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Liza is a prize winner of various international competitions. In 2018 she won the Grand Prize Virtuoso of the International Music Competition in Vienna. In 2017 she was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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Born in 1969 in New York, Dimitri Ashkenazy began playing the piano at the age of six and then switched to the clarinet under the tuition of Giambattista Sisini, with whom he continued studying when he entered the Conservatory of Lucerne in 1989.
The first time I listened to Víctor Braojos was at the Palau de la Música Catalana in one of his performances. I was a member of the jury at the annual competition “El Primer Palau” and I remember very vividly his fabulous interpretation of Schubert’s B-flat last piano Sonata. The way Víctor played that piece impressed me greatly.
Hungarian pianist János Balázs is keen to demonstrate his improvisation skills in various genres beyond the classical stage, such as jazz, world music, or folk music, which are inspired by classical music values and the 20th century tradition of improvisation.
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Bach Six Partitas - Joseph Fleetwood, piano
Congratulation, dear Natalia!! Wonderful achievement for a Sheva CD: Bach Cello Suites, magically performed by Natalia Khoma, has been dowloaded/streamed 220.215 times in one month (November 2018). Congratulation, dear Natalia!!
This is simply stunning playing! Ondřej Vrabec is one of the world's élite players, becoming solo horn of the Czech Philharmonic at the age of 17. This CD showcases music by Robin Holloway and Peter Seabourne that will readily find a wide audience.
Chinese-born pianist Xiao Chen is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 2019. Her position as pedagogue saw her founding and directing the Los Angeles Young Virtuoso International Music Festival in 2018 which took place at Azusa Pacific University. She created the festival with the objective of providing performance and educative opportunities for students from all over the world.
Victor Paukstelis was born in Vilnius, into a family of musicians. In 1989-2000 he studied at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, and later at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he obtained the degree of the Licentiate of Arts. The artist also enriched his pianistic experience abroad: in 2007, he was a trainee at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, and in 2009-2013 studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Conservatoire. The pianist also won a scholarship to study at the |
