Soloists

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.

Moscow-born concert pianist Andrey Gugnin is rapidly gaining international acclaim as a passionately virtuosic  performer, who possesses an ‘extraordinarily versatile and agile technique, which serves an often inspired  musical imagination’ (Gramophone). In 2020, the BBC Music Magazine Awards named Andrey the winner of the  Instrumental category for his recording of Shostakovich preludes and piano sonatas on Hyperion Records. Since  winning the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016, Andrey has gone from strength to  strength in concerts and recordings which exhibit his impassioned interpretations. 

In demand as a concert soloist, Andrey has been invited to perform as a guest artist with notable orchestras  across the globe, such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky  Theatre Orchestra, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, West Australian Symphony Orchestra  and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 

Andrey has performed on some of the most prestigious stages in the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna,  Konzerthaus Berlin, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Carnegie Hall in New York, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Auditorio  Nacional in Madrid, Sydney Opera House, the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, Mariinsky Concert  Hall, the Louvre in Paris, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. Andrey has also appeared at a number of international  festivals, including the Verbier, Ruhr Piano, Mariinsky International, Dubrovnik Summer, Ohrid Summer and  International Chopin festivals. 

As a recording artist, Andrey has published a broad scope of repertoire, ranging from works for solo piano to  concertos. His release of Liszt’s Transcendental Studies (Piano Classics, 2018) was Editor’s Choice in  Gramophone. His recording of Shostakovich concertos (Delos International, 2007) was featured in the  soundtrack of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Bridge of Spies. His most recent disc, Holberg Suite - Ballade  & Lyric Pieces, was released in May 2024 with Hyperion.  

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. 

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.

Armine Grigoryan is one of the brightest representatives of Armenian contemporary pianists.
The famous Armenian composer Eduard Mirzoyan expressed his admiration with these words: “…I can’t keep admiring Armine’s play and I am constantly eager to listen”.

She received her entire musical education first in Yerevan Tchaikovsky school of music, then in Yerevan Komitas Conservatoire and postgraduate studies under the supervision of professors Georgy and Sergey Saradjians, obtaining excellent professional qualities. This is evident in her appearances as a soloist and collaborative pianist.

Armine Grigoryan as soloist and chamber musician has toured CIS, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, UAE, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Baltics, China, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico and others.

Armine Grigoryan became a Double Laureate of “Roma 2003” International Pianists Competition, where she also was awarded a special prize and medal of the Chamber of Deputies of Rome. In the same year Armine Grigoryan with Sona Barseghyan (piano duo “Sonet”) won the prize of International Competition, organized by “Frederic Chopin” Association in Rome, and also took the Special prize for the Best Performance of pieces by Sergio Calligaris.

She is the recipient of special awards as a piano collaborative pianist in several International competitions.

Karen Shahgaldyan is one of the most brilliant musicians of modern Russia. Laureate of Pablo Sarasate International Competition.

He studied at the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Professor Victor Tretiakov and the Graduate School of the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Professor M. Glezarova. Karen attended master-classes of Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Spivakov, Grigorii Zhislin, Evgeniia Chugaeva.

For several years Karen performed in the orchestra "Virtuosos of Moscow" under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov.

He performed at such halls as Carnegie Hall, New York, Bolshoy Hall, Moscow, Royal Festival Hall, London, Musikverein, Wien, Laeizhalle, Hamburg, Purcell Room, London, Koerner Hall, Toronto, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Opera City Hall, Tokyo and others.

He visited with concerts more than 200 cities in such countries, as USA, China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Austria, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, Latvia, Lietuva, Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kuwait, Moldova, Russia and Armenia.

From 2006 violinist of Khachaturian trio.

Karen Kocharyan graduated from Yerevan Tchaykovsky School of Music (Class of Prof. Alexander Chaushyan) and Yerevan State Conservatory (class of Prof. Geronty Talalyan).

Karen Kocharyan is one of the founding members of the Khachatyryan trio, he was first solo cellist of the Armenian Chamber Players (ACP), Associate concertmaster of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has toured with the Armenian Chamber Players and Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra throughout Europe, featuring as soloist as well.

In 2005 Karen Kocharyan , under conductor Alexander Ivashkin (UK), appeared as soloist with Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2006 with Eduard Topchjan and Pasadena LAC Symphony Orchestra took part in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto appearance.

