Following her recent residencies with Staatskapelle Dresden and Bamberger Symphoniker, Sol Gabetta opens the 2024/25 season with a tour of Europe with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck. At the Wiener Konzerthaus, where Gabetta has thrilled audiences time and again, she will be featured in her portrait series across two chamber music evenings and as a soloist, performing concertos by Shostakovich and Saint-Saëns with Wiener Symphoniker and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. After her long-anticipated return to the U.S. for a debut with the New York Philharmonic and performances with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä, one of her most esteemed musical colleagues, Gabetta will join the New York Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša in 2025 once again for a guest performance at the Bravo! Vail Festival in Colorado.

Gabetta maintains her longstanding connection to the Philharmonia Orchestra illuminating Weinberg’s Cello Concerto under the direction of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and returns to the Munchner Philharmoniker to collaborate with Lahav Shani after earning wide acclaim for her powerful rendition of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra last season. Upcoming engagements will see Gabetta reunite with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, as well as with Gewandhaus Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons.Other highlights included appearances with Constantinos Carydis and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in tribute performances to Shostakovich and Schnittke, two eminent composers who stood resilient against repression and remained vocal in their expression,and performances with Gabetta’s fellow ‘inventer’, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja presenting known and unknown works as part of a tour of Germany, as well as apperances with Staatskapelle Berlin and Edward Gardner, performances with Concertgebouw Orchestra and a European tour with Oslo Philharmonic - both led by Klaus Mäkelä. A respected advocate of new compositions for her instrument, Sol Gabetta gave the world premiere performance at Radio France of a newly commissioned Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll which was created especially for her. Gabetta recently brought this concerto to the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, following a previous performance at the BBC Proms Japan, where she shared the stage at Tokyo’s Orchard Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

A sought-after guest artist at leading festivals, Sol Gabetta was Artiste étoile at Lucerne Festival where she appeared with Wiener Philharmoniker and Franz Welser-Möst, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth and the London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Marin Alsop. She continues drawing inspiration from a wide circle of collaborators and musical encounters at the Solsberg Festival, which flourishes under her committed artistic direction.

Chamber music is at the core of Gabetta’s work, visible in her upcoming trio recitals with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, a tour with her longtime recital partner Bertrand Chamayou through Europe, and recent appearances with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Francesco Piemontesi at Gstaad Festival and at the Schubertiade. In the past, chamber music performances led her to venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall in London, Lucerne, Verbier, Salzburg, Schwetzingen and Rheingau festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn. 

In recognition of her exceptional artistic achievements, vision, and creativity, which have made a significant contribution to Europe’s cultural life, Sol Gabetta was honoured with the European Culture Prize in 2022. She also received the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2018 where she appeared as soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann. In 2019 she was awarded the first OPUS Klassik Award as Instrumentalist of the Year for her interpretation of Schumann’s Cello Concerto. The ECHO Klassik award saluted her accomplishments biennially between 2007 and 2013, and in 2016. A GRAMMY Award nominee, she also received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth-Preis of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012 as well as commendations at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She continues to build her extensive discography with SONY Classical, the most recent releases being a recording of late Schumann works and a live recording of the cello concertos by Elgar and Martinů with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle / Krzysztof Urbański. In 2017, Gabetta joined forces with Cecilia Bartoli on an extensive tour throughout Europe showcasing their album Dolce Duello, released on Decca Classics. 

Sol Gabetta performs on several Italian master instruments from the early 18th century, including a cello by Matteo Goffriller from 1730, Venice, provided to her by Atelier Cels Paris, and since 2020, the famous "Bonamy Dobree-Suggia" by Antonio Stradivarius from 1717, on generous loan from the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger. She has been teaching at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.

The clarinetist, Pablo Barragán is recognised for his refined sound paired with a high skill of craftsmanship, stage charisma and boundless curiosity for the programming of his performances.

Pablo trained at the Seville Conservatory with Antonio Salguero and with Matthias Glander at the Fundación Barenboim-Said in Seville. He is the winner of the Prix Crédit Suisse Jeunes Solistes in 2013, amongst other competitions.

He has worked with orchestras such as the Brucknerhaus Orchestra Linz, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra with conductors such as Anja Bihlmaier, Thomas Dausgaard, Daniel Raiskin, and Zsolt Hamar.

Pablo is humbled to collaborate with fabulous chamber music partners such as Liza Ferschtmann, Elena Bashkirova, Beatrice Rana, Kian Soltani, Emmanuel Pahud, the Modigliani Quartet, Schumann Quartet and many more. His Chamber music invitations included performances at Rheingau Music Festival, Classiche Form, the Martha Argerich Festival, the Wigmore Hall London and Tonhalle Zurich. 

In the 2024/25 season, Pablo Barragán will give several solo concerts with orchestra, including his performance with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Kronberg with Karl
Amadeus Hartmann's Chamber Concerto conducted by Barragán himself. He will perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the SUK Symphony Orchestra Prague under
the direction of Wilhelm F. Walz, the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yannis Pousporikas and the Orquesta Camerata Musicalis, with whom he
will also make his debut at the Auditorio Nacional de Música. Other concert engagements include the Stadtorchester Thun, with whom he will perform Stanford's
Clarinet Concerto. 

This season, his work as a chamber musician is in great demand and he has been invited to the Marvao Festival, the Kaposfest, the March Music Days in Ruse, the Jerusalem
Chamber Music Festival, the Zwischentöne Engelberg, the Mosel Music Festival and the Schaumburg Castle Concerts. Together with Noa Wildschut and Frank Dupree, he is a
guest at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the NFM Wroclaw, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Nymphenburg Summer Festival. Further
concerts with the Cremona Quartet will take him to l'Aquila in Italy and to Ruse with the Sitkovetsky Trio.

Pablo’s curiosity and eagerness to create are also reflected in the repertoire selection for his February 2022 album BOUNDLESS, on which he has united the diverse sound universes of Weinberg, Bernstein, Prokofiev and Poulenc clarinet sonatas for the music label Aparté. Together with Noa Wildschut and Frank Dupree they will release a recording 24/25, featuring works by Paul Schoenfield, Béla Bartók, Claude Vivier and Ernest Bloch for the label Accentus Classic.

Since 2020 Pablo Barragán is as a Professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Seville and at master classes such as Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Kristian Bezuidenhout has established himself as one of the most versatile and exciting musicians of our time, both as a keyboard player and conductor.  Born in South Africa in 1979, he began his studies in Australia, completed them at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), and now lives in London. After initial training as a modern pianist with Rebecca Penneys, he explored early keyboards, studying harpsichord with Arthur Haas, fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson, and continuo playing and performance practice with Paul O’Dette. Kristian first gained international recognition at the age of 21 after winning the prestigious first prize and audience prize in the Bruges Fortepiano Competition.

