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Lynn Renouil-Hata began cello at age seven. She has had success at several international competitions, including First Prizes at the Vatelot-Rampal Competition and the International FLAME Competition in Paris. Gautier Capuçon has served as a mentor and coach to Lynn ever since she was named a winner of the well-known France2 programme, Prodiges, in 2020. The young cellist is regularly invited to play as soloist, both in France and abroad, including concerts at the Marcello Theatre in Rome and the Classissimo Festival in Brussels. Lynn studies with Annie Cochet-Zakine and Marie-Paule Milone at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. She is also coached by Raphaël Pidoux, professor at the Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Cornelius Zirbo was born in Cluj Napoca where he began his musical studies at age nine. He is now studying at the National University of Music Bucharest under the mentorship of Marin Cazacu. In 2016-2017 was in the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle of Gautier Capuçon, held at Fondation Louis Vuitton. He has given recitals and concerts with orchestra in prestigious venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Rudolfinum in Prague, St Martin-in-the-Fields (London), National Library Concert Hall (Beijing) and The Grand Hall of Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest). He is an alumnus of the 2017 Verbier Festival Academy and has taken part in masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Accademia europea di Palazzo Ricci Montepulciano, George Enescu Festival, and Lisbon’s Verão Classico Festival 2021 in Lisabon. He plays a modern cello made by Frank Ravatin provided by Le fonds instrumental of ‘Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot’.
AAndrew Byun is a Canadian cellist currently pursuing his Masters of Music with Natasha Brofsky at The Juilliard School. He has appeared in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Jian Wang, Frans Helmerson, and Laurence Lesser among others and has worked closely with the Borromeo, Brentano, Dover, and Emerson Quartets. Andrew has performed solo at Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and has been featured on the WMFT radio station and NPR’s From The Top as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. A passionate chamber musician, he has been invited to the Taos School of Music, I-M-S Prussia Cove, and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. Andrew attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music in Philosophy and Cello Performance. He has studied with Hans Jorgen Jensen, Myung-wha Chung, Yeesun Kim.
Amy Goto began the cello at age three and has studied with Philippe Muller since the age of 12. In 2020 she became the youngest member of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle de Gautier Capuçon at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Her debut as soloist with orchestra took place at age 9 with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and in 2015 she received the ‘Hope’ Award at the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. She has been featured on NPR’s From the Top and TEDx University of Rhode Island. At Musica Mundi in 2016, she performed in the closing gala concert as soloist with the festival orchestra and was the youngest semifinalist at the Mazzacurati Competition in 2019. During the summers, Amy has studied at Musica Mundi, Music@Menlo, and Domaine Forget. She currently resides in Rhode Island (USA).
Alejandro Viana began his cello studies at age seven. He studied with María de Macedo and with Lluis Claret in Barcelona. He is currently studying at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Madrid) with Ivan Monighetti. Alejandro took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021 and, in 2018/19 was a member of Gautier Capuçon’s classe d’excellence de violoncelle. He received first prizes at several competitions, including the Manhattan International Music Competition, the Llanes International Cello Competition (Spain) and the Karl Davidov International Competition (Latvia). He has participated in festivals including IMS Prussia Cove, the Rutesheim Festival and the Santander Festival. As a soloist, Alejandro has performed with the Chamber Orchestra Andrés Segovia, The Zagreb Soloists and the Freixenet Symphonic Orchestra, among others. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut.
After studying with Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and then in Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Caroline Sypniewski perfected her skills with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She was named Classical Revelation by Adami (2017) and Young Talent of the Music and Wine Festival in Clos-Vougeot (2019) and was awarded the Ginette Neveu Prize at the Carl Flesch Academy (2015) and Grand Prix of the Académie Ravel (2018). Caroline is supported by the Safran Foundation.
Ivan Skanavi was born into a family of musicians in Moscow. At six he started the cello and entered music school, where his teachers were Olga Galochkina and Tamara Alekseeva. Later, he studied with Alexey Seleznev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is now a student of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. Ivan is a prizewinner of several international competitions and a Semifinalist of the Tchaikovsky International Competition (2019). Ivan plays a cello made by the Italian maker David Tecchler from 1698.
Thomas Prechal is a student at the Academie Muzikaal Talent (Utrecht) where he receives lessons from Jan-Ype Nota and Michel Strauss. He is a multiple prize winner: winner of the Bohuš Heran International Cello Competition in the Czech Republic (2017), First and Second Prize winner at the Princess Christina Composition Competition (2017 and 2020), First Prize winner of the Concours de Violoncelle ‘Edmont Baert’ in Brussels and Third Prize and Special Prize winner winner at International Cello Competition ‘David Popper’ in Hungary. In addition to playing the cello, Thomas likes to compose and regularly receives commissions.
Roger Morelló Ros performs regularly in well-known concert halls such as Philarmonie Berlin, Beethoven Hall of the Redoute Bonn, Kerkrade Theater, Pau Casals Auditorium, Josep Carreras Auditorium, Palau de la Música Catalana and La Pedrera/Casa Milà, where he was an Artist in Residence in 2018/19. He first studied in Spain with Carolina Pineda (Salou), David Blay (Vila-seca), Damian Martínez (Musikene) and then moved to Germany to pursue a Master and a Soloist Diploma with Maria Kliegel at the University of Music in Cologne, finishing with honors and with the financial support of the Deutschslandstipendium and the Güell Scholarship. He is now pursuing a Master of Chamber Music with Anthony Spiri and Harald Schoneweg.
Irena Josifoska performs as soloist and chamber musician across Europe and the United States. She has received more than 40 awards and recognitions, among them, First Prize winner of Berlin’s Gabrielli Cello Competition in 2021, the same year that she was named co-recipient of the Prix Jean Nicolas Firmenich, recognising the Verbier Festival Academy’s most promising cellist. She was also winner of the Silver Medal at the Vienna International Music Competition (2018) and a Gold Medal at the Manhattan International Music Competition (2019), and was the youngest Semifinalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017. Irena began playing the cello at age five with her mother, finished Bachelor studies in Detmold in the class of Xenia Jankovic, and now, pursues her Masters at the Universität der Künste Berlin, in the class of Jens Peter Maintz.