Piano

Born 1956 in St. Petersburg.

First piano lessons at the age of five Attended Special music school for gifted children in St. Petersburg. While attending school more than 300 appearances on stage in different Russian cities. Studies with Prof Gregory Haimowsky at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem and with Prof. Vitalij Margulis at the University of Music in Freiburg (Germany).

Finalist and prizewinner of the international piano competitions in Monza and Vercelli (Italy).

More than 1.000 Performances as soloist and chamber musician (among many others, member of the Shostakovich-Trio 1986-1996), as professor in international masterclasses in almost all European countries, the Far East, Latin America, USA, Australia.

More than 100 performances broadcasted by TV and radio stations all over the world. His arrangement (Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures of an Exhibition” and many others) for piano-trio received special attention.

From 1998 to 2006 Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Since 2006 Professor of Piano at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. His students have won more than 50 prizes in international competitions (among others in Hamamatsu, Warsaw, Brussels, Leeds...)

Since 2006 Chairman of the International „FRANZ LISZT Competition for Young Pianists“ and of the International Rachmaninow Competition for Young Pianists Frankfurt.

Vera Kameneva – Concert Pianist, Laureate of International Competitions, Director of Innovative School of Performing Arts (Moscow), Former Deputy Director of Central Special Music School at the Moscow Conservatory.

Vera Kameneva is a prizewinner of the Maria Callas (Athens, 2-nd prize, 1998), Citta di Cantu (Italy, 1-st prize, 2000), Sidney (Australia, 5-th prize, 2000) international musical competitions. Her concert activities are diverse: the repertoire of the pianist includes 30 concertos for piano and orchestra (J.S. Bach, J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, L. Van Beethoven, R. Schumann, F. Mendelssohn, F. Chopin, J. Brahms, P.I. Tchaikovsky, S.V. Rachmaninoff, S. Prokofiev, M. Ravel), chamber music, solo concert programs with music from the baroque period to modern music. She plays recitals and holds masterclasses from Australia to Mexico. Since 2019 Vera Kameneva regularly performs with Alexander Knyazev (cello).

Her teaching background includes work at Central Special Music School (special piano) and Moscow State Conservatory (special piano). At the moment Vera Kameneva is teaching at the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music.

Born in Chieti, he studied under the guidance of Lucia Passaglia at the Conservatory "L. Cherubini" in Florence graduating with highest honours. He participated as a student performer on a three-year piano perfection course at the “Accademia Musicale Umbra” where he achieved a "Diploma of Excellence”.

Later, he participated in the "International Master Classes" in Klaipeda (Lithuania), held by Lazar Berman. With him, his concert repertoire deepened and improved with particular attention to the music of F. Liszt, at the European Academy of Music, Erba (CO). He perfected Chamber Music at the International School of Chamber Music in Duino under the guidance of "Trio of Trieste" achieving a "Diploma with Merit". He has won national and international competitions, including "M. Clementi" in Florence, “Agorà 80" in Rome, "F. Liszt" in Lucca, and "Città di Stresa". In 1997 he won second prize at the 'T. I. M. " - International Music Tournament; in 1998, he was awarded the prestigious "Prix Venice"; in 1999 he won second prize at the international competition "Ecomusic" of Monopoli (BA); in 2002 was the winner of the 40th International Piano Competition "Arcangelo Speranza" in Taranto. In 2009 he was awarded in the “4th International Tbilisi Piano Competition" in Georgia (WFIMC). 

His musical experience has been enriched by important collaborations as a pianist in the Classical Dance, and in Opera Theatre, collaborating with teachers of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Academy of Dance of London, Teatro dell’Opera of Paris. In addition, for several years he worked in the Teatro dell'Opera of Chieti deepening the Opera literature and working as a pianist with important international singers and theatrical directors.

Bernd Goetzke was born in Hanover, Germany in 1951.