Kristian is a regular guest soloist on fortepiano, harpsichord, modern piano with the world’s leading ensembles including Freiburger Barockorchester, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Camerata Salzburg, Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & the Australian Chamber Orchestra.  He has performed with celebrated artists including John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Bernhard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Frans Brüggen, Trevor Pinnock, Giovanni Antonini, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Isabelle Faust, Alina Ibragimova, Rachel Podger, Carolyn Sampson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mark Padmore & Matthias Goerne.

In addition to his work as a soloist, he is increasingly in demand as a conductor, and continues explore the music of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries with groups including the English Concert (Handel Chandos Anthems, Purcell Odes, Bach St. John Passion), Tafelmusik, Collegium Vocale, Juilliard 415, Kammerakademie Potsdam & Dunedin Consort (Bach St Matthew Passion). Kristian is Principal Guest Director of both Freiburger Barockorchester and English Concert.

Kristian’s rich and award-winning discography of over 30 albums - mostly for Harmonia Mundi - includes the complete keyboard music of Mozart (Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, & Caecilia Prize); Schubert Die schöne Müllerin with Julian Prégardien; the complete Piano Concertos of Beethoven with the Freiburger Barockorchester; an ongoing cycle of the complete Mozart Piano Concertos with the Freiburger Barockorchester (ECHO Klassik); Bach Violin Sonatas with Isabelle Faust; Mozart Violin Sonatas with Petra Müllejans and Beethoven & Mozart Lieder and Schumann Dichterliebe with Mark Padmore (Edison Award). In 2013 he was nominated as Gramophone Magazine’s Artist of the Year. Upcoming releases include two discs of Mozart Piano Concertos with Freiburger Barockorchester to be recorded late in 2024.

The 2024/2025 season sees Kristian perform as soloist and direct a host of ensembles including Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Handel & Haydn Society, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Irish Chamber Orchestra. He performs recitals in Europe with Anne Sofie von Otter, Sol Gabetta, Isabelle Faust, Julian Prégardien and Consone Quartet.

During his auspicious career before winning the 2021 American Pianist Awards and Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, Kenny Broberg captured the silver medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a bronze medal at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition as well as prizes at the Hastings, Sydney, Seattle and New Orleans International Piano Competitions, becoming one of the most decorated and internationally renowned pianists of his generation. Broberg is lauded for his inventive, intelligent and intense performances. 

“Broberg mastered everything he performed over the weekend, pulling a palette of moods from every register,” The Indianapolis Star writes of Broberg’s performance during the Finals for American Pianists Awards. “In the ‘Dante Sonata’ from Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage, the pianist easily captured the drama in the journey, marrying all of the energy of those emotions in the epic ending.” 

Crediting his first exposure to classical music to his Italian grandfather’s love of the Three Tenors, Broberg began piano lessons on his family’s upright piano at age 6. During his childhood in Minneapolis, he began studying piano with Dr. Joseph Zins at Crocus Hill Studios in Saint Paul. Throughout high school, he balanced his musical lessons with playing baseball and hockey. He remains an avid fan for both the Minnesota Twins and Wild and checks their scores while on breaks during his practice. 

Broberg earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2016 at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, studying under Nancy Weems. He continued his studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, under the direction of Stanislav Ioudenitch, the gold medalist at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Starting in the 2022-2023 academic year, Broberg will join the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid as Deputy Professor of the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair led by Ioudenitch. 

Performing on stages and in concert halls across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, Broberg has worked with some of the world’s most respected conductors, including Ludovic Morlot, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, Vasily Petrenko, Nicholas Milton, John Storgårds, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Gerard Schwarz and Stilian Kirov. He has collaborated with the Royal Philharmonic and the Minnesota, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Sydney, Seattle and Fort Worth Symphonies, among others. He has been featured on WQXR, Performance Today, Minnesota Public Radio and ABC (Australia) radio, and presented his original composition “Barcarolle” on NPR in March 2021. 

He released Sonatas by Medtner, Rachmaninov and Scriabin on the Steinway & Sons label in 2023. 

The Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship also provides Broberg with a prize valued at $200,000 designed to assist him as he builds his musical career. It includes $50,000 in cash, two years of professional development and assistance and performance opportunities worldwide. Broberg will also work with students and host performances during his time on campus as the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Indianapolis. Before embarking on his international concerts, Broberg performed in his adopted home of Kansas City, Missouri, for the concert “KC Celebrates Kenny Broberg” in September 2021.

Born in Southern Brazil, Lucas Campara Diniz discovered the guitar at an early age under the musical influence of his family’s Gaucho traditions. Soon, he achieved his first successes. In 2013, he won the 1st prize at the Av Rio Guitar Competition, the Sebastian Benda Music Competition and the International Guitar Competition Fred Schneiter. A year later, he embarked on his first international tour in Chile, performing as a soloist with the Orquesta del Maule.

In the present day, Lucas graces the most distinguished stages across Europe, captivating audiences at renowned music festivals. With his participation in the esteemed Passo Avanti quartet and his enthralling duo alongside the percussionist Vivi Vassileva, he has performed at prestigious venues, including Grafenegg, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Essen Philharmonie, Kissinger Sommer, Rheingau Musik Festival, Europäische Wochen,  Mosel Musikfestival, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival…

A crucial concern for him is advancing the classical guitar repertoire. Through original compositions like his Sonata for Solo Guitar and close collaboration with other composers, he significantly contributes to the creation of new works for the guitar literature. In collaboration with the Vienna Konzerthaus, he commissioned two works for his duo: Javier Contreras’s “Sonata for Vibraphone and Guitar” and Sergio Assad’s “Three Brazilian Legends,” which he premiered there in the autumn of 2020.

Bertrand Chamayou is one of today’s most strikingly brilliant pianists, recognised for his revelatory performances at once powerfully virtuosic, imaginative and breathtakingly beautiful. A leading interpreter of French music, his vast repertoire includes major bodies of work such as the complete piano works of Ravel, Liszt’s Etudes and Années de pèlerinage, and Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. At the same time, the French pianist possesses a deep passion for new music, having worked with composers including Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, Bryce Dessner and Michael Jarrell.

This season sees him appear with the London Symphony Orchestra in Gstaad and La-Côte-Saint-André, play a chamber music evening at Wigmore Hall, perform with Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Les Siècles Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Belgian National Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A tour with Barbara Hannigan will take the two musicians to Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, La Jolla, Rochester, Philadelphia, New York, Ottawa, Washington and Paris with duo recitals. Duo recitals with Sol Gabetta will take place at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Gewandhaus Leipzig, De Doelen Rotterdam, Trieste and Bologna. This season, Bertrand Chamayou gives solo recitals in Clermont-Ferrand, Metz, Bordeaux, Poitiers, Perth, Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, Lille and Oeiras.

