Gérard Caussé studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras under Gardiner, Nagano and Minkowski, and has performed in leading chamber ensembles with such musicians as Kremer, Sitkovetsky, Maisky, Capuçon, Angelich and others. Former Artistic Director of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, and co-founder of the Salamanca Chamber Foundation, Causséis currently Professor …
Born in Sion, Switzerland, Madeleine Carruzzo studied with Tibor Varga at the Music Academy of Detmold and served as Concertmaster of the orchestra from 1978-1981. In 1982 she became the first woman to join the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. She has performed as soloist with various orchestras, and …
Elena Bashkirova studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with her father, the celebrated pianist and teacher, Dmitri Bashkirov. She is a regular guest with such orchestras as Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, IPO and Chicago Symphony under conductors including Celibidache, Boulez, Mehta, Dohnányi and Eschenbach. She is an advocate of twentieth-century music …
Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied in Paris with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds, and later with Thomas Brandis and Isaac Stern. He was Concertmaster of the Mahler Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. Awards received include ‘Rising Star’ (2000), ‘Enesco Prize’ (2006) and the ‘Légion d’honneur’ from the French government. He has performed …
Sergei Bresler was born in the Ukraine and immigrated to Israel in 1991. He continued his music studies with Matvei Lieberman and Haim Taub and participated in masterclasses with musicians including Isaac Stern, György Kurtág and Tabea Zimmermann. He is a graduate of the Young Musicians’ Unit of the Jerusalem Music Centre. He was a …
Born in Belgium in 1991 into a family of violinists, Marc Bouchkov began studying with his grandfather Mattis Vaitsner, continuing with Claire Bernard, Boris Garlitzky and Mihaela Martin at the Kronberg Academy. Prizes include First Prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition (2013) and the Silver Medal at the Queen Elizabeth Competition (2019). Bouchkov has …
Omar Farjoun Bishara began studying double bass in Valencia (Spain) with Mercé Font, and later in Jerusalem with Eran Borovich. He began his bachelor studies at the Barenboim-Said Akademie under Nabil Shehata, continuing with Gunars Upatnieks, and performed in the Akademie Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. From 2017 to 2021 he was Principal Bass of …
Born in Spain, Pablo Barragán is a dedicated and adventurous clarinettist in his programming which has taken him to many countries in Europe and South America. He attaches great importance to the interaction between musicians, believing that artistic symbiosis is the ideal state of music-making. The 2022-2023 season began with appearances at festivals, including the …
Yulianna Avdeeva began studying piano at age five at the Gnessin Music School (Moscow) under Elena Ivanova, and later Vladimir Tropp and Konstantin Scherbakov, Dmitri Bashkirov, William Grant Nabore and Fou Ts’ong. She won prizes at the Bremen, Geneva and Arthur Rubinstein competitions. After winning 1st Prize at the prestigious Chopin Competition (Warsaw 2010) she …
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