NUME Academy & Festival will host internationally acclaimed artists that will be performing and holding extraordinary masterclasses.
Driven by his strikingly uncompromising artistic philosophy, Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of his generation’s most original and compelling artists.
His repertoire encompasses standard classical scores and music by leading twentieth and twenty-first century composers. He has championed the works of Russian and Eastern European composers and performed many important new compositions, several of which have been dedicated to him. His name is closely associated with such composers as Alfred Schnittke, ArvoPärt, GiyaKancheli, Sofia Gubaidulina, ValentinSilvestrov, Luigi Nono, Edison Denisov, AribertReimann, PēterisVasks, John Adams, Victor Kissine, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Leonid Desyatnikov and Astor Piazzolla, whose works he performs in ways that respect tradition while being fully alive to their freshness and originality. It is fair to say that no other soloist of comparable international stature has done more to promote the cause of contemporary composers and new music for violin.
Gidon Kremer has recorded over 200 albums, many of which have received prestigious international awards in recognition of their exceptional interpretative insights. His long list of honours and awards include the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Moscow’s Triumph Prize, the Unesco Prize and the Una Vita NellaMusica – Artur Rubinstein Prize. In 2016 Gidon Kremer has received a PraemiumImperiale prize that is widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of music.
In 1997 Gidon Kremer founded the chamber orchestra KremerataBaltica to foster outstanding young musicians from the Baltic States. The ensemble tours extensively and has recorded almost 30 albums for the Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon, ECM labels. In 2016/17 KremerataBaltica was on landmark tours through Middle East, North America, Europe, and Asia to celebrate the orchestra’s 20th anniversary.
His commitment to the “discovery” of the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, for which Kremer has rendered particularly outstanding services in recent years, should also be emphasized. Lately, Deutsche Grammophon, Accentus Music and ECM released highly acclaimed albums recorded by and with Gidon Kremer with orchestral and chamber music works by Weinberg.
Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster.
As a concerto soloist he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, London Philharmonic and Zurich Tonhalle orchestras. He gives recitals every season in major musical centres, and plays with many of the world’s fore- most chamber orchestras, including the Australian, Mahler, Norwegian, Scottish, Zurich and St Paul Cham- ber Orchestras, as well as period-instrument ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Unusually, he also directs chamber orchestras from the cello in classi- cal programmes.
As an educator Steven Isserlis gives frequent masterclasses all around the world, and since 1997 he has been Artistic Director of the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, where his fellow-pro- fessors include Sir Andras Schiff, Thomas Adès and Ferenc Rados.
The recipient of many awards, Steven Isserlis’s honours include a CBE in recognition of his services to music, the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau, and the Piatigorsky Prize in the USA. He is also one of only two living cellists featured in Gramophone’s Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was awarded the Glashütte Original Music Festival Award in Dresden, the Wigmore Hall Gold Medal, and the Walter Willson Cobbett Medal for Servi- ces to Chamber Music.
He gives most of his concerts on the Marquis de Corberon (Nelsova) Stradivarius of 1726, kindly loaned to him by the Royal Academy of Music.
Born in Rimini, Enrico Pace studied with Franco Scala at the Pesaro Conservatory, where he also graduated in composition and conducting. He furthered his studies at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola, and his invaluable mentor thereafter was Belgian teacher Jacques de Tiège.
After winning first prize at the Franz Liszt International Competition in Utrecht in 1989, Enrico Pace has performed all over the world: Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro alla Scala and Sala Verdi in Milan, Rome, Berlin, Wigmore Hall in London, Dublin, Herkulessaal in Munich, Prague, Philharmonie in Berlin and various cities in South America. He has been invited to play at numerous international festivals, including Lucerne, Salzburg, Edinburgh, La Roque d’Anthéron, Rheingau, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Husum and the Brescia and Bergamo Piano Festivals.
