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David Guerrier commence l’étude de la trompette à sept ans et sort en juin 2000 avec un Premier Prix (mention très bien à l’unanimité, félicitations du Jury, mention spéciale pour la qualité exceptionnelle de la prestation) au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Il étudie également le cor au CNSM de Lyon. David Guerrier complète […]

Timur Martynov is an outstanding trumpet player, one of the golden cast of Maestro Gergiev’s musicians. Every performance he gives is filled with great talent and virtuosity, whether he plays solo or with the orchestra. Timur Martynov was born in 1979 to a family of musicians. At the age of eight he started to study […]

The Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his extremely virtuosic playing and sensitive interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges. As a sought-after soloist, he devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire as well as to contemporary and seldom-played works. He has premiered compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, […]

Violinist Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. During the season 2025/26 she is “Artist-in-Residence“ with the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as “Featured Artist” with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Both residencies include a number of orchestral and chamber music projects throughout the season. Extensive tours are planned with the […]

Iván Fischer is founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Music Director of the Konzerthaus and the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin. Recently he has also been active as a composer: his works have been performed in the US, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. He also staged successful opera performances, recently a Mozart […]

Midori is a visionary artist, activist and educator who explores and builds connections between music and the human experience and breaks with traditional boundaries, which makes her one of the most outstanding violinists of our time. In concert around the world, she transfixes audiences, bringing together graceful precision and intimate expression. Midori has performed with, […]

Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist who combines elegance and grace with powerful virtuosity, a true embodiment of the great Russian piano tradition on the international stage. A recognized master of the Russian repertoire and late Romanticism, Lugansky is particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Debussy. The recipient of numerous awards for […]

Recently appointed Chief Conductor and Music Advisor of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit regularly collaborates with the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and soloists. Renowned for polished and idiomatic interpretations of an eclectic array of musical styles and since his debut with the Philadelphia […]

English by birth, Christian Thompson worked in London as an agent representing prominent musicians for three companies in London. He left London in 2005 to become Director of the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, where he played an important role in nurturing and developing many extraordinary young artists who now have international careers. In 2014, he was […]

Charlotte Gardner is a music critic and journalist regularly to be found in specialist music publications including The Strad, Gramophone (where she specialises in strings and Baroque) and Classical Music magazine, and writing concert programme notes for organisations including the BBC and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Before turning to writing, Charlotte spent eight years […]