Dario Marrini, student at M° S. Perticaroli, graduates with best marks and honors at S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He attends advanced courses in Salisburgo playing in final essays and earning the Lanciano "Nino Rota" prize. He is successful, as soloist, in national competitions: in the age of 16 years it wins I Prize to the Review "F. Liszt" of Livorno, participating subsequently in the Concert of the Winners in Eisenstadt (Austria) and in Raiding, native city of F. Liszt, Austrian town today, playing on a piano belonged to the Master. Subsequently it is awarded and is placed in numerous other piano competitions : XV Co a Pianisti di Osimo playing in final essay with the orchestra, third prize at VIII and X Co a Pianisti d'Italia di Osimo and at IV e V National Competition A.M.A. Calabria, Certificate of merit at "Citta di Albenga" fifth Competition, at "Premio rendano" of Roma nineth Edition and at "P. Cafaro" Competition in 1986 in Galatina.

He performs, with pianist Caterina Ferrari, a four hands duo piano, achieving important results in national and international competitions: Prize for the ensemble to the First Review G. M. I. in Rende (Cs), first prize at "Citta di Catanzaro" tenth Piano Competition (fifth international edition); second prize at "G. B. Pergolesi" second national competition in Pozzuoli. Expanding his repertoire to the rhythmic and ragtime music and he manages to achieve the first Medal Mention in the Final, held in Paris, of Music Competition of France, in the section "Piano's Rythms". Recently it has established collaborative relationships with important schools in Cina and Brazil, where it has also performed concert activity as a soloist and chamber music. He has been a piano teacher at “C. Pollini” Conservatory in Padova since 2009.

Salvatore Baronilli was born in Switzerland where he began his musical studies under the guidance of his father Amedeo and Edgar Kamper at the Music School of Schaffhausen. In Italy studied Mr Baronilli in Rome with Franco Ferranti, in Milan with Paolo Tomelleri and in Assisi with Gervase de Peyer. He attended Master Studies at the Music Academy of Basel and after graduating with honors in 1988, he obtained a scholarship at the Oper Theater of Rome as principal clarinet. Versatile and charismatic musician Salvatore Baronilli combines an uncommon technique with an extraordinary sensibility and has been enjoying a rewarding and multifaceted career for more than 20 years as an orchestral clarinetist and recitalist. Chamber music and teaching are an important and essential part of Mr Baronilli professional activity. In addition to Duo-Programs with piano and Trio-Programs with piano and cello, viola or violin, he worked out and performed in little know repertoire ranging from classical to jazz and klezmer music.

He is winner of several national and international prizes ( Torino, Stresa, Roma, Matera, Pavia) and performed in concerts held in several European countries: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Spain and Turkey. In 2009 Salvatore Baronilli formed the group „Klezmerando“ with the intention to promote intonations, dances and music of the vast heritage of the Jewish tradition. The ensamble was invited in Israel the year after by the great Giora Feidman. He performed as principal clarinet with important orchestras such the „ Orchestra della RAI“ of Rom and „I Pomeriggi Musicali“ of Milan and worked with prestigious conductors like R.Abbado, P.Maag, R.Chailly and G.Gelmetti. Mr Baronilli was actively involved in the recording activity for the Rai Radio Tre and Radio Vaticana (Italy). He graduated 1997 with distinction in German Philology from Univerity of Milan and since 2013 is he Professor of clarinet at the Conservatory of Padua.

Claudio Montafia graduated with honours at the Conservatoire

“ G. Verdi “ in Turin with A. Evangelisti. After attending Dartington Hall and Sion courses he obtained the “Diploma Superiore”  with honours and “special mention” with P.L.Graf, and  later specialized with James Galway for many years getting the honour to be one of his students.

Winner of numbers of contests ( Manta ,Stresa , Rassegna Giovani Interpreti RAI1 and Rai Simphony Orchestra in Turin and Angelicum Orchestra in Milan) he recorded for Fonit-Cetra ,Tactus ,Rainbow,Denon and recorder for many national and international radio - television broadcasting. He performed as a soloist or in chamber groups all over the world for international music festivals such as Evian, Zagreb, Plovdiv , Montreaux, Settembre Musica Lancut, Frankfurt, J.Galway Flute Festival . He holds master classes and he’s often guest as jury member in many national and international competitions. He also worked as principal flute with Rai Orchestra  and Teatro Regio  Orchestra  in Turin, Orchestra Internazionale D’Italia , Teatro Lirico Orchestra in Cagliari , Turin’s Chamber Orchestra ,  Padova’s Chamber Orchestra , I Solisti Veneti , Antidogma Musica , Camerata Casella , Musica Insieme di Cremona, i Solisti Filarmonici Italiani. He performed with musicians such as L. Laskine . R.V. La Croix. W.Mikulca. W.Mendelshon ,D. Renzetti , A. Cigoli , A. Sacchetti, Salzburg Soloist and many others. He’s flute Professor at the Pollini Conservatoire in Padova and principal flute in the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta.

STUDIES / DEGREE

Thomas Kreuzberger, born in Vienna, studied piano with Hans Petermandl and Frieda Valenzi at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Further studies with Alexander Jenner, master classes with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Wilhelm Kempf and Grigori Sokolow. In addition, he graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in music education (teaching qualification test with unanimous distinction).

VITA

Since 1993 professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 2004 appointment as university professor and appointment to the board of the Institute II for Music Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Head of a concert class at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna.

As a federal advisory board, he represents the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at the largest competitions for young musicians (prima la musica and Gradus ad Parnassum). Thomas Kreuzberger is a lecturer and board member of the Wiener Musikseminar, holds master classes in Japan, China and the USA and is a member of the jury at numerous international competitions. Concert activity in Europe, America, China and Japan, special focus: contemporary and virtuoso literature.

PUBLICATIONS

CD recordings with works by Liszt, Schumann and Eröd as well as four-handed literature together with Elisabeth Eschwé and Krassimira Jordan.

MUSIC AND ART PRIVATE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF VIENNA

since 1980

A finalist of the 2015 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition,Zhang Xiongguan is a Vox,D’Addario ,D’angelico , Mooer ,JZ Music artist.

Zhang is a leading figure in the Chinese jazz scene and one of the most influential jazz musicians and educators in China - He has published three highly acclaimed original albums since in 2015 and teaches jazz guitar and theory at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Zhang is also a restless performer – he has played in venues like Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Blue Note Beijing, Blue Note Shanghai, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai , Birdland Hamburg, the Silvana, JZ Club as well as music festivals such as Nisville Jazz Festival, Bansko Jazz Festival, Koktebel Jazz Festival, JZ Shanghai Jazz Festival. Zhang has a master degree from the prestigious New England Conservatory and has shared the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Potter, Donny McCaslin, Antonio Hart, John Deversa, Ian Froman…

Zhang is the founder of “Guanyu Jazz Chamber Orchestra”, a chamber group combining musical elements of jazz, classical, traditional, world music.

Milana Chernyavska, a German artist with Ukrainian roots. Looking back at her impressive career, she established herself as one of the leading pianists and pedagogues of our times. Her critics agree with Alfred Brendel, who wrote that “Happiness was complete when one listened to Milana Chernyavska”. Since 2009 she is a piano professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She is also a professor at the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein since 2010. With her doctorate theses "The evaluation and pedagogical aspects of the theory of interpretation" she leads a discourse on insights from a perspective of musicology.
Milana Chernyavska is a sought-after teacher at international master classes as well as a jury member at various prestigious piano competitions, such as the ARD in Munich, the Busoni Competition, the Mozart Competition in Salzburg , the Santa Cecilia in Porto Competition or the Bluethner Goldaward in Vienna. Her students constantly win top prizes at important international competitions as Santander Paloma O`Shea, Ferruccio Busoni, Maria Canals, Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival, Vladimir Horowitz and competitions in Los Angeles , Ettlingen, San Marino, Malta and many more.

Milana Chernyavska appears regularly at international festivals and major music centers around the world. She performed at the Lucerne Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzingen Festival, and in halls like Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Munich’s Herkulessaal, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and St Petersburg’s Philharmonic Hall. Her artistic achievements were honored with numerous national and international awards, including competitions in Paris, Florence and Kyiv, where she won a gold medal at the International Piano Competition “Vladimir and Regina Horowitz”.

As a soloist Milana Chernyavska performs with many renowned orchestras, while audiences and critics cheer for her solo recitals. In 2013 she played at the Ruhr Piano Festival, where she was awarded the prestigious Alfred Brendel Prize. Milana Chernyavska's discography contains more than 20 CDs which have been published with such world leading labels as Decca, Sony, EMI, and others. Her recordings received international prizes like the Diapason d'Or, BBC Music Award and Pizzicato Super Sonic Award. In 2014 she received Germany's most important media prize - the "Echo Prize", in the category "Classical without Borders". Apart from her solo career, Milana Chernyavska is a celebrated chamber musician. As a recital partner, she appears regularly with such artists as Julia Fischer, Lisa Batiashvili, David Garrett, Arabella Steinbacher, Sebastian Klinger, the Vogler Quartet, Maximilian Hornung, Daniel Müller-Schott, Susanna Yoko Henkel, and others. She founded the Milander Quartett, which has quickly developed into a sought-after ensemble and was described by the press as “four excellent instrumental soloists who have found each other in a perfect harmony” after the quartet’s debut in Munich Philharmonic.

At the age of seven, she played her first concert at the Philharmonic Hall in her native town of Kyiv. In 1990, she graduated with distinction from the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where Prof. W. Sagaidachny was her professor. This was followed by master classes with renowned teachers and famous pianists, including Alfred Brendel, Dmitri Bashkirov, Vladimir Krainev, Sergio Perticaroli, and Alexander Lonquich. In 1994 Milana Chernyavska received the most important award of her homeland, “Merited Artist of Ukraine”. From 1995 to 1998 she completed the master study of Prof. Margarita Höhenrieder and Prof. Gerhard Oppitz at the Munich Music Academy.

Professor at the Katarina Gurska conservatory in Madrid, Franz Liszt Center for young talents in La Nucia and Alter Mvsici center in Cartagena (Spain).

István is considered as one of the most refined pedagogues and pianists of our time. His students are frequent winners in national and international competitions with more than hundred prizes. Pianist and internationally recognized teacher: he has been invited in Master Classes in Budapest (Hungary), in the World Teachers Conference in Novi Sad (Serbia), in the Katarina Gurska Higher Center, in Forum Musikae (Madrid), in the International Piano Festival "UIS" in Bucaramanga, in Manizales (Colombia), Special School of Music in Apatin, Sombor, Senta, Backa Topola (Serbia), Professional Conservatory in Alicante and Dénia, in the International Festival of Music in Valencia etc. He is jury member in frequent international competitions such as Bucaramanga (Colombia), the IMFV Valencia competition, the Ibiza International Competition, the "Villa de Xabia" International Contest, the Franz Liszt Contest in Rome (Italy), Béla Bartók Contest in Graz (Austria) etc.

Winner of several awards in national and international competitions. Since the age of 15 he has given recitals in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. To name a few: in Alexandria and New Harmony (Indianapolis, USA), in the International Piano Festival in Bucaramanga, International Piano Festival in Barrancabermeja, cycle "International Season in Manizales" (Colombia), "Kolarac" in Belgrade ( Serbia), in the "Kodály" Institute, "Kodály" School, in the "Béla Bartók" Museum, in one of the most important festivals "Zsidó Kulturális Fesztivál" in Szeged (Hungary), recitals in Sweden, Greece, in the festival "Midis-minimes", in "Muziekacademie de Berchem-Sainte-Agathe in Brussels (Belgium) and in Spain in important auditoriums such as the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, Palau de la Música in Valencia, Teatro Principal de Alcoy, congress center" Victor Villegas "in Murcia, in the" Adoc ", in the University of Burgos, in the International Chamber Music Festival in Calpe, in" Dénia Classics ",  Aula de la Cam in Alicante, Teulada Auditorium, La Beneficencia in Valencia, in the Auditorio de la Diputación, "ADDA" in Alicante, Auditorium Mediterrania in La Nucia among others. He has performed in private concert for the Princess of Thailand S.A.R. Chulabhorn Mahidol.

He is founder and member of the international Camerata "Universal Music". He has performed with international artists such as Clara Novakova, Joaquin Palomares, Joan Enric Lluna, Jovan Bogosavljevic, Susanna Gregorian, with the soloists of the Orchestra of Valencia etc.

In 2017 István Székely made the recording of five Chopin studios of exceptional virtuosity for the sounding of the animated short film Impromptu, directed by María Lorenzo and produced by Enrique Millán, with the participation of Cultur Arts (Generalitat Valencian) and the A Punt Media network . Impromptu has been one of the most relevant Spanish animation shorts of the last year, being shortlisted for the Goya 2018 Awards. It was premiered at the emblematic Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, and so far it has been screened in more than 50 events in 20 countries, such as the Animation Festival of Annecy (France), the Bristol Encounters (United Kingdom), Anima Mundi (Brazil) or the Animation Nights (New York). Prizes won: Best Art Animation at the Expression Art Movie Festival (Los Angeles, USA), Best Short Film (exaequo) at the Animaze Animation International Festival (Montreal, Canada), Best Experimental Animation Short at the International Animation Cardboard Festival - La Tribu (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Best Animation Short Film at the Astorga Film Festival (Spain), Best Valencian Animation at the Cortoons (Gandía)

Not to confuse with 1960 born István Székely pianist.

MARTONE GIUSEPPE (Pianist) Born in Rome, he graduated in piano with honors from the State Conservatory of music "Licinio Refice" in Frosinone, under the guidance of Prof. Marylene Mouquet. He studied jazz music with Maestro Gerardo Iacoucci, later studied composition and has attended various courses of Advanced Piano in Italy and abroad, including the most significant ones stand out with the Masters Vladimir Krpan in Sorrento, Aquiles Delle Vigne in Flaine (France) and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Aldo Ciccolini and Bruno Canino in Rome, Florence, Naples and at the Hochschule "Franz Liszt" in Weimar (Germany). Has always distinguished itself in several national and international piano competitions, since 1991 he performs regularly in concerts, with chamber ensembles (from duo to quintet), as solo several times in recitals and as a soloist with orchestra (Mozart – Concert K466; Beethoven – Concert n. 3; Mendelssohn – Concert in la minor and other) in many italian cities (Roma, Perugia, Napoli, Pizzo, Terni, Taormina, Marsala etc) and abroad; with repertoire ranging from Bach to the authors of the twentieth century. He is the Artistic Director of the Accademia Musicale Romana; of the International Competition "Academy Award" of Rome and of the Accademia Festival and Accademia Festival Jazz in Saracinesco (Rome). He is involved for many years of orchestras and also he is the responsible for the Orchestra of the Accademia Musicale Romana. From 2015 he is Artistic Director and Professor (piano, music theory and solfeggio) in the Courses in Convention with State Conservatory “S. Cecilia” in Rome.

She performed in Europe, America and Japan. For Phoenix Classics she recorded Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring about which the reviewers praised its innovation. The recordings with her Trio di Pavia of Arensky’s Trios were awarded an honourable mention in the US. Chair of piano at the Bolzano Music Conservatoire, many of her students have excelled in piano competitions, such as the Busoni, Chopin in Warsaw, Darmstadt and Van Cliburn competition.

Elena Bagrova is a professor at The Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, where she teaches piano duet and chamber ensemble.

She was born in Moscow and studied piano at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music under the guidance of prof. Lina Bulatova. Early on she devoted herself to performing and teaching chamber music and piano duet, performing in Russia, France, Germany, Norway, Italy and Lithuania, and winning 1st Prizes at numerous piano duet competitions in Russia and Lithuania. After graduating with honours she began her career at the Gnessin Academy as a teacher and accompanist.

As a professor of chamber music Prof. Bagrova has taught students from Russia, Bulgaria, Japan, Croatia, China, Korea, USA and France, with her students winning more than 100 awards at prestigious International competitions, including in Russia, Italy, UK, France, Greece, Portugal and Lithuania.

Prof. Bagrova regularly gives ensemble and music stylistics master-classes and courses and has been a jury member at various regional and international music competitions in Russia, Italy and Lithuania.

Daniel Dodds is an inspiring musical force. His enthusiasm and compelling energy on stage elicits “joie de vivre” in fellow musicians and audiences.

Concerts have led Daniel Dodds to major classical music venues in all inhabited continents, as Artistic Director of Festival Strings Lucerne, as a soloist together with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oksana Lyniv, Alexander Briger and Stanley Dodds, and as a chamber musician, documented by numerous live radio and TV performances. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, the Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian World Orchestra and the Festival Strings Lucerne are amongst the orchestras with which Daniel Dodds has collaborated with as a soloist.

With his critically acclaimed solo CD “Time Transcending” released by Oehms Classics, Daniel Dodds shows that he knows no limits on the violin.

As Artistic Director of Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds combines Festival Strings Lucerne‘s warm expressive sound, characteristic of the Viennese music tradition of it‘s founders Rudolf Baumgartner and Wolfgang Schneiderhan, together with a finely honed sense of style and musical timing, to create music that is spell binding in its depth of color and sense of drama.

This is echoed in the press:

“The five movements appeared to light up from within of their own accord. Baroque rationality and romantic emotionalism happily complemented each other…”

Frankfurter Neue Presse

“What Daniel Dodds achieved from the first desk in the Dvorak was simply splendid and lent the piece exemplary melodic intensity, sensous timbre and vigour”

Neue Luzerner Zeitung

Daniel Dodds has expanded Festival Strings Lucerne‘s repertoire to include exciting performances of works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Milhaud, Vasks and Gubaidulina, as well as commissioned works by Swiss composers such as Luigi Laveglia and Stephan Hodel. Enthusiastic responses from audiences the world over have led Daniel Dodds and the Festival Strings Lucerne to be invited as the first Swiss orchestra to perform at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, to inaugurate the Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium in Cremona, and to appear regularly at major music Festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Schleswig Holstein Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Musica Insieme Bologna and Hong Kong Music Festival.

Daniel Dodds appears regularly as concertmaster of the Australian World Orchestra, working together with acclaimed conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle and Simone Young, and appearances as guest concertmaster include concerts with Camerata Salzburg and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Passionate about accompanying and advising young musicians and violinists on their musical journey, Daniel Dodds has a violin class at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He also meets and coaches young musicians whilst on tour abroad and at the Talent week of the Festival Strings Lucerne during the summer.

