Mikhail Kirchhoff  is the principal conductor of Moscow Youth Symphony Orchestra, the principal conductor of the Kaliningrad Music Theatre,  the Artistic director and the principal conductor of the festival “Eurasian stars”, the principal conductor of the festival “Ak Ertis”. 

Teacher at the State Musical Pedagogical Institute named M.M. Ippolitova-Ivanov (Moscow).

Mikhail Kirchhoff was born in 1982 in Moscow.

He began his education in the Victor Popov Academy of Choral Art. In 2009 he graduated with honors from the Moscow State P.İ. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

2010-2012 worked in Istanbul State Opera.

2012-2017 worked in Samsun State Opera.

2018-2020 is the main guest conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra “Academy of soloists” (Kazakhstan).

Performed with various orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Latvia, Malta, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan and many others

Born on January 1, 1947 in the city of Ovruch, Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.

In 1962 he graduated from school there.

In 1966 he graduated from the music college in Kaliningrad.

Graduated from the Saratov State Conservatory in 1974.

In 1986 he returned to Kaliningrad, in 1987 he created and devoted his entire creative life to the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra.

The ensemble, whose artistic director and chief conductor is Arkady Feldman, represents the Russian musical art with great success and tours in Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland.

Arkady Feldman maintains creative ties with the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the opera studio of the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky, the Minsk Operetta Theater, the Saratov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra A. Schnittke, German choral collectives.

As a guest conductor Arkady Felman worked with many Russian ensembles, orchestras in Lithuania, Poland, USA, Mexico.

Feldman A.A. - Honored Art Worker of Russia, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, laureate of the Kant Prize, the Inspiration Prize for the creation and performance of highly artistic works of literary and poetry, musical, theatrical, visual and decorative and applied arts, the Prize of the Kaliningrad Region “Recognition” for achievements in the field of culture, literature and art, is an honorary citizen of the city of Kaliningrad.

Graduated from The Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire in two disciplines: cello (Professor M. Tchaikovskaya’s class) and opera and symphony conducting (Professor V. Sinaissky’s class). He continued his postgraduate studies in string ensemble (Professor A. Shilov’s class). Most outstanding professors of the Moscow Conservatory like T. Gaidamovich, A. Bonduryansky, R. Davidyan, K.Khachaturyan were among his teachers.

Mr Korobov started his career as a conductor in the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. For three seasons he was Principal Conductor in two major opera theatres of Moscow - the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre and the Kolobov New Opera Theatre where he directed Norma, The Tsar’s Bride and others.

Aleksei Niaga was born in 1979 in Leningrad. He received his primary musical education at the Choir School named after Mikhail Glinka. In 2002 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Сonservatory with a degree in choral conducting (class of professor Kudriavtseva). Aleksei is a laureate of the II Prize at the International Competition of Choir Conductors named after Aleksandr Yurlov (2001). He continued his studying at the сonservatory for opera and symphonic conducting (class of professor Titov). 

During his studying Aleksei conducted “The Barber of Seville”, “The Tsar's Bride” and “Faust” at the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St. Petersburg Сonservatory. At the Eric Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre he staged the opera “May Night” as a music director. 

Born in 1983, Conductor Valid Ağayev is originally from Baku, Azerbaijan.  

Valid Ağayev attended a specialized music school, and then studied violin at the State Music  Academy in Baku and earned a Bachelor of Music cum laude in 2006. In 2008, he  achieved Master of Music also with honours. During his studies as a violinist in Azerbaijan,  Valid Ağayev took the opportunity to take master classes with world famous musicians, as M. Rostropovich, D. Sitkovetsky and M. Vengerov. From 2004 to 2010, Valid Ağayev was  a leading violinist and a soloist of the "Gara Garayev" Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra.  As part of this activity, he led concert tours to Germany, France, USA, Japan, South Korea,  Italy, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, Russia and Ukraine.  

From 2012 to 2017 Valid Ağayev studied conducting at the High School of Music and Dance  in Cologne; first with Professor Michael Luig and later on with Professor Alexander Rumpf.  

