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Iason Marmaras is a keyboard player, singer, and the founder and leader of the ensemble os orphicum. He was awarded a Master’s degree on Harpsichord (2012) under Fabio Bonizzoni and Ton Koopman; and a Bachelor’s degree in Early Music Singing (2011) under Barbara Pearson, Kees Jan de Koning, Jill Feldman, Michael Chance and Peter Kooij; at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Iason has performed as a continuo player, singing soloist, ensemble- and choir-singer under such musicians as Jos van Veldhoven, Jos Vermunt, Peter van Heyghen, Charles Toet, Jan Kleinbussink, Jaap ter Linden, Peter Kooij, Harry van der Kamp and Fabio Bonizzoni. In 2009 he sang Lesbo in Handel’s Agrippina under Hernán Schvartzman, and in 2011 he sang Amor in Monteverdi’s l’Incoronazione di Poppea under Markellos Chrysikopoulos. He is also an increasingly sought-after vocal coach, and the regular accompanist of soprano Stefanie True and counter-tenor Jan Kullmann.
Even before his formal acquaintance with the harpsichord, he was an avid continuo-player and improviser on the piano, and he still regards continuo-playing and improvisation as vital though largely neglected parts of musicianship today. His universal love for music has led to his avid (and increasing) interest in ensemble-leading and direction, and he has organised and directed numerous concerts during the years of his study, also following instruction in conducting with Hernán Schvartzman and Marine Fribourg.
Felix Moseholm, born on 9 September 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the exciting young voices on the double bass today. The list of artists he has worked with includes Samara Joy, Brad Mehldau, Sean Mason and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra feat. Wynton Marsalis.
Felix musical background is rooted in an early encounter with the classical cello repertoire. After playing the cello for 10 formative years he was encouraged to make the switch to double bass by his granduncle Erik Moseholm (bass player w. Don Byas, Eric Dolphy etc.)
At age 18, after a few years of playing professionally in Denmark, Felix decided to move to New York fueled by curiosity and a desire to learn about American culture and music in its birthplace.
In New York, Felix received mentorship by Gerald Cannon and George Coleman among others, while earning his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Juilliard (2018-2023). He quickly integrated into the local scene as he began performing regularly in and around the city while keeping up with his schoolwork at Juilliard.
Today Felix appears on multiple recordings, the latest being Sean Masons “The Southern Suite”, released October 27th, 2023. He can also be seen playing on Isaiah J. Thompson’s NPR Tiny Desk concert on YouTube. From NYC, where Felix is still based, he maintains a busy performance schedule both locally and on tour.
Felix Moseholm is a recipient of The Horace Parlan Talent Award, Irene Diamond Scholarship, Augustinusfonden along with other awards and honors.
Viktoria Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. From the age of three, she amazed those around her with her ability to reproduce on the piano, with both hands and by ear, the works she heard her mother teaching her pupils. From then on, there was little doubt that she had a vocation as a musician.
She was admitted to the Moscow Central School of Music, and at the age of seven gave her first public performance with an orchestra. In the following years, she studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Jakob Flière’s class. The numerous prizes she won in international competitions (Leeds International Piano Competition in England, Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Vianna da-Motta Competition in Lisbon, Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow) established her reputation in both the Soviet Union and Western Europe.
Viktoria Postnikova performs in virtually all the major musical centres of Europe, Asia and America (where she has been compared in the press to Vladimir Horowitz). She has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebauw, the BBC Orchestra in London, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, and all the most prestigious orchestras in Russia and Japan, under conductors such as Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, and of course Gennady Rojdestvensky.
Her countless recordings include the only complete piano works by Tchaikovsky currently in existence, Tchaikovsky’s three concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Mussorgsky’s complete solo piano works, Prokofiev’s five concertos, as well as concertos by Busoni, Brahms, Chopin and many others.
Her unrivalled repertoire includes almost 80 concertos for piano and orchestra.
In addition to her activities as a soloist and recitalist, Viktoria Postnikova devotes herself passionately to chamber music. Her chamber music career includes concerts in Switzerland, France, England and Moscow with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin and Julia Varad.
Jorge Rossy is internationally recognized as one of the most influential drummers of his generation. His work as a sideman includes over 180 recordings with renowned jazz musicians such as Brad Mehldau, Ethan Iverson, Kevin Hays, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake, Joshua Redman, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He has also toured with jazz greats like Charlie Haden, Wayne Shorter, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, and Joe Lovano.
In addition to his drumming, Rossy is known for his distinctive voice on vibes, marimba, and piano, as well as his unique sound as a composer and bandleader. Since his first album, Jorge Rossy Trio Wicca (2006), he has recorded over 30 albums as a leader or co-leader, receiving critical acclaim from publications such as Jazz Times, Downbeat, and All About Jazz.