Bertrand Chamayou performs with the most prestigious orchestras: the Wiener Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, the orchestras of Cleveland, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Atlanta, Montreal, Vienna and London, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the radio orchestras in Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne and Copenhagen, as well as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has had the privilege of playing under the baton of Pierre Boulez and Sir Neville Marriner and works with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Charles Dutoit, Mikko Franck, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Krzysztof Urbanski, Philippe Herreweghe and Gianandrea Noseda, Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons, François-Xavier Roth, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Antonio Pappano and Elim Chan.

A highly regarded chamber musician, his partners include renowned artists such as Sol Gabetta, Barbara Hannigan, Vilde Frang, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Leif Ove Andsnes, the Quatuor Ebène and Antoine Tamestit. He is very committed to new repertoire and has also worked with Henri Dutilleux and György Kurtág and, more recently, with Thomas Adès, Bryce Dessner and Michaël Jarrell, who dedicated his last piano concerto to him.

Bertrand Chamayou published a large number of highly successful recordings, including a Naïve CD of music by César Franck, which was awarded several accolades. For his recording of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concertos Nos.2 and 5, he was awarded the Gramophone Recording of the Year Award 2019. The only artist to win France's prestigious Victoires de la Musique on five occasions, he has an exclusive recording contract with Warner/Erato and was awarded the 2016 ECHO Klassik for his recording of Ravel’s complete works for solo piano. 

Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse; his musical talent was quickly noted by pianist Jean-François Heisser, who later became his professor at the Paris Conservatoire. He completed his training with Maria Curcio in London. Since 2021, Chamayou has been Co-Artistic Director of Festival Ravel, the major new international festival celebrating Maurice Ravel, situated in France’s Basque country.

Born in 2002, Hana Chang was a winner of the 2023 Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall. She was nominated as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars of 2024, and has recently been announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship recipient and a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme 2024-26.

Hana has performed with orchestras including the Prague Radio Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Czech Virtuosi, Belgian National Orchestra, Hunan Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. She is a laureate of the Stuttgart, Yehudi Menuhin, Prague Spring, Beethoven Hradec, Stradivarius, and Louis Spohr International Violin Competitions. Most recently, she was named a laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Hana has performed in numerous festivals including the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Solsberg Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Deer Valley Music Festival, Vevey Spring Classic Festival, and Sion Festival, and has performed together with artists including Janine Jansen, Sol Gabetta, Daniel Müller-Schott, Dénes Várjon, Amihai Grosz, and Till Fellner, among others.

Hana currently resides in Berlin and studies with Christian Tetzlaff at Kronberg Academy. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber-Patronat. She continues to be mentored by Janine Jansen with whom she studied at the Haute École de Musique in Sion, Switzerland. She previously studied with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Hana plays on a 1647 Nicolo Amati violin, kindly on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore.

Alexandra Dovgan was born in 2007 into a family of musicians and began her piano studies at the age of four and a half. At five, her talent emerged when she passed the highly competitive selection process to join the Academic Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory, where she studied under renowned teacher Mira Marchenko. She is currently continuing her education at the Ateneo de Música in Malaga. Alexandra's musical development has been greatly influenced by her creative communication with one of the most outstanding pianists of our time, Grigory Sokolov.

Alexandra is a prize-winner in five international competitions, including the Moscow International Vladimir Krainev Piano Competition, the International Young Pianists Competition “Astana Piano Passion,” and the International Television Contest for Young Musicians "The Nutcracker." She was only ten when she won the Grand Prix at the II° International “Grand Piano Competition” in Moscow. Recordings of this event have travelled the world on Medici.TV and YouTube, moving musicians and piano lovers globally.

Despite her young age, Alexandra has already performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls, including the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Konserthuset in Stockholm, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, and Gulbenkian in Lisbon, receiving standing ovations and enthusiastic reviews. 

In August 2024, she made her debut at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Since her acclaimed recital at the Salzburg Festival, Alexandra has impressed critics and the public alike with a remarkable series of international debuts. She performed with Gustavo Dudamel and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, debuted in Japan with the Kioi Sinfonietta and Trevor Pinnock, with Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Paavo Järvi, with Stockholm Philharmonic and Ton Koopman, with Barcelona Symphony and Kazushi Ono, and recently with the Bergen Philharmonic and Pietari Inkinen.

Highlights of the 2024-25 season include her debut in London with the London Philharmonic under Edward Gardner, performances at Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Stuttgart Liederhalle, Essen Philharmonie, and Milan Conservatory, as well as her return to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Kazuki Yamada. Additionally, she will undertake European tours with the Basel and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras and make her debut with the Orquesta Nacional de España and the Detroit Symphony.

The distinguishing characteristics of Alexandra's pianism are her spontaneous depth and consciousness, along with a sound of incredible beauty and precision. You will not find any element of showboating or mere technical demonstration in her playing; rather, there is an impressive concentration combined with purity of expression and creative imagination. She possesses a charismatic presence on stage and a distinct personality.

In June 2024, Alexandra Dovgan received the prestigious Prix Serdang from Rudolf Buchbinder and Adrian Flury in recognition of her achievements and her already significant career.

Frank Dupree, winner of the International Classical Music Award and the Opus Klassik, stands as one of the most versatile pianists and conductors of the new generation. Known for his infectious energy and unbridled enthusiasm, Dupree captivates audiences not only as a soloist, sharing the stage with renowned orchestras worldwide, but also as a play/direct artist, conductor, and the leader of his own jazz ensemble, the Frank Dupree Trio. Dupree’s recordings of Nikolai Kapustin’s piano concertos have attracted much international attention (New York Times: “One of the most entertaining and put-on-repeat recordings [of the] year”). As of 2023, Frank Dupree has been the Artistic Partner of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.

In the 2023-2024 season, Frank Dupree will give his solo debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Kapustin & Tchaikovsky / Santtu-Matias Rouvali), Malmö Operaorkester (Mozart play/direct), NDR Radiophilharmonie (Gershwin / Eiji Ōue), Staatsorchester Mainz (HK Gruber) and Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal (Gershwin / Patrick Hahn). Recitals and chamber music projects will take him to Lincoln Center in New York, London’s Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Brucknerhaus Linz.

Highlights of Frank Dupree’s career include performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Malmö SymfoniOrkester, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and the Sinfónica Nacional de México. Frank Dupree regularly collaborates as soloist and conductor with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Essener Philharmoniker, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Staatskapelle Weimar and Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, and many more.

On past tours, Dupree has performed at the Verbier Festival, Lucerne Festival, Vaduz Classic, Beethovenfest Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling, Kissinger Sommer, Kurt Weill Fest, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as at renowned concert halls such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Frank Dupree is a passionate chamber musician who effortlessly crosses genre boundaries, and the same can be said for his Frank Dupree Trio: together with Jakob Krupp (double bass) and Obi Jenne (drums) Dupree explores the fascinating intersection between jazz and classical music. In addition, Frank Dupree continues to develop innovative and unique programmes catered towards a number of exciting chamber collaborations, with particularly flourishing artistic relationships with his fellow rising stars; such as Kian Soltani, Vivi Vassileva, Timothy Ridout, Simon Höfele, Noa Wildschut and Pablo Barragán.