Born in Australia to Australian Chinese parents, Daniel Dodds started playing violin at the age of five with Alita Larsens. He completed his violin studies with Gunars Larsens in Lucerne, Switzerland as well as Keiko Wataya in Utrecht, Holland. Daniel Dodds gained further guidance and inspiration from personalities such as Rudolf Baumgartner, Franco Gulli and Nathan Milstein, who, upon hearing Daniel Dodds rendition of a Paganini Caprice, remarked: “Who is this violinist, he could truly be Paganini‘s Grandson!”

Daniel Dodds performs on the “ex Hämmerle – ex Baumgartner” 1717 Stradivarius, kindly loaned by the Festival Strings Lucerne foundation

Ferenc Peltzer continued his higher education at the Liszt Ferenc College in Budapest and the University of Miskolc.  He played guitar music from almost every musical era.  After graduating, he turned to early music, also studied lute, but was also interested in jazz.  They also played bossa nova with a friend of a Portuguese guitarist for many years.  He is currently actively involved in the presentation of pieces by contemporary Hungarian authors.  He is a founding member of the NobilArt Art Association.  He regularly gives concerts in Hungary and the surrounding countries.  In 2010, he received an Artisjus Award for his work.

During his teaching career, his students successfully performed in various competitions and festivals, and several of them chose the music career.  He is the founder of the Budapest Music School Guitar Festival and the Guitar Chamber Music Concerts.  He was a member of the juries of several competitions (including the national guitar competition).  Since 2015 he has been an expert of the Education Office, and since 2019 he has been the head of the Szabolcs Bence Music School in Budapest.  He received an award for his work as a teacher in Belváros-Lipótváros.

Pianist Dr. Kevin Jun Zhao is both an active performer and a music event organizer. He is a guest professor at the China Zhengzhou Education College and his previous work experience includes being the former Head of Asian Culture Exchange Department at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, and being the project manager for foreign students at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Dr. Kevin Jun Zhao is the executive director of Dragon Culture Exchange NGO - a non-profit organization for arranging cultural events between Europe and Asia - having already organized numerous concerts in Estonia, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Poland, China, etc. He has a Piano Performance BA degree and a Global Business Management MA certificate from China, he has obtained two MA degrees (piano and accompaniment) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, as well as a PhD in chamber music/accompaniment, during which he also studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

Dr. Kevin Jun Zhao is the founder of the Guilin Piano Festival in China, a board member of the European Academic Artists Association, a member of the European Piano Teachers Association of Ireland, a member of the European Chamber Music Teachers’ Association, a member of the European Association for Music in Schools, a member of the China Sichuan Musicians Union Board, the coordinator for “Sichuan China Culture Exchange Program”, the artistic director of the China-Europe Music Center in Shanghai, one of the artistic directors of the Chinese New Year Gala Festival in Sichuan. Dr. Kevin Jun Zhao is the founder and artistic director of the ODIN International Music Festival which was established in August 2016. He regularly participates in the juries of several piano competitions in Europe and Asia. As of 2018, he has been appointed a guest professor of China Shaunliu Arts Music College.

The Hungarian-Swiss pianist Gabriella Adorján was born in Transylvania and grew up in Budapest. In 1994 she won the Budapest Etüde Competition and the Youth Piano Competition Budapest. In the same year she played live in a broadcast for young talents on the Hungarian Radio.

She was a student of Gyula Kiss and Angelika Hámori at the Szent István Conservatory in Budapest. She studied the piano at the Music Academy Basel with László Gyimesi and Filippo Gamba where she received her master’s degree. She also holds a Specialized Performance Master for Chamber Music, which she received after studying with Ulrich Koella at the Zurich University of Arts.

Between 2006 and 2016 Gabriella Adorján taught at various music schools, among others at the Music Academy Basel. Furthermore, she worked at the Zurich School of Music and Conservatory as an accompanist for the Talent Program. Presently she works at the Music Schools of Hünenberg and Cham.

A singer, musical actress, director, the Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor of the Musical department in Shanghai Conservatory of Music . Graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) with the highest degree in musical performance (master's degree), she was highly praised by President James Gourlay as "an excellent musical performer , and "a charming actor". With rich stage experience, many individual concerts of musicals in English and French have been held at home and abroad. Acted leading role of many musicals like <Sweeney Todd > ,<The Jonah Boy>, <The Romance of the West Chamber> and the British stage play <Uncle Vanya>, especially YOMO, the leading role in the original British musical <Whisky Kisses> she played, which premiered globally in Edinburgh, are well received by the audience.

She also directed the concert of the musical <Les Misérables> at the Heluting Concert Hall in Shanghai Conservatory of Music , compiled and directed the Chinese version of the French musical <Roméo et Juliette> and many other concerts. In recent years, she has published the English and French CD <Et Voilza Q'elle Aime - She is deeply in love • The Album of Zhuqi Singing Musical works> and <AIMER-love • French Musical Works singing by Zhuqi>, and she published the first music score textbook of <French Musical with Translation> in China.

Federica Monti began studying piano at the age of 8 and held her first concert the following year.

Right from the start her remarkable talent was awarded throughout Italy.

In 1990 he wins: 1st Prize at the National Competition for Young Concertists "Citta di Aversa".

In 1992 she wins: 1st overall prize at the "Citta di San Polo" National Piano Competition (Parma);

1st Prize at the National Competition "F. Chopin "of Castellammare di Stabia; 2nd Prize at the National Piano Competition "A.M.A. Calabria "of Catanzaro; 3rd Prize at the International Piano Competition of Cava de 'Tirreni.

In 1993: overcomes the selection for the National final of the "Mozart Prize" International Competition for "Young Musical Talents", an event filmed by Italian Channel TV “Canale 5”.

In 1994: a) wins the 1st Prize at the National Competition "CIDAC" - Young people and music - at the Auditorium of the "Pacinotti Institute" of Scafati;

b) passes a national selection called by the "Heinrich Neuhaus" Music Association to record a record for the "MusikStrasse" Record Company and perform at the Teatro Ghione in Rome.

She then became an internal student of the "S. Pietro A Majella "of Naples under the guidance of Maestro Massimo Bertucci.

In 2004 she won the "Paolella" Award for the best diploma in the year of the Conservatory of Naples.

Federica Monti and Fabio Bianco’s partnership began in 2007, with the conferment with honours of the 2nd Level Academic Diploma in “Musical Disciplines” at the “S. Pietro a Majella” Music Conservatory in Naples. Both musicians come from considerable experience both as soloists and as chamber musicians, yet they have discovered in a brief space of time that they are able to unite their musical talents in a highly natural manner. They immediately gained positive approbation at exhibitions, festivals and music seasons, and at national and international concerts. Under the guidance right from the beginning of Valeria Lambiase, instructor in Chamber Music at the Music Conservatory of Naples, they were admitted in 2007 to the class of M° Pier Narciso Masi at the Academy of Music at Florence.

From 2007 to 2012 they were winners of multiple National and International Competitions :

Second Prize (1 not awarded) at the “ Citta di Camerino ” Young Musicians’ Competition;

Absolute First Prize at the “Citta di Bacoli” 13 Competition, piano four hands category;

In March 2008, they won the 2 Prize (1st not awarded) at the 15 edition of the “ Giulio Rospigliosi” Competition , piano four hands category;

In April 2009, they won 2 prize at the 10 edition of the “ Riviera Etrusca” ( Piombino) Competition, piano four hands category;

In October 2009, they won the 2 Prize (1 and 3 not awarded) at the 19 International Piano Competition “Roma 2009”, piano four hands category ;

In October 2011 , they won the First Prize at the 21 International Piano Competition “Roma 2011”, two piano category.

Their performances have always been distinguished for their refinement of interpretation, their fervor and freshness, and a brilliance and vigour brought to the language of chamber music which derives not just from musical experience, but also from a profound and intimate union.

In June 2009, they received the Biennial DIPLOMA (2007/2009) in Academy Mastery for Musicians with M° Pier Narciso Masi at the Academy of Music of Florence and in the same month they were admitted at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Munich where they are studying with the renowned Tal - Groethuysen piano duo.

The Duo Monti & Bianco is regularly invited to perform at Musical Season and Festival throughout Italy and Europe : Napoli , Roma ; Ravello ; Reggio Emilia ; Procida ; Ischia; Massa Marittima; Belluno ; Firenze; Piove di Sacco ; Pistoia; Sorrento; Gragnano ; Trieste ; Barletta; Nuoro; Gaeta; Ercolano; Fondi; Lamezia Terme ; Formia ; Mantova ; Munich of Bavaria ; Grafelfing ( Munchen) ; Lugano ( Swiss ) ; Marina di Pietrasanta ; Mantova ; Torre del Greco; Crystal Hall Rogaska Slatina ( Slovenia) ;

In a brief period of time they extended their repertoire, which ranges from Bach to contemporary music and it includes the most important compositions for piano 4 hands and for 2 pianos . Since the beginning, however, the Duo has given particular importance to the discovery of important and fascinating works from the piano 4 hands repertory which have been unjustly forgotten , such as works by Carl Reinecke , Joseph Rheinberger , Hermann Goetz , Max Reger . They have always been applauded by both the public and critics alike as musicians with a great communication skills and with an elegant and intimate union. Throughout the years, the Duo has been appreciated for their brilliant technique , passion and intimacy , and for the remarkable quality of their sound .

Recently , the Duo debuted in Munich of Bavaria in the Großen Konzertsaal of the Musikhochschule receiving critics and public successful , with programs for two pianos and piano 4 hands .

In February 2011 the Duo was invited to play in the prestigious “ Klavier Festival” in Monaco of Bavaria with the rare performance of the Reinecke’ s Sonata op. 35 for piano 4 Hands .

In May 2011 the Duo debuted in the “ Scarlatti Hall” at the Conservatory of Naples “ S. Pietro a Majella” with the Concert op. 153 by C. Czerny for piano 4 hands and Orchestra.

In July 2011 the Duo received the “ Meisterklassediplom” at the Hochschule für Musik und Teather of Munich in the class of the Duo Tal – Groethuysen .

In October 2011 Federica Monti and Fabio Bianco won the First Prize at the 21 International Piano Competition “Roma 2011”, Two Piano category.

In May 2012 the Duo won the Second Prize at the “Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition”- New York , Piano 4 Hands category .

In July 2012 the Duo was invited to play at the Klavier Marathon Rogaska ( Slovenia) in the famous Krystal Hall where Liszt played in 1846

In September 2014 the Duo Monti & Bianco debuted in the 62 Edition of the prestigious Ravello Festival 2014 with a program dedicated to Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner .

In April 2017 the Duo debuted in China with a long tour of concerts playing in gorgeus theaters and concert halls in the cities of Shanghai , Changsha , Yueyang, Nanjing , Dongguan etc..

Since from 2008 Federica teaches Piano in Musical Accademy “Note sul Mare” in Ischia island and she is the Artistic Director of the “Ischia” International Piano Competition.

Website : www.duomontibianco.com

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/NotesulMare

Orsolya Korcsolán violinist has recorded recently Sandor's Kuti chamber works, and Miguel Kertsman's violin competition, which was dedicated for her, with the contribution of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Dennis Russel Davis conductor at Deutsche Grammophon, the best-prestigeous classical music publisher of the world.

According to the Scene Magazine, her violin playing is "heartbreakingly beautiful", Pizzicato says that listening to her is an "incredible experience", the Crescendo Magazine considers her performance "full of emotion". "Amazing technique, wonderfully individual violin sound and adorable performance" (Jeremy Kaplan, TIME magazine), what has been getting a great attention by a wide international audience since her New York debut.

Her chamber music partners include the Grammy Award-nominated clarinet player David Krakauer, the Grammy-nominated and Echo-winning Avi Avital mandolin player as well. He performs as a concertmaster of the Kammersymphonie der Wiener Symphoniker and world-famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson Thomas and Christoph Eschenbach.

She is the soloist of the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Raiding Liszt Festival, the Musikverein of Vienna, the Shir Amy Ensemble in New York several times.

She performed on the Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto Funebre in Hungary.

Her first two recordings, MOSAIC-Classical Jewish themes for violin and piano, and her other album that showed Korn Goldmark -Károly Goldmárk and Eric Korngold's music works, were released at the prestigious Solo Musica München publisher.

Now, the third album, recorded by Deutsche Grammophon, commemorates the work of the Hungarian composer, Sandor Kuti, who was killed in the Holocaust,and presents his never heard chamber music compositions.

She is a dedicated interpreter and researcher for the work of composers who died in the Holocaust. He is one of the founders of the Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial 'Missing Links' concert series, the Ambassador of the Jewish Cultural and Summer Festival worldwide, the resident musician and art consultant of the Goldmark Festival in Budapest and the Jüdische Kulturwochen Wien.

The young violinist was the student of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest from the age of 12, where he received her diploma with honors. She continued her studies on the recommendation of Sir György Solti in New York, at The Juilliard School, where she obtained her master's degree with the direction of Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman. In New York, he won the Dorothy DeLay Award and the Cornelius Vander Starr Prize. These  prestigious prizes only exceptionally talented musicians can get.

Besides the concerts and international masterclasses, she is the founder and director of "Musikschule in Wien" and "International Palffy Masterclasses" which is in Pálffy Palace, in the heart of the imperial city, Wienna, where she lives.

www.orsolyakorcsolan.com

Heir to the chamber music tradition of Eugenio Bagnoli (renowned pianist disciple of  A.Casella with multifaceted activities in duo with N.Milstein, H.Szeryng, Y.Menuhin, Z.Francescatti, J.Starker and many others) to which he owes his training, he graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory "B. Marcello" in Venice. Follows the courses of Franco Gulli, Marco Zuccarini and of the New York University-Department of Music, also studying conducting. Performs at the Seoul Arts Center, the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, at the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and so on.

The artistic work includes hundreds of concerts in Italy, Europe, Russia, South Korea, Malaysia and Africa. He collaborates with musicians such as the violinist Felix Ayo and Georg Monch, the tenor Luigi Alva, the soprano Katia Ricciarelli, the mezzosoprano Sara Mingardo, the violinist Giuliano Fontanella, the first flute of RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin Dante Millozzi and others. He gets great success with concerts of Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, etc. together symphony complex of fame such as the Orchestra of Radio and Television in Ljubljana.

The repertoire is vast: it includes songs from the eighteenth century to the present day and complete cycles of various authors  which all the Mozart sonatas for piano and violin, the work for piano duet by Mozart and Brahms, the Sonatas by Hummel with flute, etc.

He is invited to play in honor to the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, the mezzosoprano Giulietta Simionato and others bigs artists; he performs live for domestic and foreign TV broadcasting. Makes recordings for the labels Decca, Newton Compton, Rivo Alto, Idyllium, Inedita CD e Metis Film. He Is often jury president or member in national and international piano and chamber music competition, regularly gives courses and masterclasses in Italy and abroad (Paderewski Academy of Poznan - Poland, Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Mannheim - Germany, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn - Estonia, State Conservatoire in Kazan - Russia, etc).

The last year he receives the Rotary International’s Prize “Agape 2020” for the Arts. His students are often rewarded in various Italian and international competitions. By years is artistic director of several concert seasons and music performance competitions: actually he is member of the National Artistic Direction of A.Gi.Mus. and the President of A.Gi.Mus Fano. He is Professor of Chamber Music at the Statal Conservatory of Music "S. Cecilia" in Rome and institutional member of the “European Chamber Music Teachers Association”. He is the pianist of the “S.Cecilia Piano Quintet”.

www.robertogalletto.it

Julianna Kiss was born in Hungary, she started her musician studies at the age of 5. She has received her first teacher Degree from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Miskolc in Hungary. She has a concert diploma in piano from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs in Hungary. From 2012 to 2015 she studied Mentor teacher program and Kovács-method at the Budapest ELTE-PPK University. She has received her Postgraduate Degree (Piano, Art Song, Chamber Music Repertoire) in Universitát für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Her Professors: Thomas Kreuzberger, Eun Ju Lee, Yuko Batik. She received further impulses from professors of piano, such as Sándor Falvai, Gyöngyi Keveházi, László Gyimesi, Attila Némethy, Tamás Vásáry, Dénes Varjon, Csaba Király. Who are famous teachers of the Hungarian piano school.

She studied heritage of Liszt and Bartók and Russian piano school method from them.
She studied the fortepiano music on the Masterclass of legendary Prof. Malcom Bilson.
She studied chamber music at the Music University of Padua.
She won on several National and International Music Competition. Her repertoire is vast: it includes piano solo and several chamber music pieces.
She is a piano accompanist for several choirs.

She works in Budapest as a sought-after piano teacher and is also employed by the Hungary as a piano mentor and piano consultant.
She is an enthusiastic representative and advertiser of Kovács-method, which takes an important part in her work.

In 2013, EMMI (Ministry of Human Resources, department of Hungarian Government) adjudicated her the „Bonis Bona – For the Talents of the Nation” award, because of her prominent work in music teaching and talent management. From 2014 she is a member of „Nemzeti Pedagógus Kar” (National Teacher Faculty). She became consultant for music teachers in 2015.
Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit state award in 2023. The Hungarian Order of Merit is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. The degrees of the Order of Merit are awarded to persons who carry out exemplary activities in the field of culture, science, art, as well as in their own field of expertise - in order to promote the interests of Hungary and increase universal human interests. The awards are granted by the President of the Republic.
Her piano students have already won close than 500 prizes at national and international
competitions.

Julianna is the founder and artistic director of the Danubia Talents International Music Festival and Competitions. She hold several masterclasses in Hungary and abroad.
She is also jury president or member at various national and international competitions in (Catania, Rome, Ischia, Orbetello) – Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary.

As a concert pianist she tours all over Europe. She has given many charity concert in Hungary and abroad. Her artistic work includes hundreds of concerts.
She has invited to play with Daniel Lugosi clarinetist he performed live for TV broad casting. (VirtuososTalent Show) Daniel Lugosi won on the Virtuosos Talent Show.
She organized the first Casio Festival in Hungary Roma Vienna gave a concert. She has organize concerts and exhibitions for young talents and supports young talents in many ways form.

She participated with four Hungarian young students in an ERASMUS program in ITALY (2018. Music, a bridge among cultures).

Publications: dr. Kovács Géza Memory book: Kovács-method in professional piano education.

Source: http://www.hetek.hu/interju/201402/zenelni_csak_szivvel_lehet

Contacts: kissjuli.info@gmail.com, zongorilla7@gmail.com
 https://www.facebook.com/juli.kiss.520

Graduated in piano studies with full marks under the guidance of Pavla Pokojna at the Conservatory of Bratislava, her hometown.