Since January 2014 until July 2020, Valid Ağayev has been working as a Conductor and  Artistic Director of the Attendorn Chamber Orchestra. In this capacity, on numerous occasions  he attracted exceptional soloists such as Oleksiy Semenenko (2nd prize Queen Elisabeth  Competition 2015), Koryun Asatryan (Echo-prize 2005), Gerhard Vielhaber, Shengzhi Guo...  

Giuseppe Bruno graduated with honors in Piano, Composition and Conducting with Professors Specchi, Zangelmi and Taverna. He also studied piano with Paolo Bordoni, conducting with Leopold Hager and attended a seminar in composition at the IRCAM in Paris.

Performing for several years as a pianist in many different chamber ensembles and as a brilliant soloist, Bruno has played with many important orchestras throughout the world and conducted prestigious ensembles such as Archi della Scala, Orchestra della Toscana, Ukraine National Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic.

He has collaborated with great conductors, singers, instrumentalists, and participated in the “Festival of Two Worlds” in Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Maestro Bruno was a prize winner at the International Piano Contest in Rome in 1991 and also in 1992 at the “Viotti” competition in Vercelli, Italy, in a duo with violinist Alberto Bologni.

Maestro Oliver Weder born in Frankfurt/Germany, began his musical education as a violinist at the Frankfurt Music Academy. After his german conducting diploma he studied as the first western-german scholarship-holder at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Prof. Ilya Musin and Prof. Vladislav Chernushenko.

Currently the Music Director and Chief Conductor of one of Germany's oldest orchestras, the 1635 founded Thueringen Symphony Orchestra and the Rudolstadt Opera, Maestro Weder began his professional conducting career as First Kapellmeister at the State Opera and Ballet in Perm/Russia. After a well remarked first performance of Wagners “Flying Dutchman” in Perm he was invited back to St. Petersburg.

From 1994-1997 he was musical supervisor and chief conductor at the"Rimsky-Korsakov“ State Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Following a period of time as assistant to Valery Gergiev for the German repertoire at the Mariinsky Theater, he was engaged as a permanent guest conductor at the Kirov for the 1996-97season.

His guest appearances include the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Nationaltheater Weimar, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Savonlinna Festival in Finland, the Rheinsberg Opera Festival and appearances in Frankfurt,  Bayreuth, Essen, Milano, Lissabon, Switzerland,  Mexico, South Korea and the USA.

Oliver Weder worked as guest-professor for the Musica-Academies in Frankfurt, Mainz and at the Folkwang-University Essen.

- Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Sinfonia Rotterdam
- Principal Guest Conductor Macedonian Philharmonic
- Programmer Festival van Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen

Conrad van Alphen is known as much for entrepreneurial spirit and depth of preparation as he his is for performances that combine exceptional sensitivity, vision and freshness. The South African born conductor has gained tremendous popularity with orchestras and audiences alike for his clear and efficient, yet kind and communicative rehearsal and performance style.

For four years Conrad van Alphen was chief conductor of the Russian State Safonov Philharmonic Orchestra. As Artist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society he has regularly conducted the major Moscow orchestras in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the legendary Tchaikovsky Hall. Furthermore, he enjoys a close relationship with Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, with whom he has toured through Russia, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy Colombia and China.

Ilya Norshtein is well-known as a top-level conductor and violinist, the artistic director of the Hermitage ensemble of soloists and conductor of the Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow.

He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in 2000 and completed a qualification apprenticeship course as a violinist in 2003 (Prof. Shikhmurzaeva’s and Prof. Bushkov’s classes). In 2020, he graduated from the Kosygin Russian State University (the Maimonide State Classical Academy) as a conductor (Prof. Ponkin’s class).

In 2008, he became a soloist and an accompanist of the Hermitage Soloist Ensemble, and since 2020, he has been its artistic director. In 2015–2018, he was a conductor of the Svyatoslav Richter Youth Symphony Orchestra in Kaluga. In 2020, he joined the Novaya Opera as an assistant conductor.

