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Karol Beffa is a Franco-Swiss composer, pianist, and musicologist. A former child actor, he later studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the Paris Conservatoire, earning top honours in multiple disciplines. He holds a PhD in musicology and teaches at ENS. His catalogue includes over 100 works—concert music, film scores, operas, ballets—and has been performed […]

British clarinettist Mebrakh Haughton-Johnson is known for his expressive and dynamic artistry. As a soloist, he has appeared at Wigmore Hall, Petworth Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Lichfield Festival, and made his US concerto debut with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra performing David Baker’s Jazz Suite. A passionate chamber and orchestral musician, he […]

Italian pianist Giuseppe Guarrera is the 2024 laureate of the prestigious Beethoven Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Praised for his remarkable expressiveness and technical virtuosity by Scherzo, Guarrera has performed as a soloist and in chamber music in some of Europe’s most renowned venues, including Wigmore Hall in London, the Pierre Boulez Saal […]

Italian pianist Giuseppe Guarrera is the 2024 winner of the prestigious Beethoven Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Praised for his exceptional expressiveness and technical brilliance by Scherzo, Guarrera has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician at some of Europe’s most renowned venues, including Wigmore Hall in London, Pierre Boulez Saal in […]

Born in Bolzano, she graduated from the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory in her city in singing and piano, later perfecting her skills at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She made her debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto as the protagonist in Rossini’s Signor Bruschino […]

An opera and oratorio singer, she embodies a heritage blending Russian roots from the Ural Mountains, in Mednogorsk, and the Ukrainian plains, in Melitopol, a city twinned with Melito di Napoli, Italy. She studied singing, piano, and accordion. Her artistic career primarily developed in Europe, and more specifically in Italy, a country she has embraced […]

Johanna Vaude is a multidisciplinary artist whose cinematic and musical universe unfolds as a perpetual quest for poetry and innovation. Her works, often described as fierce, poetic, and intense, explore the shifting boundaries between genres, merging the visual and the auditory into a unique narrative alchemy. Her first screenings in cultural institutions and short film […]

Sasha Rozhdestvensky is considered one of the greatest contemporary Russian violinists. Yehudi Menuhin described him as “one of the most talented and refined violinists of his generation.” He has performed on international stages with prestigious ensembles such as the Bayerische Staatsorchester, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the […]

Annie Dutoit-Argerich was born in Switzerland. She studied Latin and Greek and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She then obtained a Master’s degree in Journalism from New York University and a PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. While pursuing her academic career, Annie discovered a passion for […]

Swiss pianist Lionel Monnet was awarded a virtuosity degree with “Distinction” in 2003 in Christian Favre’s class at the Lausanne University of Music. He continued his training with his mentor Abdel Rahman El Bacha in Paris. He also worked with Manahem Pressler of the “Beaux-Arts Trio of New York” and the Trio Wanderer of Paris. […]