Fernando Araujo

Baritone and pianist Fernando Araujo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where he began piano lessons at the age of seven and composition studies at eleven. At the age of twelve, he sang the part of the Third Boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the Ópera Minaz. He graduated in piano and voice from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and from the University Mozarteum Salzburg, where his teachers were Menahem Pressler and Hans Leygraf (piano), György Sebök (chamber music), KS James King, KS Lilian Sukis, Carlos Montanè and Boris Bakow (voice), Breda Zakontik and Wolfgang Holzmair (Lied and oratorio). At Indiana University, he was vocal coach for the class of legendary soprano and pedagogue Virginia Zeani. He performed at the Kammersängerin title ceremony for Grace Bumbry at the Federal Chance