The Bulgarian counter-tenor, Aleksan Chobanov-Parnakyan (Алексан Чобанов-Парнакян), obtained in 2016 his Bachelor of Music from the Early Music Vocal Department at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where he studied with Rita Dams, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Peter Kooy, Pascal Bertin, Robin Blaze, and Dorothee Mields. He is continuing his studies at the Royal Conservatoire’s Master of Early Music program (October 2016-June 2018).
Aleksan Chobanov has performed and recorded with some of Bulgaria’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio and the Orchestra of the Plovdiv Opera. He is involved in both sacred and operatic-music projects in the Netherlands and around Europe and has worked under the guidance of Michael Chance, Kenneth Montgomery, Patrick Ayrton, Peter Van Heyghen, Hidemi Suzuki, Charles Toet, Peter Coin, and Frans Brüggen, among others. |