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Australian cellist Benett Tsai gained international recognition after winning top prizes at the 2022 Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann Competition in Berlin. In 2023, he joined the roster of Young Concert Artists after winning First Prize and the Stern Young Artist Award at the YCA International Auditions in New York. He has appeared as a soloist […]

Petar Pejčić studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig with Peter Bruns. Winner of Fifth Prize at the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Petar also won the AENA Special Prize at the Pablo Casals Competition in Spain in 2020, Second Prize at the Anna Kull Competition the same year, and […]

Korean cellist Claire Deokyong Kim earned her Bachelor of Music degree at New England Conservatory (NEC) and is now pursuing her master’s in the studio of Laurence Lesser. She previously studied with Myungwha Chung. In her first year of Bachelor of Music, Claire won the NEC Lower String Competition and was subsequently selected to perform […]

Korean cellist Jaemin Han came to international attention in 2021 when he was awarded the Grand Prix of the George Enescu International Competition as the youngest prizewinner in the competition’s history. He won Third Prize at the Concours de Genève the same year and, in 2022, was awarded First Prize at the ISANGYUN Competition (Korea). […]

From his very first public appearances in age of 9, Maxime Grizard has impressed with the maturity of his playing. Born in 2006, he has been studying cello and piano for seven years with Claire Oppert and Roustem Saïtkoulov and has aleady won several first prizes in international competitions such as Vatelot-Rampal, Flame, Jugend Musiziert […]

Clara Yuna began playing the cello at age seven. Despite her young age of 15, she has already received multiple prizes in national and international music competitions, including the Polstjärnepriset (Sweden, 2023), the Bundeswettbewerb Jugend Musiziert (Germany, 2022), the International Anton Rubinstein Competition for Young Cellists (Germany, 2022), Ungdommens Musikkmesterskap (Norway, 2021) and the international […]

Cellist Luka Coetzee made her solo debut in 2015 at age 11 with the Calgary Civic Symphony. Seven years later, in 2022, she received First Prize at the Pablo Casals International Award (Spain), First Prize at the Johansen International Strings Competition (USA), a special prize and Second Prize at the Dotzauer International Competition (Germany), and […]

In 2022 Jaren Ziegler won the BBC Young Musician Strings Final at age 16, becoming the first violist in the competition’s history to do so. In the Grand Final, he performed the Walton Viola Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. He has recently been awarded First Prize in the Junior Royal College […]

Weiyi Zeng studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Roland Glassl. She began her studies at age 12 at the Affiliated High School of the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing), where she studied with Shaowu Wang. In 2017, she was leader of the Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra at the Conservatory. After being […]

American violist Matthew McDowell began music studies on the violin at age four. His teachers have included Ettore Causa, Gérard Caussé, and Ivan Vukčević. In 2021 he completed his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in viola and violin at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music, graduating with the highest academic and […]