Specialised in piano studies in Belgium with Jacques Genty, winning the Premier Prix at the Conservatory of Mons, at Bonn with Stefan Askenase and in Rome with Fausto Zadra, Carlo Zecchi, Tito Aprea and Guido Agosti.

Specialisation courses at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Carlo Zecchi and Enrico Mainardi, and at the Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali with Nikita Magaloff. Winner of the First Prize at the Brussels “F. Chopin” Contest in 1969, since then she has held numerous concerts for major concert organisations, both as soloist and with chamber orchestra, in Czechoslovakia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, South Africa, Turkey and Italy.

She has taken part in international festivals, including the XXI Festival dei Due Mondi at Spoleto. For Italian television, she recorded a commemorative concert for the 50th anniversary of the death of Leos Janacek. She has recorded for RCA, as well as participating in the sound tracks of Nino Rota, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli and Carlo Crivelli. In December 2003 she took part in the Manifestazione Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea “Corpi del Suono”, performing “Plus Minus” by Stockhausen. She holds specialisation courses regularly in Italy and abroad, and has sat on the jury of numerous Italian and international contests. She holds the principal chair for pianoforte at the Conservatory “A. Casella” at L’Aquila, Italy.

Rintaro Akamatsu began studying the piano and the violin at the age of 2, and the cello at the age of 6. He showed remarkable talent from a very young age. At the age of 5, he made his TV debut, showcasing his skills. By the age of 10, he performed Mozart's concerto with his original cadenza. Since winning the All Japan Student Music Competition in 1990, he has achieved success in several major competitions in Japan.

His first international recognition came in 2000 when he won third prize at the Clara Schumann International Piano Competition, which featured esteemed judges such as Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire. Dr. Joachim Kaiser praised him as "really intelligent and talented" during this achievement.

After graduating from Kobe University, he received unanimous acclaim from the judges who awarded him the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste for both piano and chamber music at L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He excelled in chamber music, receiving full marks from all the judges. He has studied under renowned musicians such as Mikhail Voskresensky in Tokyo, France Clidat and Jean Micault in Paris, György Nádor and Kocsis Zoltán in Budapest, and Nina Patchett and Christian Ivaldi for chamber music.

He has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Metropolitan Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra, Danube Symphony Orchestra, and Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. In addition to performing in major concert halls in Japan, he has showcased his talent in the USA, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Taiwan, and Colombia. His recordings, including "Due Domenico," "Angel del Piazzolla," "And the Bell Tolls," "Hommage a Invention," "Lascia ch'io Pianga," and "Für Clara," released under King International, have received critical acclaim from various magazines.

Moreover, he serves as a jury member for numerous international piano competitions, such as the "Danubia Talents," "Osaka," "Xabia," "Liszt," "Orbetello," "Monegrarte," and "Scandinavian" International Music Competitions. He has been invited to teach master classes in Japan, Asia, and Europe, and has had the privilege of mentoring over 1,000 musicians throughout his career. His guidance and expertise have contributed to the success of many talented individuals, who have emerged as winners in significant domestic and international competitions.

He has also authored numerous works and contributed serials to newspapers and magazines, providing insights into his experiences, knowledge, and perspectives on music. These written contributions showcase his multifaceted presence in the arts.

Currently, Rintaro Akamatsu is Professor of Osaka College of Music, Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Utsunomiya Junior College, Budapest International Piano Masterclass. The President of the Japan Liszt Piano Academy. An ambassador for Casio.

For more information, please visit http://rintaro-akamatsu.com/.

He’s Director at “Pollini” Padova's State Conservatoire. He started to study music at Asti’s local music school, where he was violin teacher for nearly 20 years. He went on studying with Camillo Grasso (first violin at Rome’s Opera Theatre), Corrado Romano (teacher of Uto Ughi) and Franco Gulli (concert performer and teacher at Bloomington University- USA). Before getting his degree in violin he started to work for some of the most important National Orchestras (RAI national television, “Carlo Felice” Theatre in Genova, Opera Theatre in Rome, Regio Opera Theatre in Torino and some others…).

Then, he devoted himself to the study of chamber music and founded the  Athenaeum Piano Quartet that made him win several prizes in different competitions. He also performed concerts for important associations and attended Siena’s Chigiana Academy (tnanks to a grant) where he got a merit degree. He played in a quartet with Bruno Canino and Pier Narciso Masi, two of the most important Italian pianists. Besides, he often performed solo concerts and he was first violin in many Italian orchestras. He founded Asti’s Chamber Ensemble and promoted Asti’s Symphony Orchestra, whose first concert, conducted by Orio himself,  took place at the “Alfieri”  Theatre in Asti.

After taking a public examination he became a  conservatoire teacher.

He has been giving summer proficiency courses since 1999 and Masterclasses in Malaga and Oviedo, (Spain), Cyprus, Banska Bystrica (Slovak), Porto and Braganca (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey), Timisoara (Romania), Thessaloniki (Greece), Francisco Beltrao (Brazil), China (Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuhan, and others), Kazakistan (Astana and Almati).

He played in Italy, Swisserland, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Slovak, Chek Republic, Brazil, China, Kazakistan, Cyprus, Syria.

Invited by State Conservatory in St. Petersburg for an educational meeting.

In addition, he got a degree in viola.

He was often invited as a member of the Tekfen Filarmonyc Orchestra in Istanbul, formed by the best musicians of more than 20 different countries.

From november 2009 to 2015 he was director of the “Buzzolla” Conservatory of Music in Adria.

Tanulmányok

1963-1971    Kodály Zoltán Ének-Zenei Általános Iskola, Budapest (tanár: Szirányi Jánosné)
1971-1975    Bartók Béla Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola (tanár: Hambalkó Edit)
1975-1980    Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola, második évfolyam (tanárok: Falvai Sándor, Kurtág György)
1980-1982    Csajkovszkij Konzervatórium, Moszkva (tanár: Dmitrij Baskirov)

Végzettségek

1982    Művész-tanári diploma (Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola)
1998    Kulturális menedzser diploma (ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar)
2001    Szoftver-üzemeltető bizonyítvány (OKJ)
2002    Habilitáció (DLA)

Kurzusok:

1973    Amadeus Webersinke (Weimar)
1977    Rudolf Kerer (Weimar)
1978    Vásáry Tamás (Budapest)
1979    Dmitrij Baskirov (Budapest)
1986    Malcolm Bilson - fortepiano (Fertőd)

Versenyeredmény:

1980    Dohnányi Ernő Zongoraverseny, Budapest – I. díj

Díjak, kitűntetések:

1985-    Artisjus-díj (8 alkalom)
1996    Liszt-díj
2012    Artisjus Életmű-díj

2022    Az Év Legjobb Tanára

Intenzív előadóművészeti tevékenységet folytat itthon és külföldön egyaránt. Elkötelezettje a kortárs zenének is.

Hangversenyezik többek között Albániában, Ausztriában, Belgiumban, Csehországban, az Egyesült Királyságban, Észtországban, Finnországban, Franciaországban, Görögországban, Hollandiában, Horvátországban, Németországban, Olaszországban, Oroszországban, Portugáliában, Spanyol-országban, Svájcban, Szlovákiában, továbbá Egyiptomban, az Egyesült Államokban, Japánban, Kínában és Vietnamban.

Repertoárja a szóló zongoraművek és a kamarazene irodalmán át a zenekari zongora-szólamokig terjed ki. Elkötelezettje a kortárs zenének.

1985-2010 Intermoduláció Kamaraegyüttes (alapító tag) - Tihanyi László (karmester)

1997-2012 Trio d'Echo - Horn András (klarinét), Déri György (cselló)

2003-2009 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar (I. zongora szólam) - Fischer Iván (karmester)

Steinway Artist and concert pianist, co-founder and director of the label KNS Classical and artistic director of several cycles and festivals of music, Carles Lama has also won a reputation for mentoring a wide number of young talents.

Together with superior studies in piano performance in Spain, Paris and United States and having directed the Conservatory of Music in Girona -from 2006 to 2012 - he studied Music Business, Branding and Digital Marketing and has founded Music Talent Lab and presented workshops and lectures in different institutions in order to guide and enlighten the musicians ‘careers.

At the same time, he has taught Master-Classes around the world and has been jury member of many renowned international competitions.

He is member of the acclaimed “Carles & Sofia piano duo” with his wife Sofia Cabruja, with whom they have played around the world, including venues like Carnegie Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana, Sala Verdi or Teatro Solís, among others. They have been praised by public and critics alike as one of the best piano duos in the world. Their discography of more than 10 CDs includes masterworks for four hands and brilliant and demanding orchestral transcriptions, as well as original and exclusive projects created by the duo, including the transcription of the opera “Goyescas” or a “Lieder Project”, with transcriptions for four hands of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert lieder repertoire.

Always committed with social needs, he has a UNICEF award for his humanitarian aid.
In 2012, together with his wife, they founded Concerts4Good, Music on a Mission, a solidarity project.

He has been recognised as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation and has received the Golden Star for the Professional Excellence, the Golden Medal for the Merit at Work and the European Golden Cross.

Exceptional musical talent, deep artistic sensitivity, and complete technical mastery of his instrument make Adriano Del Sal’s playing unique and unforgettable.

He studied with Stefano Viola and Paolo Pegoraro at the Francisco Tarrega Academy of Pordenone and at the J. Tomadini Conservatory in Udine, and attended several master-classes with important concert players, including David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Stefano Grondona, Angelo Giardino, Alberto Ponce and Carlo Marchione.

Adriano Del Sal has won twelve important international competitions, including the Julian Arcas in Almeria (Spain, 2001), the Michele Pittaluga -Citta di Alessandria- (Italy, 2004) and the Certamen Francisco Tárrega in Benicassim, (Spain, 2009). He was also awarded La chitarra d’oro (The Gold Guitar Prize), as the best international young concert player of the year.

He enjoys a busy career with concerts in the most important international festivals in Italy, Germany, Mexico, Russia, the United States, Ukraine and Slovenia.

From 2015 he his teacher at the “Universitat für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Vienna (Austria). He plays a guitar by the German maker Matthias Dammann, with D’Addario strings.

Gabriele Tomasello, born in Catania, Italy, in 1979, began his musical studies early at the school of Professors Luca De Cesari and Corrado Ratto. in 2000 He graduated in piano performance at the “V. Bellini” Conservatory in Catania with the highest Honors. He subsequently studied for several years under the guidance of Professor Vincenzo Balzani. In 2007 he graduated again with the highest honors after presenting a thesis on the musical language of Olivier Messiaen. He obtained also a third degree in 2010 with a thesis on Dmtri Kabalevsky’s piano compositions for children. He has received more than 30 awards in national competitions for young pianists (Messina, Brindisi, Pisa, Livorno, Villafranca, Turin, Vietri sul Mare etc.) and a series of high-ranking placements in the international piano competitions of Pinerolo, Salsomaggiore, “A. Napolitano” prize, “Seiler” international piano competition, etc. He also performed in solo and chamber music recitals, and with orchestras in Italy and Europe.

He has already recorded six solo piano CDs and  more than 300 audio recordings and videos are available on Youtube channel www.youtube.com/gabrieletomasello/  (channel with about ten millions views).

In academic year 2010-2011 he taught Piano as second instrument at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome, then he taught piano at Caltanissetta Music Institute and at “Fausto Torrefranca” Conservatory in Vibo Valentia (Calabria). From 2015 he is teaching Piano at the Conservatory of Music “Francesco Cilea” in Reggio Calabria.

Serbian violinist, Mina Mendelson graduated from the Music Academy in Belgrade, where she subsequently completed both her Master’s Degree and PhD, the latter with the highest mark and constituting the first ‘Doctor of Performing Art –Violin’ awarded in Serbia. Throughout this time she studied under Prof. Fern Raskovic, a student of the great David Oistrakh, and participated in masterclasses with Sreten Krstic, leader of Munich Symphony orchestra, Prof. Mateja Marinkovic, Professor of the Royal Academy of Music, as well as Sabine Grollmus and Stefan Barratdue.

During her studies, Dr. Mendelson won various top prizes in national and regional competitions as well as international prizes. She has performed in the most prestigious concert halls in the Balkan region including Kolarac - Belgrade, Sinagoga - Novi Sad and Glazbeni zavod - Zagreb as well as a soloist with several important orchestras including Belgrade Strings 'Dusan Skovran', Nis Symphony Orchestra and St George Strings.

Known for her elegant and sophisticated performances, Dr. Mendelson is an active and successful chamber musician. As a student and member of St George quartet she participated in a masterclass with Prof. David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music. Her outstanding performances led to a scholarship from the Norwegian government to study at the University of Kristiansand.

As a soloist, chamber musician and in leading positions of St George Strings, Belgrade Strings 'Dusan Skovran' and Jewish Chamber Orchestra she has appeared in many festivals, including BEMUS, NOMUS, NIMUS, Ohrid Summer Festival and European Days of Jewish Culture, as well as music festivals in Sofia, Bodrum, Sapanca and Kalemegdan. In addition, she has performed in France, England, Bulgaria, Holland, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Turkey and China as well as all across her native Serbia where she made many recordings for the leading Serbian radio and television stations.

In parallel with her busy performing career, Dr. Mendelson is also in demand as a teacher. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts in Nis, Serbia.

Hungarian born conductor and horn player of the Wiener Symphoniker Gergely Sugar received his principal education at the famous Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the University of Music in Vienna where his professors included composers Ivan Madarasz, Adam Kondor, conductors Tamas Gal, Laszlo Kovacs, and horn-players Friedrich Gabler and Adam Friedrich.

At the age of 21 he became one of the youngest members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Ivan Fischer who influenced him to persuade his conducting carrier. After winning the horn-audition and becoming a member of the prestigious Wiener Symphoniker at the age of 23 Gergely continued his conducting studies with legendary Maestro Jorma Panula in St. Petersburg Russia, dutch orchestra creator Maestro Kees Bakels and David Gimenez Carreras.

His first conducting engagement included the St. Petersburg Academic Festival Orchestra in Russia the chamber-players, chamber choir, brass ensemble and youth orchestra of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra throughout Malaysia as well as the Kammersymphonie der Wiener Symphoniker at the majestic Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna.

Gergely has been cover conductor for Christoph von Dohnanyi and Thomas Hampson for Arnold Schoenbergs 'A Survivor from Warsaw' collaborated and conducted works by the american composer John Adams in Konzerthaus Wien, premiered compositions by Miguel Kertsman and led the Illustrated Chamber Performances Concert Series at the Petronas Twin Towers presenting classical masterpieces by Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonin Dvorak, Johann Strauss and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Kuala Lumpur.

His upcoming performance highlights in the 2017 season include works by Gustav Mahler ('Das Lied von der Erde'), violin concertos by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Kurt Weil, works by Conlon Nancarrow, Aaron Copland, Sergei Prokofiev, Ludwig van Beethoven and Igor Stravinsky.

Gergely's recordings as soloist of the Christoph Förster Horn Concerto, 'Jugend' by Siegfried Karg Elert, Septett Op.20 by Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro are available at the labels Solo Musica München, Hungaroton and Schloss Weinzierl respectively.

Gergely Sugar is University Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.

Gergely resides in Vienna with his wife violinist Orsolya Korcsolan and his son Natan.

Training

Edda Silvestri completed her studies at Naples Conservatory, graduating in transverse flute (1973) at 18 with M° Ferdinando Staiano. She took this further with Jean Claude Masi and Conrad Klemm. Contemporarily she studied Composition with M° Bruno Mazzotta and Percussion with M° Antonio Bonomo.

In 1973 she won First Prize at Concorso Nazionale Musicisti in Rome. She has been a flute maestro since 1974, teaching at Campobasso and Frosinone Conservatories. Since 1990 she has held tenure at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music.

Activities as Director

In the Rome Conservatory she held position of Vice Director from October 2005. She was Vice Commissioner of the Conservatory from 28 September 2006 to 9 October 2007, acting as director, pursuant to art. 6 of D.P.R. 132, 2003. She was then elected Director for the Triennial 2007/2010, and when this expired, she was reconfirmed for a further mandate until 2013.

In the two mandates available, Edda Silvestri focused on her primary objective of returning to the Santa Cecilia Conservatory its role, centrality and functions so it would again be the greatest musical educational institution in Italy. This aim was reached and how. The results obtained are important and varied: reclaiming teaching; relocating the Conservatory into the national and international productive panorama; redefining qualified relations with other Institutions in the sector; reclaiming the premises and instrumental park the Conservaory enjoys.

She saw to a systematic intervention plan, which led to the sonorisation of the Academy Hall and the construction of a research laboratory for studying sound spacing (€130,000 invested in the capital account). A multi-year purchase plan was completed, with investments equal to €230,000 to renew the instrumental park.

Interventions to statically consolidate the premises and reclaim the Academic Hall with investments of € 500,000.

Thanks to M° Edda Silvestri, who on her on volition firmly made further spaces necessary, second premises for the Conservatory, through continued work soliciting political and military Institutions, lasting three years (2010/2013), the Ministry of Defence gave Santa Cecilia Conservatory the State Property of the Santa Andrea delle Fratte Complex, ex convent, ex Royal Crew barracks, ex High Command Fifth Department premises. This means 1400 sq m, turned into halls and rehearsal rooms, just 700 metres away from the historic headquarters on via dei Greci.

Conventions and agreements

M° Silvestri has struck many conventions and agreements with national and international Organs and Institutions, firstly for the Santa Cecilia Conservatory: Tokyo – Conservatory of Tokyo (Japan); Peking Central Conservatory and Guangdong Conservatory Association (China); Kazakhistan Conservatory; Seowon University (Korea); Conservatory of Milan; then for Pianeta Arte: Xin Hua College of Sun Yat-Sen University (China); Lu Opera Group of Dongying City People’s Republic of China; Temple University; Korea Lifemusic Association (Korea); Universidad EAFIT (Colombia); Chengdu Shangkun (International) Art School international Center (China); Beijing Zhong Yikun Tecnology Training.

Since 2018, Pianeta Arte has been in the China Conservatory of Music project.

Further, on 28 September M° Silvestri was awarded the title of Honorary Director of the Art, Design and Media Faculty and the Music Faculty of Xin Hua College Of Sun Yat-Sen University.

Edda Silvestri has also enjoyed intensive concert activities.

She has been guest artist for internationally important Organs, Festivals and events. Since the ‘90s she has furthered her study of contemporary music and devoted herself to her solo repertory of different types of flute: flute in C, flute in G, bass flute.