From 2017 concertmaster of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, China.

Karen Kocharyan is an active chamber musician. As a chamber player Karen Kocharyan collaborate with such renowned musicians as Yuri Zhislin, Boris Andrianov, Alexander Ghindin, Tamaki Kawakubo, Wolfgang Meyer, Zandra McMaster, Alessio Bax, Anton Sorokow, Diemut Poppen, Daishin Kashimoto. Cello concertmaster of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

Ivan Rabaglia, born in 1971, has been the violinist of the Trio di Parma since its foundation in 1990. He graduated with top marks, cum laude and honorable mention from the “A. Boito” Conservatory of his city and perfected his skills with Franco Gulli, Stefan Gheorghiu, Giuliano Carmignola, Pavel Vernikov, Ilya Grubert, Zinaida Gilels, the Trio di Trieste (Dario De Rosa, Renato Zanettovich, Amedeo Baldovino) and with Isaac Stern at the Chamber Music Workshop in New York.

Together with his colleagues of the Trio, Alberto Miodini and Enrico Bronzi, he won the 1st prize at the 16th Vittorio Gui International Competition in Florence in 1992, the 2nd prize at the 2nd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 1995, the 2nd prize at the 47th Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD München in 1998 (1st not awarded), the 1st prize at the 1st Concours International du Musique de Chambre de Lyon in 2004 and was awarded the “Abbiati” prize by the Italian music critics in 1994.

The activity carried out with the Trio has led Ivan Rabaglia to play for the most important Italian and foreign musical institutions: Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Società del Quartetto in Milan, Amici della Musica in Florence, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Unione Musicale in Turin, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Molière in Lyon, Performance Arts Center in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and international festivals including Lockenhaus (Austria), Luzern (Switzerland), Melbourne (Australia), Sligo (Ireland), Lake District (England), Bad Kissingen (Germany), Cartagena (Colombia), Orta and Portogruaro (Italy).

Cellist and conductor, he was born in Parma in 1973.

In 1990 he founded the Trio di Parma, with which he played in the most important concert halls in Europe, the USA, South America and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Cologne Philharmonic, Munich Herkulessaal, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires). With this formation he established himself in international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon and Munich, also receiving the Abbiati Prize from Italian music critics.

Since 2001, following his success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, where he also received the prize for the best performance of the Dvorák concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic, he began an intense solo activity.

He regularly participates in numerous festivals, including: Lucerna, Kronberg, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, Lockenhaus.

His activity has led him to collaborate with great artists such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich and groups such as the Hagen Quartet, the Kremerata Baltica and the Giardino Armonico.

He studied at the Parma Conservatory under the guidance of Roberto Cappello; subsequently, he continued his studies with Dario De Rosa, Trio di Trieste, Maureen Jones, Paul Badura-Skoda, Bruno Canino, Massimiliano Damerini.

He has been the pianist of the Trio di Parma since 1990. The group established themselves at the Chamber Music International Competitions in Florence, Munich, Melbourne and Lyon. In addition the Trio was awarded the Italian Critics’ Abbiati Prize in 1994.

He has performed for the most important musical institutions in Italy (Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome; Amici della Musica, Florence; Grand Theatre La Fenice, Venice; September Music, Turin; Società del Quartetto, Milan) and abroad (Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, KonzerthausWien, Salzburg Mozarteum, Lucerne and Lockenhaus Festivals, the Hamburg Musikhalle, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Colon Theatre Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Santiago in Chile, Warsaw, Dresden, Washington, Hong Kong…), collaborating with musicians such as Bruno Giuranna, Pavel Vernikov, Simonide Braconi, Wolfgang Holzmair, Alessandro Carbonare, Fabrizio Meloni, Eduard Brunner….

Further works with the Trio di Parma includes the complete recordings of the piano trios by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Schostakovich; he also records chamber-music by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Rota and Pizzetti.

Besides playing with the Trio, he performs recitals as a soloist as well as with important orchestras such as the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Piano Festival Orchestra of Brescia and Bergamo, the Emilia Romagna Symphony Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini”, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, etc.

For many years, Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have been sought-after professors of piano worldwide.

Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl teaches piano solo (Stuttgart) and piano duo (Rostock).

