Die gebürtige Londonerin Meghan Cassidy studierte Bratsche an der Royal Academy of Music unter Garfield Jackson und machte dort 2010 ihren Abschluss. In dieser Zeit gewann sie den „Sydney Griller Award“ und den „Sir John Barbirolli memorial prize“. Sie führte ihre Studien in Leipzig mit Tatjana Masurenko, in Hamburg mit Nobuko Imai und mit Hartmut Rohde bei den internationalen Musikstudien Prussia Cove weiter.

Seitdem kann sie eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Kammermusikerin vorweisen. Mit ihrem Ensemble Solstice Quartet wurde sie ausgezeichnet mit den Preisen des Tillet Trust and Park Lane Group und der Royal Overseas League. Außerdem spielte sie mit dem Quartett bereits in der Londoner Wigmore Hall, dem Musee d’Orsay in Paris und live im Hörfunk der BBC.
Sie ist regelmäßiger Gast bei Kammermusik-Festivals, u.a. den North Yorkshire Moors Chamber Music Festival, Oxford Chamber Music Festival und Grindelwald Festival in der Schweiz.

Außerdem ist sie Gast-Solobratscherin in Orchestern wie dem BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera North und Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Aktuelle Highlights ihrer Konzerttätigkeit beinhalten Aufführungen von Mozarts Sinfonia Concertante mit dem Orion Symphony Orchestra in London und beim Aberystwyth Music Festival. Meghan ist Gründerin des Marylebone Chamber Music Festival in London, welches im Juni 2018 seine dritte Edition erfolgreich feierte.

Cornelia Walther studied instrumental pedagogy, artistic education and master in orchestral music in cello at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main. From 2005 to 2007 she was at the Colosseum Theater Essen and in the season 2011/2012 in the orchestra of Staatstheater Darmstadt. From 2008 to 2011 she was a permanent member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and since 2013 she regularly guest appears in the Museum and Opera Orchestra Frankfurt, as well as the Staatsorchester Mainz and Darmstadt. Since the season 2017/2018 she is engaged as a freelance musician at the Schauspiel Gießen.

In 2015 she co-founded ensemble reflektor, a chamber music ensemble in chamber orchestra size, which mainly acquires young people that are not used to classical music and especially in places like Gruenspan Club on Hamburgs famous Reeperbahn.

In addition, she is active in the cultural management area for the Chamber Music Festival Sylt and the concert series MUSICA + and heads the Children’s Concerts / Education department. Furthermore, Cornelia Walther works as a cello pedagogue and as a studio cellist in the Frankfurt area involved in the development of the film music of several short and feature films.

After graduating from The Academy of Music in Podgorica and taking his M.A. at The Faculty of Musical Art in Belgrade, the double-bass player Zoran Marković continued his studies with renowned pedagogues in Venice, Cremona, Munich, Salzburg.
During his study, he was awarded numerous prizes at competitions at home and abroad. As a member of the Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra he was awarded the Prešeren Fund prize (the prestigious Slovene prize) in 1999, the O. Župančič prize in 2004, and the J. Betetto prize in 2006.

Zoran Marković performs in Slovenia and abroad as a soloist, with renowned orchestras and chamber musicians. He has been successfully performing as a soloist with the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Detmolder Kammerorchester, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni, the Slovenicum ensemble, the Strings Chamber Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra, St. George’s Strings, the Niš Symphonic Orchestra…
He performed at the Aspecte Salzburg, Neuebühne Villach, Serenate nel Chiostro, Trieste Prima, I suoni delle Dolomiti, Akzente-Neue Music in Klagenfurt, Ljubljana Summer Festival, Grad teatar Budva, PAC Murska Sobota, A Tempo Podgorica, Oxford Chamber Music festival, Osnabrücker Musikfestival »classic con brio«, Düsseldorf ChamberJam, Stiftfestival, Gauting München, The Schloss Elmau, Holstebro “Klassiske Dage”, Storioni Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and many others.

From 1990 to 2004 he was the head of double basses of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra. From January 2004, he is employed as a senior lecturer at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He has been a permanent external associate of the RTV Symphony Orchestra as a double-bass soloist since 2006. He also acts as a professor at the International Summer Academies of Music in Austria, Italy, Holland, England, Finland and Germany. In recent years, he has been dedicated to conducting symphonic and opera music with great success. As a permanent guest conductor, he collaborates with the Austrian Symphony orchestra Orkesterverein Feldkirchen.

