Samson Tsoy, piano (Kazakhstan – UK)
Samson Tsoy, praised for his inexhaustible imagination and exceptional sensitivity, is celebrated for his groundbreaking collaborations across art forms and for redefining how and where music can be experienced.
Samson Tsoy, praised for his inexhaustible imagination and exceptional sensitivity, is celebrated for his groundbreaking collaborations across art forms and for redefining how and where music can be experienced.
In 2012 Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award which led to her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.
Baiba Skride’s natural approach to music-making has endeared her to many of today’s most prestigious conductors and orchestras worldwide. She performs regularly with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker,
Vladimir Balshin was born in 1973 in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory he continued his postgraduate studies there in the class of Prof.
Born in Moscow in 1969 in a doctor’s family, Igor Naidin’s musical studies included violin and viola with Professor M. Glezarova and Yuri Bashmet at the Moscow Conservatory aged seven and continued under the tutelage of Yuri Bashmet until graduation in 1994 from Moscow Conservatory.
Born in Moscow, Sergei Lomovsky graduated from Moscow Conservatory studying with Professor Beshkina and, in post-graduate studies, with Professor Kravchenko.
As a string trio member,
Graduated from the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Nicolai Sachenko studied with Zoya Makhtina, Sergei Kravchenko, Vladimir Ivanov and Alexander Bonduriansky.
He has won prizes at several international competitions,
Lyana Ulikhanyan, born in 2010 in Yerevan, is an emerging young cellist whose musical journey began at the age of four. A student at the Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan,
Born in 2009 in Yerevan.
Victorya Ulikhanyan is a gifted young violinist and emerging composer. She began playing the violin at the age of five.
Meredith began her musical studies in Tehran and continued the education in Armenia at Yerevan A.Spendiaryan Music School. Currently, she is studying at the Yerevan Conservatory.
Lilit was born in 2007. Currently, she is in the 3rd year of Romanos Melikyan State Music College, studying under Professor Hakob Jaghatspanyan. Lilit Sargsyan is a laureate of various competitions,
Eduard Dayan was born in Yerevan, Armenia on December 1, 2008, in a family of musicians. He started playing violin at the age of 8 with Prof.
Eduard Hrmushyan has graduated from the Yerevan Conservatory and completed the Master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Eduard has participated in many international and domestic competitions,
At the piano François-Frédéric Guy made mesmerising colours, erupting into shivery cascades and subterranean rumbles, a magician with sound. The Times, Rebecca Franks,
Christian Tetzlaff is one of the most sought-after violinists and most exciting musicians on the classical music scene. Concerts with him often become an existential experience for the interpreter and audience alike;
After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York and the Concours International de Voix d’Opera Plácido Domingo in Paris, she began a brilliant international career in theatres such as the Metropolitan Opera,
A Spanish composer and pianist born in Madrid in 1970.
He studied music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in his hometown, where he graduated as a Professor of Harmony,
Born in Kislovodsk. She completed her studies at the department of academic singing at the Gnesin Music College (R. Lisitsyan’s class) in 2004. In 2009 she graduated from the Gnesin Russian Music Academy.
Artistic Partner, Mahler Chamber Orchestra 24/25
Artist-in-Residence, New York Philharmonic 24/25
Pianist Yuja Wang is celebrated for her charismatic artistry, emotional honesty and captivating stage presence.
One can hardly play the violin more expressively and uncompromisingly than Gringolts. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Harald Eggebrecht
Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his highly virtuosic playing and sophisticated interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges.
Philipp Kopachevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. In 2013 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Sergei Dorensky).
Prize-winner at eight international competitions including the International Franz Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund (2005;
Praised as “a sensitive and absorbing interpreter” (Musical America), Korean- American violinist Elly Suh stands out as a performer whose musical charm, interpretative originality, and unique creative vision breathe fresh life to concert stages around the world.
Last student of the legendary pianist Lazar Berman, Lorenzo Di Bella is an internationally acclaimed pianist, celebrated for his technical mastery and captivating musical interpretations. He received in 2005 the 1st Prize and Gold Medal at “V.
Recently described as “having the inner passion paired with Rubinstein’s nonchalance” by Thüringer Allgemeine in Germany, Canadian pianist Sheng Cai has embraced the keyboard tradition,
Pavel Milyukov was born in Perm in 1984. At the age of four he started taking music lessons with Tatyana Shevtsova. In 2009 Pavel graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Vladimir Ivanov).
Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious
Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the
competition’s youngest winner for 40 years,
“He was both a subtle tonal aesthete and a thundering piano lion, and in between he reigned over the entire range of pianistic expression”.
Ostsee Zeitung,
Czech bass Jan Martiník has garnered several prestigious awards throughout his career, most notably winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize in 2009.
As the winner of the 75th Geneva International Music Competition in 2021, Michiaki Ueno has proven to be one of the most promising artists on the classical music scene.