Highly regarded as a soloist, he performs with such prestigious orchestras as the Royal Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (RFO), the Netherlands Philharmonic the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Göteborg, London and Stavanger Symphony Orchestras, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the Rheinische Philharmonie, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Camerata Salzburg, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the G. Verdi of Milan and the Filarmonica Toscanini of Parma.
Enrico Pace has collaborated with numerous conductors including Roberto Benzi, Gianandrea Noseda, Zoltan Kocsis, Kazimierz Kord, Mark Elder, Lawrence Foster, Vassily Sinaisky, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, Bruno Weil, Andrey Boreyko, Eliahu Inbal, Carlo Rizzi, Jan Latham-Koenig, Walter Weller and Antoni Wit.
Enrico Pace has also collaborated with such violinists as Leonidas Kavakos, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Akiko Suwanai, and Liza Ferschtman, and with cellist Sung-Won Yang, performing with them in Europe, the USA, and Asia.
Other partners in the field of chamber music include not only cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, clarinetist Sharon Kam, pianist Igor Roma and cornetist Marie Luise Neunecker, but also the Keller Quartet, RTE Vanbrugh Quartet and the Prometheus Quartet. A regular guest at chamber festivals, he has visited Delft, Moritzburg, Risør, Kuhmo, Montreux, Stresa and West Cork.
Past highlights include the Beethoven Sonatas cycle, with Leonidas Kavakos, in New York (Carnegie Hall), Athens, Florence, Milan, Amsterdam, Moscow, Tokyo, at the Salzburg Festival and Beethovenfest Bonn, as well as other performances in the United States, Europe and China. He has also performed Bach Sonatas with Frank Peter Zimmermann in New York, Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt, Bamberg and Japan. With Matthias Goerne he brought Schubert’s Schwanengesang to La Scala in Milan. In Zurich, Frankfurt and Cologne he played with violist Antoine Tamestit, in Japan and at London’s Wigmore Hall with Akiko Suwanai, and in Korea and Japan with cellist Sung-Won Yang. As a soloist he has performed in such halls as the Concergebouw in Amsterdam and the Herkulessaal in Munich.
With Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Patrick Demenga he recorded Mendelssohn’s Piano Trios (Sony Classical). His recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin with Leonidas Kavakos was released by Decca Classics in January 2013 and was nominated for a Grammy Award. In April 2016 Decca Classics released a CD in which the duo performs virtuosic pieces. With Frank-Peter Zimmermann he recorded Busoni’s Sonata No. 2 and J.S. Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano 1014-1019 for Sony Classical. In 2011 the Piano Classics label released his well-known recording of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage “Suisse” and “Italie.”
American violinist Stella Chen garnered worldwide attention with her first-prize win at the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition, followed by the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.
Since then, Stella has appeared across North America, Europe, and Asia in concerto, recital, and chamber music performances. She recently made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Baltimore Symphony, Belgian National Orchestra, and many others and appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and Berlin Philharmonie. In recital, recent appearances include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection, Rockport Music Festival, and Nume Festival in Italy. She appears frequently with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both in New York and on tour.
For her all-Schubert debut album, released in March of 2023 to critical acclaim on the Apple Music label Platoon, Stella was named the 2023 Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards.
Among the highlights of her busy 2023/24 season are debuts with orchestras in Japan, China, North America, and Europe; the US premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Second Violin Concerto under the direction of the composer and the world premiere of a new violin concerto written for her by American composer Jon Cziner; her debut at the Heidelberg Festival with Igor Levit; and a recital for the San Francisco Symphony’s Spotlight Series.
Stella has appeared as a chamber musician in festivals including the Kronberg Academy, Moritzburg, Ravinia, Seattle Chamber Music, Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton, Rockport, and Sarasota. Chamber music partners include Itzhak Perlman, James Ehnes, Matthew Lipman, Jan Vogler, and many others.
She is the inaugural recipient of the Robert Levin Award from Harvard University, where she was inspired by Robert Levin himself. Teachers and mentors have included Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Catherine Cho. She received her doctorate from the Juilliard School where she serves as teaching assistant to her longtime mentor Li Lin.