The American Record Guide praised his Scarlatti as “The best Scarlatti I’ve heard on solo guitar”, and Classical Guitar Magazine wrote: “Superb recording from the prodigiously talented Mesirca”.

The 29 year-old guitarist Alberto Mesirca was born in Italy in 1984.
 He completed his Bachelor and Master of Arts at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, in the class of the eminent teacher Gianfranco Volpato, ending them with highest score, “Summa cum laude” and special honor mention. Further studies were made at the Music Academy of Kassel, in Germany, with Wolfgang Lendle. His Konzert-Examen was praised with highest Honors. He won for two times the “Golden Guitar”, for best recording in 2007 and as Best Upcoming Artist of the Year in 2009.

With the collaboration of Hopkinson Smith and Franco Pavan he published the previously unknown and unpublished compositions by Francesco Da Milano which appeared in the Castelfranco Veneto 1565 Lute Manuscript, distributed now by Orphee Editions. The re-discovery led Dusan Bogdanovic to write a composition for Alberto on a theme of Da Milano called “Tre Ricercari sulla Compagna”.

He was nominated in 2009 assistant of the Guitar Class at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto.
 In hundreds of concerts he had the chance to work with excellent musicians such as Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Martin Rummel, Daniel Rowland, Domenico Nordio, Marco De Santi, Andras Adorjan, Peter and Jonas Giger, Mirko Satto, the Enesco, Ardeo and Acies string quartets, Quartetto d’Archi di Venezia, ChamberJam Europe and Ex Novo Ensemble.
The past two years have been characterized by an intensive period of performances, lectures and masterclasses which brought him at the Auckland University (New Zealand), at the Guitar Foundation of America Convention (Georgia, USA), at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), playing the national premiere of a composition of György Kurtàg, after the recent collaboration with the composer, and for the Stradivari Foundation, at the Silesian Guitar Autumn in Tychy (Poland) and the Festival Classique in The Hague, at the Beethoven Festival in Melbourne (Australia) among many others, as well as performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Parma, Auditori Nacional in Valencia, Kunsthalle Wien, and for the Italian Insitutes of Culture of Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Barcelona.

In collaboration with Marc Ribot he recorded the complete guitar works of the Haitian composer Frantz Casséus; for this recording he is candidate for “Best Solo Performance” at the 2012 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
 In december 2011 Alberto was responsible of the digitalization and creation of the Musical Archive of the Beyazit Library in Istanbul, Turkey.

Alberto Mesirca has premiered a composition at the 2013 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival composed for him by Leo Brouwer. In 2013 his recording British Guitar Music, published by Paladino Music OG, has won the Golden Guitar for “Best Recording of the Year”.

Born in Buenos Aires Susanna Moncayo studied in Rome, Paris, Madrid and Basel. She has performed with the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the Dresden Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Netherlands, Orchestre National de la Loire and under conductors such as Rudel, Pezko, Boulez, Corboz, Ferro, Penin, Fanna , Escher, Mora, Dombrecht and others.

In the field of opera are especially to mention her interpretations i.a. of Carmen (Bizet), Maddalena (Rigoletto, Verdi), Geneviève (Pelléas and Mélisande, Debussy), Messagera (L’Orfeo, Monteverdi), Niklaus (Hoffmann’s stories, Offenbach), the high school student (Lulu, Berg), Siébel (Faust, Gounod), Bianca (La Donna del Lago, Rossini), the mother (Mavra, Stravinsky).

She had appearances throughout Europe and North and South America and was among others in Milan’s La Scala, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Accademia Santa Cecilia Rome, the Grand Theater Geneva, the Opera in Lille and Nancy, Theatre des Champs Elysees and the Centre Pompidou.

Extraordinary invitations included the “Marta Argerich and friends” festival, the 900th anniversary of the Basilica San Marco in Venice, a Nelson Mandela concert in Johannesburg for 90 years, and a song recital for the wedding of Princess Máxima and Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. She has also made a name for herself in opera, oratorios and chamber music in the popular repertoire of Argentina. She has sung contemporary works in numerous first performances. Composers of different nationalities and directions have dedicated their work to her.

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“… Rowland’s spur-of-the-moment, light-on-the-bow inspiration, whereby the music vanished in the very act of articulation – a bewitching quality that few musicians possess” (Aandrew Clark, Financial Times)

Dutch/English violinist Daniel Rowland’s playing has been acclaimed as “wonderful, ravishing in its finesse” by The Guardian, “totally and truly charismatic” by Beeld, while The Herald praised his “astonishing sound and uniquely single-minded intensity”.

