Ardalan Jabbari graduated with honors his Bachelor’s and three Master’s studies in “Voice”, “Lied and Oratorio” as well as “Opera” at the University of Arts Graz (KUG) and at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK), each with distinction.
His engagements took him to perform as a Tonio (Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci) at State Opera Baku, Germont ( Verdi’s La Traviata in Auditorium di Milano with Milan symphony Orchestra) , Chef / Oberkellner / Doktor 2 / Wachmann (Staud’s Die Antilope at Neue Oper Wien and Teatro Comunale Bolzano), Ford (Verdi’s Falstaff at Schloßtheater Schönbrunn in Vienna with the Webern Symphony Orchestra), Kwasi ( Strübing’s Zum goldenen Giger at the Stadttheater Fürth with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra) and at Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben MuTH and Mumuth in Graz: Don Alfonso (Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte), Lord Sydney ( Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims), Nick Shadow ( Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress), Il Conte ( Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Chamberlain ( Stravinsky’s The Nightingale), Forester ( Janáček’s The Cunning little Vixen), Simone ( Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi).
In 2013 he was awarded the emerging artists price „Startstipendium“ for the Performing Arts by The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. He is a laureate of numerous international singing competitions including: Accademia Belcanto in Graz (Third Prize), Grandi Voce in Salzburg (Second Prize), Fiorenza Cedolins International Singing Competition (Premio of the Petruzzelli Theatre of Bari) and Gabriela Benackova in Žďár nad Sázavou (winner of the concert tour). In 2022 he received the award for the best Verdi voice and interpretation in the international singing competition (MOA – Montecatini Opera Academy Italia).
He sang various gala concerts, including: in the Graz Musikverein, in the Helmut List Hall in Graz, as well as Verdi’s Macbeth, Jago and Falstaff at 500th birthday anniversary of Shakespeare in the large open-air concert of the Darmstädter Residenzfestspiele. In addition he delighted his audiences in numerous recitals, including the “Wiener Lieder Herbst” festival in Vienna and St.Veit an der Glan. On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Hugo Wolf in Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Linz and he also interpreted Schubert’s Der Schwanengesang and the Italian songbook of Hugo Wolf. He sang in Ulm Messa per Rossini (with the Kammerphilharmonie Bodensee- Oberschwaben).
Among his mentors who have recognized his talent and worked with him are in particular: Egils Silins, Giorgio Zancanaro in Verona, Fiorenza Cedollins in Milan and Prof. Carolyn Hague, KS Angelika Kirchschlager, KS Birgid Steinberger, KS Wicus Slabbert, Artur Rucinski, Paolo Rumetz, Vladimir Stoyanov in Vienna.