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Roberto Fonseca is a Cuban pianist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and bandleader. Havana-born and based, he has released nine solo albums, collaborated across genres, been nominated for a Grammy Award and toured the world several times over. Along the way he has achieved the aim with which he began his professional career in the early […]

Multi award-winning French cellist Gautier Capuçon is celebrated internationally for his expressive musicianship and exuberant virtuosity. His 2021/22 season includes invitations with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu, the Cleveland Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, and the Mariinsky and Valery Gergiev. He is Artist-in-Residence at the Paris Philharmonie as well as the Wiener Konzerthaus. […]

Dance music was always about having fun. It’s an ethos that has not escaped Cesar Merveille, the Paris-born enchanter whose ascent through the ranks of house and techno has been powered by an irrepressible joie de vivre, matched only by a desire to be challenged by everything he does. Encouraged by creative freedom during his […]

Born in Tel Aviv, violinist Guy Braunstein studied with Chaim Taub before moving to New York to work with Glenn Dicterow and Pinchas Zukerman. At a very young age, he performed as a soloist and chamber musician and accumulated a wide range of prestigious partners, accompanying the greatest international orchestras and conductors. In 2000 he […]

Sunnyboy Dladla is one of the most sought-after Rossinian tenors of his generation. Known for his “crisp, clearly focused, brightly timbred, radiantly present” voice, Dladla combines an active opera career with frequent concert performances. In the 2022-2023 season, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in Carmina Burana under Sir Donald Runnicles and at the Opernhaus […]

Maria Bayankina was born in the village of Zyryanovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and spent her childhood in Izhevsk. Graduated from the vocals faculty of and completed a postgraduate study at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of Evgenia Shevelyova). During her years as a student she collaborated with the Petit Opera artistic group, participating in performances of Purcell’s operas King Arthur, The Tempest, Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy-Queen. […]

Kent Nagano is considered one of the outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. His first major successes came with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1984, when Messiaen appointed him assistant to conductor Seiji Ozawa for the premiere of his opera Saint François d’Assise. European appointments were soon to follow: Music Director of Opéra National […]