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Cécile Lartigau is a rare ondist whose career bridges contemporary music, experimental improvisation, and the orchestral repertoire. She has performed with leading ensembles such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under conductors including Vasily Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons, Simone Young, Maxime Pascal, and Bertrand de Billy. In 2024, she recorded Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie for Deutsche Grammophon.
Deeply engaged in cross-disciplinary projects, Lartigau participated from 2018 to 2025 as an improviser in Heiner Goebbels’ Everything that happened and would happen, touring Europe, New York, Saint Petersburg, and Taipei. She also maintains a rich solo and chamber music career, performing in a piano–ondes Martenot–percussion trio and an ondes–voice duo, often premiering new works.
Committed to avant-garde and rare repertoire, she collaborates with ensembles such as Le Balcon and Emex Ensemble, recording works like Sylvano Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II and contributing to the rediscovery of Dimitri Lévidis’ Poème Symphonique, the first known piece for ondes Martenot and orchestra. Through her artistry, Lartigau promotes a vibrant, forward-looking vision of the ondes Martenot, rooted in 20th-century music history and oriented toward tomorrow’s artistic practices.
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Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is a globally sought-after artist, performing regularly with top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, and London Symphony, and at major festivals such as Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. Equally acclaimed on the opera stage, she has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, Bayreuth, Berliner Staatsoper, and Paris Opera, with signature roles including Fricka, Sieglinde, Waltraute (The Ring Cycle), Kundry (Parsifal), Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlos), Dido (Les Troyens), and Jocaste (Oedipus Rex). She also created the Shaman in Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Met.
A multi-Grammy award-winning recording artist, her discography spans Wagner, Mahler, Berlioz, and more, including Les Troyens, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and Das Lied von der Erde. She recently founded Ensemble Charité, supporting charities while mentoring young musicians through chamber music performances. Her current season includes appearances with the Sydney Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Belgium National Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and the Met’s special Verdi Requiem for 9/11’s 20th anniversary.
Born in 1998, Lukas Schwarz became a precollege student at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in the class of Troels Svane at the age of ten. In 2016 he started his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig in the class of Prof. Bruns, where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2021 and his Master’s degree in 2023, both with the highest possible grade. He has taken part in masterclasses with David Geringas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens-Peter Maintz, Jan Vogler, Stephan Forck and others.
Already at a young age, he gained attention by winning several 1st prizes at the National Youth competition Jugend musiziert, the 1st prize at the Lions Jugend Musikpreis and the 2nd prize at the international cello competition Antonio Janigro in Croatia. He was also awarded the “NDR Kultur Förderpreis” which involved a studio recording.
In 2011 Lukas Schwarz became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, touring through Europe and Asia and attending CD productions and radio recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon and German broadcasters. He received additional orchestral experiences at the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra and as a member of Eroica Berlin, Orchester im Treppenhaus and junge norddeutsche philharmonie.
Lukas plays a cello by Carlo Tononi, Venice (c. 1720), generously loaned to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Born 1996 in Lübeck, Germany, Jonathan Schwarz received his first violin lessons as a student of Vladislav Goldfeld before he became a student at the age of 14 in the class of Heime Müller at the Musikhochschule Lübeck as part of the young students program. Since 2015 he has been studying with Nora Chastain at the University of Arts Berlin where he is currently persuing his Master‘s degree.
Jonathan Schwarz had an early passion for playing in the orchestra and served as concertmaster as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany which led to involvements in CD productions and radio recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon and German broadcasters. He received additional orchestra experience in the festival orchestra of the Pacific Music Festival, Anima Eterna Brugge, Eroica Berlin, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and especially from 2020-2022 as a member of the Karajan Academy with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Jonathan Schwarz is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and plays on a fine JB Guadagnini on generous loan through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Jens Peter Maintz enjoys an international reputation as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Born in Hamburg, he studied with David Geringas and won First Prize at the 1994 ARD International Music Competition—the first cellist in 17 years to receive the award. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Berlin Radio Symphony, Leipzig MDR Symphony, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Den Haag Residentie Orkest and Tokyo Symphony, working with conductors such as Ashkenazy, Blomstedt, Janowski, Welser-Möst and McFerrin.
A former principal cello of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Maintz has been principal cello of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. He is also an acclaimed chamber musician, performing with Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Hélène Grimaud, Antoine Tamestit and the Artemis, Carmina and Auryn Quartets. With Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, he founded the duo Cello Duello, celebrated at leading festivals worldwide.
His recordings include an ECHO Klassik–winning solo disc (Bach, Dutilleux, Kodály) and Haydn concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Maintz is Professor of Cello at Berlin University of the Arts and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. He plays the ‘Ex-Servais’ cello by Giovanni Grancino (1697).
Francesco Massimino is an Italian cellist based in Basel. He studied at the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin, then at the Stauffer Center for Strings with Antonio Meneses, before earning a Master’s degree in cello with highest honors at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, in the class of Thomas Demenga.
Massimino made his solo debut with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and has since performed in Europe and Asia. Among his recent highlights: Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Sinfonieorchester Basel (2023) and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taipei (2024).
A passionate chamber musician, he is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), awarded prizes in Trieste, Schoenfeld (2023), and at the Verbier Festival (2024). In 2025/26, the trio will embark on a European tour as an ECHO Rising Star.
He plays a cello by Gaetano Sgarabotto (L’Oro del Reno, 1948).
Edoardo Grieco is an Italian violinist based in Basel. He studied at the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” of Turin, followed by postgraduate degrees in Chamber Music and Performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, graduating with highest honours under Anton Kernjak and Rainer Schmidt.
He is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), winners of First Prize at the Schoenfeld International Competition and recipients of the Prix Yves Paternot at the 2024 Verbier Festival. The trio was also named a YCAT Artist (2023) and ECHO Rising Star (2024)—the first Italian ensemble to receive both distinctions.
Grieco has performed at Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein, Barbican, and the Verbier Festival, and as a soloist with orchestras in Taipei and Ravenna. He regularly gives masterclasses and is active as a chamber musician.
He plays a 1766 Pietro Antonio Landolfi violin, generously loaned by Irene R. Miller through the Beares International Violin Society.
Edoardo Grieco is an Italian violinist based in Basel. He studied at the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin, and then obtained postgraduate degrees in chamber music and performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, with the highest honours, in the classes of Anton Kernjak and Rainer Schmidt.
He is a founding member of Trio Concept (formerly Trio Chagall), winner of the First Prize at the Schoenfeld International Competition and the Yves Paternot Award at the Verbier Festival 2024. The trio was also named a YCAT Artist (2023) and an ECHO Rising Star (2024), thus becoming the first Italian ensemble to achieve both distinctions.
Grieco has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, the Musikverein, the Barbican, and the Verbier Festival, and as a soloist with orchestras in Taipei and Ravenna. He regularly gives masterclasses and is actively dedicated to chamber music.
He plays a 1766 Pietro Antonio Landolfi violin, generously loaned by Irene R. Miller through the Beares International Violin Society.
Hailing from Thessaloniki, Greece, cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin gained international recognition by winning first prize at the prestigious Paulo International Cello Competition in Finland. He has since been invited to perform as a soloist with leading orchestras, including the Kansas City Symphony – where he made his American debut under the baton of Robert Spano – as well as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Israel Camerata, the NEC Philharmonia, and the symphony orchestras of Athens, Thessaloniki, and Lahti. Deeply committed to chamber music, he has participated in numerous renowned festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival, Chamberfest Cleveland, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars, and the Dimitria Festival.