Alex Szilasi was born in Parma, Italy in 1968, of strong Hungarian musical roots. His grandfather, Imre Csenki (d. 1998), was a composer, conductor and music teacher well known for his revival and celebration of Hungarian folk music. When his parents decided to return to Hungary in 1977, nineyear old Alex spoke only Italian, but his piano playing skills suffered no language barriers: that same year, he won the national competition in rnusic school and gave his first recital in Budapest. It marked the beginning of a lifelong love affair with classical music and the unique voice of the piano.

Alex Szilasi's work has become synonymous with the music of Chopin in Hungary. With 2010 marking the bicentenary of the birth of Chopin, he was busy with international performances honouring the great Polish composer and pianist. He began his studies in Budapest at the Béla Bartók Academy of Music in Budapest, followed by the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, also in Budapest, taught by masters including Ferenc Rados, Sándor Falvai and Peter Solymos. After receiving his diploma in 1993, he toured the world, giving concerts in Austria, in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey, the United States and Canada. From 1998 to 2001, he took the chair of piano faculty at Taegu University in South Korea.

In 2001, he became the director of the collection "Esther" and the complete library of Chopin, presented by Editions Fuzeau (France).

The Chopin connection runs deep, with Alex deeply imbedded in the music at every level, from the compositions themselves and the recording of Chopin's work, to playing on the same kind of piano Chopin was known to prefer.

Alex Szilasi's commitment to the authenticity of Chopin comes through strongest when he is performing on an authentic Pleyel piano built in 1849, the year of Chopin's death. The Pleyel, configured differently than conventional keyboards of today, was Chopin's favourite model to play on, one he described as "the last word in perfection."
Built by his friend Camille Pleyel in Paris, Chopin believed the Pleyel piano was most ideally suited to his music. "When I feel in good form and strong enough to find my own individual sound, then I need a Pleyel piano," he said. Franz Liszt wrote that Chopin "particularly cherished" Pleyel pianos "for their silvery and slightly veiled sonority and their lightness of touch" and antique keyboard collectors of today assert that notes played on the Pleyel produce a unique sound, dying away quickly, resulting in a completely different texture to the music than the long, sustaining notes of today's pianos.
In 2005, Alex Szilasi performed a concert at the newly inaugurated Palace of Arts in Budapest in 2005 and presented two 19th century Pleyel pianos as a gift to the magnificent concert hall. The concert was advertised simply as: Chopin - Pleyel - Szilasi, crediting the pianomaker and piano equally with the composer and player, the heart of Szilasi's musical philosophy. Following his success at the Palace of Arts, he was invited to perform a season of concerts in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, dedicated to romanticism.

The next year, a series of four seasons made its debut: the complete works of Chopin performed by Alex Szilasi over four years, playing every piece Chopin ever wrote in honour of the approaching bicentennial anniversary of the composer's birth. In addition to these musical evenings, concerts were performed throughout Hungary in various cities, universities and museums.

From these 2006-2010 performances, four CD compilations have been released by the Hungaroton Classic label, all under the umbrella title "The Complete Bicentennial Edition of the Works of Chopin". The first is subtitled Valses (Waltzes), the second, a two-disc compilation, Mazurkas, the third contains all Polonaises, and the fourth presenting the art of Chopin's songs. Authentic Pleyel pianos are used for every recording.

In 2010 Alex Szilasi celebrated the opening concerts of the bicentenial year of Chopin's birth in Poland (Bydgoszcz 19/02/2010) and Hungary (Budapest 01/03/2010) performing on both concerts orchestral piano works of Chopin, on Pleyel P-280 Concert Grand piano, directly disposed by Pianos Pleyel factory (Paris - France). The concert was broadcasted by the MR3 Bartok national radio channel and the "DUNA TV", the national satellite TV channel.

Szilasi's credits and awards are numerous, but among them are: Soloist for Radio Hungary (1991); winning Italy's GIA competitions and the and Kawai Prize in 1994 and 1995 respectively; Hungary's Kölcsey Cultural Prize in 2005. He was also named Best Classical Musician of the Year in 2007 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Classical Musician of the Year in 2008 by Hungary's Gramofon Classical and Jazz Magazine. In 2010, he received the Chopin Passport given by the Chopin 2010 Celebrations Office. In 2011 he has been decorated by the Minister of Culture in Poland M. Bogdan Zdrojewski with the Order for Polish Culture (Zasłuzony dla Kultury Polskiej). In 2012 he became owner of the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit.

In 2012, he was invited to recording Chopin’s nocturnes for the red label “Real Chopin” series of the Polish Fryderyk Chopin Institute - Warsaw, (appeared in august 2012) playing on his own pianino Pleyel dated from 1847, a single instrument similar to the famous pianino Pleyel 13555 signed by Chopin, exhibited in the National Chopin Museum in Warsaw.

In 2015 he was invited to the Budapest Spring Festival, performing a concert in the prestigious Vigado Concert Hall on different Pleyel pianos, from the era of Chopin to the present time. He was the first pianist who played in Hungary on the newest ultramodern Pleyel piano designed by Peugeot Design Lab in Paris.
Since 2015, Alex Szilasi is the guest of different festivals and concert halls in the People Republic of China.
He owned yearlong radio program every week called "Chopiniana" on Radio Classic Hungary in 2009, and organize regularly romantic salons in different locations (museums, institutions, private locations).

Alex Szilasi owns a single collection of ancient pianos, among them two Pleyel pianos from Chopins time (1843, 1847) and two Erard pianos (1847, 1866).

He is co-owner of Zeneszalon Concert and Piano Ltd. in Budapest, wich is organizing concert events, and lend and sell pianos of the romantic period. (www.zeneszalon.hu)

The first graduate student to obtain a master's degree in flute at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During my undergraduate studies, I pursued a dual major in composition and flute. After graduation, I was recommended as an exam free graduate student. I have been studying under the famous late flute educator Professor Liu Pin since the Affiliated Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 1998, he received a full award and went to the Saint Morse Conservatory of Music in France to continue his studies. He studied flute and chamber music under the deans of the academy, Louise Brown and Marcus Lario, and participated in multiple competitions and won awards.

In November 1997, he participated in the Shanghai International Radio Art Festival and collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to perform the first domestic flute concerto "Golden Flute" by American composer Ms. Chen Yi, which received widespread praise. In August 2000, at the invitation of the Clermont Ferrand Music Festival, a solo and ensemble concert was held with French musicians. In July 2005, he teamed up with French flute master Louis Brown to perform in the "French Magic Flute" special session of the Weekly Radio Concert. This time, he was also the first foreign musician invited for previous Weekly Radio Concerts; In May 2008, as a guest, I collaborated with French harpists at the Oriental Art Center to perform the "Future Master Concert Europe and America Special Session". In June 2009, the "Wandering Provence - Tangino Flute Solo Concert" was successfully held at the Shanghai Concert Hall. In 2011, he co performed the Baroque Pearl Flute Chamber Concert with French Flute Masters at the Shanghai Concert Hall. In December of the same year, solo concerts were held at Hefei Grand Theatre, Lishui Grand Theatre, and Dongguan "Cultural Weekend". In 2012, invited by the Shanghai Concert Hall's public welfare project "Music Lunch Tea", he performed a solo performance in the first and 100 special programs. In September of the same year, he was invited by the Shanghai Oriental Art Center to hold a "Midnight Paris - Double Flute and Piano Concert" with a French flute artist. In January 2014, he led students to hold a special flute lecture and ensemble concert at the Shanghai Concert Hall. In December, he performed the flute chamber music concert "Spending Christmas with Bach" with French musicians at the Oriental Art Center. In November 2018, he was invited by the Ministry of Culture and the National Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Project Dongfang Citizen Concert to perform in the special concert "Silk Road Story - World Famous Music Concert - Tang Zhinuo and Her Friends". In September 2019, a special concert titled "Dream Poetry and Painting" was performed in the "Future Masters" series. Performed a solo performance in the first and 100 special programs of the Shanghai Concert Hall Public Welfare Project "Music Lunch Tea". In recent years, he has published several papers in core journals, and has been invited to visit the United States, France, and other places for exchange and performance. Some students have also won awards in flute competitions both domestically and internationally.

I have been teaching flute performance at the Music Department of East China Normal University since 2011, and currently serve as the Director of the Instrumental Department and Master's Supervisor at the School of Music of East China Normal University. Director of the Asian Flute Federation, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Flute Professional Committee, Member of the Shanghai Jing'an District Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Jing'an District Overseas Chinese Federation, and Vice Chairman of the East China Normal University Overseas Chinese Federation.

Ignác Csaba Filip (România) - learnt to play the flute as a student of János Áment at the Art School in Târgu-Mure?. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, in the flute class of Gavril Costea, his chamber music professor was Francisc László.

He ended international master’s courses where he acquired the techniques of flute and recorder from teachers such as Ulrike Engelke, Gerald Matschke, Anneke Boeke, and Peter Holtslag.

As a member of the ensembles Cantus Serenus, Codex, Amaryllis, Georgius, Collegio Stravagante he performed at many national and international chamber music concerts. Between 2001 and 2003, he was the musical conductor of the Tamási Áron Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe, where he also composed music for the stage. As a flute soloist, he collaborated with several philharmonic orchestras from Romania. In 1998, he published two methodology books, entitled Furulyaiskola (Recorder methodology) and Furulyamuzsika (Recorder music) which appeared in five editions.

He has several CD, radio and television recordings. Since 1996, he has been working as a flute and chamber music teacher at the Transilvania University Bra?ov. In 2004, he received his doctoral degree at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the Early Music Festival and Summer School in Miercurea Ciuc.

Sándor Papp (1965) began his musical studies in Debrecen with András Tüske, then he was admitted to the Zoltán Kodály Secondary School of Music, where his teachers were István Adrovicz and István Papp.

He continued his higher education at the Bratislava Academy of Music, where he graduated as an art teacher as a student of Jozef Zsapka.

In 1990, he reached the finals of the Paris Guitar Competition.

He has attended several courses in addition to such excellent masters as Roberto Aussel, David Russel, Alirio Diaz, Gianfranco Volpato, Wolfgang Lendle.

He regularly gives concerts and courses at home and abroad (France, Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Denmark, England, Croatia, Spain, Australia, Mexico).

Guitar competitions in Hungary are related to his activities (Chilean competition of Chilean composer L. Letelier with the Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra, work of Australian composer R. Charlton entitled “Mosaic” for guitar, percussion and string orchestra, with the string orchestra of the Béla Bartók Institute of Music of the University of Miskolc, and he played guitar competitions with the symphony orchestras of Debrecen, Miskolc, Szolnok and Szabolcs.

So far, he has released four CDs (1997, 2002, 2004, 2008). Artistic director of the Gyöngyös International Guitar Festival.

Founder of the Debrecen Guitar Quartet. He is a member of the Nobilart Arts Association.

He received his doctorate in performing in 2007 from the Bratislava Academy of Music. Subject: Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909) Spanish guitar composer, educator as a performer, educator, technical innovations and his influence on his contemporaries.

Since 1991 he has been teaching at the Béla Bartók Grammar School of Music and Dance in Miskolc, and from 1994 as a guitar teacher at the Béla Bartók Institute of Music at the University of Miskolc, and from 2019 as director of the Institute.

Tanulmányok:
Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, ének szak

Oktatói tevékenység:
1995-től: a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetemen tanít magánéneket

Gratz:.I. M.S. Amerikai mestertanárok kurzusán megrendezett énekversenyén zsűritag

Fontosabb koncertek:
Purcell: Dido és Aeneas
Händel: Judas Maccabeus Messiás, Joshua, Alcina, Alexander Fest, Rodelinda
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona, L'Olimpiade
Mozart:  Varázsfuvola - Pamina
Szöktetés a Szerájból - Constanca
Figaro házassága - Cherubin és Suzanna
C-dúr és c-moll mise, Vesperae solennesde cofessore
Haydn: Teremtés, Évszakok, Orfeo - Euridice
Beethoven: Fidelo - Marcellina, Missa solennis, IX. szimfónia
Gluck: Orfeo és Euridice
Puccini: Bohémélet - Mimi, Musette, Gianni Schicchi - Lauretta, Nella
Flotow: Martha
Verdi: Falstaff - Nanetta, Rigoletto - Gilda
Bizet: Carmen - Michaela
Strauss: Rózsalovag - Sophie
Humperdinck: Jancsi és Juliska
Erkel: Hunyadi László - Gara Mária, Névtelen Hősök - Ilonka, Brankovics György - Mara
Szokolai Sándor: Work with piano

Olyan karmesterekkel dolgozott együtt, mint M. Gielen, K. Wöss, Lamberto Gardelli, Kobayashi Kenichiro, Fischer Iván, Fischer Ádám, Ferencsik János, Riccardo Chailly, Giuseppe Patane, Melles Károly, Peskó Zoltán, Nicholas McGegan stb.

Felvételek:
Brahms-dalok (Hungaroton)
Pászthy-Baranyai: Schubert-dalok és átiratai (Hungaroton)
Donizetti: Miserere (Hungaroton)
Haydn: l‘Infedelta Delusa, La fedelta premiata (Hungaroton)
Poldini Ede: Farsangi lakodalom (Hungaroton)
Szokolay Sándor: Works With Piano (Hungaroton)
Giacomo Carissimi: Jonas, Baltazár (Hungaroton)
Kósa György: Cantatas (Hungaroton)
Telemann: Geduldige Socrates (Hungaroton)
Dohnányi: Stabat Mater
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Lendvai Kamilló: Tisztességtudó utcalány (Hungaroton) stb.

Televíziós felvételek:
Madarász I.: Lót
Lendvai: Tisztességtudó utcalány
Menotti: Telefon
Vujicsics T.: Éjszakai operalátogató
Erkel: Névtelen Hősők
Mozart: Szöktetés a szerájból
Rossini: Alkalom szüli a tolvajt
Gardelli: Az Énekesnő
Fall Leó: Az Elvált asszony
Verdi: Falstaf
Lehár: Mi muzsikus lelkek stb.

Díjak, kitüntetések:
Bartók-Pásztory díj
Liszt Ferenc díj
Erzsébet díj
Lyra díj

The Hungarian soprano and voice instructor, Krisztina Laki, studied with József Réti in Budapest. She made her professional debut in Berne, Switzerland, and was engaged as a leading member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Germany. Later on she held guest contracts with opera houses of Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Milan, Paris and Vienna, etc. (More than 40 premiers)

Numerours appearances with her wide variety of concert and lied repertoire have taken her to the worldwide most prestigious concert halls. She was a welcome guest at international festivals, too.

She worked with well known conductors like Roland Bader, Frieder Bernius, Adam Fischer, Lamberto Gardelli, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leopold Hager, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marek Janowski, Sigiswald Kuijken, Raymond Leppard, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Georges Prêtre, Sir John Pritchard, Helmuth Rilling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Heinz Wallberg, Bruno Weil, Lothar Zagrosek.

And directors such as John Dexter, Michael Hampe, Hans Hartleb, Leopold Lindtberg, Juri Ljubimow, Axel Manthey, Giancarlo del Monaco, Hans Neugebauer, Peter Palitzsch, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Otto Schenk.

Her highly praised interpretations of largely unknown composers like Salieri or are evidance of her experienced singing culture.

Her discography comprises more than 50 recordings.

In 2001 Krisztina Laki retired from activity as a singer. Since then she dedicates herself to pass on her extensive experience and know-how in the art of classical singing- worldwide! She gives mastercourses, was member of various juries, is leader of workshops, holds presentations and was lecturer at several universities.

At present she is a professor for singing at the "Hochschule für Künste", Bremen.

Young Jazz piano player and composer. Jazz piano professional teacher of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Jazz piano professional teacher of Nanjing University of the Arts, member of Jazz Professional Committee of Jiangsu Pop Music Association. Born in 1993 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He has studied classical piano since he was 4 years old, studied under the pianist Wu Di in the United States, contacted Jazz piano since 16 years old, and studied under Professor He Le of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2011, he was admitted to the Jazz piano Major of Shanghai Conservatory of Music with the first professional achievement. In 2015, he formally graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a bachelor's degree in Jazz piano, and was admitted to New York University in the same year to further study jazz with internationally renowned artists such as Alex Sipiagin, Andy Milne, and Chris Potter. Graduated with honors from New York University in 2017 and obtained a master's degree.

While studying, he is active in many international jazz stages: Shanghai Summer Solstice Music Festival, Jazz Shanghai Music Festival, West Songs and East Rhyme Jazz Concert, American Blue Note, etc. He won the Best Performance Award at the first National Jazz Seminar and was invited to participate in the National Jazz Seminar held by Xinghai Conservatory of Music on behalf of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2014. In 2017, Gida&VIP launched a digital album, and in 2018, Gida&VIP's personal integrated music works toured across the country. In the same year, he held a personal Jazz piano concert in He Luting Concert Hall of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2019, he was invited to Sichuan Conservatory of Music for academic lectures and exchange activities. In the same year, he participated in the 2019 National Arts Fund - "Chinese and foreign classic Accordion works" tour series of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, And in that year, he was invited to participate in the recording of the "Colorful Huaxia Voice in China" music concert by Xinhua News Agency at the National Theatre in Beijing. Received the title of Excellent Instructor at the First Swiss International Music Competition in 2021.

Dr. Chaerin Kim A multi-instrumentalist, being one of the very few in the world who you can see performing as a soloist with two instruments on the same stage with an orchestra, internationally acclaimed harpist, pianist, composer, and professor Dr. Chaerin Kim is the winner of several international competitions.

She was the winner of the Special Prize of Best Performance of Russian Music at the International Harp Competition in Russia, winner of the Future Classic Women Award from the London Radio Station, the CFA Award and Department Honor Award from Boston University, the Garrett Award, Foundation Award, and Julia Leney Harp Prize in London, the Soloist Competition Winner at Ewha University, Kaywon School for the Arts, and Boston University, the Bronze Medalist for Solo Piano at the Walgan Music Competition, and winner of the Grand Prize from the Korean Student’s Newspaper.

She has been featured as a soloist on both instruments: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Debussy Danses for Harp, Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with UMB Orchestra, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with Boston Chamber Orchestra, the Ginastera Harp Concerto with BU Symphony Orchestra, Ginastera Harp Concerto with Seongnam Philharmonic, a Guest Soloist of the International Music Festival broadcast live in Korea, Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro and Debussy’s Danses with Yonsei Sinfonietta, and the Pierne Harp Concerto with EU Orchestra. Her harp performance has been used for the British movie Kaleidoscope (Main actor Toby Jones), which was the winner of Best Performance at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Her album, A Dedicated Poem, was released on DistroKid in 2020. The album was also aired on the WCPE Classical Radio Station, along with several tracks from her album, Mellifluous.

