Dario Marrini zongoraművész

Dario Marrini

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 klarinétművész

Salvatore Baronilli

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 fuvolaművész

Claudio Montafia

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.

Thomas Kreuzberger

Thomas Kreuzberger

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

Zhang Xiongguan

Zhang Xiongguan

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

Milana Chernyavska

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.

István Székely zongoraművész

István Székely pianist

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.

Giuseppe Martone zongoraművész

Giuseppe Martone

Rómában született, a State Conservatory of Music  "Licinio Refice"-n Frosinoe-ban dicsértesen diplomázott zongorából.

Prof. Moryline Monget-nál jazz zenét tanult Maestro Gerardo Lacoucci-val, később kompozíciókat tanult és az Advanced Piano számos kurzusán vett részt Olaszországban és külföldön. Kiemelve a legfontosabbakat: Masters Vladimir Krpon-nel állt színpadra Sorrentoban, Aquiles Delle Vigne-vel Ftainéban és a salzburgi Mozarteiumban lépett fel Aldo Ciudinével, továbbá Beno Carinoval Rómában, Florenceben, Nápolyban és a Liszt Ferenc Akadémiában Weinmarban. 1991 óta mindig előkelő helyen végzett a nemzetközi zongoraversenyeken.

Számos nemzetközi zongoraversenyen mérettette meg magát, 1981 óta rendszeresen ad kamarakoncerteket kamaraegyüttesekkel, illetve szólistaként zenekari kísérettel.

Több olasz városban és különböző országban adja elő repertoárját, ami Bach-tól egészen a XX. századi szerzőkig terjed.

A romai Zeneakadémia művészeti igazgatója, illetve a római nemzetközi "Akadémiai Díj" versenyének és a római Akadémia Fesztivál és Jazz Akadémia Fesztiválnak Saracinescoban.

Giorgia Alessandra Brustia

Giorgia Alessandra Brustia

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.

Prof. Elena Bagrova

Elena Yurievna Bagrova

Elena Bagrova a Gnessin Orosz Zeneakadémia professzora, ahol zongora duettet és kamaraegyüttest oktat.

Moszkvában született és zongorát tanult a Gnessin Orosz Zeneakadémián prof. Lina Bulatova irányítása alatt. Korán kamarazene és zongora duett előadásába és tanításába kezdett, fellépett Oroszországban, Franciaországban, Németországban, Norvégiában, Olaszországban és Litvániában, és számos díjat nyert Oroszországban és Litvániában. Miután kitüntetéssel diplomázott, tanárként és kísérőként kezdte karrierjét a Gnessin Akadémián.

Kamarazene professzoraként Prof. Bagrova Oroszországban, Bulgáriában, Japánban, Horvátországban, Kínában, Koreában, az Egyesült Államokban és Franciaországban tanított hallgatókat, hallgatói több mint 100 díjat nyertek rangos nemzetközi versenyeken, többek között Oroszországban, Olaszországban, az Egyesült Királyságban, Franciaországban, Görögországban, Portugáliában és Litvániában.

Prof. Bagrova rendszeresen tart együttes és zenei stilisztikai mesterkurzusokat és tanfolyamokat, valamint zsűritag volt különböző regionális és nemzetközi zenei versenyeken Oroszországban, Olaszországban és Litvániában.

Daniel Dodds

Daniel Dodds

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

Peltzer Ferenc

Peltzer Ferenc

Gitárművész

Peltzer Ferenc felsőfokú tanulmányait a Budapesti Liszt Ferenc Főiskolán és a Miskolci Egyetemen folytatta. Szinte minden zeni korszak gitárzenéjét játszotta. Diplomája után a régi zene felé fordult, lantozni is tanult, de a jazz iránt is érdeklődik. Portugál gitárművész barátjával hosszú éveken keresztül bossa-novát is játszottak. Jelenleg aktívan vesz részt a kortárs hazai szerzők darabjainak bemutatásában. Alapító tagja a NobilArt Művészeti Egyesületnek. Rendszeresen ad koncerteteket Magyarországon és a környező országokban. Tevékenységéért 2010-ben Artisjus díjban részesült.

Tanári pályája során növendékei sikeresen szerepeltek a különböző versenyeken, fesztiválokon, illetve többen választották a zenei pályát közülük. Alapítója a Budapesti Zeneiskolai Gitárfesztiválnak és a Gitáros Kamarazene Koncerteknek. Több verseny zsűrijének volt a tagja (többek között az országos gitárversenynek). 2015-től az Oktatási Hivatal szakértője, 2019-től a Budapesti Szabolcsi Bence Zeneiskola intézményvezetője. Tanári munkásságáért Belváros-Lipótváros Művelődéséért díjat kapott.

Kevin Jun Zhao zongoraművész

Dr. Kevin Jun Zhao

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.

Adorján Gabriella zongoraművész

Adorján Gabriella zongoraművész

Adorján Gabriella 1982-ben született Marosvásárhelyen. Zongora tanulmányait a Budapesti Szent István Király Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola után a Bázel-i Zeneakadémián majd a Zürich-i Zeneakadémián folytatta. Tanárai voltak többek között Kiss Gyula, Hámori Angelika, Gyimesi László, Filippo Gamba és Ulrich Koella. Fontos impulzusokat tovàbbi mesterkurzusokon Rohmann Imrétől, Elisso Virsaladze-tól, Hans Jörg Strub-tól és Michael Biehl-től kapott.