Frank Dupree’s current CD productions focus predominantly on the works of Ukrainian-born composer Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020). His interpretations of Piano Concerto No. 4 (Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn / Case Scaglione) and Piano Concerto No. 5 (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Dominik Beykirch) have earned him both the International Classical Music Award and the Diapason d’Or. Gramophone Magazine recognised Dupree’s ‘flamboyant brilliance’; WDR further praised his rendition of Piano Concerto No. 5 as ‚fantastic,‘ noting that the performance perfectly captures ‚the drive and pure joy […] of this music.‘ Dupree’s avid interest in contemporary music is reflected in his world premieres, both recorded and on stage, and close collaborations with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, HK Gruber, Péter Eötvös, and Christian Jost.

Born in 1991 in Rastatt, Germany, Dupree began taking piano and percussion lessons at an early age. He later studied piano under Professor Sontraud Speidel and conducting with Professors Péter Eötvös and Hans Zender at the University of Music Karlsruhe. In 2012, he was awarded first prize at the International Hans von Bülow Competition in Meiningen for his dual-role performance as pianist and conductor interpreting Beethoven. In 2014, Dupree was the sole prizewinner at Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and also received scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He gained valuable insights from master classes with Emanuel Ax, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, and Gábor Takács-Nagy and has been assistant in projects to Sir Simon Rattle, François-Xavier Roth, and Mario Venzago. Frank Dupree is a Steinway Artist.

Veronika Eberle’s exceptional talent and the poise and maturity of her musicianship have been recognised by many of the world’s finest orchestras, venues and festivals, as well as by some of the most eminent conductors.

Sir Simon Rattle’s introduction of Veronika aged just 16 to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival in a performance of the Beethoven Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, brought her to international attention. Key orchestra collaborations since then include the London Symphony (Rattle), Concertgebouw (Holliger), New York Philharmonic (Gilbert), Montreal Symphony (Nagano), Munich Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Orchestras (Louis Langrée), Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Janowski), Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester (P. Järvi), Bamberger Symphoniker (Robin Ticciati, Nott), Tonhalle Orchester Zurich (M.Sanderling), NHK Symphony (Kout, Stenz, Norrington) and Rotterdam Philharmonic (Rattle, James Gaffigan, Yannick Nézet-Seguin).

In the 2024-25 season, Veronika makes debuts with New York Philahrmonic Orchestra (Canellakis), Boston Symphony Orchestra (Stutzman), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Hindoyan), Gothenberg Symphony (Hannigan) and Philharmonie Zuidnederland (Ward). This season will also see Veronika return to Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence and to Netherlands Philharmonic (Viotti), Oslo Philharmonic (Jacquot) and Budapest Festival Orchestra (Fischer).

Recent highlights include debuts with Orchestre National Capitole Toulouse (Stutzman), Karajan-Akademie (Jockel) and Detroit Symphony (Afkham) and returns to Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Rattle), Bournemouth Symphony (Fischer) and Atlanta Symphony (Stutzman). Recent chamber music projects include performances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival with Sol Gabetta and Antoine Tamestit, Schubertiade with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih and Heidelberger Fruhling Festival alongside Adrien La Marca and Quirine Viersen, amongst others.

Veronika Eberle plays the 1693 “Ries” Stradivarius, which is on generous loan from the Reinhold Würth Musikstiftung gGmbH.

Isabelle Faust captivates her audience with her confident interpretations. She approaches each work with the utmost respect and an understanding of its music-historical context and the historical instruments. She complements the greatest possible fidelity to the work with a (contemporary) perspective that enables a profound encounter with a wide variety of works and makes them accessible to a broad audience thanks to the intensity of her playing.

After winning prizes at the prestigious Leopold Mozart Competition and the Paganini Competition at a very young age, Isabelle Faust was soon performing regularly with the most important orchestras in the world, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Les Siècles and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

She has developed close and lasting collaborations with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Jakub Hrusa, Klaus Mäkelä, Robin Ticciati and Sir Simon Rattle.

‘Isabelle Faust is a fearless ruler in the giant realm of the violin. She plays J. S. Bach's six monster solos on gut strings, she plays the violin in György Kurtág's ‘Kafka Fragments’, repeatedly performs Beethoven's Violin Concerto with a wide variety of conductors and makes chamber music. Her violin tone always floats through the music with a smile, she always triumphs without effort in the most turbulent and ludicrous violin tumults. ‘Reinhard Brembeck, Süddeutsche Zeitung 28.04.23

Isabelle Faust's artistic curiosity encompasses all epochs and forms of instrumental partnership. In addition to the great symphonic violin concertos, this includes Schubert's Octet on period instruments, Igor Stravinsky's ‘L'Histoire du Soldat’ with Dominique Horwitz and György Kurtág's ‘Kafka Fragments’ with Anna Prohaska. Isabelle Faust has shown great commitment to contemporary music from an early stage: her most recent world premieres include compositions by Péter Eötvös, Brett Dean, Ondřej Adámek and Rune Glerup.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season include concerts with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Boston Symphony, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. She tours Europe and Japan with Il Giardino Armonico. At the Beethovenfest Bonn 2024, Isabel is Artist in Residence.

She performs chamber music with her long-standing duo partner Alexander Melnikov, as well as in a trio with Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras. She interprets Schubert's String Quintet and his String Quartet in G major historically with Antoine Tamestit, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Christian Poltéra. 

Her numerous recordings have been unanimously praised by critics and honoured with prizes such as the Diapason d'or, the Gramophone Award and the Choc de l'année. Recent recordings include Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), works for violin and orchestra by Pietro Locatelli (with Il Giardino Armonico) and works for solo violin by Biber, Matteis, Pisendel, Vilsmayr and Guillemain. Isabelle Faust has released other highly acclaimed albums, including the sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach and the violin concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alban Berg under the direction of Claudio Abbado.

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.

Her profound musicianship and exceptional lyricism have elevated her as one of the foremost violinists of her generation. She continues to appear regularly with the world’s leading orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgbouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra. She has enjoyed collaborations with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mariss Jansons, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ivan Fischer, Maxim Emelyanychev, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Manfred Honeck, Teodor Currentzis, Daniel Harding, Antonio Pappano, Lahav Shani, Paavo Järvi and Yuri Temirkanov.

Highlights of the current season include her return to the Berliner Philharmoniker with Kirill Petrenko, plus her much-anticipated debut with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Vilde also embarks on international tours with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Makela, London Symphony Orchestra with Pappano, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin with Ticciati, Münchner Philharmoniker with Grazintye-Tyla and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski. She also embarks on a Bach cycle with the Basel Kammerorchester.

