Alumni

CHAMBER MUSIC

Leonkoro Quartet

  • 1st prize 2022 Concours International de Quatuor à Bordeaux
  • 1st prize 2022 International String Quartet Competition held at London’s Wigmore Hall, and 9 special awards
  • 2022 Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize
  • 2022 MERITO String Quartet Award
  • BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Program
  • 2024 Young Talent Award of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam
  • 2024 Borletti-Buitoni Trust award

leonkoroquartet.com

Trio Zeliha

CD released by label Mirare: “Editor’s Choice January 2021 by Gramophone Magazine, 5 Diapasons by Diapason Magazine, 5 stars by Classica Magazine


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Quatuor Elmire

2nd prize 2022 Geneva International Competition


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Astatine Trio

Quartetto Werther

Trio Chagall

Quartetto Leonardo

Cong Quartet

  • 1st prize 2019 Salzburg Mozart International Competition in Tokyo
  • 2nd prize 2021 Kreutzer International Competition in Belgium
  • 1st prize 2024 International Competition Triomphe de l’Art in Brussels

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PIANO

Gabriele Strata

  • Premio Venezia 2018
  • Una vita della musica giovani Award Teatro La Fenice – Venice
  • First prize winner International Piano Festival Rio de Janeiro 2023

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Anthony Ratinov

  • 2nd Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition 2023
  • 1st Prize at the 2023 Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition, Lleida (ES)
  • 2nd Prize and Audience Favorite Prize at the 2023 Iturbi International Piano Competition, Valencia
  • 2nd Prize at the 2022 Olga Kern International Piano Competition, New Mexico (USA)

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Szymon Nehring

1st Prize at the Rubinstein in Tel Aviv.


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Elia Cecino

  • 1st Prize at the 2023 Iturbi International Piano Competition, Valencia
  • 1st Prize at the 2022 New Orleans International Piano Competition
  • 1st Prize at the James Mottram International Piano Competition
  • 1st Prize at the 2021 Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition, Lleida (ES)

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Paul Ji

  • Vincitore 2019 del TV show “Prodiges” su France 2
  • Young Steinway Artist – CD pubblicato da Warner Classics
  • Grand Winner of the 2019 France 2 TV show “Prodiges”
  • Young Steinway Artist – CD released by Warner Classics

paulji.com

Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner

  • 1st Prize Winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild International Competition
  • Atlantic Council Young Global Citizen Award

llewellynsanchezwerner.com

Sophiko Simsive

  • 1st prize Yamaha Piano Competition in Amsterdam
  • 1st prize Music Academy of the West – London
  • Artist in Residence Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam
  • Senior teaching assistant at Yale College of Music

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Thomas Kelly

  • 2nd prize Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition 2022
  • 1st prize Pianale International Piano Competition 2017

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Yannick Van de Velde

  • Prize Walkiers- Carbonelle in the Queen Elisabeth Competition – Brussels
  • Public prize and “Prix d’Argent” in the Piano Campus Competition in Paris
  • 1st prize in the Nany Phillepart Foundation Competition
  • Finalist at the Busoni Competition 2015
  • Professor of piano performance Conservatory of Luxembourg and the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt

yannickvandevelde.com

Alexa Stier

  • 1st prize Sheepdrove Piano Competition (UK) 2019
  • 3rd prize, audience prize and Prize for the best performance of a new work at the Messiaen International Piano Competition

alexastier.com

Wenting Shi

  • 1st prize at the Thaviu-Isaak Piano Competition (USA) 2023
  • 2nd Prize at the Berlin Artur Schnabel Piano Competition, 2022
  • Silver Prize at the 5th Hong Kong International Piano Competition, 2019

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Chengcheng Yao

Professor at Washington Conservatory of Music


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Nurry Lee

1st prize at the Piano House International Piano Competition in New York


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Sun-A Park

  • 1st prize at the first prize winner of the and the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition
  • 1st prize at the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition
  • 2nd Prize at the 2019 Jaén International Piano Competition (Spain)
  • Finalist at the 5th International Sendai Music Competition (Japan), the 58th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Italy), and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

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VIOLIN

Anna Agafia Egholm

  • 1st Prize 2019 Tibor Varga Violin Competition
  • 2nd Prize 2022 Singapore International Violin Competition
  • 3rd Prize 2019 Nielsen International violin competition

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Benjamin Gatuzz

Konzertmeister of the Orchestra of Aachen and former first violinist of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra.

Marianne Di Tomaso

Winner of several international competitions, she has performed as a soloist with I Musici de Montréal, Ensemble Amati, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.


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Haim Choi

Cultural Ambassador for UNESCO Korea, lecturer at Yehudi Menuhin School and Eton College. She frequently performs with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
She is the first violinist of the Salome Quartet.


salomequartet.com

Adam Suska

  • 2nd Prize prize15th International Violin Competition K. Lipiński and H. Wieniawski (2021)
  • Grand Prix Opus Competition
  • Grand Prix Puławy and The Violin Competition (2021)
  • 3rd prize EuroAsia Competition Tokio (Japan, 2021)

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Joakim Røbergshagen

VIOLA

Claudio Laureti

Solo viola Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro S. Carlo di Napoli and European Union Chamber Orchestra

Ami-Louise Johnsson

2nd prize International Prague Competition 2021

Martin Moriarty

Patricia Gómez Carretero

Solo Viola at the Kammerphilharmonie Essen

CELLO

Anna Garde

  • Solo Cello London Symphony Orchestra
  • Solo Cello Swedish Chamber Orchestra
  • Solo Cello Gävle Symphony Orchestra

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Lia Perlov Chen

Solo Cello Israel Philharmonic Orchestra


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Marie Viard

  • Solo cello Kammerorchester Basel
  • Solo cello Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
  • Solo cello Orchestre National de Cannes

Balázs Dolfin

Winner of several international competitions.

Saul Richmond-Rakerd

Cello San Francisco Ballet Orchestra


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