Waltmans Artists Management

EIJA RÄISÄNEN, Finnish soprano (spinto), jugendlich/dramatic, moving towards more dramatic direction, a voice like there was a "Cathy Barberian". Eija is well known in Finland and is working as a freelancer singer.
Eija wants to cooperate with classical and modern opera institutes and with ensembles performing contemporary music in Europe and worldwide. She studies music in a short notice, and she can substitute the leading singer in case of urgency. Eija graduated from Sibelius-Academy opera department in 2002 and she has also graduated from Conservatory of Kuopio as a teacher of singing.

ENSEMBLE ARTE MUSICA - FRANCESCO CERA - MARCO SERINO (Rome - Italy)
Top soloists performing their programs on early music festivals.
Ensemble Arte Musica performed among others at Festival van Vlaanderen in Bruges, Resonanzen at Konzerthaus in Vienna, Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Bologna Festival and Les Gouts Reunis in Lausanne. In 2010, together with Ensemble Oltramontano (Wim Becu), they have performed Monteverdi's Vespers 1610 at Barocktage in Melk (Austria), being recorded by ORF Radio.

RASHID SKURATOV symphony conductor (Kazan - Russia) is specialist in Russian music: P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, S. Rachmaninoff, S. Prokofiev, D. Schostakovich. Skuratov received his musical training at the Novosibirsk conservatoire studying orchestra conducting with one of the leading conductors Prof. Arnold Katz. Skuratov graduated in 1987, and that same year he accepted an appointment with the Novosibirsk conservatoire as a conducting instructor of students symphony orchestra, a position he had held for several years. In 1988 he was finalist at the All-Soviet Union competition of Symphony conductors. In 1990 he got the position as a leading conductor of the Kazan Symphony Orchestra. His diverse training and enthusiasm have helped the Kazan Symphony Orchestra to gain national recognition as one of the finest regional orchestras in Russia.

UNITED SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ODESSA UKRAINE. The orchestra was found in 2003 by highly qualified musicians. The best musicians of Odessa, Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Zaporozhe and other areas of Ukraine are involved in creative activity of collective. Besides its permanent concert activities in its home country and in the region, successful concert tours leaded the orchestra until now to Austria, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The classical repertoire is stretching wide, it reaches from Russian classics to Viennese Music by the Strauss-Dynasty. With the popular Dixie-Band there are performed also Jazz Standards as Glenn Miller, Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong and others. If you want to invite United Symphony Orchestra - Odessa to your Music Festival please contact the artists manager or see orchestra's website.