Daniel has established himself on the international scene as a highly versatile, charismatic and adventurous performer. Concerto performances in 2018 included Philip Glass with the Orchestre de Picardie and at the Kuhmo Festival, Lindberg Concerto in Joensuu, Berg in Dusseldorf and at the Stift Festival, Bernstein with the Princeton and Columbus Symphony Orchestras and Vivaldi/Piazzolla Seasons in Dublin. In the first few months of 2019 Daniel appears with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, returns to Finland as soloist in Schnittke and Schumann and performs the Michiel van der Aa Concerto in Mexico and the Philip Glass in Stettin, Poland.

He has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, most notably the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg and the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and has collaborated with noted conductors such as Andrei Boreiko, Djanzug Khakidze, Viktor Liberman, Lawrence Foster, Heinz Holliger, Francois Xavier Roth, Bernhard Gueller and Jaap van Zweden.

A passionate chamber musician, Daniel has performed with artists as diverse as Ivry Gitlis, Polina Leschenko, Heinz Holliger, Dawn Upshaw, Gilles Apap, Alexander Lonquich, Priya Mitchell, Marcelo Nisinman, Michael Collins, Nicolas Daniel, Lars Vogt, Willard White and Elvis Costello. He is a frequent guest at foremost international chamber music festivals such as Kuhmo, Stellenbosch, Risor, Sonoro, Beethoven Festival Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Chiemgau, Osnabrück and Oxford. The Stift International Music Festival, of which he is the founder and artistic director, saw its fourteenth edition in August 2018.

Daniel forms an acclaimed recital duo with pianist Natacha Kudritskaya. Their recording ‘Les Années folles’ (Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Gershwin & Antheil) for Gutman Records was released in June ’15 and was followed by their disc of Enescu violin/piano works for Champs Hill Records in November ’16, with a new Franck/Chausson release coming shortly. Daniel and the superb Serbian/French cellist Maja Bogdanovic also perform together regularly as a duo, with engagements in the USA and at many of Europe’s leading festivals. Daniel is also a founding member of the contemporary tango quintet ‘ChamberJam’.

Since May 2007 Daniel has been the first violinist of the renowned Brodsky, leaving in May 2019 to concentrate on his solo career.

Daniel is professor of violin at the Royal College of Music in London and an International Visiting Artist at RIAM in Dublin. He plays the “Ex-Rode” Guarneri del Gesù violin (Cremona ca. 1736), kindly on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.

Daniel was born in London, and started his violin lessons in Enschede after his parents moved to Twente in the eastern Netherlands. He studied with Jan Repko, Davina van Wely, Herman Krebbers, Viktor Liberman and Igor Oistrakh. Meeting Ivry Gitlis in 1995 was of great significance, leading to lessons in Paris and, later, to musical collaborations. Daniel’s competition successes include first prize at the 1995 Oskar Back competition at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Brahms Prize in Baden-Baden.

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Karolina Weltrowska was born in Poland in 1984 and began playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Mirosław Ławrynowicz at the Frédéric Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw and currently she is continuing her studies at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt/Main with Priya Mitchell. From 2005-2007, she studied with her string quartet at the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) where her teacher was, among others, Hatto Beyerle.

Karolina is a prize winner of major national violin competitions and appeared as a solist with orchestras in her native country. As a member of her quartet she won first prizes in the international chamber music competitions in Heerlen (Netherlands), Sondershausen, and Weimar (Germany). Karolina has performed at many chamber music festivals, among others in Düsseldorf, Kuhmo, Osnabrück, Schleswig-Holstein, and Warsaw.
Since 2010 she is member of Ensemble MidtVest in Herning, Denmark.

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Marcelo NISINMAN was born in Buenos Aires in 1970. He studied bandoneon with Julio Pane and composition with Guillermo Graetzer in Buenos Aries and Detlev Müller-Siemens in Basel. Nisinman is much in demand as a soloist and composer playing with orchestras and at festivals around the world. He has performed with Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Britten Sinfonia, Gary Burton, Fernando Suárez Paz, Assad Brothers, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod and the Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others. In 2009 he was also artist in residence at the Boswil Festival in Switzerland. In 2011 invited as a performer and composer to the Zeitkunst Festi- val, in Berlin and in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou.

