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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Canadian-Armenian bass-baritone Vartan Gabrielian is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company’s ensemble programme and the Santa Fe Apprentice programme. The 2023/24 season sees numerous roles and debuts for him, including Dottore Grenvil (La Traviata) at the Paris Opera, Basilio (The Barber of Seville), Frère Laurent (Romeo and Juliet), and Capitán (Florencia en el Amazonas) at […]