In 2015, Rossy made his debut as a vibes and marimba player with Stay There (Pirouet), leading a stellar band. He has since toured and recorded with various configurations of his band, the Jordi Rossy Vibes Quintet, and several co-led projects such as Passport Quartet, Rossy & Kanan Quartet, and Fox + Chris Cheek. His second vibes quintet album, Beyond Sunday (Jazz&People), was released in 2018, followed by his first vibes trio album, Puerta, on ECM in 2021.
Rossy’s bands have included top-tier musicians such as Jeff Ballard, Robert Landfermann, Joe Chambers, Al Foster, Adam Cruz, Billy Hart, Mark Turner, Joshua Redman, Chris Cheek, Mike Kanan, Kevin Hays, Doug Weiss, and many others. Together, they create a distinctive sound filled with intimate collaboration and deep musical connection.
Established as a major star across both operatic and concert stages, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists of our time. Coote has performed major roles on stages such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Salzburg Festival. Equally acclaimed on the concert stage, she has performed with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, The Hallé and The Concertgebouw.
The 24/25 season will see Coote perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra, before returning to the operatic stage in The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg’s Così fan tutte (Dorabella); followed by two productions of Semele (Juno) for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Royal Ballet and Opera.
Engagements in the 23/24 season included Storge Jephtha at the Royal Opera House; Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Robin Ticciati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Mass in C Minor with Dinis Sousa and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra; and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Driven by her passion for exploring and challenging gender stereotypes in characterisation, Coote is renowned for her interpretations of some of opera’s most important male and female roles. She brings that same philosophy to her work on the recital platform, an essential extension of Coote’s musical life. Committed to audience development and redefining genre barriers, last season Coote premiered her latest project, ‘The Rebellious Recital’: a song recital including works by Mahler, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Bach and John Lennon at the Wigmore Hall.
In 2018, she was awarded an OBE for services to music.
Born in Baku in 1995, Maharram Huseynov began studying singing in the class of Svetlana Mirzoeva at the Rostropovich Music School in Baku. At the Osimo Academy of Lyric Art she studied with Lella Cuberli and Raina Kabaivanska. In 2016, he attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He perfected his studies at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala with Renato Bruson. He also participates in master classes with Galina Vishnevskaya, Tom Kraus, Bernadette Manca di Nassa, Ildar Abdrazakov and Juan Diego Florez.
His early stage debuts include the roles of Morales in Carmen; Rector in Mese Mariano by Giordano at the Teatro La Nuova Fenice, Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Demon in San Guglielmo Duca d’Aquitania by Pergolesi under the direction of Christophe Rousset at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi; and at the Rieti Festival as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia under the direction of Fabio Biondi.
In the next seasons, he will act as Dandini in La Cenerentola at the Rossini Theater, in Don Giovanni for the OperaCamion project of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, he toured with the Teatro San Carlo from Naples to Dubai.
On the stage of the Teatro alla Scala, he participated in the Accademia production of Ali Baba E I 40 Ladroni in the role of Ours-Kan, directed by Paolo Carignani and staged by Liliana Cavani. As Dulcamara in l’Elisir d’Amore for young people, later re-released at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev, he debuted as the Lutheran Pastor in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina. Alongside Ambrogio Maestri, he played the role of Poet in Salieri’s Prima La Musica Poi Le Parole and Guccio in Gianni Schicchi, directed by Woody Allen. Like Monterone in Rigoletto, he sings alongside Leo Nucci, under the baton of Daniel Oren.
His latest engagements include Colline in la Bohème at the Modena and Piacenza theatres, and his debut at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, where he appeared in several operas, including the role of Figaro in le Nozze di Figaro; Colline in la Bohème; Angelotti in Tosca; Conte Monterone in Rigoletto; Jake Wallace in the Girl from the West; Nilakantha in Lakme ; Don Giovanni as Leporello and Masetto, Dulcamara in l’Elisir d’Amore, Alidoro in La Cenerentola and Mandarino in Turandot.
Maharram is the winner of prestigious international competitions, such as the Odessa Sozvezdie Competition (1st Prize, 2008), the Muslim Magomaev Moscow Competition (2nd Prize, 2016), and the Sergei Leiferkus Moscow Competition (finalist, 2019). As a soloist, he has participated in the Mstislav Rostropovic Festival, the Gabala Festival, the Follonica Festival and the Uzeir Hajibeyli Festival. In 2020, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan awarded him the Presidential Award.
Nicolas Hartmann studied at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d’Orléans, then at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with André Navarra and Philippe Muller. In 1983, he won a virtuosity prize at the Geneva Conservatoire and went on to perfect his skills in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow. After winning the Pablo Casals Competition in Barcelona in 1986, he became principal cellist of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, before joining the Orchestre National de Lyon in 1992, where he holds the same position.