Nisinman has also composed a number of vocal works including Desvios, with the text of Carlos Trafic (released on Acqua Records, 2009) and his New Version of María de Buenos Aires (Acqua Records, 2010). In 2009 together with the clarinetist Chen Halevi he formed his own quartet Tango Factory, the group bring together 4 very different musicians to explore the tango, playing works by Nisinman, Porat, and arrangements by Nisinman of works by Piazzolla, Weill and others.

In 2012 Marcelo made the premier of his piece for bandoneon and orchestra Dark Blue Tango together with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, conducted by Facundo Agudin. Invited in Ireland and Germany both as composer and performer by the Vogler String Quartet.

Also participated as a performer and composer with Martha Argerich and Friends at the Ravenna Music Festival edition 2013. During 2014 collaborated as composer with Gerard Depardieu & Philippe Graffin and during 2015 with the WDR Big Band together with Paquito d’Rivera. During 2014 and 2015 took place the Premieres of Diana’s Tango and Daniel’s Tango (premiered and dedicated to Daniel Rowland). As well during 2015 Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro did the world premier of Nisinman’s new versions for piano solo of the 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires in Europe and South America.
On November 2015 the premiere of his pieces Hombre Tango & 4 am Tango for bandoneon and orchestra take place in Buenos Aires, together with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina conducted by Christian Baldini. During the Kuhmo Festival 2016 in Finland the premier of his piece for Guitar Solo Alberto’s Tango was done by Alberto Mesirca. At the beginning of 2016 Nachum’s Tango for violin and orchestra is premiered in Karlsruhe, Germany by Nachum Erlich. On March 2017 the premiere of his 6 Pieces for bandoneon & symphonic band were performed in Teatro Solis, together with the Symphonic Wind Band of Montevideo, in Uruguay.
During 2018 he presented his new ensemble FRANZ in Buenos Aires (Daniel Falasca, Mariano Rey, Pablo Agri, Marcelo Nisinman and Cristian Zarate) and as well two orchestral world premieres of Chen’s Tango 1 and 4 for Vogler together with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariano Chiacchiarini.

Natacha first stepped into the classical music world as a student of the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where she completed her training at the age of seventeen. After these formative years, she was part of three tours across the USA between 1996 and 2002 with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra; her very first experience as a concert musician.

She soon after integrated the Tchaïkovski National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev where she followed the teachings of Irina Barinova and Igor Riabov and applied for the competitive CNSM in Paris at the age of nineteen. She studied simultaneously in both these brilliant institutions and graduated with the highest distinctions and honours of the jury.

Four personalities have left their imprint on Natacha’s pianistic technique. First, Alain Planès, “my first professor, simply the representation of elegance, possessed a sheer sophisticated style”. Then came Jacques Rouvier, “very attached to the text, a rigorous and meticulous personality”. Her encounter with Ferenc Rados in Budapest, later on, was crucial: “he taught me how to read in between the notes” and, finally, Henri Barda “felt like a hurricane on my whole work and training, for there to reign only the power of music”. Rameau’s work marked a turning point in her approach of pianistic technique and she dedicated two albums to this composer: rst in 2009, in association with Luciano Berio and then in 2012, with the label 1001 Notes.

2009 was marked by competitions, her first recitals and an encounter with chamber music she will then regularly turn herself to. It was also the year Natacha Kudritskaya was invited to perform in the most prominent festivals and concert halls across France and Europe, among which gured Opéra Comique and Cité de la musique in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre, Gstaad’s Festival, Davos festival, Concertgebouw in Bruges, Flagey in Bruxelles, la Grange de Meslay, Oxford Chamber Music Festival and Kuhmo’s Festival in Finland where she performed Abdel Decaux’s Clairs de Lune (which is featured on Nocturnes released by Deutsche Grammophon).

Natacha regularly goes back to Ukraine, but the events occurring in 2014 gave a particular meaning to her homecoming in February that year, sadly marked by death roaming in the streets of Kiev. A pacifist answer to military power was embodied by the piano which became a symbol of revolution. Natacha found herself playing in the streets of Maidan’s neighborhood, surrounded by a crowd marked with fear and tension. A sense of healing and mourning emerged from the music in the midst of such darks times, contributing to make this profoundly humane experience one of the most important moments of her life.

