Mikel Urquizacomposer Mikel Urquiza (1988, Bilbao) composes lively and colorful music, where nothing is what it seems: each idea hides another, peripheral elements become central, and what appears serious makes a grimace. Fresh and original, his writing has quickly found a place on the European scene, thanks to the support of ensembles such as…
He made his debut at the age of 12 with the Zerkalnyy Zal Chamber Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Markus Schmitt, born in 1965, studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer and Hans-Jürgen von Bose at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre in Munich.
Born in 1996, she began her studies at the Istanbul Conservatory, a city where she resided and studied until 2013, when she enrolled at the University of Augsburg at which she earned her bachelor’s degree with Prof Julius Berger in 2018.
Andrei Pushkarev was born into a family of musicians in Kiev in 1974. At the age of five, he began his musical education with piano lessons. In 1980 he entered Kiev Specialized School of Music.
Fabio Vacchi, born in Bologna on February 19, 1949, is considered among the most prestigious contemporary composers.
Artur Zagajewski is a composer and music theorist, born in 1978 in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.
Pierangelo Valtinoni studied Organ and Organ Composition, Choral Music and Choir Conducting, Composition and Conducting.
Marcin ZdunikCello and guest composer Polish cellist, soloist, chamber musician and composer. His repertoire ranges from Renaissance to contemporary music; he improvises, composes and performs his own arrangements. Marcin Zdunik has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the BBC Proms Festival in London, the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, and Chopin and…
Alissa Firsova composer, pianist Alissa Firsova is a Russian-English composer, pianist and conductor. After winning the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer Competition in 2001, he received numerous commissions, including a Bach transcription for the 2010 Proms Festival that was performed by Andrew Litton leading the RPO live on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 3.
Meyer Krzysztof 2008 – He was born in Krakow on August 11, 1943. From the age of five he began studying piano, and from 1954 theory and composition with Stanislaw Wiechowicz. After promotion to the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Kraków he entered the Kraków College of Music where he received two honorable mention…
Harada Keiko 2009 – “Tribute to Keiko Harada” Keiko Harada’s career as a composer began as a child when she developed her improvisations on the piano. She studied piano, chamber music and composition at Toho Gauken School of Music where she graduated in 1993 with a thesis in c omposition. She then studied with Brian…
Guillou Jean 2007 – Jean Guillou, titular organist of the great organs of St. Eustache, is first and foremost a composer who was able to considerably stretch the technical limits of instrumental performance, to elaborate and develop, already from his young age, more or less secretly, a singular musical world of great individuality, but which…
