Julianna Kiss was born in Miskolc (Hungary), she started her music studies at the age of 5. She has received her first teacher Degree from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Miskolc in Hungary. And received her Postgraduate degree from the Mdw Universita¨t fu¨r Musik und Darstellende Ku¨nste Wien and is holding a concert diploma in piano from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pe´cs in Hungary. From 2012 to 2015 Julianna studied Mentor teacher program and Kova´cs-method at the Budapest ELTE-PPK University and received further impulses from professors  of  piano,  such  as  Sa´ndor  Falvai,  Gyo¨ngyi  Keveha´zi,  La´szlo´  Gyimesi,  Attila Ne´methy,  Tama´s  Va´sa´ry,  De´nes  Varjon,  Csaba  Kira´ly, Thomas Kreuzberger , Eun Ju Lee.

She studied the heritage of Liszt and Barto´k and Russian piano school method from them. She studied the fortepiano music on the Masterclass of legendary Prof . Malcom Bilson, Chamber music at the Music University of Padua. Julianna is the winner of several National and International Music Competitions, for example: 10th. International Music Competition “Musica Insieme” 5th Concorso Internazionale “ Don Vincenzo Vitti “.

Her repertoire is vast: it includes piano solo and several chamber music pieces.

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

In  2013,  EMMI  (Ministry  of  Human  Resources,  department  of  Hungarian Government)  adjudicated  her  the  „Bonis  Bona  –  For  the  Talents  of  the  Nation”  award for her prominent work in music teaching and talent management. From 2014 she is a member of „Nemzeti Pedago´gus Kar” (National Teacher Faculty). She became the consultant for music teachers in 2015 and head of the Keyboard Department in the A´da´m Jeno? music school since 2012.

Her  piano  students  have  already  won  close  than  250  prizes  at  national  and  international competitions.

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

I. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2016. 
7th. International Competition “Youth Academy Awards” Rome 2017. 
II. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2017. 
8th. International Competition “Youth Academy Awards” Rome 2018. 
VI. Concorso Internacional de Piano “Vila de Xabia” Spain 2018. 
I. Wiener Danubia Talents International Music Competition Wien 2018. 
III. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2018. 
I. Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition Rome 2018. 
5th. Concorso Musicale Nazionale “Nellina Cappellani Costa” Catania 2019. 
7th. International Piano Competition “ISCHIA” Ischia 2019. 
IV. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Budapest 2019. 
II. Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition Rome 2019. 
II. Wiener Danubia Talents International Music Competition Wien 2020. 
Danubia Talents International Online Music Competition 2020, Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition 2021,
Orbetello Piano Competition Orbetello 2021.

As  a  concert  pianist  she  tours  all  over  Europe,  playing  concerts  in  Italy,  Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary. Julianna has given many charity concert in Hungary and abroad. Her artistic work includes hundreds of concerts. She has invited to play with Daniel Lugosi clarinetist where he performed live for the TV broadcasting Virtuosos Talent Show). She organized the first Casio Festival in Hungary & Roma & Vienna and gave a concert.

She has organized concerts and exhibitions for young talents and supports young talents in many different ways.

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

She  collaborates  with  AIMART  (Accademia  Internazionale  di  Musica  e  Arte  Rome)  and Accademia d’Ungheria Rome, Shanghai Conservatory of music among others.

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.

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, tanszékvezető-helyettes.

Oboist, cultural art organizer

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

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.