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From an early age, Anna demonstrated an innate musical maturity and astounding technical abilities. Her live recording of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto has more than 30 million views on YouTube and is highly acclaimed by critics and world-renowned musicians. She regularly performs at the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Tonhalle Zürich, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and many others.
As a soloist, Anna has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and more. Called the ‘house pianist’ (Telegraaf) of the Concertgebouw, Anna has performed there more than 30 times as well as in numerous online and television broadcasts. Anna is currently artist-in-residence at the Haarlem Philharmonie in the Netherlands. She is a regular guest at leading music festivals such as the The Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, Stift Music Festival in the Netherlands, Festival de Sintra in Portugal, Ravinia Festival in the USA, and at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in France.
In 2018, Anna signed with Channel Classics Records for a series of recordings. By the end of 2022, she will have released three solo piano albums, four chamber music albums, and all of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos with the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. « Her technique is fluent but never facile (…) demonstrating Fedorova’s fire and theatrical qualities », BBC Music Magazine’s 5+5 star-review of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Preludes, and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Anna graduated from the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv with Borys Fedorov and the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, with Leonid Margarius. She received her Master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London, under the guidance of Norma Fisher. Her mentors include Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Steven Isserlis, and András Schiff.
Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson began his musical training with Guido Vecchi in Gothenburg before moving on to study with Giuseppe Selmi in Rome and William Pleeth in London. Sergiu Celibidache and his mentor Mstislav Rostropovich also played a very influential role in his artistic development. In 1971, he won the renowned Cassado Competition in Florence – the first of many distinctions. Tours have taken him to other countries in Europe as well as to Japan, Russia, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
Frans Helmerson plays with many well-known orchestras and receives outstanding critical acclaim for his concerts and recordings. His recording of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra was acknowledged as the “best recording currently available on the market”. His recording of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1 is also highly praised.
Frans Helmerson’s love of chamber music is another important driving force in his musical endeavours. He is a regular guest at the major European festivals, including the Verbier Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades and the Ravinia Festival, and spent many years as the artistic director of the Umea-Korsholm International Chamber Music Festival. In 2002 he co-founded the Michelangelo String Quartet.
In addition to his career as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor, Frans Helmerson taught for several years as a professor at the conservatories in Cologne and in Madrid. From 2011 to 2016 he has been teaching as a guest professor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. 2016 saw him gain an additional professorship at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. Frans Helmerson has been teaching on the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes as a principal professor since 2006. He plays a cello by Stefan-Peter Greiner.
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and is recognised worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. An exclusive Nonesuch artist, Goode is a regular performer in the major recital halls and festivals across Europe and the US and performs as soloist with some of the world’s finest orchestras. In a recent season, The Daily Telegraph said, “There are brilliant young things among pianists, and there are wise old birds, who show their wisdom naturally in everything they do, without grandstanding or elaborate highlighting of details. Richard Goode is one of the latter sort.”
In recital, Goode performs every season at London’s Wigmore Hall and in major music centres across Europe, which in recent seasons has included Paris, Lyon, Verbier, Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Stockholm, amongst others, and he has been a regular performer over the years at the Edinburgh International Festival, Kissinger Sommer and Pianos aux Jacobins in Toulouse. In 2019/20, highlights include his debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jurowski and an appearance at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Festival, as well as a recital tour across Italy and a UK festivals tour, finishing with a return to the Oxford Piano Festival in the summer of 2020.
In the US, Goode performs in all the major cities and in 2019/20 appears in recital at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, in New York at Tisch Center for the Arts, in Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and in Canada in Montreal and Toronto. Goode has performed as soloist with most of the major orchestras across the US and many across Europe; recent highlights included debuts with Oslo Philharmonic and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and returns to the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Cleveland Orchestra.
Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His latest recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as « a landmark recording » by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award.
Roberto González-Monjas, très demandé à la fois comme chef d’orchestre et violoniste, s’impose rapidement sur la scène musicale internationale. Doté d’une vision artistique forte, d’un charisme naturel, d’une énergie communicative et d’une grande intelligence musicale, il est reconnu comme un véritable leader dans son domaine. Depuis août 2021, il est chef principal du Musikkollegium Winterthur en Suisse, directeur musical de l’Orchestre symphonique de Galice en Espagne depuis août 2023, et depuis septembre 2024, chef principal du Mozarteumorchester de Salzbourg. Il est également directeur artistique de l’Iberacademy en Colombie. Il a été chef invité principal de l’Orchestre national de Belgique de 2022 à 2025, et la Dalasinfoniettan en Suède l’a honoré du titre de chef honoraire après quatre années à sa tête, de 2019 à 2023.
La saison 2025/26 s’annonce riche en projets majeurs : Roberto dirigera La Flûte enchantée de Mozart au festival Mozartwoche de Salzbourg ainsi que Così fan tutte à l’Opéra de Zurich. Il assurera la création mondiale du concerto pour violoncelle d’Edmund Finnis, avec Sheku Kanneh-Mason et le Philharmonique de Los Angeles. Il mènera également une tournée importante au Royaume-Uni avec l’Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, une tournée asiatique avec le Mozarteumorchester, et fera ses débuts avec l’Orchestre national espagnol et l’Orchestre de Bamberg. Après plusieurs collaborations réussies ces dernières saisons, il retrouvera l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Oslo, le Philharmonique de Hong Kong, l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse et l’Orchestre de chambre des Pays-Bas. Au-delà de 2026, ses engagements incluent des invitations auprès de formations prestigieuses telles que l’Orchestre symphonique de la Radio suédoise, l’Orchestre de Paris, la Philharmonie de Dresde, les orchestres philharmoniques des Pays-Bas et de Francfort, ainsi que l’Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
Roberto collabore régulièrement avec de grands artistes internationaux, parmi lesquels Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, André Schuèn, Hilary Hahn, Lisa Batiashvili, Juan Diego Flórez, Clara-Jumi Kang, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazil Say, Reinhard Goebel, Mao Fujita, András Schiff, Jan Lisiecki, Kirill Gerstein, Yeol Eum Son, Alexandre Kantorow, Paul Lewis, Kit Armstrong et Steven Isserlis. Par ailleurs, il est très engagé dans la création contemporaine, ayant donné plusieurs premières mondiales et collaboré étroitement avec des compositeurs comme Richard Dubugnon, Andrea Tarrodi, Anders Hillborg, Diana Syrse, Thierry Escaich et Hannah Kendall.
Très impliqué dans la formation des jeunes talents, Roberto a cofondé l’Iberacademy avec le chef Alejandro Posada. Cette académie vise à construire un modèle durable d’éducation musicale en Amérique latine, avec un focus particulier sur les jeunes issus de milieux vulnérables et les musiciens d’exception. Basée à Medellín, en Colombie, Iberacademy étend également ses activités en Bolivie, au Pérou, au Chili et à Cuba, offrant ainsi des opportunités déterminantes à ses étudiants. Parallèlement, Roberto enseigne le violon à la Guildhall School of Music & Drama de Londres, où il accompagne régulièrement les orchestres de chambre et symphoniques, notamment lors de concerts au Barbican Hall.
Après le succès international de son premier disque consacré aux Sérénades de Mozart avec le Mozarteumorchester (chez Berlin Classics), Roberto prépare la sortie début 2026 d’un nouvel album regroupant les concertos pour violon complets de Mozart. Ses enregistrements avec le Musikkollegium Winterthur témoignent de sa curiosité et de son éclectisme, explorant des répertoires allant de Mozart, Beethoven et Saint-Saëns à Schoeck, Prokofiev, C.P.E. Bach et Andrea Tarrodi. Il collabore aussi régulièrement avec les Berlin Baroque Soloists et figure en soliste sur leur enregistrement des Concertos Brandebourgeois de Bach sous la direction de Reinhard Goebel (Sony Classical).
Roberto a commencé sa carrière comme violoniste soliste, musicien de chambre et leader d’orchestre. Il a été premier violon de l’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia pendant six ans, avant de diriger le Musikkollegium Winterthur en tant que leader jusqu’à l’été 2021. Il joue sur un violon Giuseppe Guarnieri ‘filius Andreae’ de 1710, généreusement prêté par plusieurs familles de Winterthur et la fondation Rychenberg.