Soon thereafter, she began a tour across Ukraine, going through Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Severodonetsk, Lougansk and Kiev. Since November 2014, Natacha Kudritskaya has been part of Universal Music catalogue and her first album, Nocturnes, is released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Benjamin Roskams began playing the violin at the age of nine in Cardiff where he studied with Harry Cawood before going on to win a scholarship to study with Lydia Mordkovitch and Emanuel Hurwitz at the Royal Academy of Music. Benjamin continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno as a scholarship holder and then with Professor Ilya Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. He now seeks inspiration from Ivry Gitlis in Paris.

A keen chamber musician Benjamin has collaborated with many leading artists at international chamber music festivals such as the Brodsky Quartet, Ivry Gitlis, Emanuel Hurwitz, Mats Lidstrom, Alexander Baillie, Priya Mitchell, David Cohen and Thomas Carroll. As a viola player he was a member of the award winning Artea Quartet, performing in venues such as the Conway Hall, Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall as well as appearances on BBC radio 3 “In Tune” and a chamber music prom concert broadcast from the V&A on the BBC. He was also awarded scholarships to attend IMS Prussia Cove, Dartington International Summer School, Pro Corda Musical Encounters and the Amadeus Quartet course.

As an experienced orchestral musician he has led the Dutch National Ballet as well as acting as guest deputy concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Holland Symfonia. In the UK he works regularly with the LSO, LPO and Philharmonia Orchestra as well as being a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1st violin section.
He is indebted to Albert Cooper’s family for the generous loan of the c.1720 Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri violin on which he plays.

Diego Vila is a composer, arranger and author of numerous pieces of music he stages on the piano. The melodies of the Tango of Buenos Aires and the Argentine folklore have always moved him.

In the environment of the theater, which he particularly likes, he has written the music of several celebrated shows: ‘Orestes’, a tango opera, in collaboration with scriptwriter and director Betty Gambartes and a choreography by Oscar Aráiz, ‘Discepolín y yo’, co-authored with Bernardo Carey, dedicated to the poet Enrique Santos Discépolo, the ‘Opera de tres centavos’, the Argentine version of the famous Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill and ‘No te prometo amor eterno’ with Nasha Guevara and Manuel Bandera. ‘Manzi, la vida en orsái’, which was created in Buenos Aires in 2018 and for which he collaborated again with Bernardo Carey, has become the most awarded musical play in the history of Argentine theater with 24 awards and 37 nominations.

Diego Vila is a regular collaborator of Alfredo Arias and composed music for several pieces by the great Argentine director and playwriter: Divino Amore (Paris, 2007), Tatuaje (Paris, 2009), Hermanas (Paris, 2012), Cinelandia (Paris, 2012) and Deshonrada (Buenos Aires, 2015), El closet (Buenos Aires, 2013) and Delirio Gaucho (Buenos Aires, 2012-2013).

He also wrote original music for documentary films such as ‘Project Huemul’, ‘Mercedes Sosa, the Voice of Latin America’ and ‘Tango in Paris, Memories of Astor Piazzolla’ by Rodrigo Vila.

His passion for tango is also evident in arrangements for strings and solo parts: ‘De Gardel a Piazzolla’ (Paris, 2014) with Susanna Moncayo; ‘Tres Dramas para Orquesta’ (Buenos Aires, 2014 – 2016) with Alejandra Radano and ‘Quirón Agoniza – Teatro para el Oido’ in collaboration with Alberto Muñoz (Buenos Aires, 2018).

With an insatiable curiosity, Diego Vila has also contributed to productions that are not specifically dedicated to tango: ‘Kantes i cuentos de Sefarad’ with Marga Grajer, ‘Academia de baile – Melodrama Rioplatense’ with Albeto Muñoz; ‘Ten – los diez mandamientos’ with Alberto Muñoz, ‘Napoli – Canzonette’ with Cristina Persico, ‘Inhumana’ with Alejandra Radano and ‘Dijeron de Mí’, a tango tune about Tita Merello with Virginia Innocenti.

His extensive discography also includes numerous recordings with Susanna Moncayo.

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Hailed by The Strad after her Carnegie Hall recital for “an outstanding performance of exceptional tonal beauty, great maturity of interpretation, and technical excellence”.