At the age of 13 he was accepted as a student at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, where he studied piano with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling until obtaining his Concert Soloist’s Diploma in 1975.

Another important phase in his pianistic development was his long association (1969 to 1977) with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, who regarded him as his last pupil.

He also participated in Beethoven courses given by Claudio Arrau and Wilhelm Kempff. From 2013 onwards Bernd Goetzke accepted the invitation to teach the Beethoven course in the same place, at the Wilhelm Kempff Academy in Positano. This course had been established by Kempff and first taught by him and Alfred Cortot in 1957.

Bernd Goetzke was awarded prizes in several international competitions (Paris, Milan, Epinal, Athens, Brussels, amongst others).

Already at the age of 25 he was appointed lecturer at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and became professor in 1982. Today Bernd Goetzke is one of Germany’s most sought-after teachers and musicians. He teaches a class of young pianists from all over the world, and many of them have become prize winners in international competitions. In addition he holds numerous Master Classes in Germany and worldwide.

Severin von Eckardstein, one of the leading German pianists of his generation, has an already lengthy record of solo concerts and concerto performances on major stages around the world.

He has delighted the public with many highly acclaimed concerts, for example in Berlin, Munich, Milan, Moscow, Madrid, London, Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Budapest, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul. His talent could be enjoyed at great music festivals, including Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Aldeburgh / UK, the Gilmore Festival in Michigan / USA, La Roque d’Anthéron / France, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Husum Festival (“Raritäten der Klaviermusik”) and the Miami International Piano Festival, where he played the opening concert in 2009. He has performed with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Lothar Zagrosek and Marek Janowski, and made important debuts, among others in 2007 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden in 2012 and the Hungarian National Philharmony under Zsolt Hamar in 2017.

In 2018 he made his debut at the Thompson Art Center in New York with two different recitals.

Mikhail Khokhlov was born in Moscow in 1955. He started teaching at the age of 18. In 1974 he graduated from the Gnessins School of Music (specialising in piano, Valentina Aristova’s class).

In 1981 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Professor Vera Gornostayeva’s class).

In 1983 he finished his time as an assistant-apprentice. He also attended symphony orchestra conduction classes by Yuri Simonov and Dmitry Kitayenko.

As a concert pianist, he toured the Soviet Union, England, Austria, Germany, Israel and the USA. His first solo album was released on CD in 1990.

In 1983 Mikhail Khokhlov took up teaching piano in Moscow State V.I. Lenin Pedagogical University, Moscow State University of Culture and Art, he was a teacher and a concertmeister in the Gnessins musical school for children. In 1988 he was appointed a deputy headmaster for educational work and in 1989 he was elected a school headmaster.

Mikhail Khokhlov was awarded a Ministry for Culture “For the excellent work” Badge of Honour, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation title (1997), Laureate of Moscow Literature and Arts Award title (2001), Honoured Arts Worker of the Russian Federation title (2007) and an “In commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow” medal (1997).

Born into a family of artists, Chinese-Canadian pianist Dr. Vivian Sui-Rong Li began her career at the age of five with her debut at Guangzhou’s Friendship Opera House and has gone on to steadily build a career as one of China’s most respected young musicians. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano at Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China.

Dr. Li began her studies at the age of four under the tutelage of her father, renowned Chinese pianist Qi Li and supervision of her mother, renowned Chinese classical ballerina Xianping Su. After a period of study at Xinghai Consevatory’s Affiliated Middle School, Dr. Li immigrated to Toronto, Canada where she completed high school and her Artist Diploma from Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music. Following this, she was accepted with full scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory where she did her undergraduate studies with the esteemed French pianist, Monique Duphil, herself a student of Marguerite Long. Upon graduation, she was awarded Oberlin’s prestigious William R. Abate Outstanding Pianist Award given to the finest pianist of each graduating class. She proceeded to finish her studies with Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Houston under the guidance of Horacio Gutierrez and Nancy Weems.

