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South Korean violinist Hyunseo Kim gained international recognition at the 2025 Premio Paganini International Violin Competition, where she was awarded Third Prize, the Audience Prize and the Youngest Finalist Award. In 2024, she received Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition, becoming the first Korean violinist to win a prize in the violin category. She also received the Stuart Holland Award at the Morningside Music Bridge programme. Since her debut at the Kumho Young Artist Concert in 2021, she has performed with major orchestras including the KBS Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyunggi Philharmonic Orchestra and Sungnam Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied with the late Nam-Yun Kim and attended the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts. Since 2025, she has studied at the Korea National University of Arts with Jihee Lee.
Violinist Wenlan Jackson, born in New York City, is building an increasingly international career as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent engagements include performances with the Colburn Orchestra, Burbank Philharmonic, SoCal Philharmonic, San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Santa Monica. A Fulbright Award recipient for the 2025/26 season, she is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Kolja Blacher, after completing her Bachelor’s degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Robert Lipsett. Wenlan is Concertmaster of Kontrapunktus in Los Angeles and was featured with the London Symphony Orchestra on the Grammy Award-winning album An Adoption Story: The Storm (Kitt Wakeley, 2023). She has performed at festivals including the Villars Institute, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Nume Festival, Verão Clássico and Aspen Music Festival, and plays a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin on loan from a private collection.
Recording producer and sound engineer Annemarie Hoffmann specializes in classical music production. She completed her bachelor’s degree in music production (Tonmeister) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in classical music production at the Erich Thienhaus Institute of the Detmold University of Music. Since 2021, she has worked as a freelance producer and regularly collaborates with MDR Klassik and the GENUIN recording group. In 2025, she received the Silver Award in the AES Student Recording Competition (Traditional Recording). Her work focuses particularly on recording acoustic ensembles, with a special interest in vocal repertoire. Alongside her work as an engineer, she is also active as a singer and studies voice, performing regularly with professional ensembles including the Kammerchor Stuttgart, collegium vocale Stuttgart and the Bundesjugendchor.
Violinist YiWei Gu was born in Shanghai in May 2006 and began studying the violin at age five. He studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, first with Zhu Qinglin and later with Zheng Qing. He has received prizes at several important competitions, including the National Youth Violin Concerto Competition in China and the Max Rostal International Competition in Berlin. In 2023, he began his bachelor’s studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin in the class of Kolja Blacher. He was also selected to participate in the Ozawa Academy in Switzerland in both 2024 and 2025.
Colombian-Canadian musician Ana Gonzalez is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Sound Recording at McGill University. Her musical journey began in 2011 with the Schola Cantorum of Bogotá’s Primatial Cathedral. In 2014, she received an Academic Excellence Scholarship to study choral conducting at the Pontifical Xavierian University, where she later served as assistant conductor of the university choirs. From 2016 to 2020, she conducted the children’s choir of Bogotá’s cathedral. She also sang with the professional choir Sociedad Santa Cecilia, performing under conductors such as Kent Nagano and Gustavo Dudamel. Following the suspension of choral activities during the pandemic, she turned her focus toward audio production. Drawing on her background as a conductor, she approaches recording with a holistic musical perspective while maintaining meticulous attention to sonic detail.
Warsaw-based sound engineer Bartosz Gardziński specializes in classical recording, mixing and mastering in both stereo and immersive formats. He holds a Master’s degree in Sound Engineering from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he now teaches in the Sound Engineering, Jazz & Stage Music, and Vocal/Acting departments. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Immersive Audio at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA), focusing on advanced spatial recording techniques, microphone arrays and Dolby Atmos production. In 2024 he received the Fryderyk Award in the Classical Music category for the album Le clavecin moderne & saxophone, vol. 2 (Chopin University Press). His work combines technical precision with musical sensitivity, accompanying artists from the first recording session to the final release.
Anaïs Feller is currently a third-year student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Midori and Erin Keefe, following earlier studies with Martin Beaver at the Colburn Music Academy. As a soloist, she has received top prizes at the Tibor Junior International Violin Competition, Verão Clássico, the Burgos International Music Festival and the HKGNA International Music Competition. An active chamber musician, she performs with the Olive Trio, gold medallists of the 2022 Fischoff and Chicago International Music Competitions. She appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival alongside Stefan Jackiw and Nicola Benedetti, and has also performed at Yellow Barn, La Jolla SummerFest and the International Menuhin Music Academy. At sixteen, she was named a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence.
Roman Fediurko began his musical training with Galina Kotsyuba before continuing his studies in 2021 with Milana Chernyavska at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. In 2022, he won the Gold Medal and five special prizes at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition, a distinction that launched his international concert career. Since then, he has appeared at festivals and prestigious concert venues around the world. In 2024, he released the album Kaleidoscope together with his younger brother Oleksandr.
Lucas Chiche began his musical education at the Geneva Conservatory, joining the Musimax programme at an early age, and currently studies with Mladen Tcholitch. In 2025, he was named a Classic FM Rising Star and received a Coup de Cœur distinction at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in France. That same year, he was awarded the Arkady Fomin Scholarship in the United States and was selected for the 2026 edition of ‘50 Outstanding Young Swiss’. Lucas performs regularly in recital and as a concerto soloist across Switzerland, France, Europe and the United States. Recent appearances include Weill Recital Hall in New York, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Salle Cortot and Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as major venues in St Petersburg and Moscow. He is also the founder of Fortissimo, a classical music interview project featuring artists such as Martha Argerich, Ricardo Castro and Yulianna Avdeeva.
Pianist Zach Cheong studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. A First Prize winner of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia, he has appeared as a concerto soloist in cities including Hong Kong, Philadelphia, Paris, Marseille, Trondheim, Hilton Head Island, Macao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Mexico City. A Steinway Young Artist, he has gained international recognition for performances praised by Gramophone, Chopin Magazine and the South China Morning Post for their musicality, clarity and artistic maturity.