A keen and prominent chamber musician, Vilde regularly appears at the Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms in London, festivals in Verbier, Lockenhaus, George Enescu Festival, Salzburg Festival and the Prague Spring Music Festival. She also appears regularly in recital at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich and the Bozar in Brussels, as well in North America as part of the Vancouver Recital Series, Boston Celebrity Series and San Francisco Performances. Vilde returns to the Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence where she joins forces with early music ensemble, Arcangelo, and later in the season performs chamber music with close collaborators, Lawrence Power, Valeriy Sokolov, Denis Kozhukhin and Maximillian Hornung.

Vilde Frang is an exclusive Warner Classics artist and her recordings have received numerous awards, including the Edison Klassiek Award, “Diapason d’Or” by Diapason Magazine, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque and two Gramophone Awards.

Born in Norway, Vilde was engaged by Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve to debut with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied at Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg and Ana Humachenco at the Kronberg Academy.

Vilde performs on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesu, generously loaned to her by a European benefactor.

American-Russian violinist Maria Ioudenitch captured the attention of music lovers worldwide in 2021 when she received first prizes in three international violin competitions – the Ysaÿe, Tibor Varga and Joseph Joachim – as well as numerous special prizes at these competitions, including Joachim’s Chamber Music Award, the prize for Best Interpretation of a Commissioned Work and the Henle Urtext Prize. In 2023, she won the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Chamber Music Recording of the Year” for her debut album, Songbird, on Warner Classics. 

Recognized for her innovative programmes, her first album on Warner with pianist Kenny Broberg, spans from Franz Schubert and Fanny Mendelssohn to Nikolai Medtner and Nadia Boulanger. In upcoming concerts, she performs concertos by Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Barber, as well as Vivaldi’s “Il Grosso Mogul”, while this season’s recital programmes include works by Lera Auerbach and Germaine Tailleferre, alongside standard violin repertoire. 

Highlights of the 24/25 season include debuts with Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as part of the Orpheum Foundation’s concert series, with Trondheim Symfoniorkester, with Sofia Philharmonic and with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, with whom she also goes on tour. She is also invited by Heidelberger Frühling, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg and Philharmonia Frankfurt. Maria will return to Dresden Philharmonic for the New Year’s concert, after a very successful tour together in the UK in 2024. Upcoming debut appearances in the USA are with the Cincinnati and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. 

Named „Great Talent“ by the Konzerthaus Wien, a programme that supports young artists on their way to the top of the world, she gives various recitals at the Wiener Konzerthaus. As an active chamber musician, she participates in chamber music tours with Ravinia Steans Music Institute and Marlboro Music Festival. 

Maria Ioudenitch has made her debuts with hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (at Berlin’s Philharmonie), MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Münchner Symphoniker as well as with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony und Kansas City Symphony. She works with conductors such as Andrey Boreyko, Donald Runnicles, Alpesh Chauhan, Marta Gardolińska, Holly Hyun Choe, Jonathan Bloxham, Yi-Chen Lin, Ryan Bancroft, Kevin John Edusei, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Andrew Manze, Jan Willem de Vriend, Robin Ticciati and Ruth Reinhardt. 

Maria grew up in Kansas City and began playing violin with Gregory Sandomirsky at the age of three. She continued her studies with Ben Sayevich at the International Center for Music in Kansas City and Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi at the Curtis Institute of Music and completed her master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Miriam Fried. In 2021-2023, she was mentored by Sonia Simmenauer as part of her new initiative, zukunfts.music. Currently, she is in the Professional Studies program at the Kronberg Academy, working with Christian Tetzlaff. 

First Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017 (the first year dedicated to cello), Victor Julien-Laferrière was described as “one of the most reliable talents of the young generation of French cellists” by Diapasonmagazine. He was also awarded the first prize and two special prizes at the 2012 Prague Spring International Competition, and in 2018 he was awarded the Victoire de la Musique in France as Instrumental Soloist of the Year.

The 2024/25 season sees his orchestra debut in Canada with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as well as play-direct performances with Taiwan Baroque Camerata and multiple experiences at the Music Festival Pohang. He performs chamber music recitals with Daniel Lozakovich, Alexandre Kantorow and Jonathan Fournel at London Symphony Orchestra St. Luke’s Hall as part of the BBC Radio 3 Series, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle de Musique de la Chaux-de-Fonds, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and a solo recital at Auditorium de Radio France.He also tours in several festivals and venues in France such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, la Chaise-Dieu with the orchestra he founded, Orchestre Consuelo, where he appears as conductor.

Further afield, Victor Julien-Laferrière has performed with renowned orchestras worldwide, including Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra,BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra,Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgium National Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, Les Siècles, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and with prestigious conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Kristiina Poska, Emmanuel Krivine, Karina Canellakis, Tugan Sokhiev, Mikko Franck, Elim Chan, Maxim Emelyanychev, François-Xavier Roth, Jun Märkl, Philippe Herreweghe, Nathalie Stutzmann, Stéphane Denève, Joshua Weilerstein, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Gergely Madaras and Ben Glassberg.

His recital and chamber music projects have led him to perform in prestigious venues and festivals such as Konzerthaus Wien, Lucerne KKL, Brussels BOZAR, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Tonhalle Zurich, Philharmonie de Paris, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Essen Philharmonie, Phillips Collection in Washington, Prague Spring International Music Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Rheingau Musik Festival, Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Brussels Cello Festival, Copenhagen Summer Festival, Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo.

Victor Julien-Laferrière is also developing substantial activity as a conductor. He has guest-conducted Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen on tour as well as Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and his ensemble Orchestre Consuelo. 

In addition, he has recorded numerous albums. In January 2019, Victor Julien-Laferrière recorded an album dedicated to Schubert, in collaboration with Les Esprits trio (Sony Music), which received the highest rating from French magazine Télérama. His latest recordings for Alpha Classics include a critically acclaimed album dedicated to Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and Denisov with pianist Jonas Vitaud (2019), a recording of the Dvořák and Martinů concertos with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège conducted by Gergely Madaras (2021) and more recently Dutilleux and Dusapin’s cello concertos with Orchestre National de France conducted by Kristiina Poska and David Robertson, which received the Diapason d’Or.

Victor Julien-Laferrière studied with René Benedetti, then successively with Roland Pidoux at the Paris Conservatoire, Heinrich Schiff at Vienna University, and Clemens Hagen at Salzburg Mozarteum in Salzburg. He also participated in the Seiji Ozawa International Music Academy Switzerland from 2005 to 2011. He plays on a cello by Domenico Montagnana and with a bow by Dominique Peccatt.

With a rich, dynamic soundscape, Lyyra is comprised of six exceptionally talented women, redefining treble vocal music, and showcasing the boundless capabilities of the treble voice.

Lyyra is dedicated to performing at the highest musical standards across all genres, striving for authenticity in every note. From traditional choral works to jazz, pop, and folk traditions worldwide, Lyyra illuminates the richness of upper voice repertoire while celebrating the full spectrum of American music.

Founded to address the scarcity of opportunities for women in professional choral music in the USA, Lyyra is committed to empowering underrepresented voices in performance, composition, and representation. This devotion extends to the next generation through impactful education programs, ensuring these values resonate far beyond the stage.