Stella plays the 1700 ex-Petri Stradivarius, on generous loan from Dr. Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative and the 1708 Huggins Stradivarius courtesy of the Nippon Foundation.
Acclaimed by reviewers as a “formidable clarinetist" and praised for his "passion, sumptuous tone, magical finesse and dazzling virtuosity", Tommaso Lonquich is Solo Clarinetist with Ensemble MidtVest, the international chamber ensemble based in Denmark. He is also an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, with which he performs in the United States and on worldwide tours.
He has appeared on the most renowned stages of four continents, partnering among others with Christian Tetzlaff, Ilya Gringolts, Pekka Kuusisto, David Finckel, Wu Han, Nicolas Altstaedt, Ani and Ida Kavafian,Maximilian Hornung, Anneleen Lenaerts, Yura Lee, Gilles Vonsattel, Juho Pohjonen, Radovan Vlatkovicand the Danish, Zaïde and Vertavo string quartets.
As an invited guest principal in several orchestras and as a soloist, he has collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, and Leonard Slatkin. He can be heard on more than twenty albums, on both modern and historical clarinets.
In Denmark, Tommaso Lonquich is Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Schackenborg Musikfest, already one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious festivals. He previously founded and directed KantorAtelier, a vibrant cultural space based in Florence and dedicated to the exploration of music, theatre, art and psychoanalysis.
A devoted mentor, Tommaso Lonquich served as Head of Chamber Music at the Dædalus Advanced Studies Program in Florence, an institution which he co-founded. He has given masterclasses at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, among others.
Alongside his artistic career, Tommaso Lonquich is a clinical psychoanalyst and co-founder of the International Center for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Andreas is one of the most sought-after performing artists from Scandinavia, winning worldwide critical acclaim for his ability to make the music not only sound, but both speak, dance and sing.
His debut disc of the Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Saint-Saëns cello concertos with the "Danish National Symphony Orchestra" was released by EMI in 2008, and since then his discography has grown long. Most recent he released a much acclaimed CD with both Haydn Cello Concertos in 2021 with the period ensemble Concerto Copenhagen led by Lars Ulrik Mortensen and his latest release “48 Strings” from 2022 features music for 1, 2, 4 and 12 celli and pays homage to the four greatest cellists from the beginning of the 20th century. Also in 2022, he finished a remarkable project with video recordings of Piatti’s 12 Caprices available on Youtube and Apple Music.
Andreas won first prizes in the 2006 Eurovison Young Musicians Competition, the 2007 International Paulo Cello Competition and, in subsequent years, received music awards and fewllowships including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2008, the BBC’s New Generation Artist 2008-2011, The European Concert Hall Organisation “Rising Star” tour in the 2008/09 season. In 2015 he received the Carl Nielsen Prize in Copenhagen and since 2022 Andreas has been teaching as visiting professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki
Andreas plays the 1707 ‘Boni-Hegar’ Stradivarius.
Madara in her heart is a chamber musician - searching for a dialogue in whatever she does. Chamber music is her passion and occupation - from Menuhin festival in Gstaadt, Weinberg festival in Vienna Musikverein, Lockenhaus festival, Festivalta in Norway, Lausitz Festival, Martha Argerich Festival Hamburg and Buenos Aires, to extraordinary outdoor concerts in ‘I Suoni delle Dolomiti’ festival or chamber concerts back in her home country Latvia.
Since 2014 she has played in duo with Gidon Kremer and in 2021 label Accentus music released CD with M.Weinberg’s Sonata for Two violins.
Madara became a second concertmaster of KREMERATA BALTICA soon after she joined the ensemble in 2012. She has toured with the orchestra all over the world - repeatedly in Asia, North America, Canada, South America and permanently performing in various European countries - few to mention - Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Latvia.