Ani Ter-Martirosyan’s play is characterized by special emotionality and passion. She is held in high esteem by critics above all for her feather-light virtuosity (Neue ZQrcher Zeitung) and her poetic,
A wonderfully versatile musician, Carolin Widmann’s activities span the great classical concerti, new commissions specially written for her, solo recitals, a wide variety of chamber music and period instrument performances,
Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan is among the most promising talents of her generation.
Winner of the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Operalia Competition in 2022,
German-Armenian soprano Hrachuhi Bassenz was a member of the Nuremberg State Opera and Semperoper Dresden, where she has been singing leading roles such as Bellini’s “Zaira”,
Helmut Deutsch ranks among the finest, most successful and in-demand song recital accompanists of the world. He was born in Vienna, where he studied at the Conservatory,
Co-Artistic Director Vevey Spring Classic Festival 2024 OPUS KLASSIK 2020 category Solo Recording Instrument #CelloUnlimited “… the magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott administered a dose of adrenaline … “ New York Times.
Celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, Arabella Steinbacher is known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, comprising pieces from the classical and romantic eras,
A world-renowned eclectic artist. Acknowledged as one of the finest opera singers, Domingo is also a conductor and has been Honorary Artistic Director of the Arena di Verona Centennial Festival,
Highlights of the 2021/2022 season for Armenian baritone Gurgen Baveyan include series of concerts at the Ravenna Festival under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti following his earlier engagement to perform Schubert’s Messe at Ravenna with Mo Muti last season.
The Romanian baritone Bogdan Baciu studied at the Music Academy “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. He has won numerous prizes at international competitions. In 2011/12 he became a member of the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf,
Kristina Mkhitaryan, soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio Moscow. She went on to study with Ruzanna Lisician at Gnesinss Music College and upon completion continued her vocal education at the Gnesin Academy of Music.
With a career of more than 15 years, award-winning Naïve recordings,
and international concert appearances – Lise de la Salle has established
herself as one of today’s exciting young artists and as a musician of real
sensibility and maturity.
Born in Armenia, soprano Nina Minasyan became a soloist at the Yerevan Conservatory Opera Studio in 2010. She won prizes at the Tatevik Sazandaryan and Pavel Lisitsian singing competition and later joined Young Artists program at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow where,
Armenian tenor has been hailed as one of the most exciting lyric tenors of his generation. He has appeared in theaters as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden,
Aida Avanesyan was born on the 28th June, 2006. In 2011, aged five, she entered the Special Music school named Alexander Spendiaryan and began to study with honored teacher of the Republic of Armenia Karine Harutyunyan.
Hayk Hekekyan was born in Armenia, on September 18, 2005.
He is oboist and studies in Sayat-Nova music school in Yerevan. Teacher – Harutyun Shakhkyan.
Leo was born on September 14, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
He is studying in Musical Academy of Etterbeek (class of Katarjina Hayduk).
In 2023 he has won the Grand Prize of the AGBU Competition of Young Pianists.
Lilit Martirosyan started playing the piano at the age of 8. After studying for six months in Yerevan, she moved to Moscow and studied for six years in the class of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Nana Ter-Gabrielyan.
Lucia Moradian was born on 2013 in Tehran. She is studying at the fifth grade of Arax-Armenian National School in Iran. She began to study piano playing at the age of 5 under the supervision of her mother Rebecca Ashooghian,
Menua Melik-Haykazyan (born on 18th March 2013) is an Armenian little polyglot known for his exceptional musical, mathematical, linguistic and other skills. He is a 6th-grade student at a school named after A.
Svetlana was born in Yerevan in 2007. Her journey into music began at the age of five when her parents noticed her interest towards music and she started taking private piano lessons.
Pianist Vardan Geodakian was born in Gyumri. He refined his skills under the tutelage of masters Armen Babakhanian and Peter Lang in Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and in Mozarteum Salzburg.
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),
American baritone John Chest’s “presence and delivery complement the dark, rich colours in his voice” (Opera Now).
Recent and forthcoming engagements include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at Vancouver Opera (2024),
Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is already captivating audiences
with her “maturity in performance and interpretation, the
former an uncanny phenomenon” (Fraser). The third of the
Kanneh-Mason clan to establish herself as a soloist,
Born in South Africa, Andreas Kern studied piano in Cologne and Berlin with Günter Ludwig and Pascal Devoyon. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has extensive experience in Europe,
Educated in Hanover, Berlin and London, Paul Cibis has performed on five continents and established an international presence. He has been invited to
international festivals in the UK,
He is without a doubt one of the most talented singers and performers of his
generation, best known for his role in the world famous musical ‘Romeo and
Juliet’.
Nathalie Lermitte Singing is certainly a true vocation for Nathalie Lermitte. Indeed, at the age of six, she started performing.
The day she turned eighteen was also the day she released her first album “Tu es tout ce que j’aime”,
“An actor-singer who can raise the dramatic heat as soon as she enters
the stage” (Opera Now), “that most questing, resourceful and intelligent
of sopranos” (Daily Telegraph),