Lyyra's mission aligns with The VOCES8 Foundation's global vision: delivering world-class concerts and fostering meaningful educational outreach. Through their dedication, workshops, residences, masterclasses, and work with schools, universities, community organizations, and more, Lyyra forges lasting connections with musicians across the USA, inspiring communities and nurturing the future of choral music.

St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston played host to Lyyra’s debut concert on February 16, 2024. The group’s launch day was also marked by the release of its debut video single “When The Earth Stands Still” by Don Macdonald and the world premiere performance of “More Love,” written for Lyyra by Taylor Scott Davis. 

Lyyra joined colleagues VOCES8 to perform at the American Choral Directors Association conference in Providence last February before setting off on its first US tour in April. Preceded by single and video releases, including works arranged for Lyyra by its own members, Lyyra released its debut EP, More Love, on May 10 in time for Mother’s Day.

Lyyra is produced for VOCES8 Records by Barnaby Smith and Paul Smith, and its Creative Director is Erik Jacobson for The VOCES8 Foundation USA.

“achieving sounds ranging between delicacy and boldness, as well as everything in between" - THE STRAD

Selected by international critics as one of the world's top bass players and recognised for her «great intensity and exceptional technique». Uxía Martinez Botana was the first principal double Bass at the age of 23 of the Grammy Award Winner Kremerata Baltica, under the direction of Gidon Kremer, working with soloists such as Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Pahud, Khatia Buniatishvili, Daniel Baremboin, Mario Brunello, Mikhail Pletnev, Heinrich Schiff, and many other renowned artists. Since January 2016 she has been the principal Double Bass of the Weinberger Kammerorchester (Zurich) under Gábor Takács-Nagy's direction and the Brussels Philharmonic's principal double bass until 2020. She also became a member and solo double bass in 2019 at the Oxford Philharmonic until nowadays. 

Other work with orchestras includes The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Ivan Fischer, and guest principal double bass at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Belgium National Orchestra. She is also a Double Bass professor at the ESMUC College of Music of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain) and a guest professor at the foundation Barenboim-Said. In 2021 She joined as well the Stauffer Center Academy for strings, in Cremona (Italy) together with other renowned artists such as Sol Gabetta, Michael Barenboim, Lisa Batiashivili, Daniel Hope, Julian Rachlin, Lawrence Power, Antoine Tamestit, Steven Isserlis, Mischa Maisky, Alissa Weilestein.

Born in 1987 near Brussels, Belgium, Julien Libeer’s earliest musical memory was the famous documentary on the recording of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. The piano, which he took up at age six, quickly became the faithful companion for expressing a love of music that thrives as much on opera, orchestra, and chamber music as on the piano repertoire.

For five decisive years, French-Polish pedagogue Jean Fassina was the patient, demanding, wise teacher that any aspiring musician should have the chance to encounter. This experience was followed by the equally intense collaboration with Maria João Pires at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, whose advice and support strongly influenced Julien’s views over the last few years.

Julien has performed at the Barbican Hall (London), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), and is a regular guest of the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In addition, other tours have taken him to Japan (Tokyo, Sumida Tryphony Hall), Lebanon (Beirut Chants festival), Turkey (Ankara Music Festival) and the US (Miami International Piano Festival). He is an artist in residence at Flagey.

He has performed with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and New Japan Philharmonic; under conductors including Trevor Pinnock, Jun Märkl, Michel Tabachnik, Augustin Dumay, Hervé Niquet, Joshua Weilerstein and Enrique Mazzola. His dedication to the works of Dinu Lipatti have resulted in warm collaborations with the Bucarest Radio Orchestra, among others.

An accomplished chamber musician, he works on a regular basis with Augustin Dumay, Camille Thomas, Frank Braley, Maria João Pires and Lorenzo Gatto, with whom he has performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas over several seasons (at venues including Wigmore Hall, Louvre and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam).

Highlights of last seasons have included invitations of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Wigmore Hall, Flagey (Brussels) andthe Steinway International Concert Series (Cardiff). He was a guest at the Enescu Festival, the Beirut Chants Festival, the Miami International Piano Festival and has performed chamber music concerts at De Doelen (Rotterdam), the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Charleroi) and the Théâtre des Abesses (Paris).

Other recent highlights include the completion of Julien’s complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas recording with Lorenzo Gatto (Alpha Classics), which won the Diapason d’or de l’Année 2016; his debut concerto album featuring Lipatti’s Concertino for piano and orchestra and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, KV 595 (Les Métamorphoses Orchestra and conductor Raphaël Feye, on Evil Penguin Records). In addition, he was the recipient of an Echo Klassik Award in 2017 for his album with cellist Camille Thomas. Julien has then moved on to sign with Harmonia Mundi International, releasing an adventurous Bach –Bartók in 2020, followed in 2022 by A Well-tempered Conversation, a conceptual take on Bach’s iconic Well-Tempered Keyboard.

Julien Libeer has studied with Daniel Blumenthal (Royal Conservatory of Brussels), Jean Fassina (Paris) and Maria João Pires,and is an associate artist of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he also specialized in chamber music with the members of the Artemis Quartet. Furthermore, he has received the advice of Dmitry Bashkirov, Alfred Brendel, Nelson Delle Vigne-Fabbri, Jura Margulis and Gerhard Schulz (Alban Berg Quartet).

Beyond concertizing, Julien is driven to initiate or collaborate in projects which are rooted in the idea that music, far beyond its esthetic value, can be a force of change for anyone willing to listen. Amongst these projects was Julien hosting a Belgian TV series, that made a case for musical storytelling. He furthermore hosts the Salon Libeer concert series at the Bruges Concertgebouw, in which he joins a fellow musician and a speaker (e.g. philosopher, historian, author), as well as the lecture series Dead or Alive, a philosophical exploration of the shifts in classical music making (in collaboration with LUCA School of Arts and the Catholic University of Leuven.

As the artistic director of the Singing Molenbeek project, he supervises high level choir rehearsals in the primary schools of a Brussels suburb famous for all kinds of wrong reasons. It is Julien’s hope that introducing these children to music, with all its demands and rewards, will help them grow personally and socially. 

Internationally-acclaimed viola player Lawrence Power is widely heralded for his richness of sound, technical mastery and his passionate advocacy for new music. Lawrence has advanced the cause of the viola both through the excellence of his performances, whether in recitals, chamber music or concertos and the creation of the Viola Commissioning Circle (VCC), which has led to a substantial body of fresh repertoire for the instrument by today’s finest composers. Lawrence has premiered concertos by leading composers such as James MacMillan, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Julian Anderson, Alexander Goer, and through the VCC has commissioned works by Anders Hillborg, Thomas Adès, Gerald Barry, Cassandra Miller and Magnus Lindberg.