In December 2020 she started to lead the newly established ensemble KREMERATA LETTONICA. A string nonet based in Latvia. They have given two world premieres with the works dedicated to the ensemble - Kristaps Petersons ‘Music for Large Ensemble’ and Peet Morrison ‘Sweet final breath’. In it’ four years of existence, the ensemble has performed various programs in home country Latvia, but also toured in Lithuania, Austria and Canada.
In 2022 label Skani released a CD with music by three Latvian composers ‘PPP’. ‘P’ stands for composers Plakidis, Pelecis, Petersons. Here Madara, joining Gidon Kremer, performs ‘Little Concerto for Two Violins’ by Peteris Plakidis. On the same CD she is also leading the KREMERATA LETTONICA in its recording of Peterson’s ‘Music for Large Ensemble’.
Since 2015 Madara is also a member of DANISH CHAMBER orchestra (chief conductor Adam Fischer) and she has had the luck to record all Beethoven and Brahms symphonies. In the season 2018/19 and 2019/20 Madara was first violin gues player in Danish Radio Symphony orchestra. As an alternate concertmaster she has performed with Bergen Philharmonic orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Concerto Budapest and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
In June 2022 she joined Concerto Budapest on their UK tour, among a concert in London Cadogan hall. In season 2022/23 Madara has been guest leader in Copenhagen Phil which gave her the chance to lead second violin group under button of Christoph Eschenbach and also give a concert in Vienna Musikverein.
In summer 2023 Madara toured both - South and North Americas. With participation in Marthas Argerich Festival in Buenos Aires and concerts in USA - Rockport Chamber music festival and Tippet Arts centre in Montana.
As a soloist she has played with chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica, Danish Chamber orchestra, Baku Chamber orchestra,
Buenos Aires Philharmonic orchestra, Tbilisi Giya Kancheli Youth orchestra. Her chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Rainer Schmidt, Miriam Alien Helms, Clara-Jumi Kang, Pablo Hernan, Timothy Ridout, Emma Werning, Nicholas Altstaedt, Mario Brunello, Georgijs Osokins, Juliana Avdeeva, Lucas Debargue, Martha Argerich.
Awarded both the “P. Schidlof Prize” and the “J. Barbirolli Prize” for “the most beautiful sound” at the prestigious Lionel Tertis International Viola competition in England in 2000, Italian-born violist Ettore Causa is praised for his exceptional artistry, passionate intelligence and complete musicianship.
He has made solo and recital appearances in major venues around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Salle Cortot, Tokyo Symphony Hall, Teatro Colon, etc., and has performed at numerous international festivals, such as the Menuhin, Salzburg, Tivoli, Prussia Cove, Savonlinna, Launadire and Norfolk Festivals.
Also a devoted chamber musician, Mr. Causa has collaborated extensively with internationally renowned musicians such as the Tokyo, Artis, Brentano, Cremona and Elias String Quartets, Pascal Rogé, Boris Berman, Peter Frankl, Thomas Ades, Natalie Clein, Ana Chumachenco, Ani Kavafian, Alberto and Antonio Lysy, Liviu Prunaru, Thomas Demenga, Ulf Wallin, William Bennett and others.
His highly praised recordings include several Claves CDs, among those his transcription of romantic pieces, which was awarded a prestigious “5 Diapasons” by the French magazine.