2006 óta zongoratanárként valamint zongorakísérőként dolgozott több neves intézményben, mint a Bàzel-i Zeneakadémián, és a Zürich-i Konzervatóriumban. Jelenleg Svájcban egy Zug-i zeneiskolában dolgozik mint zongoratanár és zongorakísérő, ahol rendszeresen felkérik az «Ifjú Tehetségek» gondozására.

Európaszerte kocertezik különböző kamarazenei formàciókban és szólóban is.

Zhu Qi

Zhu Qi

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 zongoraművész

Federica Monti

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

Korcsolán Orsolya hegedűművész

Korcsolán Orsolya hegedűművész

Korcsolán Orsolya hegedűművész a közelmúltban a Deutsche Grammophonnál, a világ legrangosabb komolyzenei kiadójánál Kuti Sándor kamaraműveit, valamint ennek nyomán a London Philharmonic Orchestra és Dennis Russel Davis karmester közreműködésével Miguel Kertsman neki dedikált hegedűversenyét rögzítette lemezre.

A Scene magazin szerint hegedűjátéka „szívszorítóan gyönyörű”, a Pizzicato szerint őt hallgatni „hihetetlen élmény”, a Crescendo Magazine „érzelemmel teli” előadásmódját méltatja. "Boszorkányos technika, csodálatosan egyéni hegedűhang és magávalragadó színpadi kisugárzás" (Jeremy Kaplan, TIME magazine) ötvöződik előadásaiban, melyeket New York-i bemutatkozása óta széles körű nemzetközi figyelem kísér.

Kamarazenészkét partnerei között találjuk a Grammy-díjra jelölt David Krakauer klarinétművészt, az ugyancsak Grammy jelölt és Echo-díj nyertes Avi Avital mandolinművészt, valamint a Wiener Symphoniker szólamvezetőit. Fellép a ‘Kammersymphonie der Wiener Symphoniker’, valamint olyan világhírű karmesterek koncertmestereként mint Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson Thomas és Christoph Eschenbach.

Több ízben a Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar, a Raiding-i Liszt Fesztivál, a bécsi Musikverein valamint a New York-i Shir Amy Ensemble szólistája, nevéhez fűződik Karl Amadeus Hartmann Concerto Funebre című hegedűversenyénak magyarországi bemutatója.

Első két hangfelvétele, MOSAIC -klasszikus zsidó témákat felvonultató kompozíciók hegedűre és zongorára, valamint KornGOLDmark -Goldmárk Károly és Eric Korngold műveit bemutató lemeze a rangos Solo Musica München kiadásában került a boltokba.

Immáron harmadik, a Deutsche Grammophon által jegyzett albuma a tragikus sorsú, mindeddig ismeretlen, Holokausztban meggyilkolt magyar zeneszerző, Kuti Sándor munkásságának állít emléket és mutatja be eddig soha nem hallott kamarazenei kompozícióit.

Elhivatott tolmácsolója és kutatója a Holokausztban elnémított zeneszerzők munkásságának. Ezen munkásságához kapcsolódóan a Holokauszt Dokumentációs Központ és Emlékhely 'Hiányzó láncszemek' koncertsorozatának egyik megálmodója, a Zsidó Kultúrális- és Nyári fesztivál nagykövete világszerte, a budapesti Goldmark Fesztivál valamint a Jüdische Kulturwochen Wien rezidens művésze és művészeti tanácsadója.

A fiatal hegedűművész 12 éves korától a Liszt Ferenc Zeneakadémia növendéke volt Budapesten, ahol kitüntetéssel vehette át diplomáját. Tanulmányait Sir Solti György tanácsára New Yorkban folytatta, a ‘The Juilliard School’-on, ahol Dorothy DeLay és Itzhak Perlman irányítása alatt szerezte meg mesterdiplomáját. New Yorkban nyerte el a Dorothy DeLay díjat, és a Cornelius Vander Starr díjat, két olyan presztízs értékű elismerést, melyet csak kivételes tehetségű művészek nyerhetnek el.

A Bécsben élő hegedűművész hangversenyei és nemzetközi mesterkurzusai mellett a császárváros szívében, a Pálffy-palotában működő "Musikschule in Wien" valamint az "International Palffy Masterclasses" megálmodója és igazgatója.

www.orsolyakorcsolan.com

Roberto Galletto

Roberto Galletto

Eugenio Bagnoli kamarazenei hagyományának örököse (A.Casella, az N.Milstein, a H.Szeryng, az Y.Menuhin, a Z.Francescatti, a J.Starker), ami képzésében is egyedülálló, a legmagasabb kitüntetéssel diplomázott a "B. Marcello" konzervatóriumban Velencében. Franco Gulli, Marco Zuccarini és a New York-i Egyetem-zenei Tanszék kurzusain vett részt. Rendszeresen fellép a velencei Gran Teatro La Fenice-ben, a veronai Teatro Filarmonico-ban, a triestei Verdi Színházban, a Mantua-i Teatro Bibiena-ban, a firenzei Palazzo Strozzi-ban.

