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American double bassist, educator and curator Mary Javian’s goal is to use music to create positive social change in communities. A graduate of Curtis Institute of Music, where she is now Chair of Career Studies, Javian studied with Harold Robinson. She has toured and has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and other world-class ensembles, and […]

Canadian actor, movement specialist and director Alexis Milligan practices and teaches a diverse range of work from theatre and film to movement direction and puppetry. Currently, she is the resident Movement Director at the Shaw Festival, host of the “Let’s Get This Shaw on The Road” podcast, and the director of the ground-breaking Theatre of […]

Praised by Il Corriere della Sera for “obtaining powerful and refined colors” (La Traviata) and by Seen and Heard International for “instilling drama and excitement in every note,” Vincenzo Milletarì is rapidly establishing himself among the leading conductors of his generation. In the 2023/2024 season, he debuts with the CSO Orchestra in Ankara, returns to […]

One of Ireland’s most successful musicians, Finghin Collins was born in Dublin in 1977 and, following initial lessons with his sister Mary, studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O’Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the […]

Of Michael Fabiano’s debut as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera, The Sunday Times in London wrote: “I can’t think of a Lensky at Covent Garden who has held the audience so spellbound in 40 years of Onegin-going… a glorious debut.” The recipient of the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the […]

Anna Saldadzé is a London-based author, publisher, and documentary film producer specializing in lifestyle and music-related books. Georgian-born, and French-educated, she is passionate about making different cultures relatable through stories. After graduating in French and German Business Law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, she came back to her early passion for lifestyle by engaging […]

Robert Brewer Young stands among the world’s most active and respected violinmakers. Trained as a luthier in the artist’s studios of Carnegie Hall in New York, Robert has cared for scores of instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri and other classical Italian masters. He is now devoted exclusively to making signature instruments in the spirit of these […]

Named “Emerging Opera Singer of the Year” by “Opernwelt” magazine and first-prize winner at the renowned NEUE STIMMEN Competition in 2019, Anna El-Khashem was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and completed her musical studies at the State Conservatory in her native city. She made her international debut at the Bregenz Festival in 2016 as Bastienne […]