CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS 2025

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Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras in Berlin, London, Tokyo...

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Garth Knox was born in Ireland and spent his childhood in Scotland. After studying viola at the RCM, he played with most of the leading groups in London in a mixture of all repertoires, from baroque to contemporary music....

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Born in Newark, Delaware in the USA, Paul Pesthy’s musical education began with piano lessons at the age of six, and he was introduced to the violin by his Hungarian parents four years later...

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Violist and conductor Hartmut Rohde delights the audience with his tone and musical language as well as his special commitment to the respective style. Rohde is one of the leading European violists and a founding member of the Mozart Piano Quartet, with which he received the coveted OPUS Klassik Award for the first time in 2018...

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Geneviève Strosser is one of the most interesting viola players of today. As a soloist, she performs with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony , the Gewandhaus Leipzig , Ensemble Resonanz, NDR Elbphilharmonie, the Tokyo Symphony , La Verdi Milano, SWR, WDR, Residentie Orchester Den Haag, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg...

Emiko Yuasa won 1st prize at Hindemith International Viola Competition in 2021 and 2nd prize at Tokyo International Viola Competition in 2022. In addition to winning Audience Prizes in these two competitions, she also won 3rd prize at the 27th International Johannes Brahms Competition Pörtschach in 2020 and Special Prize at the 13th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in 2019....

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Language, music, communication. These are my three passions. I live them through diverse activities: As a radio presenter and radio author at BR-KLASSIK / Bayerischer Rundfunk, I talk enthusiastically about music - live in the studio or on stage. I conduct interviews with international artists on air and on stage...

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Enthusiasm for the unknown and constant research distinguishes Wen-Sinn Yang as one of the most versatile cellists of the present day. His performances not only revive the music of nineteenth-century cello virtuosos such as Adrien François Servais and Karl Yulievich Davydov, but also introduce his audiences to such modern composers as Aribert Reimann and Isang Yun...

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Anne Catherine Heinzmann has been a guest in various concerts and international festivals during the last years and counts in the meantime among the most renown german flutists of her generation. As a soloist, chamber- and an orchestra musician she appears regularly in Germany and throughout Europe...

Andreas Mildner is certainly one of the most interesting harpists of his generation. His "technical brilliance" and his "unbelievably aesthetic playing with timbres" continue to delight the press and audiences...

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Thomas Hoppe is widely recognized as one of the finest piano partners of his generation.
As pianist of the ATOS Trio he performs worldwide and has won many prizes and awards since the group´s inception in 2003.
Since April 2018 he has been professor of piano chamber music at the Folkwang University in Essen....

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Paul Rivinius, Jahrgang 1970, erhielt seinen ersten Klavierunterricht im Alter von fünf Jahren. Seine Lehrer waren zunächst Gustaf Grosch in München, später dann Alexander Sellier, Walter Blankenheim und Nerine Barrett an der Musikhochschule des Saarlandes...