Lawrence is Resident Artist at the Southbank Centre in 2024/25, which commences with a recital with Thomas Adès featuring works by Adès, Britten, Dowland, Stravinsky and Berio where they will be joined by a percussionist and internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Jonathan Goddard. Further performances include the UK Premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a ‘Lock-in’ featuring live performance and cinematic projection and a newly commissioned project from creative studio Âme.

Elsewhere in the season, Lawrence will give the German, US and Austrian premiere of the Lindberg Viola Concerto with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (Alan Gilbert), St Louis Symphony (Hannu Lintu) and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg (Aivis Greters). Further highlights include the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (Ivan Fisher), Orchestre National de Belgique (Antony Hermus) and a return to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for the Scottish premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Viola Concerto conducted by Andrew Manze.

Over the past decade, Lawrence has become a regular guest performer with orchestras of the highest calibre, from Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Stockholm, Bergen and Warsaw Philharmonic orchestras to the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, BBC Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, with conductors such as such as Osmo Vänska, Lahav Shani, Parvo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Andrew Manze, Edward Gardner, Nicholas Collon, Ilan Volkov and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Lawrence enjoys play-directing orchestras from both violin and viola, most recently at the Edinburgh International Festival with Scottish Ensemble, Australian National Academy of Music and with Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and leads his own orchestra, Collegium, made up of fine young musicians from across Europe. He is on the faculty at Zurich’s Hochschule der Kunst and gives masterclasses around the world, including at the Verbier Festival.

As a chamber musician he is in much demand and regularly performs at Verbier, Salzburg, Aspen, Oslo and other festivals with artists such as Steven Isserlis, Nicholas Alstaedt, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Vilde Frang, Maxim Vengerov and Joshua Bell. Lawrence was announced in 2021 as an Associate Artist at the Wigmore Hall, a position lasting for five years, with artists performing at least once each season.

“Rana’s playing has a kind of Orphic seductiveness, a transcendent lightness of touch. A supremely intelligent reading.”  The Times

Beatrice Rana has been shaking the international classical music world, arousing admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences internationally.

Beatrice performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall, Barbican Centre, Boston’s Symphony Hall and  Celebrity Series, Walt Disney Hall and Hollywood Bowl, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, KKL Lucerne, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich’s Isarphilharmonie, Prinzregententheater and Herkulessaal, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Tonhalle Zurich, Philharmonie de Luxembourg, Lugano’s LAC, Teatro alla Scala, Rome’s Parco della Musica, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence, Ferrara Musica, Verbier Festival, Rheingau Festival, Bad Kissinger Sommer, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Stresa Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Bucarest Enescu Festival. MiTo Festival, Saratoga Festival, and Festival de Lanaudière. 

She collaborates with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Klaus Mäkelä, Lahav Shani, Manfred Honeck, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, Jaap van Zweden, Jakub Hrusa, Paavo Järvi, Elim Chan, Gustavo Gimeno, Fabio Luisi, Vladimir Jurowski, Dima Slobodeniouk, James Gaffigan, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Ryan Bancroft, Susanna Mälkki and Zubin Mehta. 

Beatrice is the guest of orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Münchner Philharmoniker, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre de Paris, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Filarmonica della Scala, Wiener Symphoniker, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Lucerne Symphony, Antwerp Symphony orchestras, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Seoul Philharmonic.

In the 2024/25 season, Beatrice will be artist in residence at Paris’ Radio-France. The residency will involve a recital at the Auditorium de Radio France and several concerts and tours with both in-house orchestras, the Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and their music directors Cristian Macelaru and Mikko Frank. She will also return to the New York Philharmonic with Marek Janowski, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Gianandrea Noseda, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, and debut with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu. 

Beatrice Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. In 2015, her first album featuring Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia di Roma, received international acclaim including the prestigious Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice and BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award. The year 2017 will remain a milestone in her career with the release of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The recording was praised by reviewers worldwide and was crowned by two major awards: Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards and Discovery of the year at the Edison Awards. In June 2018, she was chosen as Female Artist of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards at the Royal Albert Hall for her recording of the Bach. Beatrice also recorded Bernstein Symphony No.2 ‘Age of Anxiety’ as part of Antonio Pappano’s recording of the composer’s complete symphonies, which also garnered her high critical acclaim. Her latest solo album was released in October 2019, featuring works by Stravinsky and Ravel and was awarded several top prizes including Diapason d’Or de l’Année and Choc de l’Année Classica in France. A Chopin album was released in September 2021 and also received many awards. In 2023 Beatrice presented her 5th album featuring Clara and Robert Schumann’s concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Her latest album, released in 2024, is dedicated to two monuments of the 19th century repertoire, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata and Chopin’s sonata No.2 ‘Funeral March’. 

In 2017, Beatrice started her own chamber music festival ‘Classiche Forme’ in her native town of Lecce, Puglia. The festival has become one of Italy’s major summer events. 

In June 2013, Beatrice Rana won Silver (2nd Prize) and the Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn competition. She had attracted international attention at 18, winning 1st Prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International Competition in 2011. Born into a family of musicians Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her Piano Degree under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. She then studied with Arie Vardi in Hannover and again with Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. 

Timothy Ridout, a BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellow, is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. This season he appears as soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Odense, San Jose symphony orchestras and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. In 2020, Ridout won Hamburger Symphoniker​’s inaugural Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize and joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center in 2021.

Other highlights this season include recitals and chamber concerts at Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Philharmonie Köln. Further afield, Ridout embarks on a South American tour with the Chamber Society of the Lincoln Centre, returns to Taipei for a series of concerts, and tours Australia with Musica Viva. 

In recent seasons, Ridout has made his debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Lille, Camerata Salzburg, Graz Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Hallé, BBC Symphony, Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra, and performed the Walton Concerto at the BBCProms/​Sakari Oramo and with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich/​David Zinman. He has also worked with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Lionel Bringuier, Gabor Takács-Nagy, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon and Sir Andras Schiff.

Sought after as a chamber musician, Ridout has taken part in numerous festivals across Europe, including Rheingau, Bergen, Rosendal, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sion and Lockenhaus, and regularly collaborates with leading international artists including Janine Jansen, Steven Isserlis, Joshua Bell, Isabelle Faust, Kian Soltani, Benjamin Grosvenor, Nicolas Altstaedt and Christian Tetzlaff, among many others. 

Ridout records for the Harmonia Mundi label. His latest album – ​‘A Poet’s Love’ –was recorded with pianist Frank Dupree and features selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and their own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. New releases include, amongst others, Berlioz Harold en Italie with Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/​John Nelson on Warner/​Erato, and Bloch Suite for Viola and Orchestra and Elgar Concerto with BBC Symphony Orchestra/​Martyn Brabbins. 

Born in London in 1995, Ridout studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. He completed his Masters at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai in 2019 and, in 2018, took part in Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World.

He plays on a viola by Peregrino di Zanetto c.1565 – 75 on loan from a generous patron of Beare’s International Violin Society.

