguel Esandi
• Johannes Fritzsch 
• Florian Erdl
• Günter Fruhmann 
• Jeff Frohner
• Michael balke 
• Michael Brandstätter 
• Alexandra Veit 
• Marcus Merkel 
• Leo Hussain
• Peter peinstingl 
• Francesco Damiani
• Daniel Hoyem-Cavazza
• Thomas Lang
• Bernhard Schneider

Please read more about this in "Performances as a soloist on international stages in various roles" & "TV appearances".

Please read more about this in "TV appearances".

Nazanin was also a member of the soprano trio "Sedonia", with whom she performs internationally and has a recording contract with Universal Music.

She has also made numerous TV appearances. Among others 2013 Star TV Miss Earth Switzerland, Sep. 2015 live performance at the Starnacht in the Wachau, Oct. 2015 musical opening of the James Bond premiere Spectre in Vienna on ORF Heute leben live as a star guest. On 24.12.2015 ORF live performance at Licht ins Dunkel, on 14.02.2016 performance at Manoto TV London and further on 20.03.2016 performance at Manoto TV London.

Further appearances at Licht ins Dunkel in Burgenland with ORF broadcast.

Sedonia CD presentation in Graz and further performance at the Officers' Ball in the Hofburg in Vienna.

• Assistance Senior Lecturer for Voice and Singing in the class of Professor Margit Klaushofer (former head of the institute) at the Institute for Singing and Music Theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
• Senior Lecturer for Voice and Singing at the Vienna Conservatory, Vienna
• Senior Lecturer for Voice and Singing at the Prayner Conservatory, Vienna
• Senior Lecturer for Voice and Singing at the Richard Wagner Conservatory, vienna 
• Independent vocal coach and singing teacher at the Ezazi Voice Academy, Graz

Apart from her many years of stage experience, supported by her university education, Nazanin has strong pedagogical skills, which she has been practicing in the summer semester 2017 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with an assistant contract as Senior Lecturer for Singing to support the singing class of Prof. M. Klaushofer and since winter semester 2016 to 2018 in Vienna Conservatory and Prayner Conservatory and since 2017 in Wagner Conservatory in Vienna as a lecturer in vocal pedagogy.

Since 2019, Nazanin Ezazi has also been leading and teaching singing and voice training at the ''Ezazi Music Salon and Voice Academy'' in Graz.

In the summer of 2019, Nazanin Ezazi was Prof. Amira El-Hamalawi's assistant for voice training at the Children's University of the Arts at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Apart from her many years of stage experience, supported by her university education, Nazanin has strong pedagogical skills, which she has been practicing in the summer semester of 2017 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with an assistant contract as Senior Lecturer for Singing to support the singing class of Prof. M. Klaushofer and since the winter semester of 2016 at the Vienna Conservatory, the Prayner Conservatory and the Wagner Conservatory in Vienna as a lecturer in vocal pedagogy.

Since 2019, Nazanin Ezazi has also been leading and teaching singing and voice training at the ''Ezazi Music Salon and Voice Academy'' in Graz.

In the summer of 2019, Nazanin Ezazi was Prof. Amira El-Hamalawi's assistant for voice training at the Children's University of the Arts at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Nazanin has also been holding regular workshops for voice training and singing at home and abroad for several years with numerous participants.

Nazanin Ezazi has been running the ''Ezazi Music Salon'' and ''Ezazi Voice Academy'' in Graz since 2019.

The ''Ezazi Musik Salon'' is a place of cultural encounters, where concerts with national and international artists as well as numerous courses and workshops for singing and voice training take place on an ongoing basis.