Proclaimed “artistically and intellectually on the vanguard” by China’s Music Weekly, Jay Pengjie Sun has firmly established himself as one of the premier pianists and pedagogues of young musicians in China, with students taking prizes at major youth competitions such as Ettlingen, Zhuhai Mozart, Beijing Chopin and continuing their studies at the major conservatories of the world including Curtis, Juilliard, Royal College of Music, Hannover Hochschule, Paris Conservatoire, etc. 

He regularly tours in solo recital with past programs including Liszt’s Complete Transcendental Etudes which Beijing Music Life described as a “marvelously stunning feat”, as well as duo piano performances with his wife Vivian Li, frequent concerto performances and chamber music concerts with the Xinghai Piano Trio. 

Sun is also a prolific writer with a monthly column in Piano Artistry magazine discussing the systematic training of young pianists and a journal in the newspaper Music Weekly chronicling his musings on life as a musician. 

In addition to his current position on the faculty of Xinghai Conservatory Middle School, he is also a regular guest artist of the prestigious Morningside Music Bridge program. His principal teachers include Nancy Weems, Horacio Gutierrez, John Weems, Ann Schein and Qi Li.

Russian pianist Dmitri Alexeev is one of the world's most highly regarded artists. His critically praised recitals on the world's leading concert stages and his concert appearances with the most prestigious orchestras have secured his position as one of  "the most remarkable pianists of the day" (Daily Telegraph).

He has performed in the major concert halls around the world with most of great orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Concertgebouw, all London orchestras etc. under many celebrated conductors (Giulini, Ashkenazy, Boulez, Muti, Pappano, Temirkanov, Rozhdestvensky,  Jansons,Gergiev,Tennstedt among others).

Dmitri Alexeev has made many fine recordings for EMI, BMG, Virgin Classics, Hyperion and Russian labels. Following his Virgin Classics recording of the complete Rachmaninov Preludes, which won the Edison Award in the Netherlands.

Recently his recordings of Scriabin’s complete Piano Sonatas and complete Etudes were released on Brilliant Classic. In 2017, Alexeev continued his Scriabin recording project with a disc of the complete Preludes which will be released in the nearest future. His recording of the complete Chopin Mazurkas was released in 2014. 

Pavel Gililov was born in the Soviet Union and was discovered by Dimitry Kabalevsky, as a musical talent. In 1972, whilst still a student, he won the Moscow National Piano Competition and was awarded a prize at the 1975 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. From 1982 until his retirement, in 2013, he was piano professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne and is Professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The pianist holds several master classes throughout Europe and the Far East and is Chairman of the Jury and Artistic Director at the International Telekom Beethoven Competition, Bonn. He is considered one of the most influential piano experts in the world and is responsible for many pianistic careers of the last decades.

A soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic and a prize-winner at international competitions, the young pianist Philipp Kopachevsky had won tremendous audience admiration and acclaim by the age of twenty-five He regularly appears in recital in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain as well as throughout Russia. Kopachevsky has won particular popularity in Japan, where especially for NHK TV he recorded a disc of piano music by Chopin.

“The young pianist’s playing has a perceptibly personal message. The natural blend of mastery and spiritual maturity with raw emotion, the freedom with which the pianist expresses himself and his Romantic sincerity and nobleness win one over from the very first notes...” “From the first notes he plays, you sense the pianist’s powerful and lyrical individuality. His piano sings – this is a very rare quality nowadays, typical of a Romantic worldview; he retains clarity in his pianism and his phrasing is beautiful and pliant...” These are the kind of reviews Philipp Kopachevsky receives from music critics.

Philipp Kopachevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. He graduated from the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. He is currently a student at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor Sergei Dorensky). 

