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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lara Villanueva is a Maryland-based audio engineer and multi-instrumental musician known for her resourcefulness and attention to detail.  Music and physics are two sides of the same coin, and Lara has always been intrigued by the relationship of sound with spaces. She has worked in a variety of environments ranging from studio and location recordings […]

Atena Carte is a pianist born in Timisoara, Romania. She graduated from the University of Music in Timisoara, where she studied with Maria Bodo. Later on she obtained Concert and Soloist Diplomas studying with Jean-François Antonioli at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, and a Concert Diploma in Chamber Music with Ulrich Koella and […]

Sébastien Jurczys is a music director, pianist, composer, arranger and stage director. In 2011, he created his first multidisciplinary show with symphony orchestra, choirs and soloists (including Natacha Kowalski). He has also created numerous musical projects at the Le Moderne theatre with director Sarah Cerri (Le Cabaret des Hommes Perdus, Into the Woods, Once Upon a […]

Errollyn Wallen — ‘renaissance woman of contemporary British music’ (The Observer) — is as respected a singer-songwriter of pop influenced songs as she is a composer of contemporary new music. Communication is at the centre of both worlds: engaging the audience, speaking directly to hearts and minds. Born in Belize, Errollyn Wallen gave up her […]

Hervé Sellin was born in 1957 in Paris. He started playing trumpet, then trombone and did classical piano studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Aldo Ciccolini. He obtained, in 1980, a double prize of piano and chamber music. During the same period his father, great French trumpet player Pierre Sellin, introduced him […]