Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia is a prolific soloist, composer, commissioner, recording artist, painter and photographer described as “technically flawless… totally under the skin of the composers’ idioms” (The Strad). A 2022 BBC New Generation Artist, Cañón-Valencia was born in Bogotá in 1995 and made his orchestral debut as a soloist when he was six years […]
“Super-soloist” France Musique, 2020 “What an artist! Everything is so simple, so ingenious, without the slightest attempt to explain the music…” Alain Lompech, Bachtrack, 2022 “Super-soloist” is the way France Musique introduced Dmitry Masleev when he made his debut with the Orchestre National de France playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, the work that […]
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 […]
The extraordinary soprano Betty Garcés Bedoya, based in Europe, is currently considered one of the most prominent Colombian sopranos. Born in Buenaventura, on the shores of the Colombian Pacific, she is the first Afro-Colombian to develop a growing career as a lyric soprano specializing in Lied, symphonic repertoire, chamber music, and opera internationally. Betty […]
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 […]
