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Acknowledged for his “virtuosic poetry” (Tiroler Tageszeitung) and “extraordinarily subtle and intoxicating playing” (Liechtensteiner Volksblatt), David Bergmüller is regarded as one of the most adventurous and exciting lutenists of his generation. He is committed to creating a new legacy for the lute. His approach is to bridge the gap between historically informed/inspired practice and contemporary […]

Musician, gamba-player, has played music as long as she can think. For her, music is the foremost means of communication between human beings, more precise and intense and unmistakable than language, of greater emotional significance than any other experience besides love. To her, music is a means of connecting not only the past and the […]

Sebastian Wienand lives in Basel and performs worldwide on historic keyboard instruments as a soloist, chamber music partner, and continuo player. He has collaborated with musicians and ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin, Les musiciens du Louvre, Millennium Orchestra, Maurice Steger, Gottfried von der Goltz, Rebeka Rusó and […]

Catherine Edwards has a varied career on both piano and organ, performing, broadcasting and recording as chamber pianist, accompanist and soloist. Her chamber music experience with groups such as Capricorn, The Nash Ensemble, Endymion and Composers’ Ensembles includes standard and contemporary repertoire, and she has worked closely with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, […]

Bass Yannick Spanier studied at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media and at the Conservatoire de Toulouse. The young singer has already been cast in many important roles, including Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Arkel (Pelléas et Melisande) and Dr Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia). From the 2017 / 18 season, Spanier was part of […]

French soprano Mariamielle Lamagat is a recent graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She began her musical journey studying classical piano, percussion and jazz piano. She went on to the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, where she studied French early music. In 2018, she received Third Prize […]

Canadian mezzo-soprano Jillian Tam has just finished her second year as an undergraduate student in vocal performance at McGill University in Montreal under the direction of Dominique Labelle. She is a member of the McGill University Schulich Singers Ensemble conducted by Jean-Sebastian Vallée. Tam was a student at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2018 […]

Alejandro Viana began his cello studies at age seven. He studied with María de Macedo and with Lluis Claret in Barcelona. He is currently studying at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Madrid) with Ivan Monighetti. Alejandro took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021 and, in 2018/19 was a member of Gautier […]

After studying with Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and then in Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Caroline Sypniewski perfected her skills with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She was named Classical Revelation by Adami (2017) and Young Talent […]

Ivan Skanavi was born into a family of musicians in Moscow. At six he started the cello and entered music school, where his teachers were Olga Galochkina and Tamara Alekseeva. Later, he studied with Alexey Seleznev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is now a student of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik […]