Piano

Alexander Melnikov graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including at the International Robert Schumann Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Philadelphia Orchestra, and many other orchestras under conductors including Mikhail Pletnev, Teodor Currentzis […]

Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova’s career developed after she won top prizes at the Paloma O’Shea (Spain) and Queen Elisabeth (Belgium) Competitions. Her teachers include Marina Kapatsinskaya and Dmitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, and she is a graduate of the Queen Elisabeth College of Music in Brussels. Mangova has performed in prestigious

Born in Tel Aviv, Itamar Carmeli studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance under Daria Monastyrski, and New York’s Mannes School of Music under Pavlina Dokovska. He is currently studying with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. He received scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and is a graduate of

Yulianna Avdeeva began studying piano at age five at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow under Elena Ivanova, and later studied with Vladimir Tropp, Konstantin Scherbakov, Dmitri Bashkirov, William Grant Nabore and Fou Ts’ong. After winning First Prize at the 2010 Chopin Piano Competition, she launched her international career. She has performed with major orchestras,