Hayato Sumino began his professional music career by winning the Grand Prix at the PTNA Piano Competition in 2018. He garnered international attention in 2021 as a semi-finalist at the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where his unique and characterful performances captured the audience’s hearts.

Sumino has performed with leading orchestras worldwide, including the Hamburg Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Marin Alsop. His performances have captivated audiences across North America, Europe, and Asia, both online and in numerous live events.

In 2024, Sumino embarked on an extensive tour across Japan, performing 24 sold-out recitals. He is scheduled to make debuts at prestigious music festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival in Germany, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and the Ravinia Festival in the United States, where he will also perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The 2024/2025 season sees Sumino collaborating with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra for an 11-concert tour in Japan, conducted by Marin Alsop. He is set to debut at Europe’s renowned concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie and Munich Prinzregententheater. Additionally, he will perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie” with the New Japan Philharmonic, led by Joe Hisaishi.

Sony Classical recently announced an exclusive recording contract with Sumino, adding him to their roster of internationally celebrated pianists. His debut album, scheduled for release in Autumn 2024, will feature a diverse selection of works by composers such as Bach, Fauré, Purcell, Sakamoto, and Sumino himself.

Sumino holds a Master of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. He was honored with The University of Tokyo President’s Award in 2020 for his exceptional achievements in both music and academics. He has been recognized on the Forbes Japan 30 Under 30 list, became a Steinway Artist in 2021, and serves as an ambassador for CASIO electronic musical instruments.

An active online presence, Sumino shares his original compositions and arrangements on his YouTube channel “Cateen,” which boasts over 1.3 million subscribers and 170 million views. His unique style blends classical technique with an arranger’s ear and improvisational skills, bringing a fresh and innovative approach to piano music.

Born in Germany into a family of Bulgarian musicians, Vivi Vassileva began her musical studies on the violin with her father, but on hearing a group of folk artists on Karadere beach on the Black Sea coast she was immediately inspired to take up percussion. It was these colourful and exotic Balkan rhythms which moulded her into the multifaceted musician she has become and which continue to influence her classically- trained style. 

Admired for her innovative programming style, Vassileva offers new ways for audiences to become acquainted with her instruments and her craft, be it in story-telling with renowned Austrian author Michael Köhlmeier regaling tales of popular sports legends, or pioneering environmental projects with percussion instruments made from recycled materials. She makes regular performances alongside recital partners including Kian Soltani, Frank Dupree, Pablo Barragán and guitarist Lucas Campara Diniz as well her self established percussion ensemble „Extasi Ensemble“ including at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Snape Maltings, March Music Days in Ruse, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival.

Vassileva began her formal training at the age of ten with Claudio Estay and after winning First Prize at the national competition Jugend Musiziert in Germany she entered the National Youth Orchestra of Germany as youngest member. More successes followed including prizes at international marimba competitions in Paris 2009 and Nuremberg 2010, the Ingolstadt Music Cultivation Prize 2013 and two Special Prizes as the youngest semi-finalist at the prestigious ARD- Music Competition in 2014. At 16 she was accepted into the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where she completed her Bachelor of Music under Raymond Curfs and Peter Sadlo. She is currently studying part time at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg under Martin Grubinger. She received the Kulturkreis Gasteig Musikpreis 2016 for her own composition and arrangement of the Bulgarian Folk Song 'Kalino Mome'. In 2017 she was awarded the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis.

In 2019 Vassileva signed an exclusive record deal with Outhere Music France for their Alpha Classics label. Her debut album release “Singin’ Rhythm” features works by Guillo Espel, Eric Sammut, Oriol Cruixent and Keiko Abe, most of them premiere recordings, alongside some rarely heard or premiere arrangements and compositions by Vassileva herself.

Selected for the Vienna Konzerthaus’ Great Talent scheme from 2019/20-2021/22 and as a Junge Wilde at the Dortmund Konzerthaus from 2021/22 to 2023/24, Vivi Vassileva is poised on the threshold of a major performing career and promises to be an artist that will take audiences with her as she explores and pushes the boundaries of the percussion world. Besides her brilliant technique, athleticism and astonishing virtuosity, she brings an exceptional musicality and poetic expression to her performances.

Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut (2001) is only 23 years old, but has already gained her place in the international classical music scene. At the age of 6 she appeared live on Dutch national television for the “Kinderprinsengrachtconcert 2007” in Amsterdam. Aged 7 she made her debut in the Main Hall of The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam at the “Night of the Promising”. In September 2016 she became an exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics.

Over the years Noa has built a considerable reputation and is regularly invited for festivals, recitals and solo performances with orchestras all over the world. She has played together with inspiring musicians such as Janine Jansen, Menahem Pressler, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Igor Levit, Daniel Müller-Schott, Pablo Ferrández, Amihai Grosz, Timothy Ridout, Kian Soltani, Nils Mönkemeyer, Enrico Pace, Arthur and Lucas Jussen. Since 2018 Noa forms a duo with the German pianist Elisabeth Brauß.

She works with orchestras such as the Tonhalleorchester Zürich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Bamberger Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Orquestra Sinfônica de João Pessoa in Brazil and Orquesta Sinfónica de Guayaquil in Ecuador, cooperating with conductors as Manfred Honeck, James Gaffigan, Michael Sanderling, Vasily Petrenko, Anja Bihlmaier, Nicholas Collon, Elim Chan, Patrick Hahn, Matthias Pintscher, Fabien Gabel and Ariel Zuckermann.

Noa won numerous awards at a young age, including the first prize at the International Violin Competition Louis Spohr in Weimar (at the age of 9), the first prize at the Iordens Violin Competition in The Hague (at the age of 10), the Concertgebouw Young Talent Award 2013 (at the age of 11) and she received the Anton Kersjes Violin Prize 2017 (at the age of 16). At Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Noa has been awarded the WEMAG Soloist Award 2018. Noa has been selected to be ECHO Rising Star for the season 2019-20 by the European Concert Hall Organisation; consequently, she toured through Europe, visiting the major concert halls. Noa had the honor of being the artistic director of Festspiefrühling Rügen 2023, part of Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Noa started her violin lessons at the age of 4 with Coosje Wijzenbeek and from 2013 to 2018 Noa studied with Professor Vera Beths at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Recently Noa finished her studies with Professor Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. In addition to the regular classes Noa has attended masterclasses and lessons with Ivry Gitlis, Janine Jansen, Jaap van Zweden, Menahem Pressler, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Anner Bijlsma and Liviu Prunaru. From 2014 to 2019 Noa was a member of “Mutter Virtuosi”, a string ensemble led by Anne-Sophie Mutter and held an official scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Noa plays The Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' "Ex Lady Stretton" Violin (Cremona, ca. 1730), a generous loan by a member of the Stretton Society. Noa’s bow is a Léonard Tourte, ca. 1800, also kindly on loan from the Stretton Society.