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Ni Xianhe began violin at age of seven. In 2017, he graduated from the Xinghai Music School in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, where he studied with Hou Donglei. He went on to study at the Central Music School of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Maria Sitkovskaya. He currently continues his studies in Moscow with Alexander Bobrovsky and Ivan Agafonov. Xianhe has a vast repertoire of standard solo and chamber works, and regularly performs the music of contemporary Chinese composers, helping to expose the music of his homeland to audiences around the globe.
Cristina Cordero is currently pursuing her master’s degree with Nobuko Imai and Wenting Kang at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. She previously graduated from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Hariolf Schlichtig. Cristina is a top prizewinner of several international competitions, including First Prizes at El Primer Palau Competition, the International Chamber Music Competition Gerhard Vogt, and the Sixth Viola Competition in Vigo. She has performed recitals in some of Spain’s most prestigious venues, among them Teatro Real, Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, and Auditorio Nacional. She also performs regularly as part of string quartets and other chamber ensembles around Europe.
From his training at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean Sautereau’s career as a soloist and chamber music is on a clear upward trajectory. He has received numerous awards, is regularly supported by various foundations, and is invited to play at the most prestigious festivals. Jean was recently named Laureate of the Fondation Porosus and by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and was awarded the Prix André Hoffman at the Sommets musicaux de Gstaad. He plays a new viola built by Charles Coquet, to which he aligns his vision for the future of music-making—shared musical experiences that are living, vibrant and while still mirroring tradition.
Kinga Wojdalska has won numerous prizes in solo and chamber music competition, among them the Karl Doctor Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. She began her musical training in Warsaw and, in 2021, obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Royal College of Music in London. Currently, she is studying for a master’s soloist degree at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in Lawrence Power’s class. She is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Lyra Stiftung. Kinga performed at Musikverein in Vienna and the Wigmore Hall in London, and has appeared in festivals including Encuentro de Santander (Spain) and West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival (UK) ,where she shared the stage with Vilde Frang, Ivan Monighetti and Miklós Perényi. Since 2020, she has been a member Brompton Quartet. Kinga plays a modern viola by Jerzy Maslanka.
Jack Kessler is a bachelor’s student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies viola with Roberto Diaz and Edward Gazouleas. He previously worked with Michael Klotz at Florida International University. Jack performed with fellows of the New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas from 2015 to 2019. He was a National YoungArts Foundation finalist in 2019 and has performed for distinguished artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Steven Tenenbom, and performed on NPR’s From The Top with Jeremy Denk at Dartmouth College. In recent summers, Jack has studied at Center Stage Strings, Bowdoin International Music Festival, in The Perlman Music Program, and at the Ashkenasi-Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar at the Heifetz International Music Institute.
American violist Brian Isaacs attended Yale University, where he received his master’s degree in Viola Performance as a student of Ettore Causa and his bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He will be based in Berlin starting September 2023 as a member of the Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. Brian received several awards while at Yale and won both the School of Music’s Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition (2023) and the College’s William Waite Concerto Competition (2022). He was a semifinalist at the Primrose International Viola Competition (2021) and the Kodály International Music Competition (2022), and was a prizewinner of the Rubinstein International Viola Competition (2019). He has performed in numerous American, Asian and European festivals and academies, including Bowdoin, Gimhae, Heyri, Moritzburg, NUME, NYO-USA, NYSOS, Schiermonnikoog, Taos, Thy and Yanghwajin. He attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2022. Brian plays on a 2011 Douglas Cox viola, on generous loan from the Virtu Foundation.
Otoha Tabata began her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Boris Kucharsky before going to the Royal College of Music in London, where she was a student of Andriy Viytovych. She continues her studies now at the RCM with Nathan Braude. Otoha performs internationally and across Europe, having appeared as soloist at the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, and Queen Elizabeth Hall. She was awarded Third Prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition (2021), the Promotion Prize at the Anton Rubinstein Viola Competition (2018), and an Honorary Mention at the Oskar Nedbal Viola Competition (2010). She regularly performs in festivals such as IMS Open Chamber Music, is a regular participant at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy, and took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021, where she received a Special Prize of Merit. Otoha is a member of the renowned LGT Young Soloists, performing in numerous concert tours around the world and making several recordings. Most recently she recorded Paganini La Campanella with the ensemble in Abbey Road Studios, and recorded a new disc in Teldex Studios to be released in 2023. Otoha performs on a Charles Boullangier viola, kindly loaned by the Royal College of Music.
Born into a family of musicians, Anna Sypniewski began viola at the Conservatoire de Toulouse with Valérie Apparailly and entered Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Jean Sulem’s class in 2016. At 15, she won First Prize at the Concours National des Jeunes Altistes and received the Prix de la ville de Ciboure at the Académie Ravel. She performs regulary with her sisters in the Trio Sypniewski and has collaborated with musicians including Adam Laloum, Théo Fouchenneret and Alexandre Kantorow at numerous festivals. Anna is a member of the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris and has performed in the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Evian Chamber Orchestra.
Sarah Strohm began viola at age 7 at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Noémie Bialobroda. She quickly joined the intensive programme of the conservatory, which introduced her to chamber music projects under the direction of prominent artists like Leonardo Garcia Alarcón. She perfected her skills by taking part in masterclasses led by Frédéric Kirch and Garth Knox, as well as with Jean Sulem at the Cervo Summer Academy. Sarah was the winner of the Concours suisse de musique pour la jeunesse in 2018 and gained international attention by winning the Aims Foundation Competition to perform as a soloist with orchestra in Solsona in 2019.
After undergraduate studies at the Colburn School with Paul Coletti, violist Chris Rogers-Beadle has been pursuing his Master’s degree at The Yale School of Music in the class of Ettore Causa. Chris has performed as a soloist with several orchestras in the United States, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as in Europe with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic. An experienced chamber musician, he has collaborated in concert with artists such as Augustin Hadelich, Joseph Silverstein, Ivan Monighetti and Anthony Marwood.