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Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three, and two years later began playing the piano. In the beginning, she received significant inspiration from her first teacher Dietmar Mantel. She studied with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sandor Végh at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Following her studies, she received several awards at international competitions, amongst them first prizes at the 1982 Geneva International Competition, the 1983 Maurice Vieux Competition in Paris and the 1984 Budapest International Competition.
She has been playing an instrument built for her by Patrick Robin since 2019. From 1987 until his early death in 2000, Tabea Zimmermann regularly performed with her husband, the conductor David Shallon. She lives in Berlin and has three almost grown-up children.
Tabea Zimmermann has held teaching posts at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken and Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since October 2002, she has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’.
Sōra: a bird that sings while taking flight (Amerindian name)
It is this flight that characterizes the career of the Trio Sōra, composed of pianist Pauline Chenais, violinist Clémence de Forceville and cellist Angèle Legasa. Their love of sharing, of the stage, of travel and of the piano trio repertoire unites these three musicians, and they are determined to uphold this extraordinary genre.
Noticed for the audacity and clarity of their interpretations, it was after careful consideration that they chose to devote their first recording to the six great piano trios of Ludwig van Beethoven. Strengthened by the meticulous exploration of his manuscripts, his correspondences and the rigorous analysis of his scores, the musicians reveal their exploration into the modernity, complexity and richness of Beethoven’s music.
Through this BEETHOV3N triple-album, the Sōra Trio wishes to dispel the image often portrayed of Beethoven as the deaf and unhappy composer – surly, asocial and destitute – and instead bring to life the fiery youth – humorous, passionate, sensitive and perpetually in love.
The Sōra Trio was first formed in Paris, in the class of Claire Désert, at the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance, then in Belgium, with the Artemis Quartet, within the Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel. Decisive encounters, notably with Mathieu Herzog, András Schiff, Menahem Pressler and the Ébène Quartet, have enriched this journey, sustaining nourishing artistic identity and interpretations.
The career of the Sōra Trio thus leads the three musicians to renowned international stages, such as the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Center in London, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Festival de Verbier, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Louvre Auditorium, the Folle Journée de Nantes or the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Rewarded several times – the Parkhouse Award and HSBC Prize of Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2017, the Special Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy in 2018 and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2020 – the ensemble is today in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation, Le Dimore Del Quartetto, ProQuartet-CEMC and supported by the Boubo-Music Foundation, the Günther Caspar Foundation, Spedidam, Pleyel and the musical patronage of the Swiss Life Foundation.
Clémence de Forceville plays a violin Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1777) and Angèle Legasa, a cello Giulio Cesare Gigli (1767), instruments generously loaned by the Boubo-Music Foundation.
Belgian violinist of Russian-Ukrainian heritage, Mr. Bouchkov is a sophisticated musician of impeccable aplomb and has carved an international career performing with leading orchestras and conductors across Europe. He is one of the most multifaceted and unique artists of the new generation. His orchestral appearances included performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Philippe Jordan, HR-Sinfonieorchester and Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and Lorenzo Viotti, and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. He has also appeared with the NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Hessische Rundfunk Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI in Turin, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra among others, collaborating with conductors such as nominated Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Philippe Jordan, Lorenzo Viotti, and Gábor Takács-Nagy, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Michael Sanderling, Andrey Boreyko, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Dmitry Liss, Christian Arming, Lionel Bringuier, Maxim Vengerov, James Judd, to name but a few.
Mr. Bouchkov has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Teatro alla Scala, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Dresden Frauenkirche, Concert Hall of St. Petersburg, Tonhalle Zürich, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Paris’ Theatre de la Ville, Maison de Radio France, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin among several other venues. A fine chamber musician, he is a regular guest of the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
Highlights of Mr. Bouchkov’s last seasons included appearances with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislav Kochanovsky and the Hessische Rundfunk Orchestra, Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Philippe Jordan and the Munich Philharmonic, as well as recitals and concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, and the Schubertiade in Hohenems. After a bunch of very successful concerts at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and in Montenegro and Greece, Mr. Bouchkov performed with pianist Mao Fujita in Latvia, at the Riga Jurmala Music Festival, and in Georgia at the Tsinandali Festival, where he played five different programs including performances with the pianist and conductor Lahav Shani and Brahms’ Double Concerto with cellist Mischa Maisky under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. In 2021 he was invited to perform at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ludovic Morlot, followed immediately after by an invitation to be artist-in-residence of the orchestra in 2022/2023. During the season he appeared with the orchestra at the Concertgebouw performing Korngold, Stravinsky, and Brahms’ violin concertos under the baton of Lorenzo Viotti, Ryan Bancroft, and Hannu Lintu. In March 2023 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan, performing Korngold’s violin concerto under Lorenzo Viotti. During the Verbier Festival in July 2023, he will perform the entire cycle of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano with pianist Mao Fujita.