Ilya Norshtein performs as a conductor with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra of the Pavel Slobodkin Centre, the Orpheus Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony Orchestra, and the State Philharmonic of the Republic of Tatarstan. His repertoire includes works by various composers ranging from the Baroque era to the present time.

Sergey Eletskiy was born in 1989 in Moscow. He commenced his musical education at Central Music School in Moscow studying with V.Ferapontov. Since 2007 till 2012 he has been studying with prof. E. Petrov in Moscow State Conservatory. In 2009-2013 he has also been studying in the Music Highschool in Luebeck (Germany) with prof. R.Wehle.

He played as soloist with many orchestras (the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Duesseldorf Symphony Orchestra, and another.)

He is a prize-winner of several international music competitions, such as 3rd International Clarinet competition in Gent (2015, Gent, Belgium) ,Carl Nielsen International Competition (2013, Odense, Denmark), International music competition – ARD (2012, Munich, Germany).

At the moment Sergey is a principal clarinet in the Russian National Orchestra and in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.

"Boriso-Glebsky is an astounding instrumentalist, with a prodigious technical armoury and an uncompromising artistic vision”. — Weekend Special, 2018 

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky was born in 1985 in Volgodonsk. He graduated from Moscow State Conservatory and its PhD program (class of professor Eduard Grach and assistant professor Tatiana Berkul). He then improved his technique under the supervision of Augustin Dumay in Brussels and Ana Chumachenko in Kronberg. He participated in international masterclass Keshet Eilon in Israel under the patronage of Shlomo Mintz.

Nikita is a winner and a laureate of many international competitions including: the Yampolsky International Violin Competition (2002, 3rd prize), the International Competition for Violin in Kloster Schöntal (2003, 1st prize), the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition (2006, laureate), the Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition (2007, 1st prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2007, 2nd prize), the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (2009, 5th prize).

Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award, First Prize Winner of the Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition and the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter is widely considered one of the most talented and charismatic musicians of his generation.

Recently called “the hottest violinist of the 21st century” by the influential music critic Norman Lebrecht and “stunningly talented” by The New Yorker, David is also a former Rolex “Protégé” for which he was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman. David made his solo debut at the Kennedy Center in 2002 after winning the Presidential Scholar Award and the first-ever Gold Medal Award at the National Foundation For Advancement In The Arts. Since then he has performed with leading musicians and orchestras around the world, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Philharmonia, the Dresden Staatskapelle to the Lucerne Symphony. In May 2013, David played the Schnittke Viola Concerto at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. The concert was a musical tribute to the great cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich.

After bright successes at the most precious violin competitions Sergei Dogadin acquired international fame as one of the best violinists of his generation. 

In 2019 Sergei was awarded First Prize and Golden Medal at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Among his other significant victories were such major contents as IX Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover and Singapore International Violin Competition.

Sergei is the grant-holder of the Russian Ministry of Culture,  Prize-winner of the Mozart Society in Dortmund (Germany), winner of the award established by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and winner of the Prize of the President of Russia.          

“When performing the music of  great masters and feel how something turns out, you feel an  inner thrill, as if you rise above this reality and touch something metaphysical” (Maxim Rubtsov)

∙ Honored Artist of Russian Federation  

∙ Principle Flute & Concertmaster of the group of flute band of Russian National Orchestra conducted by  Mikhail Pletnev  

∙ Leader and Founding member of the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet 

∙ Recipient of most prestigious national & international awards 

∙ Pedagogue  

∙ Producer & co-producer  

∙ Yamaha Artist since 2018 

"Maxim Rubtsov is the perfect Pied Piper. He has both the charm and excitement that a great performer  must have. With his movie star looks and charisma, and his magnificent playing and acting of the part, the  legendary piper becomes alive for all to see." (Composer John Corigliano) 

Since her public debut aged 7, Italian pianist Costanza Principe has performed extensively in Italy, UK, France and South America both as a soloist and a chamber musician. Winner of several national and international competitions, such as the Lilian Davies Prize from the Royal Academy of Music, the second prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Intercollegiate Piano Competition, the second prize (first not awarded) at the Premio Pecar International Competition in Gorizia, Italy, and the second prize at the Concours International de Piano in Lagny sur Marne, she made her debut with orchestra in 2008 playing three Mozart Concertos with the Filarmonici Europei Orchestra conducted by Aldo Ceccato.

