Kamelia Bayrov received her first violoncello lesson at the age of ten from her father, Prof. Jontscho Bayrov (Conservatory of the City of Vienna). At the age of 13 she was accepted at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna for a preparatory course with Prof. Valentin Erben and Prof. Wolfgang Aichinger.

Since September 2008 Kamelia Bayrov teaches at the Musikschule Region Wagram, since September 2017 she leads her cello class at the Musikschule Wien. Her students are multiple 1st prize winners at the competition Prima la Musica. Read on...

Jörg studied conducting with Sergiu Celibidache, Constantin Bugeanu and Jorma Panula. Further important impulses he received through the conducting school of Viennese legend Hans Swarowsky. He also studied Viola with Berta Volmer and Reiner Schmidt.

Besides the symphonic standard repertoire, his passion and dedication belongs to the symphonic œuvre from Haydn to the 20th century and the operas of Mozart and the forgotten and forbidden symphonists, like Egon Wellesz.

As a sought-after conducting teacher he has recently published his fundamental study "The Observation of Form" read on...

Milana Chernyavska, a German artist with Ukrainian roots, has established herself as one of the leading pianists of our times, already looking back on an impressive career.

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

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Born in Venice in 1967, De Maria studied piano with Giorgio Vianello and Gino Gorini. Revealing a precocious talent, he won First Prize at the Alfred Cortot International Piano Competition in Milan at the age of 13. He graduated from the Conservatory of Venice and continued his studies with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Geneva, where he obtained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité with the highest honours in 1988.

After receiving the Critics' Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won First Prize in other prestigious international piano competitions, such as the Dino Ciani - Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994), and the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg (1997).

An active concert pianist, he has played as soloist with the best known orchestras - read on...

Born in Vienna, he studied piano, harpsichord, composition and music pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, as well as basso continuo and historic keyboard instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, French horn at the Vienna Conservatory and mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology. This was followed by a varied international concert career with harpsichord, fortepiano and piano as soloist, chamber music partner and continuo player in ensembles with historical instruments read on...

Hamburg-born Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker was first taught violin by her father. At the age of eleven she made her debut as a soloist at the „European Young Musicians Festival“ in the Philharmonic Hall at the Gasteig in Munich.

She studied violin with Maria Grevesmühl, Max Rostal, Josef Rissin and Jens Ellermann, as well as Zakhar Bron and his assistant Sergei Fatkoulin, at the „Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía“ in Madrid.

The collaboration with Max Rostal, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Giuliano Carmignola, Zubin Mehta and Placido Domingo have given her valuable artistic inspiration. Read on ...

The British pianist Martin Hughes made his first appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall at the age of twelve. At sixteen he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Yvonne Lefébure. At eighteen he made his debut at the Salle Gaveau, Paris and on BBC radio. He went on to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Oborin, and worked also in Aldeburgh with Benjamin Britten and in Positano with Wilhelm Kempff. There followed tours to the USA, the USSR, Europe and Israel, together with invitations to many of Europe’s broadcasting networks, and appearances with major orchestras.

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Vladimir Kharin began his musical education at the age of 6 years at the central music special school of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for especially gifted children. He gave his first piano recital at the age of eleven and made his orchestra debut at the age of 13. He then studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Jevgeni Malinin and Lev Naumov (both students of Heinrich Neuhaus), which he graduated with distinction.

Further study and “Konzertexamen” (also with distinction) with Michael Roll and Boris Bloch at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as master classes with Vitaly Margulis, Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitri Bashkirov.

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Reinhard Latzko is one of the most multifaceted cellists of his generation. In addition to his extensive performing career, he has especially made a name for himself as a successful cello teacher and music communicator. Born in Freising, near Munich, he studied with Jan Polasek, Martin Ostertag and Heinrich Schiff. From 1987 - 2003 Reinhard Latzko was solo cellist of the Südwestfunk Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Gielen.

Teaching has been one of the special focal points in his artistic career. Since 2003 he holds a professorship at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His students include prize winners of international competitions and hold leading positions in orchestras around the world. World-wide masterclasses underscore Reinhard Latzko's international status as one of the most sought-after instructors. Read on...

Svetlana Makarova is Professor for violin at Haute Ecole de la Musique in Lausanne. She started to play violin at the age of 5 in the class of Ludmila Egorova. At the age of 10 she won the first prize at Moscow International Youth Tchaikovsky Competition.

Hereafter she won different prizes at numerous state and international competitions. In 2008 Svetlana finished her postgraduated studies at Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with professor M. Glezarova. Read on ...

Since his sensational success at the Vienna Beethoven Piano Competition in 1985, Hamburg-born pianist Stephan Möller has made a reputation worldwide as a pioneering Beethoven interpreter. His repertoire includes all five piano concertos and 32 piano sonatas by this composer, which he has also performed in complete cycles. His concert activities have taken him to many countries in Europe, North and South America, Japan, Korea and China.

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Without doubt, Miklós Perényi can be considered being one of the greatest living artists on his instrument.

He studied with Pablo Casals, Miklós Zsamboki, Enrico Mainardi and Ede Banda. In 1963 Miklós Perényi won the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in Budapest.

Since 1974 he has been teaching at the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy, since 1980 as a professor. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1980 and the Bartòk-Pasztory Prize in 1987 for his musical achievements. His career as a soloist continues to bring him to all the great music centres of the world and to numerous international music festivals. Read on ...

Rudolf Piernay studied voice, piano and conducting in Berlin, London and New York. His concert schedule has brought him as far as Israel, South America and New Zealand. He has been professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London since 1974, at the Mannheim Music Academy since 1989. Numerous winners of international prizes are graduates of his classes, and many of his former students are pursuing successful international opera and concert careers.

He has been offering masterclasses around the world since 1978 as well as courses at the studios of, a. o., the Metropolitan Opera in New York, read on ...

Currently Principal flute at the Swiss Romande Orchestra in Geneva, Loïc Schneider is certainly one of the most accomplished flutist of his generation.

After beginning his studies in Strasbourg, his home town, he went to study in Paris, first with Claude Lefèbvre in CNR de Paris then with Sophie Cherrier in the prestigious CNSMDP, where he graduated in 2005 with a first prize.

Since 2015 Loïc Schneider is teaching in the HEMU Lausanne as assistant in José-Daniel Castellon’s class, which allows him to balance perfectly his activities as a soloist, an orchestral player, and a teacher. Read on...

Uta Schwabe was born in Leipzig, Germany. She began her singing studies there at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy“ in the class of Gerda Schriever, finishing with a Masters Diploma in 1997 under the tutelage of Adelheid Vogel.

Uta Schwabe was appointed Professor of Singing at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna in 2006. Her students have consistently been winners or finalists in prominent singing competitions and have gone on to engagements as soloists in such Opera houses as the Frankfurt Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Komische Oper and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Dresden State Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, and the Finnish National Opera, read on ...

Henja Semmler received her education from Rainer Kussmaul, Gerhard Schulz and Thomas Brandis, among others.

With the Oberon Trio founded by her in 2006 and with partners such as Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jens-Peter Maintz, Jörg Widmann, Ian Bostridge and Christoph Prégardien, she has performed at Musikfest Berlin, Rheingau Musikfestival, Heidelberger Frühling, Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Beethoven-Woche Bonn, Herbstgold-Festival Eisenstadt and Lucerne Festival read on ...

Based in Varese and Perugia, Italy, Antonia Sfrangeu is pianist, pedagogue and Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Since 2009, she is teaching at the Ars et Labor Association, Perugia, where she specializes in teaching piano, ear training, musical theory and Feldenkrais Method® for children. Read on...

Peter Somodari studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest with Laszlo Mezö and with Miklos Perényi, György Kurtàg and Ferenc Rados. In between he attended the concert class of Gustav Rivinius at the Hochschule für Musik in Saarbrücken.

Since 2012 Peter Somodari has been engaged as solo cellist in the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and teaches as guest professor at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Read on...

Snežana Stamenković was born in Belgrade and completed her vocal studies at the University of Arts Belgrade with KS Prof. Biserka Cvejić. After her studies she received the Danica Mastilović award and the Bahrija Nuri-Hadžić (Alban Berg’s very first Lulù) award as the most talented singing graduate and began her vocal pedagogic career as an assistant to her teacher at the University of the Arts in Belgrade.

Her students are prizewinners at ‘Montreal Music Competition’ (2018), ‘Queen Sonja International Voice Competition’ (2017), ‘Maria Callas’ Voice Competition (2017), ‘Concours International de Chant Marmande’, International Singing Competition ‘Feruccio Tagliavini’, International Voice Competition ‘Hariclea Darclee’, ‘Concorso Internationale per Canti Lirici Alcamo’, “Grandi Voci” Salzburg Opera Singing Competition and won engagements at Metropolitan Opera (Lindemann Young Singers Programm), La Scala di Milano (Academia della Scala di Milano), Opera Zurich, Opera Köln, Opera Graz, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Opera Strassbourg. Read on ...

Julian Steckel started to play the cello in the age of five and studied with Ulrich Voss, Gustav Rivinius, Boris Pergamenschikow, Heinrich Schiff and Antje Weithaas.

Julian’s solo career was launched after he won the prestigious ARD Musikwettbewerb in 2010.

Since then, he has performed as a soloist with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Read on...

Born in Odessa, Pavel Vernikov studied with David Oistrach and Semjon Snitkowsky. For more than 20 years he has been performing as a soloist and as a chamber musician – i.e. with the Tchaikovsky Trio – on Europe’s and America’s most notable stages, such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau, La Scala di Milano and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Read on ...

Claudia Visca graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Vienna, specializing in the vocal works of Mozart.Over the past 26 years she has guested in more than 25 opera houses of Europe (including those in the cities of Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Geneva, Munich, Salzburg, Zurich) and has sung 2000 performances in over 75 operatic, operetta and musical roles. Read on ...

Bruno Weinmeister was born in Salzburg and studied Violoncello with Heinrich Schiff and Wolfgang Boettcher as well as orchestra conducting with Eiji Oue. During his studies in Berlin, he was offered a contract as Solo Violoncello at Staatskapelle Dresden, where he stayed for several years. His career as a soloist began in 1993 as he played the concert for Violoncello by Friedrich Gulda with the NDR Symphony Orchestra at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg with the composer. Read on ...

Gertrud Weinmeister is professor for viola at Music and Art Private University Vienna and at Bern University of the Arts.

She comes from a Salzburg family of musicians and studied at University Mozarteum Salzburg, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the Northern Illinois University in the USA.

Under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, she was solo viola read on ...

Born into a family of musicians in Kiev, Wladislav Winokurow received his first musical education from his father at the age of five. Intensive musical training with Alexander Panov, Avanes Buludian and Isaak Kuschnir followed his attendance of the Special Musical College for Gifted Children. He debuted as a soloist at the age of ten with the Kiev Chamber Orchestra. He continued his studies in Vienna with Eugenia Polatschek and later at the Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Arts under Gernot Winischhofer and Boris Kuschnir read on...