A művész több száz koncertet adott Olaszországban, Európában, Oroszországban, Malajziában és Afrikában. Együttműködik olyan zenészekkel, mint a hegedűművész Felix Ayo és Georg Monch, a tenor Luigi Alva, a szoprán Katia Ricciarelli, a mezzosoprano Sara Mingardo, a hegedűművész Giuliano Fontanella, az első fuvola RAI Nemzeti Szimfonikus Zenekara Dante Millozzi és mások. Nagy sikert aratott Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, stb. koncertjeivel, és a Ljubljanai Rádió és Televízió zenekarral.
A repertoár hatalmas: magában foglalja a tizennyolcadik századi dalokat és a különböző szerzők teljes ciklusát, számos Mozart-zongora és hegedű -szonátát, Mozart és Brahms zongora-duettjének munkáját, a Hummel Sonatát fuvolával...stb.

Felkérték, hogy játsszon a világhírű tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, a mezzosoprano Giulietta Simionato és mások nagy művészekkel; élőben belföldi és külföldi televíziós műsorokban. Felvételeket készített a Decca, a Newton Compton, a Rivo Alto, az Idyllium, az Inedita CD és a Metis stúdiók számára. Gyakran zsűri elnök vagy tagja a nemzeti és nemzetközi zongoraművészeti és kamarazenei versenyeknek, rendszeresen kurzusokat és mesterkurzusokat tart Olaszországban és külföldön (Poznań Paderewski Akadémia - Lengyelország, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheimben - Észtország, Észt Zenei Színház és Színház Tallinn - Észtország, Kazán Állami Konzervatórium, Oroszország stb.)

Diákjait gyakran különböző olasz és nemzetközi versenyeken jutalmazzák. Évekig számos koncert sorozat művészeti vezetője és versenyek szervezője.
Az A.Gi.Mus Nemzeti Művészeti Igazgatóságának tagja. és az A.Gi.Mus Fano Marche-Rotary Club Fano elnöke. Rómában a "S. Cecilia" Zeneművészeti Állami Konzervatóriumban tanít, az "Európai Kamarazenei Tanárok Szövetségének" pedig az intézményes tagja.

www.robertogalletto.it

Kiss Julianna

Julianna Kiss

Miskolcon születtem, zenei tanulmányaimat 5 évesen kezdtem édesapám segítésével. Zongoraművész tanárnak gyerekkorom óta készültem.Tanulmányaim:

  • MDW Zeneművészeti Egyetem (Bécs) Posztgraduális képzés (zongora, kamara, korrepetítor)
  • PTE Zeneművészeti Master Zongoraművész tanári szak
  • ELTE-PPK Közoktatás vezető, Mentor tanári szak, Pedagógus Szakvizsga - Kovács-módszer
  • Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola, Miskolc
  • Bartók Béla Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola, Miskolc
  • Egressy Béni Zeneiskola, Miskolc 

Zongoratanáraim:

Bacsa Tiborné, Csabay Csilla, Balázs Adrienne, Kincses Margit, Király Csaba, Thomas Kreuzberger, Eun Ju Lee, Yuki BatikTovábbá részt vettem többek között Falvai Sándor, Keveházi Gyöngyi,Némethy Attila, Gyimesi László, Vásáry Tamás, Malcolm Bilson, Szilasi Alex kurzusain.

Koncertek:

Olaszország, Ausztria, Svájc, Szlovákia, Szlovénia, Lengyelország Kárpátalja, Felvidék. Számos jótékonysági koncertet adtam itthon és külföldön egyaránt.

X. International Music Competition „Musica Insieme” III.díj.
5th Concorso Internazionale “ Don Vincenzo Vitti “. III. díj.

Tanítványaim nemzetközi, országos, regionális versenyeken több mint 500 díjat nyertek.
A tanításomban mindig fontos pillér volt a tehetséggondozás, valamint a zene és a hangszer megszerettetése és a fiatal tehetségek támogatása.

Kitüntetések, díjak:

  • 2023: MAGYAR EZÜST ÉRDEMKERESZT
  • 2013: A zeneoktatásban és tehetséggondozásban végzett kiemelkedő munkámért az EMMI BONIS BONA – A NEMZET TEHETSÉGEIÉRT díjban részesített.

Pályám fontos eredményei:

2012-ben Ferencvárosban létre hoztam a tehetségnapot.
2014-től a Nemzeti Pedagógus Kar tagja vagyok2014-ben a pedagógusok fokozata szerint Mester tanári minősítést szereztem2015-től zenei szaktanácsadóként is dolgozom
2016-ban alapító tagja vagyok a Danubia Talents Nemzetközi Zenei rendezvényeknek.2016-tól nemzetközi zongora mesterkurzusokat tartok: Magyarország, Olaszország, Ausztria.
2016-tól nemzetközi zenei versenyek zsűritagja vagyok: Magyarországon, Olaszországban, Spanyolországban, Ausztriaban - 23 nemzetközi versenyen voltam zsűritag.
2018-ban ERASMUS Pályázaton vettem részt növendékeimmel Olaszországban.