Ms. Bogdanovic’s concerto engagements include Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Berlin Symphony at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo Philharmonic, Bremerhaven Staatsorchester, Bergische Philharmonie, Slovenian, Belgrade and Macedonian Philharmonic, Orchestra del Teatro Civico Schio, Lubbock Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Münchener Kammerorchester, Sydenham Festival Orchestra, Serbian Radio Symphony, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Korean Wonju Philharmonic Orchestra, Salta Symphony Orchestra, Morelia Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Bartholomew Orchestra London, Vojvodina Symphony, Orchestre des Laureats du Conservatoire de Paris, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe as well as chamber orchestras Dusan Skovran, St. George Strings and the Sejong Soloists

The quality of her recital and chamber music interpretations continues to be applauded at many of the world’s leading venues and festivals which include the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau and Amphitheatre Sorbonne Paris, Palais des Congres Nantes, Prinzregententheater Munich, the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Kuhmo Festival, Beauvais Cello Festival, Festival du Perigord Noir, Giverny Festival, European Festival of Young Talents in Paris, Plaisir de Musiques Annecy, Arcachon Festival, Classiques d’avenir Biarritz, Folles journees in Nantes, Roque d’Antheron, Zeist Festival in Holland and Amsterdamse Cello Biennale.

Among her exceptionally wide repertoire, Ms. Bogdanovic dedicates a special place as a champion of contemporary music. She has premiered works of Krzysztof Penderecki, Sofia Gubaidulina, Philip Sawyers, Nicolas Bacri, Eric Tanguy, Benjamin Yusupov, Ivan Jevtic and others. Most notably, her collaboration with Krzysztof Penderecki began in France, with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, and continued with the Belgrade Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic and the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich. Among a select group of world’s leading artists that have included Lorin Maazel, Anne-Sophie Mutter and others, Maja was invited to give a special performance in Warsaw for the occasion of the composer’s 80th birthday, collaborating with Yuri Bashmet, Julian Rachlin and Barry Douglas. 

Violinist of Korean origin, Mi-Sa Yang was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. She studied at the Paris National Conservatory (CNSMDP), first completing a Concert Violinist / Soloist postgraduate program, under the supervision of Olivier Charlier and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, before joining the school’s Chamber Music Class.

Mi-Sa has won prizes and awards in various international competitions. She received the 1st Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in 2000 and was awarded the 3rd Prize and Special Jury Prize at the Sendai International Music Competition in 2001. Mi-Sa also won the 1stPrize in trio (piano, violin and cello) at the 55th edition of Barcelona’s Maria Canals International Music Competition, in 2009.

Since her orchestral debut performance at the age of 12 in Japan, Mi-Sa has had the opportunity to perform with many prestigious ensembles (such as the Suk Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Century Orchestra Osaka etc.). She also performs in recital in international venues and festivals. Her deeply moving and widely acclaimed interpretations have earned her the respect of both the music press and critics.
She is also careful to cultivate her talent as a chamber musician. She co-founded the piano-trio Les Esprits with Adam Laloum and Victor Julien-Laferrière, and she is a member of the Ardeo Quartet since 2014.

She performs at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie de Paris, Kölner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Klavier-Festival-Ruhr, Folle Journée de Nantes, Folle Journée au Japon, La Roque d’Anthèron, Fêtes musicales en Touraine, Festival de Pâques de Deauville, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Kuhmo Chamber Music in Finland, etc.

Both recordings of Trio Les Esprits in 2014 and 2017 (Mirare) have received praise from the critics. The next one, dedicated to Schubert, will be released in 2019 for Sony Music.
In Spring 2019, Mi-Sa Yang has released a new album devoted to the Mozart’s sonatas, in duet with the pianist Jonas Vitaud (Mirare).

Peter Zettl begann das Schlagzeugspiel im Alter von 6 Jahren. Nach verschiedenen Stationen bei privaten Lehrern absolvierte er ein Studium am Dr. Hochs Konservatorium in Frankfurt, das er 2003 mit Diplom abschloß. Seitdem arbeitet er als freischaffender Schlagzeuger und Instrumental-Pädagoge. 

Mit seinen Bands Besidos (Raki ‘n’ Roll) und Hole Full Of Love (70’s ACDC Tribute) spielte er seit 2006 über 700 Konzerte im In- und Ausland. Zudem ist er auf vielen Studioproduktionen im Rock und Pop-Bereich zu hören (u.a. DER W, Nosie Katzmann, Ingo Bischof).

Seit 2016 ist Peter Zettl außerdem Coach und Musiker bei der erfolgreichen TV-Sendung “Dein Song” – einem Komponistenwettbewerb für Kinder und Jugendliche auf KIKA.