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, Caussé is currently …
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 …
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 …
Michael Barenboim celebrated a long collaboration with the late Pierre Boulez, whose works he regularly performs with the Boulez Ensemble. Barenboim has performed Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with major orchestras. Recent highlights include debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic under Petrenko, the Vienna Philharmonic (Daniel Barenboim), Chicago Symphony (Fisch) and IPO (Mehta). He also toured with the …
Born in Novosibirsk, Anton Barakhovsky studied violin under Matvej Liberman from age five, appearing as a soloist at age six with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Arnold Katz. He studied under Mark Lubotsky and Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and continued under Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard. He has served …
Born in Germany, Juliane Banse spent her childhood in Zürich where she studied the violin and also trained as a ballerina at the Zürich Opera. She began singing lessons at the age of 15 and completed her studies under Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos in Munich. Her artistic breakthrough came five years later as Pamina …
Yulianna Avdeeva won the 2010 Chopin Competition and was a prizewinner at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition and the Concours de Genève. She has performed with orchestras including the Pittsburgh Symphony (Honeck), the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Dudamel), the Baltimore Symphony (Alsop), and the Montreal Symphony (Nagano). Avdeeva has toured Japan in solo recitals and with the …
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