Munkámban fontos elem a Kovács-módszer, melynek lelkes képviselője és hirdetője vagyok.Dr. Pásztor Zsuzsa Phd, ZMG programjának vezetője, egyetemi oktatója így nyilatkozott munkámról:
„Gratulálok a sok szép eredményhez, amit a gyerekekkel elértél. Ez mind azt mutatja, hogy jó helyen van a Kovács-módszer a kezedben.”

Publikáció, cikk:

 

Drahomira Biligova

Drahomira Biligova pianist

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.

Prof. Rintaro Akamatsu

Prof. Rintaro Akamatsu

Oitán (Japán) született 1978-ban. Két évesen kezdett zongorázni és hegedűlni, hat évesen csellózni. Sok koncerten és turnén vett részt gyerekkora óta. Tíz éves korában végzte el a Mozart’s concerto with cadenza extemporaneously. 1990-ben az országos "Japán Diákok Zenei Versenye" után számos díjat nyert Japánban. 2000-ben az első nemzetközi díját a "Clara Schumann" Nemzetközi Zongora Versenyen érte el, harmadik helyezett lett. A ZDF tv műsorában Martha Argrich és Dr .Joachim Kaiser zsűri tagok egy intelligens és tehetséges zongoristaként emelték ki.

A következő néhány évben több mint 10 díjat nyert különböző nemzetközi versenyen.

Zenetudomány szakon végzett a Kobe Egyetemen és megkapta a Diplôme supérieur de concertiste (a l'unanimité avec félicitations du Jury) minősítést zongora és kamara zenéből az  Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.

Düsseldorfi, párizsi és budapesti tartózkodása idején az alábbi mestereknél tanult: Mikhail Voskresensky, France Clidat, Jean Micault, Nina Patarcec, Christian Ivaldi, Nádor György, Kocsis Zoltán.

Nagysikerű koncerteket adott többek között Szentpéterváron (2000), Düsseldorfban (2001-2013), Taipeiben (2002), Párizsban (2003-2005), Beppu Argerich Fesztiválon (2004), Rómában (2005), Budapesten (2005-2007), Bogotában (2010), Bécsben (2013).

Évente több, mint 60 koncertet ad Japánban szólistaként és kamara zenekarban. A KING INTERNATIONAL 2014-ben adta ki CD-jét.

Professzorként több, mint 200 tanítványa nyert különböző versenyeken. Aktívan vesz részt versenyeken mint zsűri tag, illetve számos újságban és magazinban publikál. Ő a japán Liszt Társaság elnöke, 2016. áprilisában az akadémia vendég professzora lett.

Elio Orio

Elio Orio

Elio Orio a padovai Pollini Állami Konzervatórium igazgatója.

Zenei tanulmányait az Asti helyi iskolában kezdte, ahol később 20 éven át hegedűt tanított.

Tanulmányait Camillo Grasso-val folytatta (elsőhegedűs a római Operaházban), Corrado Romano-val (Oto Ughi tanára) és Franco Gullival (koncert előadó és tanár az Egyesült Államokbeli Bloomingron Egyetemen).

Diplomája megszerzése előtt elkezdett dolgozni a legfontosabb Nemzeti Zenekarokkal (RAI Nemzeti Televízió, Carlo Felice Színház Genovában, Rrómai Operaház, Torinoi Regio Operaház és másokkal)

Későbbi tanulmányait a kamarazenei tanulmányoknak szentelte, és megalapította az Athenaeum Zongorakvartettet, és számos díjat nyert különböző versenyeken.

Emellett számos jelentős koncertet adott, és a sienai Chigiana Akadémián folytatta tanulmányait (egy támogatásnak köszönhetően), ahol elnyerte az Akadémia Érdemdíját.

Bruno Canino-val és Pier Narcio Masi-val játszott kvartettet akiket a legfontosabb olasz zongoristák között tartanak számon.

Emellett, gyakran szólókoncertezett és első hegedűs volt számos olasz zenekarban.

Ő alapította az Asti Kamaraegyüttest és támogatta az Asti Szimfonikus Zenekart, aminek az első koncertjén, az Alfiteri Színházban, Astiban, saját maga vezényelt.

Később konzervatóriumi tanár lett.

1999 óta nyaranta zeneismereti kurzusokat, és mesterkurzusokat tart. Tartott már kurzust Malagán, Oviedoban, (Spanyolország) Cipruson, Besztercebányán (Szlovákia), Porto-ban és Braganca-ban (Portugália), Isztanbulban (Törökország), Timisioar-ban (Románia), Thesszalonikában (Görögörszág), Francisco Beltrao-ban (Brazília), Kínában (többek között Beijin, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuhan), Kazahsztánban (Astana és Almati).

Játszott továbbá Olaszországban, Svájcban, Németországban, Ausztriában, Finnországban, Spanyolországban, Portugáliában, Görögországban, Szlovákiában, Cseh Köztársaságban, Brazíliában, Kínában, Kazahsztánban, Cipruson és Szíriában.

Meghívták az Állami Konzervatóriumba, Szentpétervárra egy zeneoktatási találkozóra.

Emellett diplomát szerzett brácsa szakon.