Internationally acclaimed Russian pianist Yuri Didenko, Associate Professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory  has performed solo recitals and collaborated with orchestras in the best concert halls of Moscow, including Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Moscow International House of Music, cities of the former Soviet Union and abroad: Belgium, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Japan, USA, Poland, Malta, Greece, Chile, China, countries of Western Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Spain, South Korea, Austria.

Mr. Didenko is a winner and prizewinner of numerous competitions in Great Britain, Italy, USA, Belgium. In 2003, Mr. Didenko received the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture Award “For Special Achievements in Culture”.

Mr. Didenko studied piano at the Central Music School affiliated with the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Mndoyants and then at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Merzhanov. Since 1994, he has been on the piano faculty of the Moscow Conservatory. In his class many talented students who are winners of various international competitions.

Yuri Didenko recorded several compact disks with various romantic and XX century works. He made numerous recordings on the Russian State Radio.

Internationally acclaimed pianist, Professor, Dean of Piano Faculty of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Carl-Maria von Weber in Dresden.

Arkady Zenziper is from St. Petersburg where he studied at the Conservatory with Professors Sokolov and Pertmann, graduating with the highest honours. In 1984 he moved to Germany. He is highly acclaimed as a leading performer of Romantic works and has performed with various leading German orchestras such as the Dresden Staatskapelle and Rundfunksinfonieorchester of Berlin in Germany and abroad. He has performed with the Czech Philharmonic, the Cappella Musicale of St. Petersburg and the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. He has also performed and given Master Classes in the UK, USA, Russia, Switzerland, Georgia and South Korea. Zenziper is also founder and orchestra director of the non-profit making Schubertiaden Festival in Schnakenburg, Germany, held every August for two weeks and which musicians and students meet for concerts and workshops.

Winner of several international competition prizes, Zenziper’s latest was winning the XI Festival Internazionale di Musica da Camera of Florence. He is professor at Dresden’s Hochschule Carl Maria von Weber and is on the adjudicating panel of the Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition.

"...a straightforward and sensitive pianist....rich with imagination and technical  prowess..." (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times July 2011)  

German pianist Gesa Luecker gave her first public concert aged nine and her orchestral  debut followed when she was 12 years old. 

She studied with Martin Dörrie and Matti Raekallio at the Hochschule für Musik und  Theater, Hannover up until the concert exam program; further work with luminaries such  as Arie Vardi, Fabio Bidini and Jerome Rose made an important contribution to her musical  development. 

She was a prize winner of the Bruno-Frey-Stiftung, of the Hannover Chopin Society and of  national and international competitions. 

She has given concerts as a soloist with various orchestras; her performances brought her  to halls such as the large hall of the NDR Hannover, Yamaha Hall New York, Carnegie Hall  (Weill Recital Hall) and Mannes College of Music in New York City, Wigmore Hall London,  

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).

“...There comes a time when a rising talent comes onto the scene so polished that there isn’t much to say other than to simply applaud it.”
— Pianist Magazine

“...excellent pianist as well as a wise and thoughtful musician.”
— Grammophone

“...Mndoyants also showed in his Beethoven performance that he could become one of the leading Beethoven interpreters.”
— Pianist Magazine

Nikita Mndoyants is First Prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, First prize winner of the 2007 Paderewsky International Piano Competition.
As a composer, Mr. Mndoyants received first prize at the 2014 Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers (Moscow, Russia) and 2016 Prokofiev International Competition of Composers (Sochi, Russia)

Mndoyants has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Eri Klas, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Bramwell Tovey, Philipp Tchizhevsky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Alexander Rudin, Mario Venzago, Valentin Uryupin, Konstantin Orbelyan and others.
He performed with Cleveland Orchestra, Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra,
Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Gangnam Symphony Orchestra and others.

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.

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 been since considered one of the most outstanding interpreter 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.