Dr. Kim’s musical studies began when she was six years old. She majored in piano at the Yewon Music Middle School, while also beginning studies in cello and voice. After Yewon, she went on to attend Kaywon High School of Arts, where she continued to major in piano. In her last year, at the age of eighteen, she also started lessons on harp, and six months later won the Soloist Audition for Harp. She received her B.A. with Highest Honors from Ewha University in Seoul – then, while pursuing her master’s degree at Ewha, she was offered a scholarship for a PGD at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she graduated with “distinction.” She got her M.M. from Yale University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She was invited to the Artist’s Diploma program at Yale and Graduate Diploma Program at New England Conservatory – however, she decided to pursue her doctorate at Boston University, where she was offered a full scholarship. She was the “quickest recipient of a Doctorate” in BU Music School’s history, completing it in three and a half years.

Dr. Kim was formerly a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, where she taught harp, piano, music theory and music history classes, and was also the former Head of the Harp Department at Adagio Music Academy and South Shore Conservatory. Currently, she is an artistic director of UIMC, an artist with the TTF Entertainment company in China, and a professor of both instruments; harp and piano at University of Massachusetts Boston, Schloss Akademie in Germany, and harp through the Office of Arts at Harvard University.

Li Deqin currently serves as Guest Principle at the China Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also Associate Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and teaches at Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar. He received "10 Distinguished Young Trumpetist of China" from CCTV.

Li Deqin began to study playing trumpet in 1998 under the guidance of Mr. Wang Wei, teacher at Middle School affiliated to Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory in 2004 and studied with renowned trumpetist Prof. Chen Jiamin.

Le Deqin joined the China Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 and toured with this orchestra to Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, Italy and many other countries in the world. He performed with the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 2014.

In 2014, Li Deqin was admitted to Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar to pursue his master’s degree under the guidance of Professor Uwe Komischke. He began his study at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart in 2015 with renowned trumpet soloist Wolfgang Bauer. He received his doctor’s degree from Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar in 2017.

Li Deqin collaborated with the China Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist frequently.

He has been a trumpet lecturer and Yamaha artist at Weimar Liszt Conservatory of music in 2018.
Invited orchestras: Weimar National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, West German Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Central Ballet, National Grand Theater Symphony Orchestra, Central Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, etc.

Young teacher of modern instrumental music and percussion Department of Shanghai Conservatory of music, director of percussion Professional Committee of Shanghai Musicians Association, director of IPEA International Percussion Association, honorary member of Nanchang ship of Chinese Navy, and signed artist of Sabian China.

Egyetemi diplomáját a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Debreceni Konzervatóriumában szerezte. Tanulmányai utolsó évében Firenzében nyert énekversenyt, majd a New York Sate University és a Greater Buffalo Opera Company ösztöndíjasa lett Amerikában.

Amerikából hazatérve egy éven át a Magyar Rádió énekese, majd a Budapesti Operabarátok Ösztöndíját nyerte el. A Magyar Állami Operaházban Puccini Bohéméletének Musetta-jaként debütált, majd olyan darabokban énekelt, mint Bizet: Carmen, Britten: Peter Grimes, Verdi: Rigoletto, Vajda: Leonce és Léna, Kacsóh: János vitéz, stb. Ezzel párhuzamosan a Debreceni Csokonai Színházban Mozart: Varázsfuvolában Pamina, Cimarosa: Titkos házasságában Carolina. Tíz éven át a Pesti Vigadóban, majd a Belvárosi Színházban működő Interoperett  primadonnája.

Együtt dolgozott többek között Lukács Ervinnel, Medveczky Ádámmal, Kovács Jánossal, Pál Tamással, Oberfrank Péterrel, Köteles Gézával, Török Gézával, Kocsár Balázzsal, Kesselyák Gergellyel, Tokody Ilonával, Wiedemann Bernadettel, Kiss B. Attilával, Kertessi Ingriddel, Temesi Máriával, Fekete Attilával, csak hogy néhány nevet említsünk. Mesterei Pászthy Júlia és Laki Krisztina voltak.

Meghívott vendégművészként fellépett Európa szinte minden országában, Ausztriában, Olaszországban, Svájcban, Belgiumban, Franciaországban, Németországban, Hollandiában, Romániában, illetve az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban.

Énekesi pályafutása mellett mindvégig a tanításnak is ugyanolyan fontos szerepet tulajdonított. Majd’ 10 évig Újpesten a magánének-tanszak vezetője. Az Erkel Opera-stúdió alapítója, művészeti vezetője, mely 2018-ban bekerült Magyar Alapfokú Művészetpedagógia Értéktárába.

Nagy sikerrel tart énekes mesterkurzusokat is.

2015 óta a Debreceni Egyetem Zeneművészeti Karának ének tanszékén tanít, mesteroktató.

2022 óta a Szinház - es Filmművészeti Egyetem oktatója.

Romina Casucci is a graduate in voice and pianoforte from the San Pietro a Majella Conservatorium of Music of Naples, where in 2007 she also graduated with a graduate diploma in voice and choral.
During her studies, she was fortunate enough to study with great names such as Luciana Sera, Lella Cuberli, 
Renata Scotto, Donata D’Annunzio Lombardi, Mariella Devia.

Romina has won numerous international singing competitions including; 
Concorso Europea “Luigi Denza”, Concorso Lirico Citta di Mercato San Severino, Concorso Nazionale Francesco Paolo Tosti, Concorso Lirico Internazionale “G. Papini” (for the opera La Boheme for the role of Musetta), Concorso Internazionale Miricae, Concorso Internazionale Citta di S. Leucio, Concorso Lirico Internazionale Illica Opera Stage, Concorso Internazionale Augusto Zabaroni and Concorso Internazionale Francesco Paolo Tosti.

From a young age, Romina performed on some of the most prestigious european stages: 
-Ascanio ne lo "Frate ‘Nnammorato" by G.B. Pergolesi (in colaboration with the Pergolesi-Spontini Foundation of Jesi and Teatro San Carlo di Napoli).
-Gilda in Verdi’s "Rigoletto" in Rome and Recanati Teatro Gigli, for the Pergine Festival, and in Pesaro accompanied by the Orchestra Rossini of Pesaro, in Los Angeles for Italian Opera Festival, Teatro Sao Carlos of Lisbon with the contuctor M° Andre and direction F. Esposito and the National Opera of Bucharest Director S. Barlow.
-Violetta in Verdi’s "La Traviata" in  the theatre of Catanzaro and  Ascoli Piceno. 
-Musetta in Puccini’s "La Boheme"  in Pisa, in Teramo,in Ortona and Fermo theatres for the Music Society of the Theatre “B. Riccitelli” of Teramo. 
-Lucieta in E. Wolf- Ferrari’s I quarto Rusteghi with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with M° V. Petrenko.
-Elcia in Rossini’s Mose in Egitto at the Teramo and Atri Cathedrals with M° M. Stefanelli.
-Diana in Offenbach’s Orfeo all'Inferno  for the  Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the court of the Palazzo Pitti with Conductor M° Xu Zhong and director M. Carniti.
One of Romina’s most acclaimed roles is the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. 
This role was performed for the Teatro Sociale of Como, Teatro Grande (Brescia), Teatro Fraschini (Pavia) and Teatro Pergolesi(Jesi) with direction of H. Brockhaus.
She performed in Japan at the Munetsugu Hall in Nagoya and in Osaka with a performance of the work of Tosti, which was apart of a concert that then toured to France and Vienna, organised by the Istituto Nazionale Tostiano.
Her concert works includes performing as a soloist for Beethovens’ 9th Symphony directed by Maestro 
D. Renzetti with Orchestra Sinfonica Abbruzzese.
She has also participated in a concert dedicated to Verdi in the "Sala della Regina" of Palazzo Montecitorio, Roma.
He held a Tournee in Spain at the Shigeru Kawai room in Madrid and the Fundacion Eutherpe in Leon.
She has been a guest on Rai programs such as: 'Applause La vita e scena' with a focus of Verdi's Rigoletto and 'Sottovoce' with an interview on artistic and personal life.
He has recorded for the Brilliant Classic the Integral Opera by Francesco Paolo Tosti e for the Rubicon
I Quattro Rusteghi by Wolf-Ferrari with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
She sang the Exultate, Jubilate by Mozart with the Orchestra of Lecce and Salento conducted by Maestro Alberto Veronesi.
She has just given a tour in China accompanied by the Scarlatti Orchestra at the Grand Theater of Luzhou and Changsha.
She has been the solo soprano of the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi with the New Scarlatti Orchestra.
Among the next engagements she will be in Morocco for the Italian Embassy of Rabat
Winner of the Star of Music Award at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples
She is the Artistic Director of the lyric edition of the Neapolitan Masters Competition
She is Professor of Operalab Higher Education Course of the Accademia Musicale Europea and Mimas Music Festival

Born into a family of musicians in Budapest, Imola Jóo studied the piano at the “Béla Bartók” Conservatory in Professor Zempléni´s class.

Following her graduation from the Budapest Music High School and her graduation from the Conservatory cum laude she continued her studies at the Vienna University of Music in Professor Hans Graf´s Concert Class.

She obtained her concert class diploma as well as her diploma in educational theory cum laude, the topic of her thesis being “The Kodály Method and its Meaning for the Pianist”.

Furthermore, she completed master classes in Paul Badura-Skoda´s class, among others. Since 1976, Imola Joó has been heading a Piano Preparatory Class at the Vienna University of Music.

Parallel to teaching, further milestones of her professional activity include presentations, workshops and master classes in Austria and around the world (Canada, Japan, South Korea, Hungary).

Several of her former students are already teaching at the University and renowned soloists themselves.

Imola Jóo performed in several concerts with the “Dinu Lipatti Symphonic Orchestra” in Satu Mare, Romania.

Recently she played in the Vienna Musikverein with the “K.u.K. Symphonic Orchestra”.

She recorded a CD in 2001, including works of Mozart, Liszt, Bartók, Kodály and Dieter Kaufmann, with a further CD with J. L. Dussek´s Piano Concerto in E flat major, op.15 (first recording) currently being in preparation.

In 2004, Imola Jóo has obtained her postdoctoral lecturing qualification, officially becoming a university lecturer.

Graduated in June 1999 under the guidance of M° Antonio Di Cristofano and attended the advanced courses at the Ecole Normale “A. Cortot” in Paris weith M° Nelson Delle Vigne and later in Madrid with M° Leonel Morales.

He joined several National and International piano competitions, having been consistently winner and awarded: “Accademia delle Muse” di Camaiore; “Citta di Pietra Ligure”; “Pinerolo citta della cavalleria”; “F.I.D.A.P.A”, Pisa; “Citta di Albenga”; “Giulio Rospigliosi”, Lamporecchio(PT), “Terme di Saturnia”, Saturnia; “Uliveto Terme”, Pisa; “Franz Schubert”, Tagliolo Monferrato; “Citta di Cesenatico”, “Citta di S.Giuliano Terme” (PI), Mallorca International Music Competition, Mendelssohn Piano Competition (Le), “Anton Garcia Abril” a Teruel, Spagna.

He held concerts for several Italian and worldwide institutions such as Salle Munch and the Salle Cortot of Parigi; Concert Noble e Maison du commune de Anderlecht, Bruxelles; Sala de Plenos, Auditorium “Manuel de Falla”, Castello dell’ Alhambra, Granada; Asociacion Ars et Musica, Valencia; Parador de Xabia, Alicante; Volkshochschule Reutlingen, Stoccarda; Sinkt Andraa Kirke, Salisburgo; Societa Dante Alighieri, Berna; Festival Pianistico di Grosseto, Terme di Saturnia, Teatro di Cesenatico, Teatro di Marina di Pietrasanta, Mendelssohn Festival (LE), Chiesa dei Ss. Apostoli, Sala Baldini, Domus Talenti, Roma, Sala Monteverdi Cremona, Festival Echos Alessandria, Auditorium del conservatorio di Cagliari etc..).

His wide repertoire includes solo works, chamber music works and several piano concertos. He cooperated in chambre music projects with artists such as oboist Albrecht Mayer, Soprano Elisabeth Norberg-Schultz, Cellist Hans-Eberhard Dentler.

He recently toured Japan (Tokyo/Nagoya/Chiba) with a program about the diplomatic relationship Italy/Japan. In 2016 he performed the renowned Rhapsody in Blue by G. Gershwin with the Italian National Police State Band, conducted by M° Maurizio Billi.

He is steadily cooperationg with Grosseto Symphony Orchestra, with which he recently performed Rachmaninov Piano concerto op. 18 and Beethoven op. 15 Piano concerto. He is artistic director of Orbetello Piano Festival since 2012, and since 2017 he is the founder and artistic director of Orbetello International Piano Competition.

Mira Senturk (before marriage Myroslava Tereshchuk) -Ukrainian composer,pianist,teacher,singer,the author of many piano books as for kids as for adults also.
She was graduated from the musical pedagogical faculty of Rivne State University of Humanities (Ukraine).
Mira was born in a family of musicians. Her father Anatolii Tereshchuk was a very talented accordionist player,composer and songwriter. Her mother Olha Tereshchuk is a professional guitar teacher. After studying the young future composer started to teach at her native University. During that time, she wrote her first piano book “Interego” and single song album” Find yourself”. 
After few years she moved to Antalya (Turkey) where she continued her music career as a piano player and singer. During some time Mira was teaching at Antalya State Conservatory. For now, she is giving concerts and continues to create new music.
 One of the first books which were written on the territory of Turkey are “Musical childhood”, “Musical rainbow”, “Musical sketches”, ”Musical planet”, "Musical Rays","My 12 Months", pieces of which are performed around the world by many young pianists. 
This year Mira Senturk produces one more piano book. The collection "Nightingale Country" is intended for children of middle and older age. This is the eighth pianobook, which was written on the territory of Turkey. 
"Childhood with music", "Musical rainbow","Musical  Sketches", "Music Planet", "Music Rays", "12 Months","For the FutureVirtuoso","Viennese Sketches" 
- pieces from these pianobooks have received a good response from many young pianists around the world. 
The collection "Ukrainian Hits" includes 5 arrangments of well-known .Ukraininan songs,such as “Birdcherry ”, “Where are you?”, “Oh,in the grove near Danube”, “Two Colors”, “Old tram”.This pianobook is considered for pianists of intermediate and upper level. 
This pianobook can be used at musical schools and home studying etc. So,play these wonderful pieces and introduce your suuroundings to wonderful Ukraininan music.

Launched as an enfant prodige, Ilaria Loatelli, pianist, she has been the guest artist of the Golden Key Festival at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York on 2016.
Graduated cum laude at Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli, she gained the “Via Vittoria Award” from Sir Antonio Pappano as the best graduated of the year 2013.

She is Artist-in-Residence of "Consonanze Armoniche" concert season in Villa Vecelli Cavriani in Verona, where she performs a festival with some of the most renowned musicians yearly. She recently have had the pleasure to play with amazing artists like Ervis Gega, Valeria Zorina, Marco Fornaciari, Wolfgang Schröder, Reggie Clews (violin), Ramon Jaffe (cello), MPO String Quartet and the Ensemble Ars Mundi. 

She is the Artistic Director of "Scuole in Musica" National Music Competition in Verona, the biggest European competition for young musicisians with more than 5.000 applicants yearly, and of "Laszlo Spezzaferri" International Music Competition in Verona. 

She has performed throughout Europe, China, North America and Australia for more than 400 concerts at renowned festivals like the 69th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Primavera Pianistica in Antwerp, Da Bach a Bartok in Imola, MITO Settembre Musica in Turin, Steinway Society in Verona, Festival de Musica de Coimbra, Seimanes Musicales in Crans Montana, Yamaha Festival in Milan, Festival delle Nazioni in Rome, Nei suoni dei luoghi International Music Festival, Amici di Campo Lo Feno at Elba Isle and in prestigious concert halls as Berlin's Konzerhaus, Kitzingen's Seiler Konzertsaal, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Romanian Academy and Teatro di Marcello in Rome, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, Teatro Vittoria in Turin, Teatro Verdi in Pisa, Teatro Manzoni and Auditorium in Milan, Conservatory and Teatro Académico Gil Vicente in Coimbra, National Conservatory, Museo do Combatente, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Museu Nacional Soares do Reis in Oporto, Hong Tai Hall in Xiamen, York Theatre and Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney, Lywenyll Hall in Canberra, Chevalier College in Bowral (Australia), Ateneu in Bacau. 

At the age of 20 she was invited by the outstanding pianist Michel Dalberto to take part in the Crans Montana Summer Festival (Switzerland), where she played solo recitals and two piano recitals with him. She also took part in the Chopin Marathon in Milan with the legend Ivo Pogorelich, recorded by Mediaset Italian TV Channel.

During the develop of her career, she also won many prizes in competitions, like the 2014 Sony Classical Talent Scout in Milan and in 2013 she was awarded with the Second Prize at the 4th Southern Highlands International Piano Competition in Bowral (Australia). Se has also distinguished in several other international piano competitions like the 6th International Piano Competition "G. Pecar" in Gorizia (1st prize and special award for the best Mozart performance), 11th International Piano Competition "L. Gante" in Pordenone (2nd prize), the 5th Rhodos International piano competitiom, the 1st Alkan - Zimmerman piano competition in Athens, and she was selected to take part in Sydney International piano competition (2012 edition), in China International Piano Competition in Xiamen (2013) and Geza Anda International Piano Competition (2015).
During her career she recorded for Radio Classica, Radio Nacional Do Portugal, ABC Radio Australia, and for Mediaset, Euroclassical, TV Bacau and many other Italian TVchannels. Her first solo cd “Caleidoscope” was released in Portugal in 2014 for Flamme Records.

She debuted with orchestra at the age of nine and she has performed several times with Orquestra do Norte, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Filarmonica "Mihail Jora" of Bacau, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera di Alessandria, Orchestra Filarmonica  Italiana, Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

?She began her piano studies at the age of six at the Conservatory "F. E. Dall'Abaco" in Verona with Prof. Laura Palmieri. During her childhood she won thirty first prizes in competitions for gifted children and debuted as soloist with orchestra at the age of nine. From 1999 to 2010 she continued at the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" of Imola with Prof. Franco Scala and Prof. Boris Petrushansky and she took her Master degree with full marks, full honors and a special mention at Verona Conservatory.

