Oleg Maisenberg is a Soviet-Austrian pianist and teacher.
The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classical music through public competition. It was founded in 1957, and now 120 of the world's leading music competitions are members of the federation.
Victoria Sánchez is a Venezuelan conductor, actress, singer, and pianist from El Sistema of Venezuela. She is the music director and conductor of ALMAS, Sinfónica de Jóvenes Latinoamericanas.
Nicolas Koeckert is a German violinist of Brazilian origin.
Christoph Koncz is an Austrian-Hungarian conductor, performing internationally with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
Hugh Tinney is an Irish pianist.
Anastasia Rizikov is a Canadian classical pianist. ...Ms. Rizikov is an extraordinary virtuoso, with abundant technical prowess. But she is more than the sum of ten fingers – she is a consummate artist, born to play, to love the art and act of music-making... was written about her by Renée Silberman at The Beat Magazine, January 21, 2014.
Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre. He has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles. His compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon.
Edvard Tchivzhel is a Russian-born conductor and music director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville, South Carolina.
Rueibin Chen is a Taiwanese concert pianist, who was selected by the government in a talent search and sent to Vienna, where he obtained a concert diploma at the Conservatory. Subsequently, he received a soloist's examination award from the Hannover Hochschule für Musik and then continued his study under the Russian pianist Lazar Berman.
Epifanio Comis is an Italian concert pianist and conductor.
Leonora Milà Romeu is a Catalan pianist and composer.
Stanislav Khristenko is a Ukrainian-American concert pianist.
Natalia Sokolovskaya is a Russian pianist and composer.
Gian Luigi Zampieri is an Italian conductor.
Emmanuele Baldini is an Italian violinist and conductor.
Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist.
Stefan Geiger is a German conductor and trombonist. In 2016 he became the conductor and music director of Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná in Curitiba.
Vladimir Milošević is a Serbian concert pianist. Milošević's honors include winning numerous international competitions, such as the 2013 Rising Artist Concerto Presentation by the New York Concert Artists & Associates, Concerti in Villa, Nikolai Rubinstein, Rencontre internationale de piano au Mée-sur-Seine, and Torneo internazionale di musica in Marseille.
Bruce Liu is a Canadian pianist. Born in Paris and raised in Montreal, he began to play the piano at eight years old and was performing by the age of eleven. In 2021, he rose to widespread renown after winning the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition.
