Christian Fellner MA, Dip.TCL, LTCL
I was born in London in 1963 and received my earliest musical training from my father, a professional organist, who taught me piano from the age of six. As well as piano, I learned harpsichord, organ and singing and performed baroque chamber music with my own ensemble. I began my formal vocal-training as a counter-tenor at the Royal Academy of Music, but decided I preferred singing in my bass-baritone voice and retrained at Trinity College of Music, London, graduating with diplomas in teaching and performing. I then continued singing lessons with Esther Salaman in London and Professor Evgenia Sheveliova in Moscow. An interest in the spoken voice led me to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, from where I graduated with a first-class MA in Voice Studies in 2010.
After graduating from Central, I taught voice and text to actors at the Poor School, a London drama school in Kings Cross. This continued until the School closed in 2017 and I now teach privately at home in Teddington, South West London and at The School – a new school of acting based in Islington, North London – https://theschoollondon.co.uk
With my class at The School, London, December 2023
With my last class at The Poor School, Kings Cross, September 2017.
Alongside teaching, I have also had a career as a singer and have performed widely in the UK and across Europe and have sung in venues such as St Martin-in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square and Wigmore Hall in London, the Scriabin and Roerich Museums in Moscow, and the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. Early opera roles included Papageno in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Ariodates in Handel’s Xerxes and Apollo in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, but my main performing activity has been as a recitalist and chamber musician singing repertoire ranging from baroque chamber cantatas by Clérambault, Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Purcell and JS Bach to songs by twentieth century composers Shostakovich, Georgii Sviridov, Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem. At the centre of my repertoire are the songs and cycles of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Hugo Wolf.
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