She has appeared as a soloist with, amongst the others, the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Santa Fe, the Turkish National Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Coccia di Novara, the Melicus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, and she played in many prestigious concert halls and festivals in such as Wigmore Hall in London, Verdi Hall, Puccini Hall, al Verme Theatre, Milan Auditorium, Piccolo Theatre, Milan State and Bocconi Universities, Modern Art Gallery in Milan, Filarmonico Theatre in Verona, Fraschini Theatre in Pavia, Rossini Theatre in Pesaro, Muse Theatre in Ancona, Politeama Theatre in Palermo, Serate Musicali, Ravello Festival, Spazio Teatro 89, Lyceum in Florence, Cappella Paolina in Quirinale, Rome, Steinway Hall in London, Duke's Hall and David Josefowitz Halls in the Royal Academy of Music, Teatro 1ro de Mayo in Santa Fe (Argentina).

“A mesmerizing, heroic soloist” (The Strad), Alexander Ramm is one of the most sought-after cellists of his generation. Having emerged on the international stage as the silver medalist of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, he has recently attracted much attention and critical praise with his recording of Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suites, which was made with titanium pins in his left elbow following a freak accident. Enthusiastic comparisons to Rostropovich (The Strad, Pizzicato.lu) and the Listeners’ Choice award of The Violoncello Foundation have placed this album among the most acclaimed recordings of cello repertoire. 

Alexander’s regular collaborations with Vladimir Jurowski, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Jurowski, Antoni Wit, Alexander Sladkovsky and other prominent artistic partners have taken him to Philharmonie de Paris, London’s Cadogan Hall as well as to Linz’s Brucknerhaus, Amsterdam’s  Concertgebouw, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Tokyo’s Nikkei Hall and to many of the most prestigious stages in the UK, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria, Finland, South Africa, Japan, France and Russia, including Mariinsky Theatre and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

"The goddess of flute"- Korea Times

“Jasmine Choi is a revisionist"- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Anyone who hears Jasmine Choi's performance will encounter a totally new level of flute playing” - Nikkei Daily Newspaper, Japan

"One of best flutists in the history of music"- Sinfini Magazine, UK

Austrian-based Korean flutist Jasmine Choi has performed across the globe in a variety of genres from classical solo, chamber, and orchestral to experimental, jazz, and pop. Her infinite curiosity has also led her to make her own arrangements of major works, including the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concertos, as well as performing world premieres of works composed by Daniel Dorff, Detlev Glanert, Texu Kim, Mark Laycock, Gary Schocker, Clint Needham, Uriel Vanchestein and Patrick Zimmerli, to name a few.

Selected as one of the best flutists in the history of music by Sinfini Magazine UK in 2015, along with Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, James Galway and Emmanuel Pahud, Ms. Choi is a full-time soloist giving almost 90 concerts each season. Before her full-time career as a soloist has begun, Ms.Choi has served a post in Vienna Symphony Orchestra as principal flute under Fabio Luisi, after serving as associate principal flute at the Cincinnati Symphony under Paavo Jarvi.

Graf Mourja is generally recognized as one of most talented and distinctive Hungarian-Russian violinists of his generation. He began studying music at the age of three under the supervision of his father. Then for two years, his teacher was a professor at the Ural State Conservatory, Wolf Usminsky (Sverdlovsk). In 1982, Graf Mourja entered the Tchaikovsky Central Music School in Moscow, the class of Prof. Irina Bochkova. Even in school, at age of 16, he became the laureate and winner of two famous international competitions: Niccolò Paganini in Genoa (1990) and Vianna da Motta in Lisbon (1991), where he was also awarded a special prize for Chaconne Bartók. 

