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In February 2023, French conductor Samy Rachid was appointed the new Assistant Conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Andris Nelsons for a two-year term, effective in October 2023. He will debut with the orchestra during the Tanglewood Music Festival 2024, followed by subscription concerts at Symphony Hall during Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2024/25 season. Currently working as Assistant Conductor of the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Samy Rachid was a Conducting Fellow in the Verbier Festival Conducting programme in 2022, where he worked with such renowned conductors as Klaus Mäkelä and Gianandrea Noseda, and took part in the Gstaad Conducting Academy, where he worked closely with Jaap von Zweden and became the first French conductor to be awarded the Academy’s Neeme Järvi Prize.
Jaehyuck Choi is a conductor-composer, and artistic director of the ensemble blank. After having his debut with the London Symphony at the Lucerne Festival in 2018, Choi has been invited to Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Trondheim Symphony, etc. He was assistant conductor to Paavo Järvi’s Korean Tour, Vienna Opera Academy, and guest assistant to Ensemble Intercontemporain. Winning the First prize of the Concours de Genève with his clarinet concerto in 2017 and conducting the London Symphony at the Lucerne Festival with Sir Simon Rattle on Stockhausen’s Gruppen in 2018, brought him international recognition as both composer and conductor. Choi’s works are represented by Universal Edition in Wien, which have been performed and commissioned by Menuhin Competition, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Parker Quartet, Divertimento ensemble, Chamber Music Columbus, Banff Centre for the arts and creativity, etc. Graduate of The Juilliard School and the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Jaehyuck makes his home in Berlin and Seoul.
Israeli conductor Rotem Nir currently serves as the Conductor in Residence and Head of Music at the Israeli Opera, while also working as the assistant to the music director at the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. With extensive experience, he has previously worked as an assistant conductor at the Israel Chamber Orchestra and has conducted numerous Israeli orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Rotem’s repertoire spans from Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with the Georgisches Kammerorchester in Ingolstadt to Verdi’s La traviata at the Israeli Opera. He has garnered recognition through awards such as the Golden Baton conducting competition of the Buchmann Mehta School of Music and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the New Conductors competition of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Rotem’s musical education includes studies at the Nes Ziona Conservatory, the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts, and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, where he studied conducting with Yoav Talmi and bassoon with Daniel Mazaki. 2024 marks Rotem’s second year as a Fellow of the Verbier Festival’s Conducting Programme.
Gabriel Le Magadure has been fascinated by chamber music and more particularly by the world of the string quartet since he was very young. He is the violinist of Quatuor Ébène.
As a member of the quartet, Le Magadure has performed in the most prestigious concert halls in the world: Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zürich, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Salzburger Festspiele, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris. He regularly performs in Japan, the United States and throughout Europe.
Born in 1981, Gabriel Le Magadure started playing the violin at age 6 at the CNR of Nantes. In 1999, after obtaining a first prize in violin (in the class of Colette Bord) and two first prizes in chamber music, he entered the CNR of Boulogne-Billancourt in the class of Maryvonne Le Dizès. In 2001 he obtained first prize in violin with unanimous approval and the following year he entered the CNSMD in Lyon in the class of Christophe Poiget. In 2003, after winning 2nd prize (1st prize not awarded) at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition with Quatuor Ébène, Le Magadure devoted himself entirely to the quartet.
Within this ensemble he has worked with great teachers including the Ysaÿe Quartet, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Eberhard Feltz and the composer György Kurtag. The quartet has also had the chance to share the stage with renowned partners such as Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mitsuko Uchida, Nicholas Angelich, Alexandre Tharaud, Franck Braley, Daniel Müller-Schott, Antoine Tamestit, Bertrand Chamayou, Nicolas Altstaedt, Andràs Schiff and Menahem Pressler among them.
Le Magadure has also led masterclasses throughout the world: at the Freiburg and Stuttgart Hochschule, at the Lake District Festival in England, at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and at the CNSM in Paris. In 2021, he became professor in residence at the Munich Hochschule.
Recorder player and baroque violinist Yasaman Mashhouri was born in Tehran. At age ten, she began her first musical education and soon thereafter began playing the recorder and taking her first violin lessons. The recorder impressed her so much that she learned it autodidactic. She went on to study biology at Tehran University, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Science. In 2017, she returned to a focus on music with studies in Vienna, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in recorder performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Carsten Eckert. She continued studies in recorder at the Hochschule für Musik Nuremberg, with a focus on singing. She has been pursuing her master’s in recorder there since 2021, in the class of Jeremias Schwarzer. Since 2022, she has also been studying baroque violin with Pauline Nobes at the Würzburg University of Music.
Classical music, jazz, contemporary music—for Maxine Troglauer, these are not genres that can be easily separated from one another. They are organically interconnected resonance spaces that give the German bass trombonist the opportunity for a self-confident dialogue with the past. Maxine graduated with a master’s degree in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Mujsic in 2021, where she studied bass trombone with Dave Taylor. A year later was Finalist in the Young Concert Artist Trust auditions (London) and was named winner of The Ritter Prize, awarded each year by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation (Germany) for outstanding achivements by musicians. Her broad range of experience across musical genres has created a foundation for diverse portfolio randing from productions for NDR, BR, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the jazz label ECM, to solo concerts with orchestras, feminist musicals and TikTok operas.
Austrian pianist Kiron Atom Tellian regularly performs with some of the greatest artists worldwide. Having finished his preparatory studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he now studies with Sergei Babayan at The Juilliard School, where is the recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Kiron has won numerous top prizes at international piano competitions, among them the First Prize and the Haydn Prize at the 17th Ettlingen International Piano Competition. Recent performances include concerts at the Viotti Festival in Italy, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Germany, and recitals in the Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus. Concerts next season will include performances with the Wiener Concertverein orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein and the opening recital of the music festival Kulturfest Schloss Walpersdorf.
Music has been part of Jeremias Thiele’s life since an early age. He began trumpet at age 8 and pursued both instrumental and voice studies, as well as music theory, history and choral conducting. After a short period away from music to study architecture in Berlin, he returned to his first passion to study sound engineering in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst à Vienne (MDW). After only his first year, he regularly recorded independently for a wide variety of ensembles, and after this third year of studies, he began a specialisation in classical music recording. He now continues his studies in Vienna at MDW and in Paris at CNSMD.
Rebekka Homburg’s interest in classical music recording is began with her own violin, piano and voice studies and performances as a soloist and ensemble member from an early age. She has studied sound engineering at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (MDW) and, beginning in fall 2023, will take part in an Erasmus year at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin. While the primary focus of her studies is music recording, she is also studies film sound. She has received scholarships of merit from the MDW and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Marta Hinderer is a sound engineering student from Warsaw, Poland. She received her Bachelor degree from the Chopin University of Music, and is currently studying in the École National Supérieure Louis Lumière in Saint-Denis, France, as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Her main focus is sound in film, but she also participates in recordings, which she has conducted in Poland, France, Germany and Switzerland. Above all genres, Marta enjoys recording classical music. From 2020 to 2022 she has developed her phonographic skills as a member of the Music Multimedia Management Project organised by the Szczecin Philharmonic. As a part of this programme she had individual tutoring sessions with Moritz Bergfeld, a head of Coviello Classics label, with whom she now often collaborates. In her time at the Chopin University of Music, Marta received multiple scholarships for academic performance.