He was born in Antakya. He started piano lessons with Pier Francois at the age of 10. He have his first piano recital at the age of 11.He completed his higher education at Marmara University with Prof Aytaj Rzaguliyeva. After higher education he studied with Idil Biret, Hüseyin Sermet, Gülsin Onay, Ivan Yanakov... Emrah Nalbant who gave many recital, continues his life as a educator and pianist in Istanbul.

Professor of singing at the State Conservatory of music "Francesco Morlacchi" in Perugia. President and Artistic Director of the Maria Malibran International Music Academy in Altidona (FM) Marche - Italy. (www.accademiamalibran.it)

She brilliantly graduated in singing at the Conservatory "Gioachino Rossini" in Pesaro and graduated in Music disciplines - Chamber Music - with the highest marks and praise at the Consevatorio "Giovanni Battista Pergolesi" of Fermo.

He perfected the opera repertoire with the M° Antonio Tonini in Milan, then with the soprano Maria Alos in Rome; the chamber repertoire with the Masters Sergio Segalini, Pier Narciso Masi and Sopranos Elly Ameling and Liliana Poli.

He attended the Academy of Opera and Choral Art of Osimo and the Rossini Academy Opera Festival of Pesaro, at the invitation of M° Alberto Zedda.

She won the first prize in the following singing competitions:

• 42nd competition for young opera singers of the European Community "Adriano Belli" of Spoleto
• International competition" Giacomo Lauri Volpi " of Latina
• International competition "Vincenzo Bellini" in Rome
• International Competition New Voices for the Opera “Filippo Marchetti " City of Camerino.

She has performed at the Teatro Nuovo Di Spoleto, Ravenna Festival, Rossini Opera Festival, Teatro alla Scala of Milan, Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari, Teatro S. Carlo of Naples, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Teatro Chiabrera of Savona, Teatro Lauro Rossi of Macerata, Teatro Ventidio Basso of Ascoli Piceno, Teatro Giovanni Udine, Teatro Coliseo Albia in Bilbao, Teatro Nazionale Dell'opera Di split, Festival of the Valle d'itria of Martina Franca, foundation of the Niccolo Piccini concerts of Bari, Camerata Musicale Barese, International Music Festival in Irpinia and for Friends Of Music, Friends of Opera and Musical Youth of many cities. He sang in Germany, England, Spain, Croatia, Poland.

His debut was in 1989 at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto in "La Sonnambula" by Vincenzo Bellini in the role of Amina.

Aureliano in Palmira by Rossini (Zenobia), Il Matrimonio segreto of Cimarosa (Carolina), I Capuleti ev i Montecchi by Bellini (Giulietta), Rigoletto by Verdi (Gilda), Don Carlo by Verdi (Voce dal cielo), La serva padrona of Pergolesi (Serpina) the Grand Duchess of Gérolstein of Offenbach (Olga), Memento of Centazzo (Clotilde, The Abbess nun), Simultas of Centazzo (Isotta da Cuzano), Gloria e Magnificat by Vivaldi, Requiem by Mozart, Carmina Burana by Orff, Stabat Mater by Haydn, Symphony No. 9 in D min.Op. 125 "choral" by Beethoven are just a few examples of the lyric, lyric-symphonic repertoire she addressed at the highest level with conductors such as Muti, Gelmetti, Kuhn, Panni, Aprea, Zani, Villaume, Scheiko, Mak and directors such as Vizioli, Zeffirelli, Pizzi, De Tomasi, Hampe, Richter.

The lively curiosity, combined with the taste for deepening and the need for new experiments, they made him arrive to contemporary music, interpreting numerous compositions in the premiere absolute performance and to be successfully proposed in recitals, multimedia works, concerts show with programs of rare inventiveness and originality in the context of prestigious reviews and Festivals with other soloists and with authoritative voices such as those of Glauco Mauri, Pamela Villoresi, Eugenio Allegri, Ugo Pagliai, Paola Gassman, Massimo Dapporto, Moni Ovadia, Francesco Guccini.

He has recorded for the record companies Dynamic, Edipan, Accord for Music. For Bongiovanni he recorded in world premiere the CD Albe-opera omnia of chamber Vocal Music - by Domenico Alaleona; for the productions Gog & Magog has recorded the CD L'anima de Vino una sera cantava.

Always fascinated by the French mélodie, she has given numerous recitals of poetry in the music of authors such as Fauré, Berlioz, Duparc, Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc and Satie. A separate mention deserves the musical path dedicated to the Chansons of Léo Ferré, reworked for soprano voice; an original and innovative setting, with the execution of versions unreleased that saw Marcantoni perform in successful recitals with exclusive programs.

In this regard, the director and writer Mauro Macario, one of Ferré's greatest experts, writes: Léo Ferré has been revisited and re-proposed, in all these years, in multiple musical costumes often apartments to distant worlds and interpretive ways or, apparently, incompatible with the source original. However, in the questionable arbitrariness, they revealed of the master, the elaborate appearance open to diversified solutions. Rossella Marcantoni, soprano of modernity, did not choose the path of metamorphosis, but that of elevation. He took to the extreme what is classic, cultured, and even sacred is inherent in Ferré, he transferred his melodies to the high areas of vocality lyrical, he freed them in a sound of crystal pure as evocative shards of poignant emotion, he added in the sublime the absolute tension that animates every existing instance of the poetcomposer. From a strict Orthodox discipline Rossella Marcantoni knew, for choice, break away periodically to explore other expressed terrains, from vocal music to chamber to the contemporary one, experimenting with new sound morphologies. In our case, even staying in the technical and timbre registers that best add to its potential, we have the feeling that the singer has found a vocal cross between internal voice and lyrical voice, a tone independent, more realistic, more accessible even to those who are not passionate about opera.

And if Ferré said, about his Genesis "Je suis dicté" , so Marcantoni could affirm "I am Sung".

The "ferreiana" experience gave birth to the recording of the CD Les Fleurs du Mal en Musique Léo Ferré / Charles Baudelaire, recorded in world premiere for the label Movimento Classical of Milan. The CD, reviewed by Aldo Nicastro in the monthly music of January 2016, highlights the particular timbre quality of Rossella Marcantoni's voice, defined as luminous:...brava la singer to assert the right to adhere to the baudelairian saying with an appropriate recited dramatic, which explains its very strong desecrating value.

She has performed several times at the festival Ferré of San Benedetto del Tronto, alongside icons of chanson French such as Juliette Greco, Georges Moustaki and others. He also performed in the absolute premiere the sacred hymns of Léo Ferré (Ave Maria, Benedictus, Agnus Dei) whose manuscripts were found by the family after the death of the Chansonnier at the festival of Sacred music Gaude Mater of Cestocova in front of the Primate of Poland. He has recorded for RAI Tre, as well as for radio and television in many countries. He holds Master Classes of improvement of Opera and Chamber singing in different institutions Italian and foreign. Many of his students have been winners of important singing competitions national and international lyric.

She is invited to be part of the jury in national and international competitions and as commissioner external to the exams of singing and Chamber Vocal Music in the state conservatories of music at the Santa Cecilia di Roma, L. Perosi Di Campobasso, G. Pergolesi Di Fermo and others.

György Gyivicsan graduated at University of Szeged - Faculty of Music in 2001 and earned university degree. During his studies he attended and remunerated several times at national competitions. After this he got admitted to the college of Freiburg as one of the pupils of the world famous musician, Mr. Branimir Slokar. During his studies at Freiburg he has won a scholarship to Berlin Radio Symphonic Orchestra and has been a major member of the orchestra for two years.

He was one of the founders of Genesis Brass that was established together with colleagues who are taking major roles in Berlin’s notable orchestras. They have recorded numerous CDs and have given concerts and live TV shows as well. After successful graduation at Freiburg he moved to Switzerland to continue his studies at Bern University of the Arts - Music Faculty.

One of the highlights of Mr. Gyivicsan’s career was the winning of the international competition in Porcia (Italy) in December 2003

After the invitation from Branimir Slokar in 2004 he became a perpetual member of Slokar Quartet. Ever since they made numerous CD-recordings and gave concerts all over the world.

He finished his studies at Bern University in 2005 and earned a soloist diploma. Afterwards he started teaching at University of Szeged - Faculty of Music as a trombone professor.

He has been regularly invited to give concerts and to host courses in countries like Portugal, Italy, Austria, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Slovenia and the US. In September, 2010 he was a visiting professor in New York. He also hosted a master class in Argentina at Trombonanza in 2013 where he got invited for 2015 as well. He played a solo concert at the International Trombone Festival in Iowa in 2018.

He founded the Szeged Trombone Ensemble together with his former students and performed lots of concerts. Their fourth CD ‘OVERTONALITY’ was released on 2019.

He earned a DLA at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Doctoral School in 2013. Mr. Gyivicsan was a member of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra between 2013-2015.

Since 1. feb. 2019 Mr. Gyivicsan become the trombone professor of the Liszt Academy in Budapest.

Young Bayan accordion player, associate professor of accordion in Department of modern instrumental and percussion music, Shanghai Conservatory of music.

In recent years, she has visited many European countries and stepped on the Royal Concert Hall in Berlin and other major stages. Her works have been included in Shanghai Conservatory of music. Her has been invited to be the judge of competitions at home and abroad for many times, and her students have won awards in various international and domestic solo and ensemble competitions. Her has won the She Luting foundation teacher award of Shanghai Conservatory of music for five consecutive years. The research project has been approved in all levels of scientific research projects, and was selected into the first class of Shanghai Conservatory of music in 2015 In 2016, she was selected into the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's "Shanghai young and middle-aged University Teachers' overseas study visiting program" and went to Russia's Rakhmaninov National Conservatory of music to study under the guidance of world-famous accordion player Professor Yuri Shishkin; in 2017, she won the third prize of the third young teachers' Teaching competition of Shanghai Conservatory of music; in 2018, she was selected as Shanghai musicology "Excellent teacher" of Shanghai Conservatory of music; supported by Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation in 2019; as the main creator of the national art foundation in the same year, the "tour of Chinese and foreign classic accordion works" project was successfully held in many cities in China; the accordion professional course won the "demonstration course" of Ideological and political reform of Shanghai Conservatory of music in 2020.

Phu Koanantakool was born in 1985. He was a speed metal drummer before he began to study piano at 17 with Ajarn Komkam Chaleypoj.

He was admitted to Silpakorn University in 2003 and studied under Jun Komatsu and Jamorn Supapol respectively. Phu passed the entrance examination at the prestigious Mozarteum in 2005 and studied under Prof. Gereon Kleiner.

Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, his devotion to the instrument has become one of the most sought-after pianists in both Thailand and abroad.

He has taken master classes receiving the valuable influence of many great artists, such as K. Popowa- Zydroń, R. Levin, A. Schiff, K.H. Kämmerling, A.Jasinski, H. Leygraf, D. Bashkirov, G. Steinschaden, G. Romero, O. Łazarska, S. Kutrzeba, S. Dorenski, M. Szczepanski, R. Plagge, M. Mollova and J.F. Antonioli. He has also taken private classes with many artists, such as D. Parakhina, V.Krainev, P. Zereu, S. Koch, M. Ivanova, B. Lerner, Eri Nakagawa, W. Schmitt-Leonardy, C. Keller and S. Bhanomyong. He was also one of the last pupils of the late Thailand National Artist Piyabhand Sanitwongse na Ayutthaya.

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from HEMU Haute Ecole de Musique (University of Music Lausanne) and studied with J.F. Antonioli and R. Castro. He also received chamber music lessons from Vincent Coq. He went on to study his Master’s degree at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music under the tutelage of P. Paleczny and chamber music under the guidance of K. Jankowska.

Phu has performed in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Russia and made his native debut in Bangkok back in 2010, performing the whole 24 Chopin’s études and is still the only Thai pianist who has achieved this feat. He’s also the first Thai pianist who performed the complete set of Liszt’s 12 Études d'exécution transcendante.

Mr. Szecsődi studied under István Bodonyi, at the Béla Bartók Conservatory, and Mihály Szűcs, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. During his time there he won the Grand Prize of the Music Academy.

 His teaching career began in 1977 at the Franz Liszt Music Akademy in Szeged. He attained habilitation (the highest academic qualification one can achieve) in 2000 and became the youngest university professor in Hungary. In recognition of his educational excellence, he was elected as the director of the Violin and Chamber Music Department in the same year. Many of his students have continued with successful careers as virtuoso violinists, giving concerts or teaching in Hungary and throughout Europe. Since 2005, he has been the President of the Jenő Hubay Society (the famous Hungarian violinist, composer and Teacher).

He became an international soloist in 1984, when he received the much sought-after Grand Prize of the Cziffra Grant. Since that time, he is a welcomed artist in the concert halls of many large European cities, such as: Vienna, Bologna, Madrid, Paris, Zürich and Kiev to name a few.

Ferenc Szecsődi plays an important role in Hungarian music life and many composers, for example: Zsolt Durkó, Pál Rózsa, Miklós Kocsár and Lajos Huszár have dedicated their solo pieces to him. Mr. Szecsődi regularly plays on recordings and in the studios of the Hungarian Radio and Television. In 1987, he was awarded the Artistic Prize of the Hungarian Radio, and in 1992 named “best performing artist of the year” and the following year (1993) awarded the Liszt Prize. As acknowledgment of his pedagogic activity, he was awarded with the Weiner Prize in 1996.

His important recordings include a wide range of classical Hungarian violin literature. His record entitled “The Great Hungarian Violin School”, was commended by lovers of violin music as well as the critics, who acclaimed his “brilliant technical ability and exuberant musicality” (Új Magyarország), or praised the “Hungarian Paganini’s temperamental playing” (Zürichersee Zeitung).

Balázs Hornyák is a Hungarian flutist, music educator. He graduated from the Conservatory of Szeged University with distinction then he obtained his master’s degree in flute performance from Pécs University, Faculty of Music. Balázs started his career in the Symphony Orchestra of Szeged National Theatre. He has worked with Symphony Orchestras as a freelance musician, involved in musical performances in various theatres and performs with different chamber music formations regularly. He also teaches musical talents and helps them start a musical career. His students have been awarded in regional and national competitions. Besides this, he researches arts education and musical talent and lectures at national and international conferences about the results. He is a member of the European Council for High Ability and became a European Music Council Fellow in 2016 and participates in the work of EMC.

Oboist, cultural art organizer

Jiang Lin, tuba chief of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and tuba professional teacher of the Affiliated Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, is a member of Shanghai Shenshi School Brass Quintet.

From the age of 10, I learned the horn from my father

At the age of 13, he was admitted to the Affiliated High School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied the horn with Professor Han Jinguang

In 2005, he studied tuba under Professor Li Dali. In 2006, he was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a major, and successively studied under Professor Hao Jie and Professor Chen Jiamin.

In 2009, he was admitted to Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2015, he was admitted to the Freiburg Conservatory of Music in Germany and studied under the direction of tuba player Hellmut Karg. From 2016 to 2017, he served as guest tuba player of Freiburg Opera House.

Professor double bass and music chambre, conservatory Zhe JIANG, China.

Min Zhenqi is guitar faculty of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, director of Shanghai Guitar Professional Committee affiliated to Shanghai Musician Association.

Mr. Min graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and New England Conservatory with Academic Honor and Beneficent Society Scholarship.

In contemporary music, Zhenqi premiered guitar concerto Symphonic Variations • Silk Road, by Xu Mengdong, and performed Vacuité/Consistence by Xu Shuya, Poeme Lyrique II by Chen Qigang, and some other modern pieces.

Zhenqi is author of The Popular Guitar Music, Melodic Guitar Pieces 111, Classical Guitar Graded Examination Anthology, Acoustic Guitar Graded Examination Anthology, and is translator of Complete Giuliani Studies.

Flute professor and master supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of music.

President of Asian flute Union. Yamaha flute artist.

voice professor, bass-baritone

Zheng Zhou possesses a “rich, creamy baritone” voice (Los Angeles Times), and has excelled with major opera companies and orchestras in a wide range of styles from Mozart, Donizetti and Schubert to Verdi, Mendelssohn and Orff. He has been hailed by the St. Louis Dispatch as "a superior musician," while his performance of Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor led the San Francisco Examiner to exclaim, "Zheng Zhou shone. His fiercely concentrated, vocally and theatrically incisive Enrico would have been an asset in any Lucia.” The American Record Guide declared him “a sensationally good voice… that has the weight and depth of a bass and the comfortable upper range of a baritone” on his Art Songs CD.

Zheng Zhou holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the St. Louis Conservatory, and the Shanghai Conservatory, as well as a diploma in Lieder performance from the Schubert Institute in Vienna. He has studied with John Wustman, Edward Zambara, Hans Hotter, and Yi Kwei Sze. Zhou has won numerous awards and scholarships including first prize at the Mae M. Whitaker International Competition, and has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Vancouver Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, China National Symphony, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,LA Master Chorale, Master Chorale of Washington D.C., and the Tanglewood Festival and Carnegie Hall, among many others.

Zhou also specializes in Lieder; with the New York Festival of Song he has sung Des Knaben Wunderhorn with mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer and a program of Russian Masters, and he has given recitals in San Franciso Opera’s Schwabacher Debut Recital Series, Baden bei Wien – Austria, and at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He can be heard on his Brioso Recordings CD entitled “Art Songs,” singing select lieder works by C.P.E. Bach, Hugo Wolf, Tchaikovsky and Sviridov, accompanied by pianist Joanne Kong.

In 2006, Zhou was invited to be a vocal professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he currently engages his extensive international studies and expertise to contribute to and expand the vocal study program. He has championed the study of Lieder in particular, creating the department’s first and only dedicated lieder course concluding in a much-lauded performance recital each year. His students have gone on to study, perform, and win awards internationally. Just in June 10, 2021, his tenor student Zhuohan SUN has just won the important prize of this year’s Internationaler Robert-Schumann-Wettbewerb in Zwickau, Germany.

Zhou continues to perform in recent years, as Pang Haogong in the debut of Hao Weiya’s “The River of Spring” at both the Shanghai Grand Theater and the Tianjin Theater, for a solo concert at the Shanghai Oriental Grand Music Hall, and as Master Cao in the debut of Xu Jianqiang’s “Tang Xianzu” at the Beijing National Center for Performing Arts.

