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Ravil Islyamov graduated from the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and now studies at the Moscow Conservatory. His teacher is Alexander Vinnitsky. Ravil has had much success in competition, including the Gold Medal at the Youth Delphi Games of Russia (Tyumen, 2016; Vladivostok, 2018), the Grand Prix at the Ludwig van Beethoven International Violin Competition (Austria, 2016), and wins at the Youth Delphi Games of Member States of the CIS (Moscow, 2016) and the All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2018). Ravil was also named ‘Best Participant of the Second Round’ at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2019. Since 2010 he has been a grant-recipient of the Yuri Rozum International Charitable Foundation.
Aaron Chan pursued his Bachelor of Music with Stephen Rose and Jinjoo Cho at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he also minored in Music History. He was the winner of the Concerto competition at CIM in the Fall 2017, awarding him a public performance with the CIM orchestra at the Severance Hall. In 2018, Aaron won the classical concerto competition and chamber competition with his quartet (Lafontaine Quartet) at McGill. He is now pursuing his Masters degree with Paul Kantor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Although born in Canada, Aaron spent his childhood in Hong Kong, where studied both violin and viola on full scholarship to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ Junior Program.
Harmony Zhu entered the Juilliard School at age 8, where she continues to study with Veda Kaplinsky and Emanuel Ax. She is also World Chess Champion of her age, Woman Candidate Master since age seven, Young Steinway Artist since age 10, Lang Lang Foundation Scholar, and fellow of Yale University’s Artemisia Akademie. She has appeared with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín and with conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and John Giordano. Harmony also loves playing violin, composing and improvising. She has been featured many times on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Elizaveta Ukrainskaia was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, and grew up in St Petersburg, Russia. She studies with Alexander Sandler at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, and previously worked with with Lyubov Rudova at the Special Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory and with Vera Ovcharova at the Lyahovitskaya Music School. Elizaveta is a First Prize winner of the International Piano Competition in Bremen (2016), RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition (2018), and of the Delphic games (Rostov, 2019). Elizaveta’s performances have brought her across Europe, and to the United Kingdom and America. She first took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021.
Valaisan pianist Fanny Monnet first studied with Serguei Milstein and later at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, where she was honoured with the highest distinction and prize for best recital for her Bachelor’s degree in 2018. She continued her studies with Nelson Goerner and obtained her Soloist degree in 2020. Fanny has won numerous prizes including First Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Suisses in 2013 and an honourable mention from the Jury at the Tucuman Competition (Argentina, 2019). She has performed as soloist and collaborator in concerts in New York, Moscow, Paris, Amsterdam and Vienna. She is also a self-taught violinist and plays in the Orchestre de St-Maurice.
Nikita Lukinov began piano studies in Voronezh in his native Russia with Svetlana Semenkova. He went on to study at the Purcell School in London with Tatiana Sarkissova and has been at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland (RCS) studying with Petras Geniušas since 2017. In 2021 Nikita won the RCS Governor’s Prize and the First Prize in the UK Intercollegiate ‘Sheepdrove’ Piano Competition. He has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Fazioli Hall, and holds scholarships from ABRSM, The Munster Trust and the Voronezh State government ‘for outstanding cultural achievements’.
Varvara Kutuzova began piano studies at age four at the Central Music School before moving onto the Gnessin school in Moscow. She is recipient of the Spivakov and New Names Foundations scholarships, and is winner of competitions including the New York Prima Artist, Astana Piano Passion and the televised Nutcracker International Competition. In addition to performances in Russia, Varvara has appeared at the festivals including Annecy Classic (France), ArtDialog (Switzerland), and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo (Italy). As soloist, she has appeared with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Nice and the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra.
Oleksii Kanke studies with Milana Cherniavskaya at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts and is a scholar and a regular contributor to the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where he holds a Vere Music Foundation scholarship. Oleskii is the winner of several competitions, including the Juries in Competition (Salzburg) and the Vienna International Music Competition, both in 2019, Ettlinen’s International Competition for Young Pianists Competition (2018), Kiev’s International Vladimir Horowitz Memorial Competition (2016), the 2015 International Piano Competition in memory of Emil Gilels (Odessa), the Astana Piano Passion in Kazakhstan and the Step to Excellence in St Petersburg, both in 2013.
Dina Ivanova studied at the Central Music School in Moscow and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Alexander Mndoyants before her present teacher, Grigory Gruzman at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. Dina has won numerous awards including Second Prize at the Liszt Competition in Weimar (2015), First Prize at the Tel Hai Competition in Israel (2016), the Artist Recognition Award at the 2017 International Keyboard Festival in New York, as well as Third Prize and the Capgemini Audience Prize at the Liszt International Competition in Utrecht (2017), after which she immediately embarked on a tour of the Netherlands.
Henry From was First Prize winner of the under age 17 piano category of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Manulife Competition (2018) and was named one as one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s ’30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30′ in 2019. As a collaborator in his piano trio, Trio Savyon, Henry has performed in Boston, Warsaw, Calgary, several cities in Israel, and at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. He is an enthusiastic composer of chamber and orchestral music too. His orchestral pieces, Isle of Pic and Petawawa Gorges, have both been selected and premiered by the Winnipeg Symphony and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. He has also had several choral pieces premiered by the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Henry’s current teachers include Sandra Payton, Amanda Chan and Edward Top. Henry previously took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021. He was a co-recipient of the Tabor Foundation Award for piano that summer.