Artists

Michel Beroff was born in France in 1950. After graduating from the Paris conservatoire in 1966, he won the following year the first prize at the first international Olivier Messiaen piano competition. He has since been considered one of the most outstanding interpreters of Messiaen’s music. He then went on to play with the most prestigious orchestras around the world under the direction of such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein, Boulez, Dohnanyi, Dorati, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gielen, Inbal, Jochum, Leinsdorf, Masur, Ozawa, Previn, Rostropovitch, Sinopoli, Solti, Tennsted, Tilson-Thomas, Zinman. As a chamber music partner , he has been very active playing with Martha Argerich, Barbara Hendricks, Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay, Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell.

As a conductor, Michel Beroff has been conducting the chamber orchestra de la Scala de Milano, the Russian state Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Cannes chamber orchestra, the Berkeley symphony, the Montréal youth orchestra.

Professor Emeritus at the Paris Conservatoire, where he taught for 25 years, Michel Béroff is giving regular master classes in many countries, including Japan, China, USA, Italy, Germany and France.

Armenian-born cellist Alexander Chaushian is acclaimed worldwide for his refined artistry and powerful performances. He has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Armenian Philharmonic, and Boston Pops, and has performed at major venues such as London’s Southbank Centre, Carnegie Hall, and Suntory Hall.

A former student of the Menuhin School, Guildhall, and Hochschule Berlin, Alexander is a laureate of top international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky in Moscow and ARD in Munich. As a former NY Young Concert Artists alumnus, he toured extensively across the US.

Alexander collaborates with established artists like Emmanuel Pahud, François-Frédéric Guy, and Julia Fischer. His acclaimed recordings for BIS include collaborations with Yevgeny Sudbin, and his 2023 concerto with the Armenian Philharmonic was named ‘Album of the Week’ by The Independent.

Alexander is the Artistic Director of the Yerevan Music Festival and the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus.

Milana Chernyavska, a German artist with Ukrainian roots. Looking back at her impressive career, she established herself as one of the leading pianists and pedagogues of our times. Her critics agree with Alfred Brendel, who wrote that “Happiness was complete when one listened to Milana Chernyavska”. Since 2009 she is a piano professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She is also a professor at the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein and at the Reina Sofia Escuela Superior de Musika in Madrid. With her doctorate theses "The evaluation and pedagogical aspects of the theory of interpretation" she leads a discourse on insights from a perspective of musicology.

Milana Chernyavska is a sought-after teacher at international master classes as well as a jury member at various prestigious piano competitions, such as the ARD in Munich, the Busoni Competition, Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, the Mozart Competition in Salzburg , the Santa Cecilia in Porto Competition or the Bluethner Goldaward in Vienna. Her students constantly win top prizes at important international competitions as Van Cliburn, Santander Paloma O`Shea, Ferruccio Busoni, Maria Canals, Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival, Vladimir Horowitz and competitions in Los Angeles , Ettlingen, San Marino, Malta and many more.

After receiving the Critics' Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won 1st Prize in other prestigious international competitions such as the Dino Ciani - Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994) and the Mendelssohn in Hamburg (1997).

An active concert pianist, he has played as soloist with the best known orchestras, with conductors of the stature of Roberto Abbado, Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Daniele Gatti, Alan Gilbert, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Ton Koopman, Michele Mariotti, Ingo Metzmacher, Gianandrea Noseda, Corrado Rovaris, Daniele Rustioni, Yutaka Sado, Sándor Végh and Jonathan Webb.

De Maria studied with Giorgio Vianello and Gino Gorini in Venice and with Maria Tipo in Geneva.

His repertory ranges from Bach to Ligeti and he is the first Italian pianist to have played Chopin’s complete piano works in six public concerts. More recently, he has been focusing on Bach and Beethoven, presenting both books of The WTC, the Goldberg Variations, the 32 Sonatas and the 5 Concertos in his concerts.

He has recorded Chopin’s complete piano works, The WTC and the Goldberg Variations for Decca, Chopin’s Piano Concertos for Dynamic, receiving important acknowledgments from international publications such as Diapason, International Piano, MusicWeb-International and Pianiste.

Pietro De Maria is Academic of Santa Cecilia and teaches at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo.

Born in Nishinomiya (Japan), Hisako Kawamura moved to Düsseldorf (Germany) with her  family at the age of 5 where she started studying piano with Kyoko Sawano. She conti nued her studies with Małgorzata Bator-Schreiber in Göttingen who provided her with  musical and artistic training, and Prof. Vladimir Krainev at the Hannover University of Mu sic and Drama who nurtured the development of her artistic personality. 

Kawamura's international concert career kick-started with First Prizes at the Concours  Clara Haskil in Vevey, the A. Casagrande International Piano Competition in Terni, the  G.B. Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli and the European Chopin Competi tion in Darmstadt. She also had outstanding successes at renowned international piano  competitions as a prizewinner at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, the ARD Internatio nal Music Competition in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competiti on in Brussels. 

In 2025, Kawamura was invited to perform the Second Concerto by S.Rachmaninov with  the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada.  Last season, she performed Johannes Brahms' first Concerto with the Wiener Symphoni ker under Omer Meir Wellber to join the Japan-Tour. 

Kawamura has performed with orchestras including Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin,  City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker,  Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Moscow, St. Pe tersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony  Orchestra under the direction of conductors Jiří Bělohlávek, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Junichi  Hirokami, Jakub Hrůša, Eliahu Inbal, Paavo Järvi, Marek Janowski, Zoltán Kocsis, Alex ander Lazarev, Mikhail Pletnev, Tatsuya Shimono, Yuri Temirkanov and Kazuki Yamada,  among others. 

As a soloist, Kawamura has participated in major music festivals such as Klavierfestival  Ruhr (Germany), Mozartfest Augsburg (Germany), Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  (Germany), Klavierwoche Ernen (Switzerland), Festival Auvers-sur-Oise (France), the  Chopin Festival Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland), East Neuk Music Festival (Scotland) and Spring  Festival in Tokyo. 

As an avid and sensitive chamber musician Kawamura performs regularly with cellists  Clemens Hagen, Maximilian Hornung and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. She also enjoys a dynamic  partnership with the violinist Sarah Christian following the performances and German  SWR broadcasts of the complete violin sonatas by Beethoven. 

Fabrizio Meloni, since 1984, is the first solo clarinet chair of the Orchestra and the  Philharmonic of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has finished his clarinet studies at  Milan's Conservatorio "G. Verdi"with summa cum laude and the special mention for  his artistic achievement. 

Winner dozens of national and international prizes (ARD Munchen-1987- Prague – 1987-, among all), he has been partner of soloists of international reputation: Bruno  Canino, Alexander Lonquich, Michele Campanella, Heinrich Schiff, Friederich  Gulda, Nazzareno Carusi, Editha Gruberova, the Hagen Quartet, Myung-Whun  Chung, Philip Moll and the Fine Arts Quartet. He has toured the United States and  Israel with the "Quintetto a Fiati Italiano", performing works specially dedicated to  this ensemble by Luciano Berio (with whom he has collaborated along the years  1989-1994) and Salvatore Sciarrino. With Nuovo Quintetto Italiano he has already  toured South America and Far East, receiving enthousiastic consents of public and  critic. The same success he has had in various series of concerts in Japan with Phillip  Moll and I Solisti della Scala (Tokyo and Osaka), performing a program of Italian  Opera's collections recorded in the CD "I Fiati all'Opera"(DAD Records). 

With the ensemble I Solisti della Scala Trio he has performed all over the world. The  Washington Post has written about their recital in Washington, DC: "An evening of  breathtaking artistry". In 2007 he has toured Italy, Germany, the United States,  Australia and Japan playing duo with the pianist Nazzareno Carusi, celebrating the  anniversaries of Johannes Brahms and Domenico Scarlatti. After their performance  for the Hamburg's Brahms-Gesellschaft, Cord Garben (the artistic producer of Arturo  Benedetti Michelangeli's Deutsche Grammophone recordings) has written: "The  listening to their recital has been an unforgettable adventure". 

After stellar achievements in prestigious violin competitions, Sergei Dogadin achieved international fame, consolidating himself as one of the best violinists of his generation.
His triumphs include securing the First prize and Gold Medal at the XVI Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow (2019), First prize at the IX Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover (2015) and the First prize at the Singapore International Violin Competition (2018).

Since his debut in 2002 at the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonie guided by Vasily Petrenko Dogadin's violin mastery has graced prestigious venues worldwide as Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Royal Concertgebouw Hall, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Seoul Arts Center, Auditorio Nacional of Madrid, Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, Tonhalle in Zurich, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm amongst others.

Recent and anticipated highlights as soloist include engagements with renowned orchestras as London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Kremerata Baltica, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other orchestras.

Prizewinner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and SONY Classical exclusive artist, Pablo  Ferrández is hailed as a “new cello genius” (Le Figaro). A captivating performer, “Ferrández has the lot:  technique, mettle, spirit, authority as a soloist, expressivity and charm” (El Pais).  Introduced by the Pittsburgh Symphony as “the next Yo-Yo Ma”, Pablo Ferrández has turned into a cello  phenomenon and one of the most in-demand instrumentalists of his generation.  

His debut album under SONY Classical, “Reflections”, released in 2021, was highly acclaimed by the  critics and praised with the Opus Klassik Award. In Fall 2022 Pablo Ferrández released his second album,  which comprised the Brahms Double Concerto, performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Czech  Philharmonic under M. Honeck, as well as Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio, performed with Ms. Mutter and  Lambert Orkis. 

“Moonlight Variations”, which includes Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, was published on May 2025  and is Ferrández’s last release on SONY Classical, this time with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Martin  Fröst and Julien Quentin as partners, also receiving rave reviews. 

One of the most sought-after cellists, Pablo’s recent seasons have seen him appearing with the Boston  Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh  Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra  Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Tonhalle Orchestra, Bayersichen Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg  Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, HR-Sinfonieorchester, Konzerthaus Berlin Orchestra, NDR  Elbphiharmonie Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestra National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Macao  Symphony, Taipei Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic.  

Luis del Valle is particularly involved in the world of chamber music, being an active collaborator with different groups and instrumental soloists. Nevertheless, his growing fame on the musical scene is due to the concert career he shares with his brother Victor, forming a piano duo that, since they won the prestigious ARD International Music Competition (Munich), has been swiftly acknowledged as one of the most outstanding chamber music formations in Europe. 

Born in Vélez-Malaga, he received his early musical training at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga (Malaga School for Higher Musical Studies) with Horacio Socías, Paloma Socías and José Felipe Díaz, then at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with the pianist Juhani Lagerspetz. Subsequently, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía under the direction of Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. Her Majesty the Queen awarded him the distinction of “Most Outstanding Chamber Musician”. He completed his academic training in this school with Márta Gulyás and at the International Chamber Music Institute of Madrid with professors Ralf Gothóni and Eldar Nebolsin. 

As a vocal repertoire pianist, he has worked with special interest on lied, advised by musicians such as Ilmo Ranta, Gustav Djupsjöbacka or Larissa Gergieva, and has performed with soloists such as Sasha Vassileva, Irina Mataeva, Vladimir Moroz ... In addition, he has been invited as a repertoire pianist by the Summer Academy of the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg, in Mikkeli (Finland), being its artistic director Valery Gergiev. 

Luis del Valle regularly performs with the outstanding cellist Pablo Ferrández, with whom he shares an intense chamber concert career performing all over the world. He also appears regularly with violinist Ana María Valderrama and with cellist Fernando Arias, with whom he has worked on the recording project "Johannes Brahms: Tres Sonatas. Una Vida” (Columna Música). With Ana María Valderrama, he recorded the CD "À mon ami Sarasate" (Solé Recordings). Both were very well received by the audience and the critics. The album “Impulse” (IBS Classical), from the Del Valle Piano Duo, has garnered numerous awards and distinctions from different specialized media (Golden Music Melómano, Scherzo Exceptional Record...) and marks the beginning of a series of CDs dedicated to the repertoire of the pianists duo. 

Born in 1994, Edgar Moreau is a Prizewinner at the 2009 Rostropovich competition and 2011 Tchaikovsky  Competition. He is now one of the most acclaimed cellists of his generation.  

Edgar regularly collaborates with conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Myung-Whun Chung, Marin Alsop,  Manfred Honeck, Lahav Shani, Aziz Shokhakimov, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste,  Michael Sanderling, Nathalie Stutzmann, and performs with world-renowned orchestras, such as New York  Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Los  Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonique de  Radio France, Luzern Sinfonie, Brussels Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan.  

Being particularly passionate about chamber music, he collaborates with artists such as Martha Argerich,  Yo-Yo Ma, Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, and David Kadouch among others.  

An exclusive Erato-Warner artist, his discography includes “Play” with pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique,  “Giovincello”, with Il Pomo d'Oro, a duo recital with David Kadouch, Gulda and Offenbach concertos, a  family album featuring Korngold and Dvorak, Transmission, celebrating Jewish heritage and musical  tradition with Luzern Sinfonie and Michael Sanderling, Dutilleux and Weinberg cello concertos, with Andris  Poga and WDR Köln Sinfonie (Warner Classics, September 2023).  

Latest release : Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, with LuzernSinfonie and Michael Sanderling, along with a  slavic recital with David Kadouch (Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Dvorak).  

Edgar Moreau plays on a David Tecchler cello from 1711. His bow was made by Dominique Peccate.  In September 2023, Edgar has been appointed Cello Professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur.

Critically acclaimed as “one of the great Bach interpreters of his generation”, Stepan Simonian is driven by a yearning to explore and illuminate the multiple facets of the great works of piano repertoire, particularly by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach. 

His Silver Medal at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in 2010, his training within a well-cultured piano school tradition at Moscow Conservatory under Pavel Nersessian, as well as with Oleg Boshniakovich, then with Evgeni Koroliov in Hamburg, all form part of the experiences that have marked his musical taste, his interpretations, and his teaching.

Born in Moscow in 1981, Simonian won First Prize at the 2005 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, and Third Prize at the 2008 Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition, both in the US.

In recognition of his achievements in chamber music, he was awarded the prestigious Berenberg Cultural Prize in 2009 in Hamburg, where he has made his home. In 2014 he won Third Prize at the Aram Khachaturian International Piano Competition in Yerevan, Armenia.

Stepan Simonian is invited to perform at some of the most important festivals and concert venues throughout Europe and the US. He has appeared as a soloist with many national and international orchestras and conductors. 

Andrey Baranov is one of the most accomplished violinists of his generation, renowned for his expressive artistry, technical mastery, and compelling stage presence. He enjoys an international career as a soloist and chamber musician, appearing regularly on leading stages and at prestigious festivals across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. 

Baranov gained international recognition after winning the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in 2012, as well as the Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau International Violin Competitions. He is also a prizewinner at over twenty other prestigious international competitions, including those held in Indianapolis, Sendai, Seoul, Qingdao, Pretoria, and Moscow. 

Since his orchestral debut in 2005 with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko, Baranov has performed with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Camerata Salzburg, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, MusicAeterna Orchestra, and Sendai Philharmonic, among many others. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Yuri Temirkanov, Kent Nagano, Vladimir Fedoseev, Emmanuel Krivine, Walter Weller, Thomas Sanderling, Michael Sanderling, Alexander Vedernikov, and Michel Tabachnik. 

As the founding first violinist of the David Oistrakh String Quartet, established in 2012, Baranov has become a prominent figure in the chamber music world. His chamber music partners have included celebrated artists such as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, Eliso Virsaladze, Alexander Buzlov, Daniel Austrich, Andrey Gugnin, Liana Isakadze, and Kirill Gerstein. 

His album The Golden Violin, released by MUSO and featuring romantic violin repertoire, was awarded the Diapason d’Or in 2018. 

Epifanio Comis has built a prestigious career that encompasses various aspects of music, making him a prominent figure in the contemporary musical landscape. His academic training, which began in Italy and was enriched by international experiences, has been fundamental to his development as both a pianist and a conductor. His dedication to study and practice has led him to perform in some of the world's most renowned venues, including, among many others, Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Osaka, the Roman Athenée in Bucharest, Symphony Hall in Kyoto, Kachaturian Hall in Yerevan, and the Dubai Opera House. These experiences have allowed him to engage with diverse musical cultures, enriching his repertoire and artistic sensitivity.

As a conductor, Comis has led performances in many prestigious halls worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, the Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall, the Sofia Philharmonic Hall, and Kachaturian Hall in Yerevan. His experience as a conductor enables him to combine his pianistic skills with a broad artistic vision, conducting works by both historical and contemporary composers. His deep understanding of the score, coupled with a unique sensitivity, allows him to interpret pieces with freshness and vitality, capturing the audience's attention. Comis does not merely lead the orchestra; he creates an active dialogue with the musicians, encouraging their creativity and fostering a collaborative atmosphere that translates into exceptional performances.

Comis is also the founder and artistic and musical director of "La Sinfonica Vincenzo Bellini," an orchestra with which he has undertaken prestigious international tours, consolidating its reputation globally. 

From 2019 to 2025, Comis served as the director of the Conservatorio "Vincenzo Bellini" in Catania. During these six years, the institution experienced exponential growth, thanks to the organization of masterclasses with internationally renowned names, conferences, and highly relevant cultural symposia, as well as the complete performance of piano concertos by students of the Conservatory, concerts with prominent conductors and soloists, tours, and participation in high-profile festivals. This period saw a significant increase in the quality of education and the prestige of the conservatory, solidifying its position as one of the most important musical centers in Europe.

The refined, impassioned and commanding playing of Ukrainian violinist Aleksey Semenenko identifies him as inheritor of the great Odessa violin tradition and earnt him places on both the BBC New Generation Artists scheme and Young Concert Artists in New York, bringing him to the attention of audiences across Europe and the US. 

Semenenko has given recitals at Snape Maltings, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center and Alice Tully Hall, and performed concertos with orchestras including BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Seattle Symphony, Orchestra of St Luke’s, National Orchestra of Belgium, Ulster Orchestra, Kyiv Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His festival performances include invitations at the Hay, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden and Edinburgh festivals. 

Recent highlights include a UK tour with National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the televised return of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Friday Night is Music Night’ with BBC Concert Orchestra, and concerts and recordings with BBC Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra and Szczecin Philharmonic. This season Semenenko makes his Canadian debut at Bourgie Hall, and gives concerts with Kyiv Symphony at Berlin Philharmonie, and with Kuopio Symphony. 

The most recent addition to Semenenko’s discography is his album ‘Crossroads’ on BIS, with pianist Artem Belogurov, featuring sonatas by Previn, Schemmer and Gay. The launch of the album was marked by a Wigmore Hall recital in which the duo performed a selection of American works. 

Semenenko began his violin studies at the age of six with Zoya Mertsalova at Stolyarsky School, making his solo debut with orchestra only a year later with Odessa Philharmonic. He completed his studies with Zakhar Bron and Harald Schoneweg at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik and was a prize winner in the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition. 

Alongside his performing career, Semenenko is Violin Professor at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany, and Co-organiser and Artistic Director of the Odesa International Violin Competition.

Nurie Chung is the second prize winner with age 16, in 2021 56th Premio Paganini competition in Genoa, Italy. He was also awarded two more special prizes, one for best performance for commissioning piece and the other for the youngest finalist. He is one of the youngest prize winners of history of the competition. 

He is now studying with world renowned Prof. Boris Kuschnir in Vienna. Until March, 2023, He had been taught by late NamYun Kim at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts. 

He won many international and national competitions. In 2019, he won 1st prize of concerto competition at Morningside Music Bridge in Boston. He won 1st Prize of Il Piccolo Violin Magico in Italy in 2016, and won the grand prize across all categories of the 2016 EuroAsia Young Violin competition in Japan.

Recently he was invited to play with Sinfonica Abruzzese in L’Aquila Teatro Comunale, Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto and Matera, a recital at Teatro Cucinelli (Perugia Musica Classica, Fondazione Brunello e Federica Cucinelli), concerts at Valle d’Aosta (Saison Culturelle), Bari (Teatro Piccinni, Camerata Musicale Barese), Beautiful Thursday Concert Series at Seoul Kumho Art Hall (Which was broadcasted by KBS), 70th Anniversary Ceremony Concert of HanKookIlbo Newspaper at Lotte concert hall in Seoul and MECMA concert series in Dubai. And he was also invited to play for Maestro Vladimir Spivakov at a Masterclass organized by Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris and Verbier Festival Soloist Academy in Switzerland.

Prior to that, he performed a number of concerts in Europe, mainly in Italy, including Stradivari festival (Cremona, which was broadcasted by Cremona1 TV/Radio), Piran (Teatro Tartini, Slovenia, broadcasted by RAI & RTV- Radio Television Slovenia), Palermo (Duomo di Monreale), Padova, Carpi (Teatro Comunale), Genova, Mantova, Koper (Slovenia, which was broadcasted by RTV- Radio Television Slovenia), Dubai (Dubai Opera with Armenian State Symphony) and Malta (with Malta Philharmonic). He also collaborated with Maestro Sergey Smbatyan for Naxos Alexey Shor recording project.

For culture events such as ceremony concerts, he played for Korean Treasures Gala by  Samsung Foundation of Culture in Washington D.C. & Samsung HOAM Prize Ceremony in Seoul and Premio don Uva in Puglia region in Italy.