Gyakran hívják meg az Isztanbuli Tefken Filharmonikus Zenekar tagjának, amelyet több mint 20 ország legjobb zenészei alkotnak.

2009 novemberétől 2015-ig az adriai Buzzolla Zenei Konzervatórium igazgatója volt.

Eckhardt Gábor

Eckhardt Gábor

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)

Carles Lama

Carles Lama

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.

Adriano Del Sal

Adriano Del Sal

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 pianist

Gabriele Tomasello

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.

Mina Mendelson hegedűművész

Mina Mendelson violinist

Mina Mendelson, szerb hegedűművész a belgrádi Zeneakadémián végzett, ahol mind a mesterképzés, mind a PhD követelményeit teljesítette, ez utóbbit a legmagasabb szinten. Elsőként nyerte el Szerbiában a Hegedűművészet Doktora címet. Tanulmányait Fern Raskovic professzor és a kiváló David Oistrakh tanítványaként végezte. Részt vett Sreten Krstic, a müncheni Szimfonikus Zenekar vezetőjének, Mateja Marinkovic, a Királyi Zeneakadémia professzorának, valamint Sabine Grollmus és Stefan  Barratdue mesterkurzusain.

Tanulmányai során Dr. Mendelson számos rangos nemzeti, regionális és nemzetközi versenyen nyert díjat. A Balkán régió legnevesebb koncerttermeiben adott elő ,többek között Kolarac-Belgrád zsinagógájában, Novi Sad és Glazbeni zavod- Belgrádban. Szólistaként számos fontos zenekarral lépett fel, többek között: Belgrád Strings ’Dusan Skovran’, Nis Szimfonikus Zenekar és St George Strings.

Dr. Mendelson kifinomult és elegáns stílusú előadóművész, aki aktív és sikeres kamarazenész is. A St George kvartett hallgatójaként és tagjaként részt vett David Takeno professzor mesterkurzusán a Guildhall Zeneiskolában. Kiemelkedő előadásainak köszönhetően elnyerte a norvég kormány  ösztöndíját a Kristiansand Egyetemre.

Szólistaként és kamarazenészként, valamint a Belgrád Strings ’Dusan Skovran’, St George Strings és a Zsidó Kamarazenekar vezető pozícióiban számos fesztiválon fellépett, többek között BEMUS, NOMUS, NIMUS, Ohrid Nyári Fesztivál és a Zsidó Kultúra Európai Napjai rendezvényeken. Fellépett továbbá Szófiában, Bodrumban, Sapancaban és Kalemegdanban különböző zenei fesztiválokon. Előadott Franciaországban, Angliában, Bulgáriában, Hollandiában, Horvátországban, Magyarországon, Montenegróban, Törökországban és Kínában, valamint hazájában, Szerbiában, ahol számos felvételt készített a vezető szerb rádió- és televíziócsatornák számára.

Elfoglalt előadóművészi pályafutása mellett Dr. Mendelson tanárként is működik. A Bölcsészettudományi Kar egyetemi docense, Nis- Szerbiában.

Sugár Gergely kürtművész

Sugár Gergely kürtművész

Sugár Gergely a Bécsi Szimfonikus zenekar kürtművésze, a zenekari társaság elnökeként, valamint a zenekar lemezkiadójának egyik igazgatójaként meghatározó szerepet vállal Európa ezen kiemelkedô hangszeres együttesének reprezentálásában. Mint a Graz-i Művészeti Egyetem professzora Oberschützenben, előadói munkássága mellett különös hangsúlyt fektet az ifjú zenészgeneráció képzésére.

Gergely Budapesten született, tanulmányait Bécsben, Budapesten majd Graz-ban folytatta Friedrich Gabler, Friedrich Ádám, majd pedig Hector McDonald osztályában. A Budapesti Fesztivál Zenekar, a Lausanne-i Kamarazenekar, majd pedig a Bécsi Szimfonikus Zenekar után a Maláj Filharmonikusok tagjaként szerepelt. A Bécsi Szimfonikusok történetében egyedülálló módon a kürtművészt 2008-ban a zenekar ismételten, másodszor is tagjai közé fogadta.

Karmesteri tanulmányait Kees Bakels irányítása alatt, David Gimčnez Carreras és Jorma Panula mesterkurzusain folytatta Szentpétervárott.

Edda Silvestri

Edda Silvestri

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.

Szilasi Alex

Alex Szilasi

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)

Tang Zhinuo

Tang Zhinuo

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

Ignác Csaba Filip

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.

Papp Sándor

Papp Sándor

Papp Sándor (1965) zenei tanulmányait a Debrecenben kezdte Tüske Andrásnál, majd a Kodály Zoltán Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskolába nyert felvételt ahol Adrovicz István és Papp István voltak a gitártanárai.

Felsőfokú tanulmányait a Pozsonyi Zeneakadémián folytatta, majd ott szerezte művésztanári diplomáját Jozef Zsapka növendékeként.

1990-ben a Párizsi Gitárverseny döntőjébe jutott. Számos kurzuson vett részt olyan kiváló mesterek mellett mint Roberto Aussel, David Russel, Alirio Diaz, Gianfranco Volpato, Wolfgang Lendle.

