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Roa Lee was admitted with the highest distinction to Yewon School in 2023, where she received the Performance Excellence Award and the Academic Honor Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the Doam Scholarship, awarded to exceptionally promising young musicians.
In March 2023, she performed as part of the Kumho Prodigy concert series. The same year, she gave a recital at Lincoln Center, presented by the New York Young Artist Foundation. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of the New York Rising Stars Concert.
She has won several awards, including grand prizes at the New York Virtuoso International Competition, the New York International Music Competition, and the Chosun Ilbo Music Competition, as well as second prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. She is a member of the Arrieta Trio, which received the gold medal and an honorable mention at the Manhattan International Music Competition in 2023.
Theodor Kaskiv was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 2006 and began playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of his father, Oleg Kaskiv. In 2015, he received a scholarship to join Le Rosey Institute. He has performed as a soloist with the Lviv Chamber Orchestra Virtuosos, the Menuhin Academy Soloists and the Rosey Symphony Orchestra. A laureate of several international competitions, he received second prize at the Grumiaux Competition in Brussels and first prize at the Lvivskyy Virtuoz. Theodor has participated in masterclasses with Anna Chumachenko and Tetiana Zolozova Le Menestral. He continues to study with his father at the Menuhin International Music Academy and regularly performs with the Menuhin Academy Soloists.
Born in 2008, Raphaël Gisbertz is currently studying with Leonid Kerbel at the Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium. He made his solo debut at the age of nine with The Spring by Vivaldi alongside the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker. Since then, he has performed on major stages, including the Konzerthaus Wien, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, and the Kölner Philharmonie. In 2023, he won several first prizes in national and international competitions such as the Grumiaux Competition in Brussels. Earlier that year, at the German Musical Instrument Fund Competition, his impressive performance earned him the loan of a C.G. violin Testore from 1700, and his interpretation of Bach was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk. As a regular participant in the renowned festival and course Musica Mundi in Belgium and as the youngest participant of the Gstaad String Academy, Raphaël has gained extensive experience in chamber music at the highest international level. A scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, he actively participates in its intensive programs and activities.
Emmanuel Coppey is a French violinist and artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris. He is also a City Music Foundation, member of the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt and an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Emmanuel has performed as a soloist and chamber musician alongside Jérémie Rhorer, Vahan Mardirossian, Rachel Podger, Alexei Ogrintchouk and Christopher Warren-Green, and has collaborated with Nelson Goerner, Augustin Dumay and Bertrand Chamayou at major chamber music festivals. His repertoire spans from Bach to contemporary works, with a particular focus on composers such as Beethoven, Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, and Debussy.
He plays a 1735 Guarnerius violin, generously loaned by the Guttman Collection.
Nurie Chung was the second prize winner, at the age of 16, of the 56th Premio Paganini Competition held in 2021 in Genoa, Italy. He also received two other special awards, one for the best interpretation of a commissioned piece and the other for the youngest finalist. He currently studies with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna.
More recently, he was invited to perform for Maestro Vladimir Spivakov during a masterclass organized by the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. He has also given a recital at the Teatro Cucinelli (Perugia Musica Classica, Fondazione Brunello e Federica Cucinelli), for the Beautiful Thursday concert series at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul (broadcast by KBS), at the 70th-anniversary ceremony concert of the HanKookIlbo newspaper at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, and for the MECMA concert series in Dubai.
Adam Znamirovský began playing the piano spontaneously at the age of four and studied with Markéta Cibulková in Jižní Město since the age of five. He received first prizes in national and international competitions, including the Béla Bartók Competition in Graz, the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Szafarnia and the César Franck Piano Competition in Belgium. Among his greatest achievements is his victory at the Concertino Praga competition, where he performed the Piano Concerto by Grieg with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he was a finalist at the Eurovision Young Musicians in Bodø, Norway, where he performed the Piano Concerto by Saint-Saëns with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Adam regularly participates in masterclasses with Ivo Kahánek, Ivan Klánský and Daniel Blumenthal, and has performed at major festivals such as Prague Spring, Litomyšl Smetana’s and Santa Cecilia in Porto.
Ido Zeev is an Israeli pianist known for his transcriptions, collaborations, and performances at international festivals, including the Martha Argerich Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, the Oxford Piano Festival, and the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Basel. In 2024, he is presented by Martha Argerich in a series of recitals in Lyon and Toulouse as part of Les Grands Interprètes. He has worked with musicians such as Nikolai Lugansky, Christoph Eschenbach and Menahem Pressler. He studied with Arie Vardi from 2016, then with Rena Shereshevskaya and with Florence Millet since 2024.
Ziyu Shao is a Chinese pianist and a laureate of the 2023 Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar. He has also received first prizes at the International Chopin Competition in Poland, the International Vladimir Krainev in Moscow and the Horowitz Memorial Competition in Ukraine. In 2021, he gave a solo recital at the New MMDM Hall in Moscow, broadcast by Radio Orpheus and was featured at the 2024 Pianissimo Winter Festival. Ziyu has performed with orchestras such as the Virtuosi of Moscow and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Svetlanov and has performed in venues such as the Moscow Conservatory, the Zaryadye Hall, and Carnegie Hall.
Yonatan Senik was 22 years old when he became a laureate of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, where he also received the award for best Israeli performer. He won competitions in Tel Aviv and Boston, and in 2021 won the Tel Aviv University Chamber Music Competition. In 2024, he received the Bruno Frey Musikpreis for chamber music in Ochsenhausen and was a finalist in the Classeek Ambassador. He was also nominated for an International Classical Music Award (ICMA). He is currently pursuing a Master’s at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Alexander Korsantia.
Natalie Schwamová made her orchestral debut at the age of ten, performing the Piano Concerto in D minor by Mozart with the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with the Czech Philharmonic, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and the Extremadura Orchestra, with appearances in major venues such as the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, and the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. She has received over 20 international prizes, including first prize at the Frédéric Chopin Competition in Marienbad and the Alicante International Music Competition in 2023. In 2023, she was awarded, by Queen Sofía, the distinction of best student at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. She studied at the Prague Academy of Music with František Malý and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Dmitri Bashkirov, Milana Chernyavska, and Claudio Martínez Mehner.