Applaudi pour la chaleur de son timbre de baryton, la fluidité de son chant et la qualité de ses interprétations, Matthias Goerne est l’invité régulier de festivals et de salles de concerts renommées. Depuis ses débuts à l’opéra, au Festival de Salzbourg en 1997, Matthias Goerne a chanté sur les plus grandes scènes lyriques à travers le monde. Né à Weimar, il a étudié le chant avec Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau et Hans-Joachim Beyer à Leipzig. Ses rôles, soigneusement sélectionnés, vont de Papageno (La Flûte enchantée) et Wolfram (Tannhäuser) aux rôles-titres de Wozzeck de Berg, Mathis der Maler de Hindemith et Lear d’Aribert Reimann. De 2001 à 2005, Matthias Goerne a été professeur honoraire d’interprétation du lied à la Hochschule Robert Schumann de Düsseldorf. En 2001, il est nommé membre honoraire de la Royal Academy of Music de Londres et a reçu un Diapason d’Or en 2020.
Michael Tilson Thomas is Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition to conducting the world’s leading orchestras, MTT is also noted for his work as a composer and a producer of multimedia projects that are dedicated to music education and the reimagination of the concert experience. He has won eleven Grammys for his recordings, is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors, and is an Officier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
« Christian Zacharias conducted without a baton, but his gestures – painting with arms, hands and fingers – was so inspiring, structuring the wonderful music that was created. »
Christian Zacharias is a narrator among the conductors and pianists of his generation. In each of his elaborate, detailed and clearly articulated interpretations, it’s clear what he means: Zacharias is interested in what lies behind the notes.
With a unique combination of integrity and individuality, brilliant linguistic expressiveness, deep musical understanding and a sure artistic instinct, paired with his charismatic and engaging artistic personality, Christian Zacharias has established himself not only as a world-class pianist and conductor, but also as a musical thinker. Numerous acclaimed concerts with the world’s best orchestras and outstanding conductors as well as multiple honors and recordings characterize his international career.
Since the 2017/18 season, Christian Zacharias holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, and from 2020 will hold the same position with the Orquestra Sinfonica Do Porto Casa da Musica, and was named Honorary Conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest.
In general, the Classical-Romantic repertoire builds an important musical focus, as shown in return engagements with the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Orchester Philharmonique Monte Carlo, or the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiano in Lugano. Zacharias gladly presents more modern works in his programs, such as works from Schoenberg and Bruckner.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Christian Zacharias will give a few last piano recitals in the musical centers of Europe, for example in Paris, London and Rome.
Zacharias‘ longtime musical partners include the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Konzerthausorchester and the Bamberger Symphoniker. He’s also developed a special love of opera and has directed productions of Mozart’s La Clemenza the Tito and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène. The production of Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, which he conducted at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, was awarded the Prix de l’Europe Francophone 2014 by the Association Professionnelle de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse in Paris.
Since 1990, various films have also been produced featuring Christian Zacharias: Domenico Scarlatti in Seville, Robert Schumann – the Poet Speaks (both for INA, Paris), Zwischen Bühne und Künstlerzimmer (for WDR-arte), De B comme Beethoven à Z comme Zacharias (for RTS, Switzerland) as well as the complete Beethoven piano concertos (for SSR-arte).
His piano lectures on topics such as Why does Schubert sound like Schubert? or Haydn: A Creation from Nothing? offer his audiences impressive insights.
The musical work of Christian Zacharias has been honored many times, for example with the Midem Classical Award Artist of the Year 2007, the honorable award Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French state and a tribute from Romania for his services to culture. In addition, Christian Zacharias was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2016, and in 2017 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg.
Numerous internationally acclaimed recordings were made during his time as Principal Conductor of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Particularly noteworthy are the recordings of the complete Mozart piano concertos – awarded the Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique and ECHO Klassik – as well as the complete Schumann symphonies.
Since 2015, Christian Zacharias is chairman of the jury of the Clara Haskil Competition, and in 2018 president of the jury of the Geza Anda Competition where he also conducted the final concert.
Paul McCreesh has guest conducted many of the major orchestras and choirs across the globe, including most recently the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bergen Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Verbier Festival orchestras, and Berlin Konzerthausorchester. McCreesh also enjoys regular and ongoing collaborations with Saint Paul and Basel Chamber Orchestras.
In 2019/20, he conducted Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 and excerpts from Schubert’s Rosamunde with the New Japan Philharmonic, Haydn’s Creation with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Handel’s Messiah with the Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Haydn’s London Symphony & Beethoven’s C Major Mass with Filharmonia Poznanska, with whom he conducts again this season.