Rendszeresen koncertezik és kurzusokat tart hazájában és külföldön (Franciaország, Olaszország, Szlovákia, Cseh Köztársaság, Lengyelország, Dánia, Anglia, Horvátország, Spanyolország, Ausztrália, Mexikó).

Gitárversenyek magyarországi bemutatói fűződnek nevéhez (L.Letelier-Chile, a Debreceni Filharmónikus zenekarral, R.Charlton-Ausztrália, a Miskolci Reményi Ede kamarazenekarral.

Eddig négy CD-t jelentetett meg (1997, 2002, 2004, 2008).

A Gyöngyösi Nemzetközi Gitárfesztivál művészeti vezetője. Alapítója a Debreceni Gitárkvartettnek. Előadói doktorátusát 2007-ben szerezte a Pozsonyi Zeneakadémián. Jelenleg a Miskolci Egyetem Bartók Béla Zeneművészeti Intézetének és a Bartók Béla Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola  gitártanára.

Pászthy Julianna

Pászthy Julianna

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

Laki Krisztina

Laki Krisztina

Laki Krisztina magyar szoprán ének- és hang oktató Réti Józsefnél Budapesten tanult. Művészként debütált Bernben, Svájcban, és a németországi Düsseldorfban, ahol a Deutsche Oper am Rhein vezető tagjaként vett részt. Később vendégszerződései voltak a Kölnben, Stuttgartban, Hamburgban, Milánóban, Párizsban és Bécsben működő operaházakkal. (Több mint 40 premier előadáson vett részt.)

Számos koncert előadást tartott a repertoárja széles választékával a világ legrangosabb koncerttermeiben. Szívesen hívták fellépni nemzetközi fesztiválokra is.

Világhírű karmesterekkel dolgozott, mint 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, Pretre, Sir John Pritchard, Helmuth Rilling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Heinz Wallberg, Bruno Weil, Lothar Zagrosek.

Szintén világhírű rendezők voltak a munkatársai, mint John Dexter, Michael Hampe, Hans Hartleb, Leopold Lindtberg, Juri Ljubimow, Axel Manthey, Giancarlo del Monaco, Hans Neugebauer, Palitzsch Péter, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Otto Schenk.

Több, mint 50 hanglemez felvétel készült Laki Krisztinával.

2001-ben Laki Krisztina visszavonult az aktív énekléstől. Azóta arra szenteli magát, hogy átadja a klasszikus énekművészetben széles körű tapasztalatait és ismereteit a világ minden táján! Mesterkurzusokat tart, különböző zsűrik tagja, ének műhelyek vezetője,ezen kívül prezentációkat tart és számos egyetemen oktat.

Jelenleg az éneklés professzoraként dolgozik a "Hochschule für Künste", Bremenben.

Zhou Men

Zhou Men

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.

Chaerin Kim

Chaerin Kim

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

Li Deqin

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.

Song Yuchen

Song Yuchen

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.

Romina Casucci

Romina Casucci

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

Hruby Edit

Hruby Edit

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.

Joó Imola

Joó Imola

Budapesten született zenész- és lelkészcsaládban. Anyja Bartók növendék, öt testvére mind zenész volt. Zempléni Kornél tanítványa volt a Bartók Béla Konzervatóriumban, ahol kitüntetéssel végzett 1962-ben. Az érettségi bizonyítványt a Zenei Gimnáziumban szerezte. Kétszer megpróbált bejutni a budapesti Zeneakadémiára, de nem vették fel: hiányzott a KISZ-tagság, és apja messze földön híres prédikátor volt.

Ezért került Bécsbe, ahol azonnal fölvették az ottani Zeneakadémiára. Tanára a koncert-osztályon Hans Graf professzor volt. Kezdetben mint alkalmi munkás kereste a kenyerét, főleg újságárulásból, reklámkihordásból élt. Később privát tanított, és jó emberek is támogatták.

1969-ben megkapta a "Bécs Város Díjat“.

Koncert- és pedagógiai tanulmányait kitüntetéssel végezte. Írásbeli munkájának a témája a Kodály-módszer és annak a zongoristára gyakorolt hatása volt. Több országban tartott előadásokat erről a módszerről: Kanadában, Japánban, Ausztriában. Jelenleg is előkészületben van egy szeminárium erről a témáról. Zongora-mesterkurzusok, szemináriumok kísérik az útját.

A diplomák megszerzése után azonnal elkezdhetett tanítani, először zongora mellékszakon, azután megkapta a Különleges Tehetségek osztályának a vezetését. Nemzetközi zongoraversenyekre többször meghívják zsűritagnak.

Több tanítványa sikeres zongorista, néhányan kollégák már az Egyetemen, vagy tanárok a Mozarteumban, Zürichben.

Joó Imola az utóbbi években több zenekari koncerten szerepelt szólistaként: Németországban, Erdélyben, Bécsben. A Musikverein Aranytermében Mozartot játszott a K.und K. szimfonikus zenekarral.

2004-ben habilitált, azóta rendkívüli egyetemi tanár.

A bécsi Zeneművészeti Egyetem kitüntette 2007-ben Joó Imolát az Arany Erdem-díjjal.