Jinzhu Li, an eighteen-year-old violinist from China, began playing the violin at the age of four. In  2023, she moved to Germany to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt  am Main under the tutelage of Prof. Erik Schumann. Prior to this, she was selected for the  prestigious “Outstanding Innovation Talents Supporting Program” at the Music School attached to  the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in 2019, where she studied with Prof. Dan Li and Prof. Qiang  Zhang until 2023. Jinzhu was also one of the participants in the “Morningside Music Bridge”  festival from 2021 to 2024.  

Over the years, Jinzhu has participated and got prizes in various competitions, including First Prize  in Violin Group C of the 5th Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians in 2023  and Second Prize in 7th International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists in 2025 in Lithuania.  Jinzhu is also a laureate of the 9th Sendai International Violin Competition in 2025. She was  recently awarded the Prince of Hessen Prize by the Kronberg Academy.  

As a soloist, Jinzhu has captivated audiences through solo recitals and performances with renowned  orchestras such as the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State  Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra,  and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has worked with conductors such as  Christoph Poppen, Sergey Smbatyan, Yuri Tkachenko, Junichi Hirokami, Jie Hou and Yongyan Hu.  In the summer of 2023, she toured as a soloist with the Greater Bay Area Youth Orchestra,  performing in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.  

She is currently studying as a young soloist at Kronberg Academy with Prof. Erik Schumann. Her  studies are funded by the Fidelitas-Patronage.

Stefan Vladar can look back on a decades-long career as a pianist and conductor that has taken him to all of the world's major music centres. He has been General Music Director at Lübeck Theatre since the 2019/20 season. After winning the International Beethoven Piano Competition in 1985, Stefan Vladar's career as a pianist was set in stone.

He has worked with some of the greatest conductors of his time, such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Sandor Vegh and Jaap van Zweden and orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Camerata Salzburg and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. A recording contract with the major label Sony Classical and guest appearances at major festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival, the Musikfest Bremen, Ravinia Festival Chicago, Mostly Mozart Festival New York, the London Proms and the Edinburgh Festival characterised the first decades of his career.

However, the desire to step beyond the boundaries of the piano soon matured and, alongside his career as a pianist, he began to carefully build up his conducting career. His position as principal conductor in Graz was followed by eleven years as principal conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, with which Stefan Vladar repeatedly toured the world as soloist and conductor and conducted two cycles at the Vienna Konzerthaus. During this time, he has worked as a guest conductor with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Svetlanov Orchestra Moscow, among others. Since the 2019/20 season, Stefan Vladar has been General Music Director and currently also Opera Director at the Lübeck Theatre, where he has already conducted numerous orchestra concerts as well as more than 20 operas by Handel, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Britten and Berg amongst many others. His work as a pianist and conductor is documented on more than 40 CDs. Stefan Vladar has been the artistic director of the Neuberger Kulturtage for more than 30 years, has also been a professor of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 1999 and has been awarded the Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Pianist Albert Mamriev rose to international prominence in 2008 when he became the first pianist to perform Franz Liszt’s complete piano transcriptions of Richard Wagner’s operas at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. Critics and audiences were captivated by his radiant tone, emotional intensity, and masterful interpretation.

His debut performance earned high praise from critic Frank Piontek, who highlighted Mamriev’s ability to bring Liszt’s paraphrased Wagnerian themes to life with both virtuosity and deep understanding. Following a 165-concert world tour featuring these transcriptions, Mamriev recorded the repertoire with Neue Sterne Records to wide critical acclaim.

A top prize winner at prestigious international competitions—including the Gina Bachauer, Vianna da Motta, UNISA, and Scottish International Piano Competitions—Mamriev has performed in many of the world’s leading venues. These include the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Gasteig Hall in Munich, Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg, the Shanghai Philharmonic Hall, Ateneo Hall in Madrid, Palazzo Pisani and Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi in Venice, Assembly Hall at Temple Square and Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, the Forbidden Hall in Beijing, and numerous international festivals such as the Madeira Piano Festival, Nancy Music Festival, Fausto Zadra Piano Festival in Corato, Tübingen Music Festival, Mozart Festival in Johannesburg, and Kotor Art Festival in Montenegro.

As a soloist, he has collaborated with orchestras including the Shanghai Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, San Remo Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, and Pazardzhik Philharmonic. He has worked with distinguished conductors such as Alexander Lazarev, Tan Lihua, Enrique Bátiz, Piotr Sułkowski, Volodymyr Sirenko, and others.