Recently he was one of the honor guest at the 43rd International Viola Congress where he performed with enormous success his own arrangement of the Schumann cello concerto
Mr. Causa performs on a viola made for him by Frederic Chaudiere in 2003
Born in Spain in 1985, Luis Cabrera started playing the double bass at the age of 10. After finishing his studies in Madrid, where he studied with Professor Rafael de Frías and later with Karen Martirossian, he moved to London in 2002 to complete his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Professor Rinat Ibragimov. Luis then completed his postgraduate studies at the "Hans Eisler University" in Berlin with Janne Saksala. After receiving numerous awards and scholarships, he became, at the age of 20, principal bassist of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam in 2006. Since then, he has been invited to play as principal bassist guest with numerous orchestras such as; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, Orchester National de France, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Amsterdam Sinfonietta, among others, where he played under the direction of the most outstanding conductors and soloists. Luis has collaborated with groups of different styles, making both baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire with groups such as Arcangelo, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Sinfonietta, BandArt, or the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain among others. Very active as a chamber music performer, soloist and teacher, these engagements frequently take him to Portugal, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, the United States, Switzerland, Argentina, Germany, Greece, Peru, Colombia, Hong Kong and, of course, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. where he has performed both solo and in small groups in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, LSO St Luke's, Het Concertgebouw, De Doelen, Den Haag KonCon and Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid among others. Luis joined the teaching staff at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2012 and has been a visiting lecturer and coach at various universities and youth orchestras, including CSKG in Madrid, CSMA in Zaragoza, Forum Musikae, JONC and JONDE. Since 2018 he is also a professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory (CODARTS) and since 2024 of the Conservatorio del Liceu in Barcelona. Luis has recorded with various chamber groups for labels such as EMI Classics, NAXOS and Pentatone, and has collaborated with BBC Radio 3's prestigious New Generation Artists program in addition to recordings for the Dutch classical channel NPO4 Avrotos. His album with the TRPTK label “Canto interno” had great international acclaim including Grammophone, The Strad and BBC classical music magazine among others. As of 2021, Luis joined the online performance and educational platform String Virtuoso as a featured artist. Since 2024 he is the principal bass of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC). Luis plays a double bass made by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, c.1770, kindly on loan from the collection of the Dutch Musical Instrument Foundation (NMF).
In 2009 and 2010, Irène won the 1st prize and the public prize at the International Violin Competition of Avignon and two special prizes at the 1st edition of the International Violin Competition in Mirecourt. In May 2011, Irène was awarded the 1st prize at the 46th International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen for her performance of the Beethoven violin concerto, as well as the Manfred-Scherzer prize for her outstanding interpretation of a piece by Reger.
In 2012, Irène received the Appassionato Joël Klépal prize in Caen and was given a generous grant from the Meyer Fondation. In 2014, she went at the Kronberg Academy in Germany to study with Mihaela Martin in Further Master Studies, and received artistic advice from internationally renowned musicians until 2017.
She has been supported by Fondation pour la vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, Fondation SAFRAN pour la musique, la Fondation de l’Or du Rhin, la Fondation d’Entreprise Banque Populaire, ArteMusica Stiftung, and Günther Caspar Stiftung.
In 2021 Irène was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust International Auditions.
Founder and artistic director of NUME Academy & Festival Vlad Stanculeasa is a prize winner in the Enescu, Valsesia and Molinari competitions, Vlad Stanculeasa is an active solo and chamber music performer, as well as a teacher in european conservatories. Since 2022 Vlad held a teaching post at the conservatory in Barcelona ESMUC and is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Spain, Italy and Sweden. As a soloist, he’s performed with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Kammersymphonie Leipzig. He’s collaborated as soloist with many conductors including Kent Nagano, Lahav Shani, Han Na Chang, Konrad von Abel.
Boris Kusnezow is one of the most sought after collaborative pianists of his generation. He performs with eminent instrumentalists and singers worldwide. His performances have taken him to renowned concert venues such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall London and the Berlin Philharmonie.
His artistic activities are documented in 12 CDs and numerous radio recordings. Several of his CDs have been nominated for prizes, including the Opus Klassik and Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.Boris Kusnezow is in demand as an official pianist for some of the world’s most prestigious instrumental and singing competitions, most recently being invited to the ARD Competition in Munich, the Joseph Joachim Competition in Hannover, the Stuttgart International Violin Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.Boris Kusnezow was born in Moscow and began his musical education at the traditional Gnessin Academy.