Marc Bouchkov’s first recording by Harmonia Mundi is of special significance since it includes two world première pieces by Eugéne Ysaÿe, and two works composed by himself. The album was awarded a Diapason d’Or and a Diapason Découverte as well as nominated for the ICMA 2018 and received tremendous acclaim on Gramophone reviews. The English magazine featured him as “One to Watch “.
Marc Bouchkov’s artistic development has been marked by a string of international awards. He won the first prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition and he is a silver medallist of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition. He received the London Music Masters Award and has been honored with the music prize of the Kulturstiftung Dortmund.
Marc Bouchkov was born into a family of violinists. He received his first lessons at the age of five from his grandfather. Studies with Claire Bernard and Boris Garlitsky followed. With Mihaela Martin, Marc developed as a Young Soloist in a postgraduate course at the Kronberg Academy. Since October 2018 he is under the musical tutorship of Eduard Wulfson.
Mr. Bouchkov currently serves as professor on the faculty of the Conservatoire Royale de Liège (BE) and the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein. From 2017 to 2019 he taught at the Kronberg Academy (DE) as Artistic Assistant.
Marc Bouchkov plays a Carlo and Michelangelo Bergonzi violin from 1742-44 as a private loan on behalf of Edwulstrad RMIC Ltd.
Described by The New York Times as “a genuine artist, with a thoughtfully conceived and poetic interpretation,” Minsoo Sohn is a Korean-American pianist known for his musical intelligence and masterful virtuosity.
Sohn has toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, and Korea. As a soloist, he has performed alongside leading orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Jerusalem Camerata, Holland Symfonia, National Orchestra of Belgium, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Korean National Orchestra, and KBS Symphony, among others; collaborating with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Pietari Inkinen, and Sasha Goetzel.
Recent and forthcoming 2024/25 highlights include a duo tour with fellow pianist Yunchan Lim across Korea and at the Verbier, Gstaad Menuhin, and La Roque d’Antheron festivals in Europe; and a series of recitals playing Beethoven’s Sonatas across Europe, which will continue into his 2025/26 season with recitals in Korea, Japan, and North America.
Sohn’s recordings for Honens and Sony Classical have received international acclaim. Of his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, The New York Times writes that it is a “beautifully articulated, radiant interpretation,” and named it one of its top recordings of the year. His Sony Classical 9-album boxset of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas was the culmination of his acclaimed four-year immersion in the composer’s music including concert series, recordings and writings.
Sohn owes much of his success to his mentors, Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun, with whom he studied with at the New England Conservatory in Boston. After teaching at Michigan State University, Sohn returned to Korea as a much sought after performer and teacher, and he joined the faculty of the Korean National University of Arts. He has also adjudicated on the jury of prominent international piano competitions, including the Honens and Busoni Competitions. In 2023, Sohn joined the piano faculty at New England Conservatory.
Wolfgang Haffner is a well known drummer & composer in the world of music. His illustrious career started at the age of 18 when he was discovered by legendary trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff. The list of musicians he played/recorded/toured with is nearly endless: Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, The Brecker Brothers, Ivan Lins, Jan Garbarek, Gregory Porter, Michael Franks, Roy Ayers, Bugge Wesseltoft, The Manhattan Transfer, Nils Petter Molvaer, The JB Horns, Esbjörn Svensson, Bob James, Mezzoforte, Lee Ritenour, Till Brönner, Joe Sample, Larry Carlton, Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Johnny Griffin, Nils Landgren, Mike Stern, Chuck Loeb, Hildegard Knef, Konstantin Wecker, Die Fantastischen Vier, Xavier Naidoo, NDR Big Band, WDR Big Band, just to name a few. Wolfgang also collaborates with heavy weights of the electronic music scene such as Ricardo Villalobos, Timo Maas & Nightmares on Wax.