He is currently teaching at the Paris Conservatoire. Exclusive EMI artist for over 25 years, Michel Beroff has published more than 50 recordings ; among them the complete works for piano and orchestra from Liszt, Prokofieff and Stravinsky , conducted by Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. For Deutsche Grammophon, he has recorded Ravel’s left hand concerto with the LSO and Claudio Abbado. His latest recordings includes the complete piano music from Debussy for the Japanese label Denon.

Italian pianist Gabriele Leporatti actively performs throughout Europe, US and China appearing in many prestigious venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, NDR Hannover, He Luting Hall Shanghai and in festivals such as the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, International Keyboard Institute & Festival New York, Tbilisi Piano Fest;  2016 marks his debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Thomas Søndergård.  Gabriele´s schedule in the 2021/22 season includes orchestral appearances with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana as well as solo and chamber music concerts in Europe and abroad.

A keen chamber musician, he has been concertizing with ensembles such as the Trio Suleika and with a variety of internationally renowned soloists; moreover, he regularly appears in duo with his wife Gesa Lücker.  Several of his performances have been broadcasted on radio and television including BBC Radio 3 (UK), SAFm (South Africa), BR Klassik, RBB, SWR 2, WDR 3 (Germany), NPO Radio 4, Avrotros (Netherlands), SRF2 (Switzerland), Rai3 (Italy). 

Albert Mamriev is one of the most accomplished pianists of his generation, noted for the power, dexterity and musicality of his playing. He is founder and artistic director the Neue Sterne International Piano Competition in Wernigerode, Germany and the «Albert Mamriev» International Music Competition 2011 in Braunschweig, Germany.

Born in the former Soviet Union (Dagestan), he was introduced to the piano by his father, Jankil Mamriev, and went on to study at Moscow Central Music School, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Tel Aviv Music Academy, and the Hanover University of Music and Drama. His teachers have included Sergej Dorensky and Arie Vardi.

Albert Mamriev is a prizewinner at the Beijing International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Marsala International Piano Competition, Madrid International Piano Competition, Tunbridge Wells International Piano Competition, Morice Clairmont Piano Competition, Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition, Glasgow International Piano Competition, Olym Piano Competition, Mauro Paolo Monopoli International Piano Competition, Seiler International Piano Competition and UNISA International Music Competition.

“ Pablo Galdo is an excellent musician and a brilliant pianist, with whom I shared the stage. In addition to his pianistic capacity, I highlight his great musical intuition (Martha Argerich, 2020)

“Pablo Galdo is an exceptional pianist of great technique, with the musicality of a real artist, that additionaly has the capacity to communicate to the audience with great facility, which makes him a complete pianist” (Tamás vásáry, 2018)

“I was lucky enough to listen to the remarkable pianist Pablo Galdo. His technical abilities are excellent and he is able to move any audience musically” (Cyprien katsaris, 2020)

He was born in Ferrol (La Coruña). He studied at the “Vigo Superior Conservatoire”,where he graduated with specialdistinction and extraordinary prize, at the “University de Alcalá de Henares”, at the “Zoltán Kodály Institute”, at the “Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest” ,at the “Mozarteum University in Salzburg”, where he obtained his Postgraduate Diplom, and at the “Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow” (Russia) . His professor included Nicasio Gradaille, Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, András kemenes, Imre Rohmann and Elisso Wirssaladze.

First prize at the National Piano Competition in Japan, launched her international career as the winner of the 2nd Grand Prix in the  Long/Thibaud Competition in Paris with 4 special prizes given by A. Rubinstein, Emile Sauer, Prince Rainier Ⅲ of Monaco. Laureat at the 10th Fryderyk Chopin International Competition in Warsaw. She studied with A.Ciccolini (Paris Conservatoire), V. Perlemuter, C. Hansen, L.Kentner, C.Zerah, S.Nagai & T.Matsuura.