Graf Mourja graduated from Moscow Conservatory in 1997, and did his postgraduate studies under the supervision of Professor I. Bochkova in 1999. He was awarded the scholarship of the President Yeltsin, for his outstanding results in his studies. At the same time he finished his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Mateja Marincovich; he won the Hattory prize in London for outstanding achievements in his studying.

Violinist Haik Kazazyan has performed with orchestras such as Orchestra of The Mariinsky Theater, Orchestre National de France, Scottish Royal National Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Yu. Simonov, Moscow Symphony Orchestra named after E. Svetlanov, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under P. Kogan, Prague Philharmonic orchestra, Dublin National Orchestra, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, ‘Musica Viva’ Orchestra, S.Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Samara Symphony Orchestras and many others.

The musicians Haik worked with as a soloist and chamber musician are conductors Valery Gergiev, Teodor Currentzis, Andrew Litton, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Liebreich, Alexander Lazarev, Constantine Orbelian, Jonathan Darlington, Ricardo Averbach, Alan Buribayev, Jac van Steen, David Brophy, Pavel Kogan, Alexander Polianichko, pianists Denis Matsuev, Freddy Kempf, Eliso Virsaladze, Aleksey Lubimov, Alex Kobrin, Ekaterina Mechetina, Rem Urasin, violinists Pavel Vernikov, Gordan Nikolitch, Boris Brovtsyn, cellists Natalia Gutman, Alexander Rudin, Alexander Bouzlov, Sergey Antonov, Boris Andrianov and many other great musicians of our generation.

Emmanuel Hovhannisyan was born in Yerevan. He graduated from Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas.In present he teaches there. He is honored with numerous international prizes.

In 2010 he founded a Duduk School "Dudukman" studio,where duduk is taught both to Armenian and international students.

In 2015 he founded "Emotion band" . The band mainly performs compositions created by Emmanuel Hovhannisyan.    

In 2016 Emmanuel founded the “Sheram” ensemble. The ensemble. In the repertory of the ensemble are compositions of Armenian ashughs from.

He cooperates with various musicians, participates in many international projects.In 2011 and in 2015 together with Gurjieff ensemble recorded CDs that are produced by well known ECM records.The first CD is awarded an Edisson prize.

One of the most successful musicians of his generation, violinist Andrey Baranov enjoys an exclusive career as an outstanding soloist and a sought after ensemble partner, performing on main stages and festivals in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.

He is the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition of 2012, the Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau International Violin Competitions.

Since making his debut in 2005 at the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Grand Hall under Vasily Petrenko and Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Baranov went on to performing with Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, MusicAeterna Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic London and Camerata Salzburg.

Andrey is the first violinist and founding member of David Oistrakh String Quartet, an ensemble established in 2012. His chamber music partners include, among others, Martha Argerich, Eliso Virsaladze, and Julian Rachlin.

 His album „The Golden Violin“, released on the MUSO Label and featuring romantic violin pieces, has won the prestigious „Diapason d’Or“ award in 2018.

Friedrich Lips is not only one of the most well-known and most renowned musicians of Russia, but he also received broad international recognition. The versatile creative activity of Friedrich Lips, People’s Artist of Russia and professor at the Russian Gnessin Music Academy determines also the recent development of the academic bayan essentially.

Lips appeared in the most famous concert halls of the world (Big Hall of the Tschaikovsky conservatory - Moscow, Suntory Hall - Tokyo, Lincoln center - New York, J. F. Kennedy Center - Washington, Concertgebouw – Amsterdam, Barbican Hall in London) with many outstanding musicians: among others G. Roshdestvensky, V. Spivakov, G. Kremer, Y. Bashmet, V. Gergiev, W. Yurovsky, Yo-Yo Ma.

Lips’art of interpretation is documented on many CDs (about 40) released in Russia, Japan, the USA, Austria and Sweden.

Among the graduates of the class of Professor Lips are about 60 winners of national and international competitions.

Lips is an author of three books "The Art of Bayan Playing", "The Art of Arranging Classical Music for Accordion" and “It seems like yesterday”, as well as a set of articles on the art of the bayan. The books and articles are published in Russia and abroad in their translation in German, English and other languages.

Sofia Sakhnova and Antonina Luzko completed their master and PhD programmes in “Piano Performance” at the Gnessins’ Academy of Music in Moscow in 2016. The idea of creating a piano duo, which they called “ST-Duo”, has been constantly growing during their studies. “ST-Duo” debuted on the stage of The Gnessin' Academy of Music in October 2016. 

“ST-Duo” is a prize winner in “XVIII International Maria Yudina competition” (Saint-Petersburg, January 2017), “XI International S.I. Taneev chamber ensembles competition” (Kaluga-Moscow, November 2017) and also received a special prize from the “Yamaha” company for “The best piano duet, XVIII Roma international piano competition (Roma, Italy, November 2018)

Antonina and Sofia actively participate in concerts, performing on stages of Moscow International House of Music, Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. “ST-Duo” collaborates with several charity foundations such as “International Y. Rozum Charity Foundation”, “Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation”, “Open Sea” foundation and others. Sofia and Antonina participate in projects of the Moscow Youth Philharmonic Society. In March 2017 “ST-Duo” had the honour of performing at the opening of the “II Russian Ball” in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. In 2019 Sofia and Antonina performed on a stage of Russian House in Berlin.

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). Since winning the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016, Gugnin has gone from strength to strength in concerts and recordings which exhibit his impassioned interpretations.

In addition to winning in Sydney, Gugnin also received prizes at this illustrious competition for Best Overall Concerto, Best 19th/20th Century Concerto, Best Violin and Piano Sonata, and Best Preliminaries for his first-round recital.  His also won the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the XCI International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in 2014, and second prize at the 2013 Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna.

Tenor Angelo Muscat started singing at an early age with the Chorus Urbanus, under the direction of Dr. John Galea.

He later proceeded with his opera and classical studies with Juliette Bisazza Zanni and subsequently furthered his studies with Dr. Andriana Yordanova at the Malta School of Music.

He has participated in numerous masterclasses with Soprano Miriam Gauci, Soprano Eteri Lamoris, Prof. Carlos Conde Conzales, and many more. Muscat achieved a scholarship “Artivisti” in 2018 to further his professional opera studies.

He participated in various concerts locally as well as internationally as in the UK, Italy and Austria as well he was accompanied by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Eurode Jugendorchester Herzogenrath and St. Paul Metropolitan Orchestra.

Maltese Soprano, Malta Airport Foundation Ambassador and BOV Joseph Calleja Foundation Scholar Nicola Said has performed the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Festival Lyrique-En-Mer, covered the role of Nannetta Falstaff with The Grange Festival, and sang Madame Herz The Impresario at Teatru Manoel. In 2018, Nicola premiered the role of Maria in the first Maltese opera cycle Belt il-Bniedem - City of Humanity, produced by Maltese composer Reuben Pace as part of Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture, and reprised the role of Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor in a revival of Fulham Opera's production with Grimeborn at the Arcola Theatre. Other roles include Adele Die Fledermaus (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Adina Elixir of Love (New Sussex Opera), Blondchen Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Warsaw Chamber Opera), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Teatru Manoel), Queen of the Night The Magic Flute (Charles Court Opera), Zerbinetta Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Project at West Green House Opera), and Hlas Jenufa (Grange Park Opera). 

Clare Ghigo is a theatrically and musically versatile mezzo soprano. Her operatic roles include Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Annio in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, Madrigale in Puccini’s  Manon, Hänsel in Humperdinck‘s Hansel and Gretel, the Third Lady in Mozart’s Zauberflöte, the old Gypsy Woman in Rachmaninov’s Aleko, Speranza , Proserpina in Monteverdi's l’Orfeo, Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Angelina in Rossini's la Cenerentola, Maria in Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires, and Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Clare also performed contemporary works such as works by   Schoenberg, Morten Feldman, Luciano Berio, Reuben Pace, Karl Fiorini, Euchar Gravina, and Veronique Vella. In  the 2021 Malta International Spring Orchestra Festival, Clare will perform the role of the Trommler in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser  von Atlantis.