He has lived in Germany from the age of eight and completed his musical studies in Hannover with Professor Bernd Goetzke. Thereafter followed first place at the German Music Competition, international awards such as Fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In addition to his active performing activities, he is founder of the piano chamber music academy Chamber Lab in Montecastelli/ Italy, artistic director of the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS) as well as the Schaumburger Schlosskonzerte at Schloss Bückeburg and volunteers for the Loewe Foundation, where he focuses on the promotion of classical music.Teaching has become an important element in Kusnezow‘s artistic career. In 2020 he was appointed professor for piano chamber music at the University for Music and Theatre „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig.
Giovanni Gnocchi, a professor at the Mozarteum since 2013, has an active concert career worldwide, performing as a soloist under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Alexander Lonquich, Alexander Shelley, and Michele Spotti. He has appeared at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Hong Kong Arts Festival, BeethovenFest in Bonn, Wiener Konzerthaus, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Mozart Woche in Salzburg, and Esplanade in Singapore. He has collaborated with renowned ensembles including Camerata Salzburg, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, La Fenice Philharmonic Orchestra in Venice, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Italian Youth Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, and Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City.
An esteemed chamber musician, Gnocchi has performed with Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Leonidas Kavakos, Mario Brunello, members of the Hagen Quartet, Andrea Lucchesini, Ilya Gringolts, Elizabeth Leonskaja, and Alena Baeva. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, and his upcoming releases include the complete Haydn cello concertos and a recital on the 1710 “Stauffer” Stradivari from Cremona."I
" I VIOLONCELLI DEL MOZARTEUM" GIOVANNI GNOCCHI, VALERIE FRITZ, ENRICO MIGNANI, LEONARDO ASCIONE, IGNACIO GARCÍA NUÑEZ, EVA SÀNCHEZ VEGAZO, is a group of young but already accomplished musicians, students of the prestigious University of Salzburg, led and directed by Giovanni Gnocchi, inspired by Sándor Végh’s model with his Camerata Salzburg. Over the years, they have distinguished themselves individually in major international competitions across Europe and the United States, performing with internationally renowned orchestras and alongside celebrated soloists.
As a cello ensemble, they have given important concerts in Austria and Italy, performing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the "Trame Sonore" Festival in Mantua, "SpazioNovecento" in Cremona, Asolo Musica, the Elba Music Festival, the International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo, and for "I Suoni delle Dolomiti." Their performances have received unanimous and overwhelming acclaim, always presenting a unique repertoire that combines refined rarities with some of the most popular pieces of the Wiener Klassik and the most iconic Hollywood film soundtracks. Their concerts feature music by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and John Dowland, juxtaposed with works by Pierre Boulez, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Sofia Gubaidulina, culminating in timeless classics by Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Piazzolla, and Carlos Gardel.
"I Violoncelli del Mozarteum" also engage in performances that make creative and spatially original use of the stage, establishing a direct, humorous, and engaging dialogue with the audience.
Trio Candor consists of three internationally renowned musicians: violinist Lisa Jacobs, violist Lech Antonio Uszynski, and cellist Christopher Jepson. They are known for their expressive, honest, and profound interpretations.
Their name, Candor (Latin for openness and honesty), reflects their pursuit of a pure and sincere musical experience. It also characterises their way of working together—open-minded, with great respect for one another, but also with courage and a good sense of humour. Driven by their intrinsic desire for deep artistic exploration, they work on a maximum of two new pieces per season, allowing them to move freely and fully immerse themselves in their interpretations.
Lisa Jacobs is an award-winning violinist of international acclaim. She performs as a soloist with leading orchestras, shines at prestigious festivals, and plays a rare Rogeri violin from 1692. In addition, she is a professor at the Royal Conservatories of The Hague and Ghent (Belgium) and serves as artistic director of the Zeeland Klassiek Festival and The String Soloists.