Nicolas Hartmann has performed as soloist with Franz Welser-Möst, Emmanuel Krivine, Alexandre Lazarev, David Robertson, Thierry Fischer, Tibor Varga and Roy Goodwin, and has played chamber music with Emanuel Ax, Éric Le Sage, Joseph Silverstein, Jennifer and Alan Gilbert, Harvey de Souza, Boris Garlitzky, Emmanuel Pahud and Bruno Pasquier. A keen student of early instruments, he was a member of the Chambre philharmonique, the orchestra founded by Emmanuel Krivine. Since 2001, he has taught the cello section of the Orchestre français des jeunes.
Austrian flautist Magdalena Bogner has been principal flute at the Komische Oper Berlin since September 2015. She studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Andrea Wild and Karl-Heinz Schütz. While studying for her concert diploma there she also completed a degree in instrumental teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She then went to Salzburg for a master’s degree with Michael Martin Kofler at the Mozarteum University, which she passed with distinction.
She gained her first orchestral experience as an intern with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in 2012. From 2013-2015 she was an academy student at the Bavarian State Opera, where she subsequently was given a temporary contract, receiving important artistic impulses.
As principal flautist, she has appeared as a guest with orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Staatsoper unter den Linden, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Stuttgart, Wiener Symphoniker and Kammerakademie Potsdam, and has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, James Gaffigan, Philippe Jordan, Jakub Hrusa, Philippe Herreweghe and Marc Minkowski. She was a guest musician in the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2024, playing second flute.
As well as being awarded the Fidelio Prize in 2008, she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation 2012. In the summer of 2012, she was a member of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to her varied chamber music activities, Magdalena has been a permanent member of the ensemble ‘Die 14 Berliner Flötisten’ since 2017. Eager to dive into the world of teaching and work with young flautists she is very happy to start as a lecturer for flute at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar in April 2025.
Rémi Grouiller discovered the oboe at a very early age at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de l’Aveyron, thanks to his teacher Nathalie Lebrazidec. From 2004 he studied with Michel Giboureau and then Daniel Arrignon, before joining the Paris Conservatoire – CNSMDP in 2008 in the oboe class of David Walter, Jacques Tys and Frédéric Tardy. He obtained his Diplôme National Supérieur de Professionnel de la Musique de Hautboïste in 2011, his Licence de Musique de Chambre in 2012 and his Master’s degree in 2013.
A keen orchestral player, he was a member of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes in 2009 and 2010, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra in 2012 and the Orchestre du Festival de Verbier in 2014 and 2015.
At the same time, in 2013 he became principal oboe with the Conservatoire Lauréats Orchestra, then principal English horn with the Orchestre de Limoges et du Limousin, before joining the Orchestre de Paris in 2015 as oboist playing the English horn.
As a chamber musician, he performs regularly with the ‘Néodyme’ wind quintet.
Keen to pass on his experience and passion, this year he is teaching at the CRR de Paris.
Simon Van Holen, Solo-Contrabassoon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra enjoys a rich musical career made up of divers performing, recording and teaching engagements. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Luzern Festival Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and is regularly invited as both a soloist and teacher in Europe and Asia.
Born in Belgium, Simon Van Holen received his first bassoon lessons at the age of eight. Although not yet big enough to master the instrument his ambition was well defined. In 2003, Van Holen entered The Royal Conservatory in The Hague and went on to complete his studies in 2010 at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf, graduating with the Highest Distinction under the tutelage of Prof. Gustavo Núñez. He further enriched his studies with Brian Pollard, Klaus Thunemann, Dag Jensen, Stefan Schweigert, Sergio Azzolini and Marion Reinhard.
Van Holen’s career as a professional orchestral musician began even before completing his musical studies. He has been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, and has been invited to play in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra de l’ Opera de Rouen and the Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. In 2007 he won the Academy Position with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker where he was later appointed Solo-Contrabassoonist in 2011.
An active chamber musician since a young age, Van Holen became the recipient of the prestigious ‘Villa-Musica Rheinland-Pfalz’ Scholarship. He also took part in the Zermatt Festival Academy and the Gustav Mahler Academy, and had the pleasure of performing with some of the most legendary musicians such as Menahem Pressler, Ingo Goritzki, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jürgen Kussmaul and Wolfgang Boettcher.
In 2013, Simon Van Holen was awarded the prize ‘Prix de Salon’ by the business circle of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for his extraordinary musicianship. The award made it possible for the commission of a new work for contrabassoon and stringquintet by Dutch composer Kees Olthuis and the recording of his debut-album ‘Pro Contra!’, which has been released at Challenge Records.
Aside from his orchestral career, Simon Van Holen is Professor for Bassoon and Contrabassoon at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and regularly gives masterclasses around the globe. In October 2017 he has also been appointed contrabassoon teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne.