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Jack Kessler is a bachelor’s student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies viola with Roberto Diaz and Edward Gazouleas. He previously worked with Michael Klotz at Florida International University. Jack performed with fellows of the New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas from 2015 to 2019. He was a National YoungArts Foundation finalist in 2019 and has performed for distinguished artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Steven Tenenbom, and performed on NPR’s From The Top with Jeremy Denk at Dartmouth College. In recent summers, Jack has studied at Center Stage Strings, Bowdoin International Music Festival, in The Perlman Music Program, and at the Ashkenasi-Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar at the Heifetz International Music Institute.
American violist Brian Isaacs attended Yale University, where he received his master’s degree in Viola Performance as a student of Ettore Causa and his bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He will be based in Berlin starting September 2023 as a member of the Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. Brian received several awards while at Yale and won both the School of Music’s Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition (2023) and the College’s William Waite Concerto Competition (2022). He was a semifinalist at the Primrose International Viola Competition (2021) and the Kodály International Music Competition (2022), and was a prizewinner of the Rubinstein International Viola Competition (2019). He has performed in numerous American, Asian and European festivals and academies, including Bowdoin, Gimhae, Heyri, Moritzburg, NUME, NYO-USA, NYSOS, Schiermonnikoog, Taos, Thy and Yanghwajin. He attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2022. Brian plays on a 2011 Douglas Cox viola, on generous loan from the Virtu Foundation.
Misi Boros started playing piano at age 4. As a child, he won first prizes in all national and international piano competitions he entered. In 2013, he took part in Lang Lang’s first Junior Music Camp in Munich and, a year later, he was the First Prize winner of the Virtuosos Classical Music Talent Show television programme, which has enabled him to perform in more than 30 countries. Misi has performed in several European countries, including Switzerland (Tonhalle Zurich), the United States (Lincoln Center, New York), Brazil, Japan and China. He previously attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2022, where he was awarded the Tabor Foundation Award for piano. He has released six solo albums: including his disc Inspiration on the Hungaroton label, which received praise from International Piano Magazine and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Misi is currently pursuing his university studies in at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Antti Siirala.
Giovanni Bertolazzi is currently studying with Epifanio Comis. In addition to winning Second Prize and five special awards at the 2021 Franz Liszt International Piano Competiton in Budpest, Giovanni has won more than 40 prizes in international piano competitions. These include First Prizes at the S. Weishaupt Piano Competition and the S. Thalberg Piano Competition, as well as Fourth Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition. In 2019, he also received the Alkan Award for Piano Virtuosity (Milan). Giovanni has performed at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Steinway Hall in London, among other prestigious venues. Highlights of his career so far include appearances with the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.
Amy Goto began the cello at age three and has studied with Philippe Muller since the age of 12. In 2020 she became the youngest member of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle de Gautier Capuçon at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Her debut as soloist with orchestra took place at age 9 with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and in 2015 she received the ‘Hope’ Award at the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. She has been featured on NPR’s From the Top and TEDx University of Rhode Island. At Musica Mundi in 2016, she performed in the closing gala concert as soloist with the festival orchestra and was the youngest semifinalist at the Mazzacurati Competition in 2019. During the summers, Amy has studied at Musica Mundi, Music@Menlo, and Domaine Forget. She currently resides in Rhode Island (USA).
In 2013, Kevin Chen was listed in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Top 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.” He has won multiple international piano competitions, including the International Piano-e-Competition (2019), the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (2020), the Mozart International Piano Competition in Lugano, Switzerland (2020), and the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest, Hungary (2021) as both the youngest competitor and the youngest ever winner of the competition. Since his orchestral debut with the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra at the age of seven, Kevin has performed concerts with many symphonies in Canada, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, and the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, many of which featured Kevin’s own orchestral works. As well, he has performed with the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra (Kazakhstan), the Minnesota Orchestra, the Hilton Head (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yumeka Nakagawa is the 2021 Prix Clara Haskil recipient (Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil), as well as winner of the prestigious competition’s Audience Award and Children’s Corner Award. She was also the first prizewinner at the 2019 International Robert Schumann Competition (Düsseldorf) and second prizewinner at the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists (Weimar) in 2014. After winning the federal Jugend Musiziert Competition in 2014, Yumeka was granted a scholarship by the Carl Bechstein Stiftung which led to invitations from numerous venues across Germany. Since 2019 she has appeared on the stages of the Wigmore Hall in London, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Rachmaninoff Hall at the Mariinsky Theater. Yumeka currently pursues her bachelor’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Grigory Gruzman.
Michał Prószyński is a member of Bühnen Bern’s opera ensemble, as part of which he made his debuts as Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Mime in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Born in Gdów, the Polish tenor studied at Hanover Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien with Marek Rzepka, who already supervised him at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie. Prior to this, he studied classical guitar at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. Michał made his stage debut in 2015 singing the leading role of Antonio in Moniuszko’s Nocleg w Apeninach and, as a guest at Staatstheater Braunschweig between 2018 and 2020, performed Alfred in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus at Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen. A dedicated Lied singer, he performed at the Second Voice and Piano Chamber Music Festival in Kraków and at the Eighth Festival of Polish Music with the Kraków Philharmonic. Michał was a finalist in the Robert Schumann Singing Competition in 2021.
German baritone Dennis Chmelensky has been praised for his “carrying power as well as subtle sensitivity to sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer). He is a former member of the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program and an alumus of the Curtis Institute of Music. This season, he made his debut at the Philips Collection with Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and workshopped the role of Sensor in Jeanine Tesori’s new opera Grounded that was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Recent highlights include appearances with Opera for Peace and his debut as Don Giovanni in a Curtis / Opera Philadelphia co-production under the baton of Karina Canellakis. A devoted recitalist, Dennis has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, in venues such as the National Gallery of Art and at Konzerthaus Berlin. He was a National Semifinalist of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and is the recipient of numerous awards. His debut album, DENNIS, was released by Sony Music.
Daniel Barrett is a baritone from Glasgow who is in his first year on the master’s course at the Royal College of Music and studies with Russell Smythe. Daniel is a Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholar and a Drake Calleja Trust Scholar, as well as an associate artist with the Josephine Baker Trust. He previously studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, winning and placing in multiple competitions and graduating with a First class honours degree. This year, Daniel won First Prize at the Royal College Music (RCM) Lieder Competition. He recently appeared as baritone soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, performed by the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, under the direction of Thomas Zehetmair.