2002-2007-ig vendégprofesszorként dolgozott a pozsonyi Konzervatóriumban.

Helyettes elnöke a bécsi Bornemisza Péter Társaságnak.

Legnagyobb sikere: gyermekei, Aron, Victoria, Gábor.

Giuliano Adorno zongoraművész

Giuliano Adorno

1999 júniusában diplomázott Antonio di Cristofano M ° irányítása alatt, majd az Ecole Normale-ban, Párizsban haladó kurzust látogatott M ° Nelson Delle Vigne-vel továbbá Madridban M ° Leonel Morales-szel.

Számos hazai és nemzetközi zongoraversenyen vett részt, folyamatos győzelmet aratott és rengeteg díjat nyert, mint például az "Accademia delle Muse" di Camaiore; "Citta di Pietra Ligure"; "Pinerolo della sua 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 nemzetközi zeneverseny, Mendelssohn zongoraverseny (Le), "Anton Garcia Abril" a Teruel.

Számos koncertet adott olasz és világszerte működő intézményekben, mint például a Salle Munch és a Salle Cortot; Concert Noble e Maison du commune de Anderlecht, Brüsszel; Sala de Plenos, "Manuel de Falla" előadóterem, Castello dell 'Alhambra, Granada; Asociacion Ars et Musica, Valencia; Parador de Xabia, Alicante; Volkshochschule Reutlingen, Stuttgart; Sinkt Andraa Kirke, Salisburgo; Societa Dante Alighieri, Berna; Grosseto Zongorafesztivál, Terme di Saturnia, Teatro di Cesenatico, Teatro Di Marina di Pietrasanta, Mendelssohn Fesztivál (LE), Chiesa dei Ss. Apostoli, Sala Baldini, Domus Talenti, Roma, Sala Monteverdi Cremona, Festival Echos Alessandria, Auditorium del conservatorio di Cagliari stb.).

Széles repertoárjában szólódarabok, kamarazenei darabok és több zongoraverseny is szerepel.  Kamarazenei projektekben olyan művészekkel működött együtt, mint például az oboa művész Albrecht Mayer, Elisabeth Norberg-Schultz szoprán énekes, Hans-Eberhard Dentler csellista.

Nemrég Japánban (Tokió / Nagoya / Chiba) turnézott az Olaszország / Japán diplomáciai kapcsolatok program keretében. 2016-ban előadta előadta G. Gershwin híres Rhapsody in Blue művét a Nemzeti Rendőrségi Állami Zenekarral, melyet Maurizio Billi vezényelt.

Folyamatosan együttműködik a Grosseto Szimfonikus Zenekarral, amellyel közelmúltban előadta a Rachmaninov Zongoraverseny opus 18. és Beethoven opus 15. Zongoraversenyét. Az Orbetello Zongoraverseny művészeti vezetője 2012 óta, és 2017 óta az Orbetello Nemzetközi Zongoraverseny alapítója és művészeti vezetője.

Ilaria Loatelli

Ilaria Loatelli

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.

Rossella Marcantoni

Rossella Marcantoni

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.

Gyivicsan György

Gyivicsan György

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.

Zhang Yan

Zhang Yan

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

Phu Koanantakool

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.

Szecsődi Ferenc hegedűművész

Szecsődi Ferenc

Szecsődi Ferenc 1954-ben született Budapesten. A Bartók Béla Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskolában Bodonyi István, a Zeneakadémián pedig Szűcs Mihály voltak a mesterei. Diplomája megszerzésével egyidejűleg elnyerte a Zeneakadémia Nagydíját.

Tanári pályafutását 1977-ben Szegeden, a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskolán kezdte, azóta számtalan tanítványa koncertezik vagy tanít országszerte és külföldön. Zenepedagógiai munkáját 2000-ben habilitált egyetemi tanári cím odaítélésével ismerték el. Nemzetközi szólókarrierje 1984-ben indult, amikor a Cziffra Alapítvány nagydíjasa lett. Azóta fellépett Európa számos nagyvárosának hangversenypódiumán Párizstól Bécsig, Bolognától Madridig, Prágától Zürichig vagy éppen Kijevig. Több zeneszerző, így Durkó Zsolt, Rózsa Pál, Kocsár Miklós vagy Huszár Lajos ajánlotta számára versenyműveit. 1992-ben az év legjobb előadóművészévé választották, és a következő évben Liszt-díjban részesült. Pedagógiai munkássága elismeréseképpen 1996-ban Weiner-díjjal tüntették ki. 2005 óta a Hubay Jenő Társaság elnöke.

2009-ben a Magyar Köztársaság Érdemes Művésze kitüntetést kapta. 2012 óta a Magyar Művészeti Akadémia rendes tagja. Lemezkiadványai közül a magyar hegedűirodalom klasszikus vonulata a jelentős. A Nagy magyar hegedűiskola című lemezt mind a lemezkedvelők tábora, mind a kritika elismerően fogadta.

A Hungaroton Classic-nál megjelent 13 CD-ből álló Hubay Jenő hegedű – zongora műveinek összkiadása egyedülálló vállalkozás, melyet a hazai és külföldi szaksajtó egyaránt felsőfokban méltatott. Magyar mesterhegedűn játszik, melyet Székely Márton készített 2006-ban.

