After studies at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory of Aix with Jacqueline Courtin and Bernard Flavigny, he was admitted to the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance where he took classes with Geneviève Joy, Jean Hubeau, Christian Ivaldi and Dominique Merlet. In France he has also worked with : Carlos Roqué Alsina, Alberto […]
Member of the orchestra since 1992, Bence also teaches and performs widely as a soloist and frequently acts as a judge at competitions. Music fills his days completely: he teaches in several institutions of education, at secondary and higher level. Among these the University of Miskolc stands out where he has taught classical saxophone for […]
Selina Ott was awarded the Opus Klassik Award 2021 for her debut album „Trumpet Concertos“ together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and conductor Roberto Paternostro.As the first woman ever in the seventy-year history of the ARD International Music Competition Selina Ott was awarded the 1st Prize in the category trumpet at the age of […]
Betty Garcés Bedoya is the first Afro-Colombian performing a growing career as a lyric singer, specializing in Lied, Concert, Chamber Music and Opera at an international level. She graduated with distinction as a Master of Arts from the Superior School of Music of Cologne, specializing in Opera, Lied and Dramatic Arts, performing in venues around […]
The Croatian cellist Monika Leskovar (Kreutztal, Germany, March 15th 1981) started to play violoncello at the age of six in the class of Dobrila Berković Magdalenić at the Music School Elly Bašić in Zagreb. Aged 13 she gained public interest having won the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Sendai, Japan in 1995. […]
Called “the Paganini of the Harmonica” by The Los Angeles Times, ROBERT BONFIGLIO has dazzled audiences at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Gewandhaus, Teatro Colón, Teatro Massimo, Teatro Amazonas, Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Lincoln Center and throughout the world with his ability to play : Harmonica Concertos and turn right around and “sizzle” on the […]
The violinist Sergey Malov from St. Petersburg is considered as versatile as he is virtuoso: he plays violin, viola, baroque violin and cello da spalla – the instrument on which Johann Sebastian Bach himself probably played his cello suites. His repertoire ranges from early Baroque music to Johann Sebastian Bach, from classical and romantic violin […]
Peter Laul was born in 1977 in Leningrad. In 2000 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Alexander Sandler). Has won prizes at the European Piano Competition Bremen (1995 – 3rd prize and special prize for the best performance of a work by Bach; 1997 – 1st prize and special prize for the best performance of a sonata by Schubert) and the Scriabin International Piano […]
“Since Glenn Gould’s visit to Moscow and Van Cliburn’s victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition in the heat of the Cold War, never has a foreign pianist provoked such frenzy.” Olivier Bellamy, THE HUFFINGTON POST The incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom” of Lucas Debargue was revealed by his performances at the Tchaikovsky International Competition […]
Stanko Madic was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1984. His violin studies began at the age of 6 with prof. Robert Toshkov, and continued with prof. Dejan Mihailovic. At the age of only 14 he became a student at the Belgrade Music Academy in the class of prof. Mihailovic as a first ranking student on […]