Apart from operas Clare performed a number of recitals internationally in cities such as San Francisco (United States ), London, Cardiff, Edinburgh (United Kingdom) , Paris, Dijon (France) Karlsruhe, Berlin, Frankfurt (Germany), Pesaro, Lanciano (Italy), Yerevan (Armenia) Bethlehem (Israel), and La Mancha (Spain), and Luxembourg.

Currently a student at Choate Rosemary Hall and Juilliard Pre-College, Paloma So has recently appeared at the Beijing Music Festival performing the monumental Kreutzer Sonata in a concert series celebrating Beethoven’s anniversary. She has been studying in the class of Prof. Zakhar Bron since the age of nine at his Academy in Interlaken, Switzerland. In September 2019, she commenced her studies with Prof. Catherine Cho and Prof. Donald Weilerstein at Juilliard.

In February 2014, Paloma SO made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5. Later that year, she was invited to perform as a soloist at the G20 Gala Dinner in Australia. In 2015, Paloma won Second Prize in the 17-and-below age group, at the prestigious 13th International Wieniawski Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin, Poland.

Teo Gertler has recently turned 12, but he is already a laureate of numerous major international competitions. In his 8 years of age and debut appearance, he won the second prize in the 17th International Competition of Young Violinists „Nutcracker“ in Moscow in 2016. In 2018 Teo has been awarded Grand Prix at the XIV. International Competition of Young Violinists in Honour of Karol Lipinski and Henryk Wieniawski in Lublin, Poland in the junior category (under age 17) and more recently in 2019 a Grand Prix in the 9th International Competition for Young Violinists in Novosibirsk, Russia. 

Teo has performed in number of big stage solo concerts with world’s finest orchestras, including Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer, Moscow Academic Orchestra conducted by Ayyub Guliyev, Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Adam Medveczky, or Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gergely Duboczky.

As a soloist Teo was also invited to perform at festivals in several occasions.  In 2019, he performed at the Musical Olympus Festival with St. Petersburg State Academic Capella conducted by Alexander Chernushenko, or at the closing gala concert of Interlaken Classics Festival with Zakhar Bron Festival Orchestra, conducted by Zakhar Bron. Besides multiple recitals and appearances across Europe, Teo performed as a soloist at multiple big stages as for instance in Rudolfinum in Prague, Philharmonic Hall Brno, Berliner Dome, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Kursaal in Interlaken, St Petersburg State Capella Hall, Lincoln Center in New York and many others. His engagements also include a vivid cooperation with Sinfonietta Zilina and conductor Leoš Svárovský.

Born in St. Petersburg in 2002, Ivan Bessonov has been playing the piano since the age of six. In 2015, he made his debut as a film composer. At the moment, Ivan continues his studies at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory Central Music School in Moscow (Valeriy Piasetsky class).
In 2016, Ivan gave his first solo recital at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He has also performed with the Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra and St. Petersburg Chapel Symphony Orchestra and took part in various music festivals touring the Russian cities.
2010 - 2015 – Six times won the Grand Prix at six annual Etudes Competitions at the St. Petersburg College of Music
2015 – Grand prix at the International Frédéric Chopin Youth Competition (St. Petersburg) 2016 – First prize winner of the International Anton Rubinstein Competition «Piano Miniature in Russian Music» (St. Petersburg)
2016 – Prize winner of the St. Petersburg Government Competition «Young Talents»
2016 – Prize winner and winner of the People's Choice Award at Grand Piano Competition (Moscow)
2017 – First prize winner of the International Competition ASTANA РIАNO PASSION-2017 (Astana)

Ivaylo Vassilev was born in 2007 in Sofia. He showed his interest for classical music and piano at a very early age. He studies piano in the National School of Music in Sofia: from 2014 to 2019 his pedagogue was Emilia Kaneva and since 2019 he continues with prof. d-r Borislava Taneva.