Wolfgang Haffner can be heard on about 400 albums up to date, he played on all major Jazz Festivals around the world, toured in 100 countries, from Japan to the US, from South Africa to Brasil. He recorded 16 Solo Albums and made himself a name as a producer of Bands like Mezzoforte and german singer Max Mutzke.
In 2010 he received an ECHO award, followed by the cultural award from his hometown Nuremberg in Germany. His album “Kind of Cool“ went to #1 in the Jazz charts, and even made it into the german Pop charts for 5 weeks. His own group the Wolfgang Haffner Trio tours around the world intensively.
One of the brightest representatives of the Russian violin school, Sergei Dogadin is establishing a career as soloist and chamber musician that takes him across Russia and the world.
Dogadin has won some of the most prestigious violin competitions, including IX Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover (2015), Singapore International Violin Competition (2018), and most recently the XVI Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, where he was awarded first prize and the Gold Medal. This major success led to invitations from Valery Gergiev to perform with him and The Mariinsky Orchestra at the European summer festivals in Mikkeli and Grafenegg, as well as Moscow’s First Zaryadye International Festival in autumn 2020. He also took part in the Tchaikovsky Competition Winners’ tour of Japan, combining concerto performances with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norichika Iimori, and recitals in various chamber music formations.
His profile rapidly rising, Dogadin will soon make his debuts with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Edo de Waart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott, with whom he returns to Grafenegg Festival. Previously, he has worked with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover with both Andrew Manze and Robert Trevino, and West Australian Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Carter.
In Russia, Dogadin has performed with all the major orchestras, and in addition to his growing association with The Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, he continues to develop his relationship with St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov. He toured the UK with them in 2019 under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky, and in 2019/20 he returns to work with the orchestra for a number of projects, including the opening of the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow and a tour of Asia in spring 2020. Later in the year, he appears at prestigious German festivals Kissinger Sommer and Rheingau Musik with the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and Alexander Sladkovsky.
An active and passionate chamber musician, in 2019/20 Dogadin appears at the Philharmonie in Munich as part of MPHIL 360° Festival, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao and Arts Square Festival in St Petersburg, to mention a few highlights. He regularly performs with internationally renowned musicians such as Daniil Trifonov, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Denis Matsuev, David Geringas, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alexander Knyazev, Maxim Rysanov and Alexei Ogrintchouk.
Dogadin is currently continuing his studies under Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, having previously studied with him in Graz. He has also studied at St Petersburg Conservatory with Vladimir Ovcharek, International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad with Maxim Vengerov, and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Mihaela Martin. He plays a 1721 Domenico Montagnana violin on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore and has had the opportunity to perform on various rare instruments including legendary Paganini’s ‘Sivori’ violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and an Amati once owned by Johann Strauss.
His early professors include Leonid Kerbel, Leon Souroujon and Igor Oistrakh.
In 1997, Sascha made his Carnegie Hall debut in a Gala for the Rainforest Foundation, performing Saint-Saens “Carnaval des Animaux” alongside artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Victoria Mullova and Martha Argerich.
At the age of twelve, the course of his musical education led him to the Purcell School in London where his professors were Macej Rakowski and Evgueny Grach. Sascha has had the privilege of receiving musical guidance from star musicians such as Julian Rachlin, Maxim Vengerov, Felix Andrievsky, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Vadim Gluzman, Edvard Grach, Nam-Yun Kim and Dmitri Sitkovetsky.
Sascha performed solo and chamber music works at prestigious venues such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, Brussels Conservatoire, Prague Castle and the British Embassy in Paris. Moreover, Mr. Maisky has performed on several occasions in trio with his father Mischa and sister Lily.
Having completed his studies in England with honors, Sascha has now moved to Vienna where his Professor is Boris Kuschnir.
Born in Switzerland in 1999, harpist Tjasha Gafner studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Nancy Allen after completing her master’s degree as a soloist with Letizia Belmondo at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. In 2024, she completed her master in pedagogy at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Sandrine Chatron.
She is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions, including first places at the Felix Godefroid International Harp Competition (Belgium, 2012), Suoni d’Arpa (Italy, 2014) and the Martine Géliot International Harp Competition (France, 2016). In 2021, she won the Max D. Jost Prize, as well as the Leenaards Cultural Grant. Within ten years she has received more than 20 awards.
