【Date&Time】

 Sep. 9, 2025 (Tue.) 14:30-17:30 

【Venue】

Rehearsal Classroom 302, Music Practice Complex

School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen

2 International University Park Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen

【Registration】

Admission Free.

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*Once the registration is submitted, it will be considered successful. No separate confirmation will be sent; please stay informed of event updates. Please present event poster at entrance for campus access.

【Notice】

*Children under 1.2m are not admitted

Vlad Iftinca

Pianist and conductor Vlad Iftinca is currently part of the 2024-2025 Staatsoper Stuttgart music staff roster and also music director of the International Opera Studio. Between 2007 and 2015, he held the position of staff coach in the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was also part of the main stage music staff (2006-2019). As a pianist, he has collaborated on productions with The Los Angeles Opera, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, and the Dallas Opera.

Mr. Iftinca has collaborated in recital with distinguished artists such as Regina Resnik, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Deborah Voigt, Thomas Hampson, Hei Kyung Hong, Luca Pisaroni, Shenyang, Lisette Oropesa, Erin Morley, Isabel Leonard, Nadine Sierra, and Elza van der Heever. Concert venues include Frankfurt Oper, Opernhaus Zurich, Max Joseph Saal in Munich, Palau des Arts in Valencia, Soirées Musicales d'Arles, Beijing Music Festival, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall "Great Singers" Recital Series, Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles Opera, the Seoul Performing Arts Center, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and the Ravinia Festival's recital series. He can be heard alongside Lisette Oropesa in her first commercially released recording, Within/Without: Live in recital.

Vlad Iftinca has been on the faculty of various prestigious universities and summer festivals, including the Mannes School of Music, The Juilliard School, CantoFest Summer Festival, and the Tosti International Singing Academy.

As a conductor, he led performances at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Opera San Antonio, TriCities Opera, Romanian National Opera, and Opera on the Avalon. Recent engagements include a recital with Thomas Hampson and Nadine Sierra in St.Tropez (France) and the Puccini Gala with the State Transylvania Orchestra in Cluj, Romania. This season, he conducts Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Verdi's Otello at Staatsoper Stuttgart.