He has about 30 prizes from international competitions in Bulgaria, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Czechia, Greece, Germany, Kazakhstan, France, Finland, UK, most of them are first prizes and Grand-Pix. The most significant of them are: “Liszt-Bartok”, Sofia, 2020 (I prize); “Schumann-Brahms”, Plovdiv, 2020 (Grand-prix); “La Note Celeste”, Paris, 2020 (I prize); “Nutcracker”, Moscow 2018 (Golden Nutcracker - winner); "De Bach au Jazz", Athens, 2018 (Grand Prix); “Anna Artobolevskaya”, Moscow, 2017 (I prize);"Astana Piano Passion 2017" (Diplomant); "Münchner Klavierpodium”, Munich, 2016 (Winner). In 2020 he participated in his first composition competition “Artistes en Herbe", Luxembourg and was awarded with a special prize.

He has participated in several international piano festivals, like Wunderkinder 2018 (Italy), Piano Extravaganza (Sofia), Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg, 2019), Moscow Meets Friends (Moscow, 2019), South Bohemian Festival (Czechia, 2020, as finalist in “Concertino Praga 2020” competition).

Zahar Vnutskih was born in the Russian city of Perm in 2010. 

He started studying  piano at the age of 4 at the  Polaznenskaya School of Arts under Zenkova Elena Nikolaevna. 

Since 2018 he has continued his studies at  the Central School of Music of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under Ryabova Daria Anatolievna. 

Achievements: 

Award winner of the XIII Regional Art Festival named after D.B. Kabalevsky “Our Perm Krai”  (2018). 

Laureate of the “Astana Piano Passion” Piano Competition (2019). 

Finalist in  the VI Russian-wide “Blue Bird” Competition (2019). 

Scholar of the “New Names” Foundation  (2018 – 2020). 

Elisey was born in the Russian city of Stavropol and started playing piano at the age of four. 

He is currently studying at the Central School of Music of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire under Honoured Artist, Natalia Trull. 

Finalist in the Russian-wide “Blue Bird” Competition (2016).

Laureate of the 1st award of the 5th International Youth Competition, “Where the art is born” (Krasnodar, 2017)

Laureate of the International “Astana Piano Passion” Piano Youth Competition (Kazakhstan, 2017)

Laureate of the 1st award of the Vladimir Krainev young pianists online-competition (2020).

Participant in the opening of the “Russian seasons” International festival (Italy, 2018).

Participant in the “The Amadeus Weekend” musical festival (Austria, 2018).

Participant in the “Classical Young Stars” musical festival (Austria, 2018).

Sofie Leifer was born in 2005 to a family of musicians in Copenhagen, Denmark. She started playing violin when she was four years old. At age eight, she began studies with Maestro Boris Belkin in Conservatory Maastricht (Netherlands). Currently, Sofie is under the tutelage of Prof. Zakhar Bron In “Z. Bron Academy “ in Interlaken (Switzerland). Sofie Leifer is a winner of first prizes in the following national and international competitions:

• XIV Wieniawski-Lipiński International Competition in Lublin (Poland)
• XVII International Television Contest “Nutcracker” in Moscow (Russia)
• XIII International Competition “Young Virtuosos” in Sofia (Bulgaria)
• II Concurso Musical Rotary Club Marbella

Soloist experience:

• “Moscow Virtuosi” conducted by V. Spivakov, (Moscow, Russia)
• “Big Symphony Orchestra” (BSO) with V. Fedoseev (Moscow, Russia)
• Mariinsky’s Theatre Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• “Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla” (ROSS) (Seville, Spain)

Fourteen-year-old British violinist Leia has performed with prestigious ensembles and orchestras across the globe, including Festival Strings Lucerne, Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Belgium.

She has played at the Salzburg, Lucerne, Rheingau Musik, Mozartfest Würzburg, White Nights and Trans-Siberian Art Festivals, to name a few, and her musical journey has also taken her to major concert halls across Europe, including the Royal Festival Hall, Brussels’ BOZAR, Berliner Philharmonie and Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. 

Zhu’s UK concerto debut came in February 2020 with the English Chamber Orchestra, with whom she performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Romance under conductor Joseph Wolfe.