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Mikołaj Woźniak is a Polish pianist studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel under Claudio Martínez-Mehner. He has won numerous prizes at national and international piano competitions and has collaborated with artists such as Kirill Gerstein, Robert Levin and Andreas Staier. His engagement with contemporary music has been shaped through work with György Kurtág and masterclasses with Thomas Adès, under whose guidance he continues to deepen his understanding of contemporary repertoire. Mikołaj adapts his interpretations to each musical context and performance space, moving with equal ease between solo and chamber repertoire, from Baroque to contemporary music. Highlights of his upcoming projects include György Kurtág’s Double Concerto Op. 27/2, under the direction of Heinz Holliger.
Violist Yanan Wang began her studies at the Middle School of the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 2018, she moved to Europe and earned her bachelor’s degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under William Coleman. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Music and Theatre Munich with Hariolf Schlichtig. Yanan has performed as a soloist with the University Orchestra Salzburg, including Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto K. 622 arranged for viola, and won Second Prize at the 2025 International Paul Hindemith Viola Competition in Munich. She has attended masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Lars Anders Tomter, Antoine Tamestit and Lawrence Power. A Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Munich scholarship holder, she has received special prizes from Philharmonie Baden-Baden and Arosa Masterclass, was a member of the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy Leipzig and began her trial as Assistant Principal Viola with the Munich Radio Orchestra in 2025.
Carlos Vidal is a cellist currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Julian Steckel. He previously studied in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid with Iñaki Etxepare, Salvador Bolón, María Casado and Asier Polo, and in 2020 joined the class of Jérôme Pernoo and Edgar Moreau at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Carlos has won numerous international competitions, including the Kódaly International Competition, the Permanent Competition of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain, the Pau Casals International Prize and the Johannes Brahms International Competition. In October 2022, he received the Prince of Hesse Award at the Kronberg Academy. He has performed across Europe and appeared at festivals including the Casals Festival, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Kronberg Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
Arina Verevkina is a lyric coloratura soprano from the Altai Republic in Siberia. She graduated in 2022 from the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Anastasia Bakastova and is currently a fourth-year student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Ekaterina Skusnichenko. Arina has won several Russian and international vocal competitions, including competitions in Finland, Belgium, Sweden and France. In 2024, she attended a masterclass with Teodor Currentzis and performed the role of Lesovichka in Dvořák’s Rusalka under conductor Dmitri Jurowski. In April 2025, she appeared with the MusicAeterna Choir and later that year joined the Accademia Rossiniana ‘Alberto Zedda’ to participate in the Rossini Opera Festival production of Il viaggio a Reims.
Italian cellist Paolo Tedesco began studying the cello at the Suzuki Academy Talent Center in Turin with Marco Mosca. He has received numerous prizes in national and international competitions, including first prizes at the Giovani Interpreti, Città di Maccagno, Salieri, Città di Vimodrone and Varallo-Valsesia Musica Junior competitions, as well as the Premio Crescendo in Florence and the Premio Guadagnini in Piacenza. Paolo graduated with highest honours from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin in 2020. He has since continued his studies at institutions including the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Pavia Cello Academy, the Stauffer Academy and the Accademia Chigiana. He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe and Japan and currently studies with Peter Bruns in Leipzig and Frans Helmerson in Cremona.
French soprano Fanny Soyer trained at the Maîtrise de Paris and the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs before continuing her studies in Berlin and later at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen, where she completed a Master’s degree with highest distinction. A prizewinner at several competitions, she received the Women’s Second Prize at the Canari Singing Competition in 2024 and the Audience Prize at the Montreal Competition in 2025. She joined the Young Artist Program of the Danish National Opera, where she performed roles including Frasquita (Carmen), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Echo, and took part in Don Giovanni’s Inferno by Simon Steen-Andersen. An Académicienne of the Opéra-Comique for the 2024/25 season, she appeared as the Second Attendant in Médée. Upcoming engagements include Lyra in Poul Ruders’ The Thirteenth Child in Odense and Frasquita at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
British soprano Josephine Shaw studies at the Royal College of Music in London as a Frederick and Phyllis Treby Scholar, working with Veronica Veysey Campbell and Caroline Dowdle. Her operatic roles include Julie Jordan in Carousel with the National Youth Music Theatre, Frog in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal College of Music and Aldimira in Cavalli’s Erismena in RCM Opera Scenes. In 2024, she was a Young Artist at the Académie Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and, in 2025, toured Italy as soprano soloist with the RCM Baroque Ensemble. Josephine has been featured on BBC Click and BBC Radio London and is passionate about bringing classical music to wider audiences through social media. She collaborates with organisations including Decca Classics, the Aurora Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Violist Stephen Savage performs regularly in recital and chamber music concerts and has appeared with orchestras and ensembles internationally. In 2025, he participated in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, where he received the Karl Doktor Prize. He has also been invited to major competitions including the Concours de Genève International Viola Competition and the ARD International Music Competition. An active chamber musician, he performed in the 72nd Ljubljana Festival and was invited as an International Performer at Music@Menlo in 2025. Stephen is currently pursuing graduate studies at The Juilliard School in the studios of Paul Neubauer and Toby Appel, supported by a Kovner Fellowship. A 2021 YoungArts Winner, he was also named a 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Italian cellist Alessandro Sacchetti studies in the Performance Diploma programme with Frans Helmerson at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona. He previously studied with Antonio Meneses at the Stauffer Academy, as well as at the Chigiana Academy and the Biel Academy. In 2024, he was selected to participate in several prestigious cello academies and masterclasses, including the Kronberg Academy masterclasses with Jens Peter Maintz and the Cello Akademie Rutesheim with Gustavo Núñez Bohórquez. Alessandro is currently studying at the G. Briccialdi Conservatory and the AvosProject International Chamber Music Academy in Rome. He has also taken part in masterclasses with artists including David Geringas, Mischa Maisky and Sol Gabetta. In 2024, he won the XIX Italian National Arts Prize awarded by the Ministry of University and Research as the best cellist among Italian conservatories.
Pianist and composer Yoav Roth has already performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe, North America and Asia. His appearances include concerts in England, Hong Kong, Poland, Canada and the United States, with performances in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards in piano competitions, including first prizes in national competitions in Israel and First Prize with Audience Prize at the Tel-Hai International Master Class Piano Concerto Competition. Yoav is a regular recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Excellence Scholarships (2018–2025) and participated in an elite programme for outstanding pianists at the Jerusalem Music Centre led by Murray Perahia. Recently, he won First Prize at the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition and participated in the Marlboro Music Festival. He currently studies at The Juilliard School with Robert McDonald.