Since the age of ten, she has performed in Germany, France, Hong Kong, and many other countries, and has appeared as a soloist with the Kammerorchester der Bayrischen Philharmonie, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the London Mozart Players. She regularly performs with various ensembles on an international level and also contributes to the expansion of the harp repertoire with her own transcriptions.
For her outstanding performances, she was awarded both first place and the audience prize at the 72nd International Music Competition 2023 in Munich.
First prize winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (USA) competition in 2015, BBC New Generation Artist (2017-2019), « Révélation Instrumentale » of the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2019, and winner of Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival (2023), Thibaut Garcia, has gradually established himself as one of the most gifted guitarists of his generation.
The Franco-Spanish guitarist was born in 1994 in Toulouse where he obtained his guitar prize in the class of Paul Ferret, before continuing his training at the CNSMD of Paris in the class of Olivier Chassain, while benefiting from the advice of Judicaël Perroy.
Thibaut Garcia now plays in the most important concert halls and festivals throughout the world: Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Salle Bourgie in Montreal, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Grands Interprètes in Toulouse, Festival Musiq’3 in Brussels, Berlin Philharmonie, Teatros del Canal, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Bachfest Leipzig Auditorium de Bordeaux, Seine Musicale, Grand Théâtre de Provence…
Since his concerto debuts with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in 2016, Thibaut Garcia returned in 2023 for the creation of El Bihr by Benjamin Attahir. He has also collaborated with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the BBC orchestras, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Saint Etienne, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Orchestre National de Lyon…
Highlights of the 2024-2025 season, are concertos with the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and returns to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (as the « WEMAG Soloist » prizewinner), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Palau de Musica Barcelona, and also debuts at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. He is curating « Guitarmania » at the Philharmonie de Paris in April, where he showcases his instrument and its ambassadors for a week.
In chamber music, Thibaut Garcia also performs with Edgar Moreau, Raphaël Sévère, Elsa Dreisig, Marianne Crebassa, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary, Anastasia Kobekina, the Quatuor Arod… He also forms duets with Philippe Jaroussky (A sa guitare), Félicien Brut (Vol de Nuit), and Antoine Morinière (Goldberg Variations).
Thibaut Garcia has been a Warner Classics/Erato artist since 2016. After Leyendas in 2016, Bach Inspirations in 2018, Aranjuez in 2020 (Choc de Classica, Diapason d’Or, Gramphone Editor’s Choice), his album À sa guitare in duet with Philippe Jarrousky was released in autumn 2021. In autumn 2023 is released his album El Bohemio¸ devoted to the composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré.
Soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan, renowned for her dramatic sensibility and innovative artistry, has spent over 30 years at the forefront of contemporary music. She has developed close collaborations with luminaries such as John Zorn, Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, and Krzysztof Warlikowski. A tireless advocate for modern music, Hannigan has premiered nearly 100 new works and collaborated with composers like Boulez, Ligeti, and Abrahamsen.
Beginning her career as a soprano, she gained recognition for tackling challenging roles before transitioning to conducting at age 40. Now, she regularly leads major orchestras including the Concertgebouw, Cleveland Orchestra, and Montreal Symphony, while maintaining relationships with festivals like Aix-en-Provence and Spoleto. Recent highlights include her acclaimed dual role in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, where she sings and conducts, and world premieres such as Golfam Khayam’s I am not a tale to be told.
In the 2024/25 season, she will return to lead orchestras including the London Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, and Iceland Symphony, while also embarking on a vocal recital tour with Bertrand Chamayou. In 2026, she will assume the role of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Hannigan’s recordings have garnered international acclaim. Her album Crazy Girl Crazy won the 2018 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal album, alongside an Edison and Juno Award. Her recent works include Hannigan Sings Zorn and collaborations with Juilliard and the Royal Academy of Music. A passionate mentor, she founded Equilibrium Young Artists and Momentum: Our Future Now to support emerging musicians.
Her numerous accolades include the Order of Canada, Gramophone Magazine’s Artist of the Year (2022), and Denmark’s Léonie Sonning Music Prize. Hannigan resides in Finistère, France, connecting her Atlantic coast home to her roots in Nova Scotia.