Professor Zhou has also been invited to judge and teach at various international musical institutions, including the Concorso Internazionale Musica Sac in Rome, at Liekunst im Schloss vor Husum Germany. the Lieder Project at the China Festival in Hamburg, Master-class the Arezzo Summer Festival in Arezzo, and at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg in 2017, 2018 and 2019. And upcoming The Master classes of Opera and Lied 2020, 21 and 22 with Savonlinna Summer University and University of Fine Arts – Sibelius Academy.

Alisa Katroshi is an internationally renowned soprano with unique ‘brown voice’ starring in title roles of classics such as Tosca and Aida throughout Europe.

Leading Roles

Alisa has starred as Mimi in La Boheme, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly as well as Aida in Aida and Floria Tosca in Tosca. Further key roles have been performed by Alisa in ‘La forza del destino’ as well as ‘Un ballo in maschera’.

Defining Directors

Alisa has cooperated with directors of the calibre of Andrea Battistoni, Hermann Breuer, Daniela Candiotto, Wolfgang Seeliger, Helge Dorsch, Hans Friedrich Harle as well as Alfredo Sorichetti and performed with a number of leading orchestras such as: l’Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, the Orchestra of the Albanian National Opera & Ballet Theatre, the Frankfurter Symphoniker Orchestra, the Rhein-Main Philharmoniker, the Orchestra of the National Theatre of Constanta as well as Radio & Television Orchestra of Tirana.

Famous Stages

Alisa has performed in recent years on stages such as Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro Nuovo di Verona, Teatro Camploy di Verona, Auditorium Della Gran Guardia di Verona, Teatro Verdi di Padova, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, UP Ujpesti Theatre Budapest as well as at secondary stages in Rome, Milan, Imperia, Alassio, Palermo, Taormina, Frankfurt, Mainz, Darmstadt, Budapest, Presevo and Skopje. Alisa is always welcome to her original home stage of the National Opera of Tirana.

Impactful Teachers

Alisa has been studying with Daniela Dessi (key impact on technique), Mirella Freni (key impact on interpretation of music), Marcello Lippi (key impact on artistic interpretation and dramatic personalities) as well as Alida Ferrarini, Fiorenza Cedolins and Maria Noto. She is currently studying with Sylvia Sass.

International Excellence

Alisa is the winner of multiple prestigious singing competitions from ‘Villa in Canto’ to ‘Martinelli Pertile’, from ‘O.M.E.G.A’ to ‘Cavalier Davide Vignolo’, from ‘Antonio Salieri’ to ‘Anita Qerquetti’ and more. Alisa graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana (2005) and Summa Cum Laude from Conservatorio di Verona (2009).Alisa spends significant time in Hungary, Albania as well as Italy.

András Csáki was born in Budapest 1981, and began to play the guitar at the age of 11. He graduated at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with honor in 2007, where his professor was József Eötvös. In 2012/2013 he pursued graduate studies in the University of Southern California as a student of Scott Tennant. He received his Doctorate degree in 2014 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. Since 1995 András has been a regular participant of international master classes all over the world, including master classes held by Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Abel Carlevaro, Costas Cotsiolis, David Russell, Angel and Pepe Romero.

Until the year of 2011 he received 24 prizes, among others he was awarded with the first prize in the 51st Tokyo International Guitar Competition in 2008, and in the 42nd "Michele Pittaluga" Guitar Competition in Alessandria, Italy 2009, Julian Arcas Guitar Competition, Spain 2011. Besides solo recitals, he is also devoted to chamber music. He has had several opportunities to play guitar concertos with symphonic orchestras in Hungary and abroad.

He has frequently been asked to give master classes in various countries, such as China, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Romania, Russia, USA and his native Hungary. At the moment he is appointed professor at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.

DLA, professor emeritus

Tanulmányok:
1968-71: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola Tanárképző tagozat, tanára: Pehl András
1971-73: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola ötéves tagozat, tanára: Dr. Újfalusi László
1978-79: 3-3 hónapos ösztöndíj, Florida State University, tanára: Dr. William F. Cramer
2004: DLA fokozat megszerzése. Disszertáció címe: Kortárs magyar harsonairodalom a dolgozat készítőjének ajánlott művekről

Oktatói tevékenység:
1990 óta a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem tanára, 1999 óta egyetemi docensként
2001-2013: a Fúvós Tanszék vezetője

Vendégtanári állások, mesterkurzusok, zsűrizések:
1981: Eastern Trombone Workshop - előadás, szóló koncert, tanítás
1982: Universität Justus-Leibig, Giessen - előadás
1983: Nemzetközi Harsona Találkozó Belmont College, Nashville - előadás
1983: Rézfúvós Seminar Neuhofen, Ausztria - mesterkurzusok
1984: II. Nemzetközi Rézfúvós Kongresszus, Indiana University, Bloomington - előadások,
mesterkurzusok
1986: Indiana University, Bloomington - mesterkurzus
1988: Zeneakadémia, Malmö - előadás, mesterkurzus
1988: Queensland University, Brisbane - zsűrizés, előadás
1990: Boston University, Harvard University, Juilliard School of Music, University of North
Carolina, Texas University és több más amerikai egyetemen tartott előadások
1996: German Brass Academy - mesterkurzus, tanítás
1997: Nemzetközi Harsona Fesztivál, Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois USA - tanítás
2009: Nemzetközi Harsona Verseny, Moszkva - zsűrizés
2010: Prágai Tavasz Nemzetközi Harsona Verseny - zsűrizés
2014: Mesterkurzusok - Friburg, Párizs
2015: Nemzetközi Harsona Verseny (Visegrádi Négyek), Brno - zsűrizés

Fontosabb koncertek, zenekari tagság:
1972 óta a Magyar Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekarának tagja.
1974: Modern Rézfúvós Együttes alapítása
1983: Hőna Harsona Quartet alapítása
1982: Universität Justus-Leibig, Giessen; koncert
1983: Nemzetközi Harsona Találkozó Belmont College, Nashville; koncert
1984: II. Nemzetközi Rézfúvós Kongresszus, Indiana University, Bloomington; koncert
1986: Indiana University, Bloomington; koncert
1988: Zeneakadémia, Malmö; koncert Malmö Szimfonikus Zenekarral
1988: I. Ausztrál Nemzetközi Harsonaverseny és Szimpózium, Queensland University, Brisbane
koncertek
1989: Szóló turné az USA-ban.
1990: Szóló turné az USA-ban, koncertek Boston University, Harvard University, Juilliard School of
Music, University of North Carolina, Texas University és több más amerikai egyetem
1992: Nemzetközi Harsona Quartet Verseny és Harsona Fesztivál Detmold; zsűrizés, koncert,
1997: Nemzetközi Harsona Fesztivál, Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois USA; szóló koncert,
tanítás
1998: Százéves a Magyar Harsona Tanszak - ünnepi koncert, Zeneakadémia Nagyterem
2000: Jubileumi koncert, Zeneakadémia Nagyterem
2003: Helsinki, Nemzetközi Harsona Fesztivál
2013: 115 éves a Magyar Harsona Tanszak - ünnepi koncert nemzeközi harsonaművészek szereplésével, Zeneakadémia Nagyterem
2014: Koncertturné és mesterkurzusok Corpus Harsona Quartettel USA

Díjak, kitüntetések:
1977: Nemzetközi Harsonaverseny Toulon, Bronze Medaille
1979: Nemzetközi Rézfúvós Verseny Ancona 1. Díj. (Modern Rézfúvós Együttes tagjaként)
1992: Liszt-díj
2002: Artisjus Zenei Alapítvány díja
2010: International Trombone Association (ITA) Award - a Nemzetközi Harsona Szövetség életműdija
2013: Bartók-Pásztory díj

Honlap: http://ghoena.uw.hu/

Xiaochuan Li is one of the most recognized jazz trumpet player and composer in China. Li is the Winner of best jazz album of the 1st CMA music awards; he is also the Winner of Best Instrumental Album and Best Studio-Recording Album of the 1st JZ Awards. He is the only jazz artist awarded by China Central Television, which is to honor the most distinguished woodwind & brass musicians in China on its TV program.

Xiaochuan Li is a leading light on the Chinese jazz scene, proved himself a superb technician and an imaginative improviser, quote by British best-selling jazz magazine “Jazzwise”.

Xiaochuan Li was born into a musically talented family and learned how to play the trumpet as a child. In 1997, he started his professional music career by joining in the band of Chinese Armed Police Force in Beijing. In 2005, he graduated from

Shanghai Conservatory of Music and had majored in classical trumpet performance. Xiaochuan Li was the first Asian musician to receive the Richard Dalrymple Memorial Jazz Trumpet Scholarship; He earned his Master degree in Jazz Studies at University of North Texas in 2011. In the same year, he was named as a finalist in the jazz division of the United States National Trumpet Competition. Soon afterwards, Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Eddie Gomez invited Xiaochuan Li to join his group for his tour in Asia.

Xiaochuan Li has performed would-wide, includes the JZ Festival Shanghai, Beijing Nine Gates Jazz Festival, Oslo jazz festival, Hong Kong Jazz World Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, Jerusalem Jazz Festival, Luxembourg Echternach Festival, Hungarian MUPA Jazz Showcase, Koktebel Jazz Party, Taichung jazz festival, Switzerland Le Petit Globe and Geneva Aubes Festival, Nis jazz festival etc. The musicians who he has performed with including Pat Metheny, Eddie Gomez, Gast Waltzing, Billy Drummond etc. The sound that Xiaochuan Li is searching for in his music is the nicety of balance between western and oriental melodies. His musical talent and imaginative expression of the music make him to be one of the most recognized jazz musicians from China to overseas.

Xiaochuan Li teaches jazz trumpet at Shanghai conservatory of music.

Duleba Lívia 1989-ben született Nyíregyházán. 17 évesen felvételt nyert a Zeneakadémia fiatal tehetségek osztályába, így az egyetem megkezdése előtt már Kovács Lóránt növendékeként folytatta zenei képzését.

Első versenyén elnyerte az Elek Tihamér Országos Középiskolai Fuvolaverseny I. díjat és különdíját, majd a Concertino Prága Nemzetközi Zenei Verseny összesített különdíját, melynek köszönhetően Csehország több városát érintő koncertkörúton vehetett részt. A németországi Hochschule für Musik Detmold hallgatójaként folytatta tanulmányait, ahol 2016-ban kitüntetéssel diplomázott az egyetem Master és Konzertexamen szólista képzésein, Prof. Bálint János osztályában. Németországban töltött évei alatt a művésznő meghívást kapott többek közt a Mondsee fesztiválra, dolgozott Nicolaus Harnoncourt irányítása alatt, részt vett többek közt a Bayreuth-i ünnepi játékokon, a luxemburgi Solistes Européens, Detmolder Kammerorchester és Göttingeni Szimfonikus zenekar munkájában.

Az egyetemi tanulmányok mellett kurzusok látogatásával képezte magát. Magyarországon, Ausztriában, Németországban, Svájcban, Lengyelországban és Luxemburgban szélesítette tudását olyan neves művészek mellett, mint Emilio Galante, Adorján András, Emmanuel Pahud, Ittzés Gergely, Dejan Gavric, James Galway, Matej Zupan, Bálint János, Gaby Pas-van Riet, Philippe Benoit, Carlo Jans, Gyöngyössy Zoltán, Gudrun Hinze, Ulrich Koella, Ingo Goritzki és Clara Andrada de la Calle. A sárospataki Crescendo Nemzetközi Nyári Akadémián elnyerte a legtehetségesebb hallgatónak járó díjat, valamint az ausztriai Allegro Vivo Nyári Akadémia díját is ő vehette át. Szerbiában legelső nemzetközi versenyén, az Anton Eberst Fuvolaversenyen I. díjat nyert, ezt követően pedig Bán Mátéval közösen a Friedrich Kuhlau Nemzetközi Fuvolaversenyen Németországban is nekik ítélték oda az I. díjat. 2011-ben beválogatták az Európai Unió kiemelt tehetségek számára létrehozott programjába, még ebben az évben mindössze 21 évesen a Magyar Állami Operaház első fuvolása lett. Díjat nyert kamarazene kategóriában Ah Ruem Ahn zongoraművésszel közösen a Kiejstut Bacewicz Nemzetközi Kamarazenei Versenyen Lodz-ban, valamint I. díjat kapott a Michal Spisak Nemzetközi Fuvolaversenyen Katowiceban. 2014-ben, a Krakkói Nemzetközi Fuvolaversenyen az I. díj mellett, a Krzysztof Penderecki Fuvolaverseny legjobb előadásáért járó Különdíjat és a YAMAHA cég Különdíját is megkapta, mely egy ezüst mesterhangszer volt. Európai sikerei után 2015-ben első tengerentúli útján, a Kínában, Guangzhouban megrendezett Aurele Nicolet nevét viselő világversenyen, a zsűri a II. díjat ítélte neki oda (az elsőt nem adták ki) majd pár hónappal később újabb siker érte, felvételt nyert a Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester zenekarába szólófuvolásként. A zenekarnál egy évet töltött, majd 2016-ban hazaköltözött Magyarországra ahol szólistaként, kamarazenészként, zenekari szólófuvolásként és fuvolatanárként is aktív tagja a hazai zenei életnek. Munkáját elismervén 2016 és 2017-ben második alkalommal ítélték neki oda az állami Fischer Annie Zenei Előadóművészeti Öszöndíjat, és ezzel párhuzamosan 2017-ben a Deutscher Musikrat zenei versenyének Ösztöndíját is elnyerte. Olyan neves zenei világversenyek legjobbjai között szerepelt már, mint a müncheni ARD, Prágai Tavasz, Carl Nielsen, és 2019 májusában meghívást kapott a XVI.Tchaikovsky zenei világverseny 12 legjobb fuvolása közé Szentpétervárra, ahol a 7.díjat kapta.

2017-2018-ban a Nemzeti Filharmonikusok szólófuvolása, és  2018-ban a pécsi Tudományegyetem Művészeti Karának fuvola főtárgy tanára. Jelenleg a Széchenyi István Egyetem fuvola főtárgy tanára, valamint  a Budapest Fúvósötös alapítótagja.

Master's supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, former director of the International Horn Association, current vice president of the Chinese Horn Association, director of the Chinese Orchestra Association, executive director of the Shanghai Music Association Orchestra Association, and chairman of the horn professional committee.

Cello professor of Shanghai Conservatory of music, was honored as a member of the Royal Conservatory of music (FRAM) in 2013, and was awarded the title of "national excellent teacher" by the State Education Commission in 2019. He is a visiting professor of Royal Conservatory of music, Krakow Conservatory of music and Texas Christian University.

Li Jiwu graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of music and the Royal Conservatory of music (RAM). In his youth, he devoted himself to chamber music and symphony orchestra performance for many years. In the teaching career of cello performance, we have trained a number of excellent cello performance and teaching talents. In 2004, he won the best tutor award of national cello competition issued by the Ministry of culture, and in 2018, he won the excellent teacher award of national Baosteel Education Fund.

The main awards for tutoring students include:
In the national top level competition, the National Youth cello competition sponsored by the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China has won the gold medal continuously
The gold medal of the youth group won the first place in the fifth competition;
In the sixth competition, the youth group won the first gold medal and the youth group won the second;
The 7th youth group and youth group won the first gold medal at the same time;
He won the gold medal or the top three in the International Cello competition of Russia, Hungary and Poland.
National projects: in 2012, he presided over the music performance of Shanghai Conservatory of music (string major) and was approved as the pilot of comprehensive reform of the Ministry of education;
In 2013, he presided over "string performance talent training" and won the special prize of teaching achievement of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; in 2014, he was awarded the second prize of national teaching achievement of "world class string performance art talent training" by the Ministry of education; he published several performance theory articles in national core journals.

He is the judge of China Music Golden Bell award competition, National Youth cello competition sponsored by the Ministry of culture, Poland pandelesky International Cello competition, Hong Kong International string competition, Taiwan Cultural Cup string competition, etc.; he is the artistic director of national youth cello Art Week (Ningbo), Xiamen International Cello Festival, Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Cello Festival; He is a member of the board of directors of Wells Cathedral music school in the United Kingdom. He was the president of the high school attached to Xinghai Conservatory of music and the director of the orchestral Department of Shanghai Conservatory of music.

“Kuhar’s pieces were eclectic and fun...” (Washington Post)

“… Nejc Kuhar’s compositions have a strong personality and he plays them excellent. Bravo.” (Roland Dyens, guitarist/composer)

The international prizes, glowing reviews (Washington Post, Classical Guitar Magazine, Los Angeles Daily News etc.) and the very response of the audience at home and abroad all point to an artist in the round, successfully negotiating the joined path of composition and interpretation.

Nejc Kuhar finished his Masters degree in guitar at Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts with prof. Alvaro Pierri and his Masters degree in composition with Dr. Reiner Bishof and prof. Christian Minkowitsch at Konservatorium Wien, Privatuniversität, both with honours. In 2018 he started with Music Research PhD at Surrey university with prof. Steve Goss.

As a guitarist as well as a composer, he won numerous prizes (1st prizes in Germany, China, Italy, Turkey, USA, etc.), he was also scholarship holder of Slovenian Culture Ministry and of Gallus Foundation.

His music has been performed by himself and/or other musicians in various venues, including Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Washington National Gallery of Art, Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Slovene Philharmonic Hall, etc. His commissions include those by the Washington National Gallery of Art, Frankfurt Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, LiGITa, Hong Kong and Sarajevo Guitar Festivals, Signum Saxophone Quartet, guitarist Mak Grgić, organist Stephen Ackert, Four Aces Guitar Quartet and others.

Kuhar’s works have also been published by the renowned publishing houses, such as Les Production d'Oz/Doberman-yppan (Canada), Trekel (Germany) and Berben (Italy), some of which are recorded on his debut CD from ZKP Label, entitled "String modulations", featuring guitar virtuoso Mak Grgić.

Nejc is regularly performing solo concerts, in duo Eminent Duo (http://www.eminentduo.com/) with violinist Moeko Sugiura, teaching master classes, giving lectures, as well as being member of juries on various international guitar festivals (LiGiTa in Liechtenstein, Forum Wien, Taiwan Guitar Festival, Sarajevo, Seckau, Postojna Guitar Festival in Slovenia). His concerts have a special charm and uniqueness due to his interpretations of his own compositions.

In 2019 he was appointed Associate Professor for guitar and contemporary music at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and in 2018 Guitar Professor at Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt. Besides his activities as guitarist, composer and teacher, he is also an active lecturer, giving lectures about composing for guitar on various European and USA Universities, such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Vienna and Frankfurt Universities, etc…

http://www.nejckuhar.com/

HU JUN chamber music teacher of the middle school attached to Shanghai Conservatory of music, doctor of violin, chamber music performer, graduated from the National Conservatory of music in St. Petersburg, Russia.

He has won the first place in many international chamber music competitions. The album "Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in a minor" was released by China record company, and several academic papers were published in major core journals. His students have won many awards in the international chamber music competition.

He is now an associate professor of Violin and master's supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of music, deputy director of orchestra teaching and Research Office of orchestra department, and director of violin Professional Committee of Shanghai Musicians Association.

Born in a musical family, he studied violin with his father Liu Deyong since childhood. He was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of music in 1994 and studied with Professor He Xian. In 1998, he continued to study for a master's degree in Shanghai Conservatory of music. During that time, he went to Mozart Conservatory of music in Austria for further study. He graduated with a master's degree in 2001 and won the title of "excellent college graduate" in Shanghai. He stayed in school to teach in the same year. He has been the chief of the Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai Conservatory of music since he was a student for more than ten years. In 2004, he was invited to be the guest chief of the Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai Opera House. At the invitation of American cmtanc organization and Westminste Conservatory of music, he has held master classes in many places in the United States. He has been invited to serve as the judge of domestic and foreign competitions for many times, such as the judge of the 15th "American International Music Competition"; Judges of the 1st and 3rd "China Russia Cup" international vocal music piano and violin competition, etc. He has won many honors, such as "international excellent tutor award of 2014 Hong Kong International string open"; "He Luting Foundation Award of Shanghai Conservatory of music twice in 20162020"; "2018 Hong Kong International Violin Competition mentor Award"; In 2016 and 2020, he won the "outstanding contribution award of music education" in the American International Music Competition twice.

He has published many papers in domestic core journals, such as "thinking art in violin performance", "training of band cooperation ability - for Violin major in conservatory of music", "historical evolution of Violin Bass beam shape" and "famous master" of Bloch's famous music - Jewish style violin masterpiece "," perfect unity of efficiency and refinement - technical concept and training principles in Jost violin system "," Oren Isay and his accompanied Violin Works "," ten most distinctive violin scales — Accompany you from beginner to major. He is the author of "Introduction to violin performance", compiled and published "selected violin works of Prokofiev" and "selected violin works of Isay".

Awards won by students in competitions at home and abroad in recent years:
First prize of showmanship group, first prize of Bach's unaccompanied suite and first prize of Concerto Group B of 2014 Hong Kong International string open
First place in group B of "2016 American International Music Competition"
First place in the junior professional group of 2018 Hong Kong International Violin Competition
The second place in group B of 2020 American International Music Competition and the first place in Bach special award, the third place in group D and the first place in Bach special award, and the third place in group A1 of 2020 Chinese and Western International Violin Competition
Best winner of the gold award of the children's group in 2020 xinghuiyao string competition
2020 "Music Star Award" global classical music network competition, violin group D Venus Award; “
Second place in 2020 Kogan International Youth Violin Competition (14-17 years old group);
In 2022, Belgium Ysaye international violin competition, the second place in group B (the first place is vacant).
 

Born in Shanghai in 1970, he began to learn drum set playing skills in 1987 and began to work with major professional groups in 89.

He toured the whole country and became an official professional musician. Since 1996, he signed a contract with Zildjian to become his professional musician. The first international image spokesperson in China, in 2003, successively cooperated with Sabian and Ludwig slingerland, mapex Sonor and other brands signed contracts one after another. In 1999, they participated in Yamaha music world thunder and won awards Best drummer. He was invited as an associate professor in the Department of modern percussion music of Shanghai Conservatory of music in 2006 and a master's supervisor in 2021.

Pier Paolo Maccarrone was born in Catania in 1978. He began studying the cello at the age of 10 with the professor Alfio Borzi. Then he continued his musical studies at the Vincenzo Bellini Music Institute of Catania with the professor Giuseppe Rizzari, Paolo Ognissanti and for many years with Benedetto Munzone. He alzo studied orchestral conducting with famous italian conductor Daniele Belardinelli.

In 2010 he obtained in Turin the qualification for cello teaching with the Suzuki method at the Suzuki Italian Institute with professor Antonio Mosca. He has been studying the performance practice of ancient instruments at the Conservatory of Music "Alessandro Scarlatti" in Palermo where he graduates the Bachelor's Degree in baroque cello and basso continuo with prof. Andrea Fossa and then he also graduates in Viola da gamba with prof. Cristiano Contadin. He obtained the Diplome in the Annual Course of Musical Interpretation and the Premium Diploma in the Orchestral Conducting Course at the "Escuela de Dirección de Orchestra y Banda" in Huelva (Spain) approved for ABRSM (Associated Board of  The Royal College of Music) with prof. Navarro Lara.

He attended cello and chamber music masterclasses with famous concertist: Anton Niculescu, Valeriano Taddeo, Alain Meunier, Sandro Laffranchini, Erich Oscar Hutter, Riccardo Bovino and Willen Ranck, Michael Flaksman,  Marianne Chen, Luc Toten, Augustin Lefevbre, Vadim Pavlov, Enrico Bronzi, Rocco Filippini. He is winner in several national and international music competitions. He has performed in numerous concerts as a soloist and in orchestra in many italian and foreign cities such as: Palermo, Siracusa, Naples, Perugia, Turin, Lucca, Florence, Rome, Graz, Nancy, Huelva. He performing also with famous soloist ssuch as:Gianpiero Sobrino, LucioDegani, Sebastiano Zorza, Claudio Marini, Enzo Ligresti, Demetrio Comuzzi, Pavel Berman, Stefano Pagliani, Claudio Marini, Jensang Lee, Bertrand Giraud, Anton Niculescu, Louis Lanzarini, Katia Ricciarelli, Marcello Giordani, Daniela Schillaci, Simone Piazzola, Lucia Aliberti, Cosetta Gigli, Massimiliano Drapello, Sergey Girscenko, Dmitry Sinkosky. He has collaborate dwith famous conductors Riccardo Muti, Carlo Rizzari, Tomaz Bugaj, Michael Brousseau, Stefano Ranzani, DaisukeSoga, Carlo Moreno Volpini, Walther Themel, Gert Meditz, Gesualdo Bufalini, Claudia Patane, Orlando Pulin, Massimo Incarbone, Antonio Florio, Francisco NavarroLara, Juan Rodriguez, Gerardo Estrada, Missak Baghboudarian, Montserrat De La Cruz.

He haspublished books for publishing houses: Simple of Macerata, Book Sprint of Salerno and other book available in Amazon. He is co-author with the famous conductor Navarro Lara of two best-sellers books in Amazon. He has recorded CDs and DVDs for the PDR record of Catania and Ragusa's Shine Records. In 2004 he obtained also a degree in Pharmacy at the University of Catania. He has been associated with the S.I.E.M (Italian Society of Musical Education) since 2008 and to the Suzuki Italian Institute. His students have already distinguished in national music contest and in auditions for  prestigious youth orchestras such as the Junior Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. From 2010 is President of the Cultural and Musical Association "A.M.A.C." of Gravina di Catania that is actively involved in the diffusion of classical music in Italy, organizing musical instrumental courses (with particular attention to teaching in early age). The association organize some musical events, concerts, "Nellina Cappellani Costa" Music Competition and the Santa Cecilia Music Festival at the Theater Rex according with the Etna Santa Cecilia Music Academy of Giarre (Catania). The association actively collaborates with the Haffner Orchestra of Catania and has collaborated with Sicilian Polyphonic Choir, AFEM (Euro Festival Mediterranean Association) and University of Catania.

He has been the Cello teacher at Conservatory "Fausto Torrefranca" of Vibo Valentia, in Music High School in Enna, in Conservatory in Cesena. Currently he's teaching cello at the Secondary School of Music "De Cruyllas" of Catania (Italy).

National first-class performer, former head of timpani of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Minister of percussion music.

Over the years, Zhou Xiong has participated in many major performance activities at home and abroad, including: China Art Festival, Beijing International Music Festival, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, New York Central Park concert, China France Culture Year Concert, Tokyo crazy music festival, etc., and cooperated with many famous musicians, including Ricardo Muti, Zubin meta, Kurt Mazur, Zheng Mingxun Charles dituwa, Yo Yo Ma, mesky, Zuckerman, pandelesky, Zhu Jianer, Tan Dun, Chen Qigang, etc. Zhou Xiong has accumulated rich performance experience and a large number of band performance works due to his long-term band performance career.

As a national first-class performer, Zhou Xiong also actively engaged in music education. As the main planner, he participated in the most internationally influential percussion Art Festival in China - IPEA International Percussion Festival and International Percussion competition. Zhou Xiong is currently teaching in Shanghai Conservatory of music. He is a professor and graduate supervisor of the Department of modern instrumental music and percussion. He is also the vice president of the percussion society of China Musicians Association and the deputy director of the percussion Professional Committee of Shanghai Musicians Association. In 2015, Zhou Xiong served as the executive director and executive director of IPEA International Percussion Education Association.

Trombone performer, educator, director of China Wind Musicians Association, associate professor of trombone of Shanghai Conservatory of music, director of wind music discipline of Affiliated Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of music, President of Shanghai bass brass Research Association, visiting trombone professor of Jilin art college. He graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of music in 1989 and studied in Munich Conservatory of music in 1998 (senior visiting scholar). International brand Michael rath and Giddings.

Associate professor of the Department of orchestra, master's supervisor and director of the teaching and Research Department of Guanle, Zhejiang Conservatory of music. Member of the 9th School of Zhejiang Province. He is a member of the China flute professional committee, chairman of the flute Professional Committee of Zhejiang Musicians Association and vice president of Zhejiang guanyue society.

The performance has won the special award of international competition of Chinese works, the solo ensemble of Zhejiang music and Dance Festival, and held more than one "He Jing solo concert". The students were awarded more than 40 awards for domestic and international flute solo and ensemble events, and more than ten years of construction of Flute Orchestra. Twelve special concert of Flute Orchestra was held in Hangzhou Concert Hall of Jiaxing theatre of Red Star Theatre. The orchestra has won awards such as the college students' Art Festival. He is the art director of Zhejiang Province youth Flute Orchestra.

There are seven textbooks of Shanghai Music Publishing House, two video courses published by Zhejiang University Press and two teaching materials for Flute examination. Presided over seven projects such as provincial hall and published more than ten professional academic papers.

Zongoraművész, Egyetemi Tanársegéd

Tanulmányok:

1984-1989      Egressy Béni Zeneiskola Miskolc, tanár:Kígyossyné Komoroczi Zsuzsa

1989-1998      Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Előkészítő tagozat, tanár: Falvainé           Keveházy Gyöngyi

1996-1998      Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Zongora Szak, tanár: Nádor György

1998-2000      La Schola Cantorum Paris, tanár Eugen Indjic

2000-2002      Liszt Ferenc zeneművészeti Egyetem Zongora Szak, tanár. Dráfi Kálmán és Várjon Dénes

2008-2012      Szegedi Tudományegyetem Pszichológia Szak

2012-               Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Doktori Iskola Korrepetitor Szak

Díjak, fesztiválok:

1988    Megyei Zongoraverseny Sátoraljaújhely 2.helyezés

1989    Országos Zongoraverseny Nyíregyháza 2.helyezés

1990    Usti Nad Laben Nemzetközi Zongoraverseny 4.helyezés

1991    szólóest a Clermont Ferrand-i zenei fesztiválon, Franciaországban

1992    magyar zenei küldöttség tagja a Sevillai Expón 6 koncerten való közreműködés

1993    Nemzetközi Zongoraverseny, Roma Olaszország, 3. helyezés

1994    Londonban 3 koncert a miskolci Zeneművészeti Főiskola zenekarának szólistájaként

1995    Nemzetközi Zenei Verseny Tokio, Japán, 2.helyezés

1996    kamarakoncert a La Sorbonne-on Párizsban Ábrahám Mártával

1999    Nemzetközi Zongoraverseny Trapani, Olaszország      döntős

2000     szólóest  Clermont Ferrandban (Franciaorszag)

2001    3 kamarakoncert Zalai Antal hegedűművésszel a Guadalajarai Nemzetközi Művészeti Fesztiválon, Mexikóban

2002    Jeuness Musical zenei versenyén a legjobb zongorakísérőnek járó díj Aix Les Bain, Franciaország

2006    Kamarakoncert sorozat Budapesten Ábrahám Márta hegedűművésszel

2010    Erdődy Kamarazenekarral Bach Zongoraversenyek, Miskolcon a Művészetek Házában

2012    Maxim Vengerov hegedűművésszel próbák

2016    Tokióban, es Osakaban kamarakoncertek Hanaoka Saki hegedűművésszel

2019     Beethoven G Dur Zongoraverseny a Budapesto Vigadoban az Dohnanyi Academy keretein belül

Oktatói tevékenység

2002-2008: a LFZE hegedű és fagott tanszakának tanársegéd korrepetitora, Perényi Eszter, Ábrahám Márta, Környei Zsófia hegedű és Lakatos György fagott osztályában

2006   Szombathelyi Bartok Szeminárium hivatalos korrepetitora Prof.Pauk Gyorgy hegedűművész osztályában

2008 óta a Vonós Tanszék tanársegéd korrepetitora Perényi Eszter, Szabadi Vilmos, Rásonyi Leila, Környei Zsófia és Ábrahám Márta osztályában

2010   Szombathelyi Bartok Szeminárium hivatalos korrepetitora Lakatos György fagottművész osztályában

2012 hivatalos zongorakísérő a Nemzetközi Szigeti Hegedűversenyen

2014 hivatalos korrepetitor Prof.Pauk György hegedű mesterkurzusán az Óbudai Társaskörben

2016 hivatalos korrepetitor Gál Tamás karmesterkurzusan Miskolcon

2016 hivatalos korrepetitor Hollerung Gábor karmesterkurzusán Budapesten

2011 óta minden évben mesterkurzust szerveznek Ábrahám Mártával fiatal hegedűsök számára, Zebegényben

Dong Dejun, Clarinet Professor of China Zhejiang Conservatory of Music,  Special Allowance Expert dedicated by the State of Council of China, Winner of "Ou Yongxi Outstanding Music Education Award" by the Ministry of Culture of China. He has been ranked as ”Scholar of Qianjiang River” Distinguished Professor in Higher Education of Zhejiang Province and chosen by the “151 Talents Project(first level)”of Zhejiang Province. He is the Vice President of the Clarinet Society of Chinese Musicians Association and a Yamaha Artist. He is currently holding the post of Director of the Orchestral Department of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Director of the International Chamber Music Center of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Director of the national-level first-class undergraduate professional site for music performance construction, and Director of the provincial-level first-class curriculum in universities of Zhejiang province. He has served as the judge and President of the jury for many major competitions at home and abroad, such as Chinese Music Golden Bell Award Competition, Asia-Pacific Cup International Music Competitions, Russia St. Petersburg International Music Competition, the 10th Italy “Giacomo Mensi” International Clarinet Competition (President of the jury) , and the 14th Italy “S. Mercadante” International Clarinet Competition (President of the jury), etc.

Anna Rutkowska-Schock was born in Wrocław, Poland. She started her piano education under Prof. Helena Furmanowicz. As a student, she was a laureate of many national competitions; in 1992 she was the finalist of a 4-stage European Chopin Competition in Darmstad.

In 1996, she was the Laureate of The Stage of the Young at the Piano Festival in Słupsk, Poland. In 1997, she was awarded a scholarship to attend Boise State University (Idaho, USA) by Dr. Madeleine Forte. She graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree in Piano Performance with Magna Cum Laude distinction. She completed her master’s degree under Prof. Grzegorz Kurzyński at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław.

In 2003, Anna received the Best Collaborative Pianist award at the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition in Sicily and, as a result, performed many times at Carnegie Hall in New York, other American venues (Yamaha Hall, New York University, Radford University and University of Arkansas) and in England.  She has been invited as the official pianist for international music competitions in Rome (2004), Peru (Trujillo, 2005), Slovakia (Trnava, 2006-2010), Sicily (Ragusa IBLA, 2004-2015) and several vocal competitions in Poland. Presently Anna is the official pianist for the Australian Flute Festival. During its last edition, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2019, Anna played a recital of Ian Clarke's compositions with the composer and illustrated on the piano all the works submitted for a composition competition for pieces for flute and piano. She is also an official pianist for the annual National Wanda Wiłkomirska Violin Competition in Częstochowa, Poland.

So far the pianist has received more than 50 awards for Best Piano Collaborator from different music competitions in Poland and abroad. She has been a jury member of several editions of the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Sicily and of the International Piano Competition in Surabaya (Indonesia) in 2011.

In 2006, as a result of successful auditions at Juilliard School, she received a full scholarship to take part in the 2-month Summer Academy of Music, organized by Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara, California. During this course she mastered her collaborative piano skills under Anne Epperson and Jonathan Feldman. In 2007 she was the artistic director of the Festival of American Music in Wrocław.

In 2016 Anna joined an Australian chamber music group named The Hourglass Ensemble with which she has taken part in many concerts in Poland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia. The ensemble mostly promotes music by contemporary Australian composers and performs the most prominent compositions of well-known chamber music repertoire. Each project is crowned with a performance at Sydney Opera House. So far Anna has performed in the following Australian venues: Cathedral of St. Stephen in Brisbane, Wesley Music Centre in Canberra, the Polish Consulate in Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Independent Theatre in Sydney and the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House. The ensemble has also performed live on-air with an interview on the radio station Fine Music 102.5 in Sydney. 

In 2022 Anna Rutkowska-Schock performed at a 2-week International Collaborative Piano Festival in Puerto Rico (San Germán), organized by Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano.  At the end, Anna accepted an invitation to join its committee which is now working on organizing the next edition of the festival in 2023.

So far the pianist has performed on five continents, with people from about 40 different countries. Apart from performing, Anna also dedicates her time to research. She gave lectures during international piano conferences in the USA (New York, 2005), Indonesia (Surabaya, 2011) and Puerto Rico (San Germán, 2022).

Anna Rutkowska-Schock is employed as a professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław (with a post-doctoral degree) and teaches at the Ryszard Bukowski Secondary Music School in Wrocław. To date, she has published five CDs, four with French music (solo and chamber) and one with contemporary Polish music. In 2017 she received an award by the Polish Minister of Art and Culture called Meritorious for the Polish Culture.