Lech Antonio Uszynski (Poland/Switzerland) is praised for his warm tone and expressive playing. He is the Violist of the Stradivari Quartet and performs regularly as soloist and chamber musician in prestigious venues worldwide. In addition to his wide stylistic range as a performer, he is also passionate about teaching and is Professor of Viola at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Christopher Jepson is the second Solo Cellist of the Sinfonieorchester Basel. His playing stands out for its remarkable sensitivity in ensemble performance, and for he past 20 years has been performing intensely across Europe as a chamber musician. Besides his work in Basel, he is closely involved with the Gstaad Menuhin Festival during the summer, where he has been playing as principal cellist since 2011. He is professor of cello at the British isles Music Festival, where he is also on the board of directors. In their programming, Trio Candor strives for innovative artistic expression by collaborating with other art forms. Their multidisciplinary projects connect classical music with literature and visual arts, creating an even deeper sensory experience.
Sergey Maiboroda is a virtuoso, eclectic, and charismatic Ukrainian violinist. He graduated in Madrid from the prestigious Escuela Reina Sofia under the guidance of Marco Rizzi and is a winner of numerous international competitions. He has performed on some of Europe's most renowned stages, including solo performances at the Auditorio Nacional de Música and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
His career spans from classical music to electronic music, collaborating with internationally acclaimed DJs and bringing the electric violin—and his unique ability to blend different styles—into the top nightclubs and venues across Europe.
With an unmistakable stage presence, Sergey combines technique and passion, creating unique performances that merge tradition and innovation.
Alfredo Ferre Martínez, known artistically as Onomeya, is a cellist, composer and producer approaching music from a place of self-discovery and inner presence, both tangible in his concerts and recordings. His compositions, often described as modern-classic, feature elements of classical minimalism, cinematic electronics and meditative music.
As a cellist he has received major International prizes like the 1st prize at the VI A.Janigro International Cello Competition in 2016, the Verbier Festival N. Firmenich prize 2017 or the Kiefer prize in Bern, and has made appearences in reknown venues as KKL Luzern, National Hall of Madrid, Shostakovich Hall in St.Petersburg or La Fenice Theater in Venice. He has collaborated with artists like Mischa-Maisky, Lily Francis, Sol Gabetta, Dmitry Smirnov or Claudio Martinez Mehner. In 2025 he has released his first Album together with the Swiss-German pianist Dominic Chamot, including both Brahms cello sonatas. Onomeya is interested on providing platforms for the audience to deeply relax and immerse in music details.
In 2024 he created The Goldberg Project, a brand new concert experience featuring Goldberg Variations, meditative music and his ambient electronic compositions, which he has already performed at festivals such as Verbier Festival, Setembre Musical Festival in Montreux, and Theater im Hof in Germany. Other collaborations in this field include the science-spiritual platforms MindValley University in Estonia and Younity in Switzerland.
Born in Elda, Spain in 1994, he has studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid and at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Ivan Monighetti, N. Shakovskaya and Claudio Martínez Mehner.
She has been awarded in several national and international competitions, both in the soloist and in chamber music categories. Mari played at the Prometeo festival with the homonymous quartet, at the Portogruaro Festival and at the Chamber music Festival in Mantua, "la folle Journeé" festival in Japan, and others. She has collaborated as piano accompanist in masterclasses and musical courses, in Italy, the United States, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium held by renowned teachers such as Ilya Grubert, Pavel Vernikov, Gli Shaham, Natalia Gutman and many others. She works as a pianist collaborator for the two-year experimental advaced training courses at the "Maderna" Conservatory of Cesena, the higher Institute for musical studies "Peri" of Reggio Emilia and "Vecchi-"Tonelli" of Modena, as well as for the violin advanced training courses held by the the Portogruaro Music School, clarinet masterclasses in Milan held by M° F. Meloni, as well as constantly collaborating with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano.
Was selected by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to be the pianist of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland where she performed concerts and tours. Tecu has recorded together with violinist Alberto Lysy “Romantic pieces for violin and piano".
Lorena is a staff pianist at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the Boston University College of Fine Arts.