She has performed throughout the world in 36 countries, at Berlin Philharmony Hall, Gewanthaus concert Hall, Suntory Hall, Teatro Colon, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, Wigmore Hall, with outstanding orchestras and conductors such as Skrowacewski, F.Bruggen, Janowsky, Sinaisky, Foster, Sado, Inoué, Gushulbauer, P.I.Calderón etc. Her Duo Concert with M. Argerich has been broadcasted many times in the world. She performed often with M.Argerich, A. Dumay, R.Pasquier, A.Noras, A. Hewitt, with the Quintets as Moragues, Parisii, Via Nova etc. She appears regularly at festivals in Warsaw, La Roque d’Anthéron, Menton, Echternach, Verbier, Nantes, Nice, Lugano, Lisbon, Toledo, New York,Tokyo, Salt Lake City etc.

Gold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo has been hailed for his “unfailingly consistent excellence” (International Piano) and celebrated as “a pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat” (Chicago Tribune). A powerful and virtuosic performer, he also, in his own words, “strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in music”. 

The first Korean to win Cliburn Gold, Yekwon’s 19/20 season includes appearances with Fort Worth and Tuscon Symphonies and the Bucheon Philharmonic and debuts with Washington Chamber Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra and Danish Radio Orchestra amongst others as well as a debut appearance at the Vail Festival with Dallas Symphony. Recital highlights include Four Season Arts, San Antonio Arts and the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg. 20/21 will see Yekwon make his debut with Orchestra Chambre de Paris and Tugan Sokhiev and return to KBS Symphony with Jaap Van Zweeden. 

In previous seasons, he has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Houston Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Sendai Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. Recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Salle Cortot and Kumho Art Hall. 

Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music for seven years, graduated in music at Leeds University, and went on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndham and then in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique. 

In recent seasons Donohoe has appeared with Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Concert Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonia, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Belarusian State Symphony Orchestra, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has undertaken a UK tour with the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as giving concerts in many South American and European countries, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Russia, and USA. Other past and future engagements include performances of all three MacMillian piano concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; a ‘marathon’ recital of Scriabin’s complete piano sonatas at Milton Court; an all-Mozart series at Perth Concert Hall; concertos with the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall; and a residency at the Buxton International Festival. 

Vadym Kholodenko is fast building a reputation as one of the most musically dynamic and technically gifted young pianists, praised in his performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra “for his absorbing melodic shading [and] glittering passage work” (Philadelphia Enquirer). Winner of the 2013 Cliburn Competition, Kholodenko captivated audiences and critics alike with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra immediately appointing him their first Artist in Partnership for a period of three years. His latest solo disc on Harmonia Mundi, works by Scriabin won a prestigious Diapason d’Or de l’année. Previous awards include First Prizes at both the Schubert Piano Competition, Dortmund (2011) and Sendai Piano Competition (2010).

Kholodenko has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Valery Gergiev, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Kirill Karabits, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Paul Daniel, Pinchas Zukerman, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Spivakov, Ion Marin and Kazuki Yamada. In 2013 he held a residency at the Mariinsky Concert Hall where Valery Gergiev named him Artist of the Month and recently requested him for concerto performances and recordings in Paris, Luxembourg and St Petersburg.

Rudolf Buchbinder is one of the legendary artists of our time. His piano playing is an unparalleled fusion of the authority of a career spanning more than 60 years with spirit and spontaneity. His renditions are celebrated worldwide for their intellectual depth and musical freedom.

Particularly his renditions of Ludwig van Beethoven's works are considered to be exemplary. He has performed the 32 piano sonatas 60 times in cycles all over the world and developed the story of their interpretation over decades. He was the first pianist to play all Beethoven sonatas at the Salzburg Festival during a summer festival. A live recording is available on DVD.

On the occasion of Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday in the 2019/20 concert season, for the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna Musikverein gave a single pianist, Rudolf Buchbinder, the honor of performing all five piano concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven in a specially edited cycle. Buchbinder's partners in this unprecedented constellation were the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Music Director Andris Nelsons, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under their chief conductors Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev and Christian Thielemann.