Hornyák Balázs fuvolaművész

Hornyák Balázs

Hornyák Balázs fuvolaművész diplomáját a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Művészeti Karán szerezte. Pályáját a Szegedi Konzervatórium elvégzése után a Szegedi Nemzeti Színház és Szabadtéri Játékok Zenekarában kezdte. A zenekari feladatok mellett rendszeresen koncertezett, részt vett nemzetközi vendégszerepléseken, számos opera, operett és musical produkció, valamint ősbemutató közreműködőjeként megismerte az opera és színházi zene széles repertoárját. A zenei tanulmányok mellett angol nyelv és irodalmat, valamint kommunikációt is tanult. Szólistaként, kamarazenészként és zenekari művészként Európa számos országában, Oroszországban, Olaszországban, Szlovákiában, Belgiumban, Németországban, az Egyesült Királyságban és Svájcban is koncertezett. 2016-ban első magyarként elnyerte az Európai Zenei Tanács Ösztöndíját. Művészi munkája mellett nemzetközi zenei projektek vezetője, 2019-től a Kaposfest– Nemzetközi Zenei és Művészeti Fesztivál igazgatója és a Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar művészeti menedzsere. Fontos küldetésének tekinti a tehetséggondozást és a komolyzene új közönségének kinevelését.

Kazue Kuwana

Kazue Kuwana

Oboa művész, kulturális - művészeti szervező.

Jiang Lin

Jiang Lin

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.

Zhao Zhe

Zhao Zhe

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

Min Zhenqi

Min Zhenqi

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.

Piao Meixiang

Piao Meixiang

Flute professor and master supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of music.

President of Asian flute Union. Yamaha flute artist.

Zheng Zhou

Zheng Zhou

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

Alisa Katroshi

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.

Csáki András gitárművész

Csáki András

Csáki András generációjának kiemelkedő gitáros egyénisége. Játékának szuggesztivitása és érzékenysége a világ számos koncerttermének hallgatóságát magával ragadta Japántól Észak-Amerikáig. Szakmai lapokban több kritikus is kiemelte, hogy fölényes hangszeres tudásával sosem él vissza, technikáját mindig a zenei elképzeléseinek szolgálatába állítja.

Tanulmányait Budapesten a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetemen, illetve Los Angelesben a University of Southern California Thornton School of Music-on folytatta. 2014-ben Budapesten a Zeneakadémián szerzett DLA fokozatot. Tanárai Eötvös József, Scott Tennant és William Kanengiser voltak. A Thornton School of Music diákjaként számos alkalommal nyílt lehetősége rá, hogy tudását az egyetem tiszteletbeli professzorával, Pepe Romero-val tökéletesítse.

Diákévei alatt olyan rangos nemzetközi versenyek győztese, mint a Tokiói Nemzetközi Gitárverseny (2008) az olaszországi Michele Pittaluga Nemzetközi Gitárverseny (2009) vagy a spanyolországi Julian Arcas Nemzetközi Gitárverseny (2011)

Szólókarrierje mellett kiemelt szerepet szentel a kamarazenének is. 2015-ben adta elő először Pierre Boulez "Gazdátlan kalapács" című művét, amely a kamarairodalom híresen nagy kihívást jelentő, zenei tapasztalatot és tájékozottságot igénylő emblematikus kompozíciója. Szívügyének tekinti a magyar kortárs szerzők gitárra komponált szóló és kamaraműveinek bemutatását, népszerűsítését.

Három szóló lemeze jelent meg. A Naxos kiadó gondozásában 2010-ben kiadott CD műsorából két mű is bekerült Enrique Robichaud kanadai zenetudós Guitar's Top 100 című könyvébe, mely a gitárrepertoár 100 legnépszerűbb művéből választ ki művenként három – a könyv szerzője által – jelentősnek és figyelemre méltónak tartott előadást.

András 2009-től a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem tanára. 2004-től rendszeresen tart mesterkurzusokat Európa, Ázsia és Észak-Amerika számos országában. 2009-ben megkapta a Prima Primissima Alapítvány Junior Prima zeneművészeti díját, 2010-ben Márciusi Ifjak díjban részesült. 2015-ben az Ágai Karola és SzendreyKarper László Emlékérem első gitárművész kitüntetettje.

Hőna Gusztáv

Hőna Gusztáv

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

Xiaochuan Li

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 fuvolaművész

Duleba Lívia (photo by Balázs Böröcz)

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.

Yao Fuming

Yao Fuming

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.

Li Jiwu

Li Jiwu

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.

Nejc Kuhar

Nejc Kuhar

“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

Hu Jun

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.

Liu Geng

Liu Geng

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).
 

Chu Weiming

Chu Weiming

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

Pier Paolo Maccarrone

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).

Zhou Xiong

Zhou Xiong

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.

Li Dali

Li Dali

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.

He Jing

He Jing

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.

Tóth Marianna Ildikó korrepetitor

Tóth Marianna Ildikó korrepetitor

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

Dong Dejun

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 - zongorakísérő

Anna Rutkowska-Schock

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.