Prof. Volker Stenzl teaches piano solo (Trossingen) and piano duo (Rostock).

A vast number of international prize-winners testify to the Stenzls' successful tuition, which is well-known for its balance of physical (posture, movements, fingerings, breath) and mental issues (personal interpretation, architecture, emotional precision).

Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have long set a benchmark for musical intelligence and piano duo playing at the highest level. Critics marvel at the "freedom of a soloist with four hands" as well as at their nuanced illumination of the complex scores, pushing down to the subtlest ramifications.

Studies in Stuttgart (with Renate Werner) and Frankfurt (with Herbert Seidel) were followed by a two-year postgraduate course with Frank Wibaut, Hamish Milne and Stephen Kovacevich at the Royal Academy of Music London (concert diplomas solo and duo with distinction) and private lessons with Alfred Brendel. Further valuable artistic inspiration came from Bruno Canino and Norbert Brainin.

Winners of 11 international competitions (e.g. ARD/ Munich 1986, Dranoff/ Miami 1989), their extensive career has taken them to almost all European countries, to North and South America, West Africa, Japan, China and Hong Kong. In 1991 they made their debut at the Salzburg Festival. They have appeared in major concert halls throughout the world since:

Royal Festival Hall London, Wigmore Hall London, Merkin Concert Hall New York, Nichols Concert Hall Chicago, Lincoln Theatre Miami, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Cultural Centre Hong Kong, Philharmonic Hall Guangzhou, Philharmonie Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Frauenkirche Dresden, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie Köln, Herkulessaal München, Gasteig München, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Salle Gaveau Paris, Stefaniensaal Graz, Centro culturale San Michele Rom, Philharmonic Hall Bratislava, Ateneul Bucharest, Kolarac Belgrade, Philharmonic Hall Belgrade, Manoel Theatre Malta, International House of Music Moscow, Philharmonic Hall St. Petersburg, Philharmonic Hall Nishnij Novgorod, Organ Hall Arhangelsk, Philharmonic Hall Ufa, Opera House Kairo, Opera House Alexandria, Teatro Teresa Careno Caracas and many more.

For many years, Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have been sought-after professors of piano worldwide.

Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl teaches piano solo (Stuttgart) and piano duo (Rostock).

Prof. Volker Stenzl teaches piano solo (Trossingen) and piano duo (Rostock).

A vast number of international prize-winners testify to the Stenzls' successful tuition, which is well-known for its balance of physical (posture, movements, fingerings, breath) and mental issues (personal interpretation, architecture, emotional precision).

Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have long set a benchmark for musical intelligence and piano duo playing at the highest level. Critics marvel at the "freedom of a soloist with four hands" as well as at their nuanced illumination of the complex scores, pushing down to the subtlest ramifications.

Studies in Stuttgart (with Renate Werner) and Frankfurt (with Herbert Seidel) were followed by a two-year postgraduate course with Frank Wibaut, Hamish Milne and Stephen Kovacevich at the Royal Academy of Music London (concert diplomas solo and duo with distinction) and private lessons with Alfred Brendel. Further valuable artistic inspiration came from Bruno Canino and Norbert Brainin.

Winners of 11 international competitions (e.g. ARD/ Munich 1986, Dranoff/ Miami 1989), their extensive career has taken them to almost all European countries, to North and South America, West Africa, Japan, China and Hong Kong. In 1991 they made their debut at the Salzburg Festival. They have appeared in major concert halls throughout the world since:

Royal Festival Hall London, Wigmore Hall London, Merkin Concert Hall New York, Nichols Concert Hall Chicago, Lincoln Theatre Miami, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Cultural Centre Hong Kong, Philharmonic Hall Guangzhou, Philharmonie Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Frauenkirche Dresden, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie Köln, Herkulessaal München, Gasteig München, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Salle Gaveau Paris, Stefaniensaal Graz, Centro culturale San Michele Rom, Philharmonic Hall Bratislava, Ateneul Bucharest, Kolarac Belgrade, Philharmonic Hall Belgrade, Manoel Theatre Malta, International House of Music Moscow, Philharmonic Hall St. Petersburg, Philharmonic Hall Nishnij Novgorod, Organ Hall Arhangelsk, Philharmonic Hall Ufa, Opera House Kairo, Opera House Alexandria, Teatro Teresa Careno Caracas and many more.