In the previous season, he conducted works by Elgar, Haydn and Brahms with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, a programme of Elgar, Britten and Mendelssohn with the Bamberger Symphoniker, he returned to the Filharmonia Poznanska for some Rossini and Britten, and conducted performances with the MDR Sinfonieorchester at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Basel Chamber Orchestra.
From 2013-2016 he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon) with whom he conducted a wide range of music from the classical period through to the nineteenth and twentieth century, focusing in particular on symphonic repertoire, oratorio and opera in concert, working closely with the world-renowned Gulbenkian Choir.
McCreesh has established a strong reputation in the opera house and has conducted productions at the Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Danish Opera, Opera Comique, Vlaamse Opera and at the Verbier Festival, and most recently he conducted Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bergen Opera, and returned to Vlaamse Opera for a production of Idomeneo.
In 2011, McCreesh launched his own record label, Winged Lion, in collaboration with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Signum Classics and the Wratislavia Cantans Festival, where he was Artistic Director between 2006 and 2012. To date they have made seven recordings, most recently Haydn The Seasons, released in spring 2017 and lauded by critics: “the communal sense of joy is infectious” (Financial Times) and “Glorious” (Guardian).
Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He is Music Director of the Orchestra Mozart, Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. From 2024 he will be Chief Conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
He was Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and he previously held prestigious roles at important musical institutions like the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Opera House of London, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Zurich’s Opernhaus and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
The Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala are just a few of the renowned symphonic institutions he works with.
Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim opening the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele (one of the very few Italian conductors to have been invited to the Wagnerian festival); Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele (Elektra, La bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore).
To celebrate Verdi’s anniversary, in 2013 he conducted La Traviata at the season opening of the Teatro alla Scala, where he also opened the 2008 season with Don Carlo, and performed other titles including Lohengrin, Lulu, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Falstaff, and Wozzeck.
More recent engagements include Pelléas et Mélisande at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tristan und Isolde at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the 2016/2017 opening of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma where he conducted the same Wagnerian opera.
Since 2016 he has taught conducting at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and in the same year a three-year concert cycle named “RCO meets Europe” started. It involved 28 member states of the European Union and it included the project “Side by Side”, a project allowing musicians from local youth orchestras to perform the first musical number of the program next to the members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gatti, thus fostering an incredibly fruitful human and musical exchange. In June 2017 he conducted the RCO in an opera production: Salome at the Nationale Opera of Amsterdam.
The 2017/2018 Season saw him conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Philharmonie Berlin, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan interpreting Mahler’s Second Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Europe, South Korea, Japan, and at the Carnegie Hall in New York, all being side events to Amsterdam’s traditional season.
He opened several seasons of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma: La Damnation de Faust (2017-2018), Rigoletto (2018-2019), Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2019-2020), Il barbiere di Siviglia (2020-2021) and the world premiere of Battistelli’s Julius Caesar (2021-2022). He has recently conducted new productions of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Zaide, La traviata (broadcasted on Rai3) and Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Costanzi; Rigoletto and Il trovatore at the Circo Massimo. He interpreted Verdi’s Requiem at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia. He also conducted concerts leading the Orchestra dell’Opera di Roma at the Quirinale Gardens (broadcasted on Rai1), at the MAXXI Museum and at the Galleria Borghese.
In 2022, as part of the 84th Festival of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he conducted Orphée et Eurydice – the inaugural title of the Festival – and Ariadne auf Naxos.
In 2022-2023 he conducts Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the first title of the opera season 2022/23 of the Teatro del Maggio, and interprets the Quattro pezzi sacri at the Verdi Festival and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino where he also conducts Don Carlo and The Rake’s Progress on the occasion respectively of the Autumn and Carnival Festivals. In summer 2025 he will return to the Bayreuth Festival for the new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
He regularly leads the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestra Mozart, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the Dresdner Festspielorchester, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Daniele Gatti was awarded the Premio “Franco Abbiati” from Italian music critics as best conductor in 2015, in 2016 he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic for his work as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and he was also awarded the Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Under Sony Classical he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France, and a DVD of Wagner’s Parsifal staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Under the label RCO Live he has recorded Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Mahler’s First, Second and Fourth Symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps together with Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune and La Mer, a DVD of Strauss’s Salome performed at the Dutch National Opera, a CD of Bruckner’s Symphony n. 9 together with the Prelude and the Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Music) from Wagner’s Parsifal. In November 2019 a DVD of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, staged at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, was released by C Major.