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Amanda Håøy Horn is a Norwegian violinist based in Oslo. Chamber music has played a significant role in her musical life, and she has been invited to several Norwegian festivals. After completing her studies with Elise Båtnes at the Norwegian Academy of Music, she furthered her expertise as an academy member with the Oslo Philharmonic […]

Fleuranne Brockway has captivated audiences in her native Australia, as well as throughout Europe. In 2022, Brockway won first prize and Best Female Voice at the 8th Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, and first prize at the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Competition. She was also a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition […]

Jack Pepper is one of the youngest national radio presenters in the United Kingdom. At 19, he participated in the creation of Scala Radio, the UK’s newest national classical radio station, and became its presenter. Jack joins a team that includes some of the UK’s most beloved presenters, including Simon Mayo, Angellica Bell, and Mark […]

Yannis Rammos is an associate researcher in music theory at the Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL, and a member of the piano faculty at the European University Cyprus. A Russian-trained international pedagogue, he has taught in 2022/23 at the Verbier Festival Academy, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, the Estonian Academy for Music […]

Cellist Aleksey Shadrin, a participant in the Kronberg Academy’s Master Program, was born into a family of musicians in Ukraine. He won first prize at the 4th M. Lysenko International Music Competition in 2012. In 2018, he was awarded third prize at the Prague Spring Competition. Following his initial successes in numerous competitions, including the […]

Maximilian Maisky, born in 2004, is a Belgian-Italian pianist. He began playing the piano at the age of 4 with Lyl Tiempo, and for several years was a student of Hagit Hassid-Kerbel. At the age of 13, he became one of the first students at the new Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium, where he […]

Winner of the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition and exclusive SONY Classical artist, Pablo Ferrández is considered a “new cello genius“ (Le Figaro). A captivating performer, “Ferrández has it all: technique, courage, spirit, authority as a soloist, expressiveness, and charm“ (El Pais). He has become a cello phenomenon and one of the most sought-after instrumentalists of […]

Fiona Costa was trained at the Royal College of Music. As a researcher at the University of Roehampton, her primary interest lies in the effect of music on the well-being and quality of life of older adults. Her doctoral research and subsequent projects have investigated the effect of music on pain, stress, anxiety, and depression. […]

After training in Morocco, Nour Ayadi continued her piano studies at the École Normale and the Conservatoire de Paris, where she obtained her Performing Artist Diploma. She is an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and studied with Nelson Goerner at the Geneva University of Music. Her accolades include the Cortot Prize […]

Conductor Bar Avni won first prize at the 2024 La Maestra competition in Paris, awarded by an illustrious jury chaired by Natalie Stutzmann. An undisputed laureate, Bar Avni swept all the competition’s awards, also winning the Orchestra Prize, the Arte Prize, the Echo Prize, and the Prize of French Concert Halls and Orchestras. For the […]