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Dan Nimmer was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a young man, Nimmer’s family inherited a piano on which he started playing by ear.
Nimmer studied classical piano and eventually became interested in jazz. At the same time, he began playing gigs around Milwaukee.
Upon graduation from high school, Nimmer left Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois University. It didn’t take him long to become one of Chicago’s busiest piano players. Working a lot in the Chicago scene, Nimmer decided to leave school and make the big move to New York City where he immediately emerged on the New York scene. In 2005, a year after moving to New York, he became a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as well as the Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Septet, all of which he is currently a member.
Nimmer has performed and recorded with Jimmy Cobb, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Renée Fleming, Houston Person, Fareed Haque, Ruben Blades, Lewis Nash, and many more.
He has released six of his own trio albums on the Venus label (Japan).
Born in Timișoara (Western Romania) in 1988 to a family of classical musicians, Dinu Mihailescu is a Romanian pianist who lives in Switzerland since 2009. He studied at the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEM) in Geneva. In 2021 he received his PhD in Music at the University of the West in Timișoara. Dinu has performed as a soloist with the main orchestras of Romania as well as with the Orchestra of the HEM of Geneva and the Orchestra of the Festival of Gijón-Candás. He has taken part in various international competitions and festivals such as the Millennium 30 Piano Festival of Gijón (Spain), Puplinge Classique (Switzerland), Les Estivales de Megève (France), and the Geneva International Piano Competition (2012).
In Switzerland he has performed in important venues such as the YehudiMenuhin Forum in Bern, the Ansermet Studio of the Swiss Radio and Television (Geneva) and the Franz Liszt Hall of the Conservatoire de Musique, among others. In 2020 he made his debut at Victoria Hall in Geneva in a concert for a 2-piano duo called OXY MORE, with the Swiss pianist Philippe Boaron.
Dinu Mihailescu was awarded numerous prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition (Hungary, 2017), the 2nd Prize at the Nice International Piano Competition (France, 2016), and the Rotary Club Award for Excellence for his participation in Art and Culture in Romania (Timișoara, 2018). Since 2017 Dinu has been teaching piano at the Popular Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater in Geneva (Switzerland) and the Music School of Lausanne, and he is increasingly dedicated to mixing classical, modern and contemporary piano repertoires.
To that end, his most recent projects include an audio-video recording of Max Richter’s piano music complemented by piano works from the romantic era (Fr. Schubert, F. Chopin, and R. Schumann).
Last year, Mikkel Myer Lee made his public debut in Singapore at age 9 performing the complete cycle of Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28 to a sold-out Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay. In the same year, he made his debut with orchestra in a sold-out concert where he performed both Beethoven’s third and Chopin’s second piano concertos. Mikkel studies with Tedd Joselson. He began his musical journey playing by ear and improvising on the piano at age 6. Months later, he went on to win top prizes in several piano competitions, and has since represented Singapore and performed at the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria) and Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Netherlands). He has also been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall. This year, Mikkel performs with the Asian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Casteels and next season he will perform a series of concerts in collaboration with Bechstein. He is the youngest artist supported by Bechstein Music World Singapore, which sponsors all his performances in that country.
Francesco Tristano is a multifaceted artist—pianist, composer, and a musician equally at home in techno and jazz. Blending eras, genres, and styles, he has carved out a unique musical universe. A key figure in the movement bridging classical and electronic music, he naturally unites diverse audiences. He frequently collaborates with major artists such as Derrick May, Carl Craig, and Michel Portal.
Since 2017, Tristano has been releasing his own compositions with Sony Classical. He tours globally, performing in concert halls as well as electronic and experimental music festivals. Piano Circle Songs (2017) marked a return to solo piano, inspired by French impressionist composers. Tokyo Stories (2019) pays tribute to Japan, while On Early Music (2022) explores Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire—works by Frescobaldi, Gibbons, Bull, and Philips—paired with Tristano’s own baroque-inspired pieces.
In 2023, he launched his own label, intothefuture, and began recording Bach’s complete keyboard works—a lifelong project that remains at the heart of his artistic journey.
Harry Baker is an award-winning improvising pianist and composer active in jazz, classical and new-music settings. His music has been featured on Jazz FM and BBC Radio 3 with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and his compositions recorded by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain on NMC Recordings.
A key player on the UK jazz and classical scenes, Harry has performed at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, the 606 Club, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. His music looks to unite his diverse influences, centring around improvisation and collaboration. Recent work includes performing his composition ‘Lament’, a semi-improvised piano concerto, with the Ripieno Players in a programme alongside a new composition by saxophonist Xhosa Cole (BBC Jazz Young Musician 2018).
In early 2020, Harry released his debut album, ‘The Floating Boy’, a suite for big band and voices performed by the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra and vocal group The Oxford Gargoyles. The album launch was accompanied by a feature interview in London Jazz News and was played on Jazz FM, leading presenter Helen Mayhew to comment that “the future of British jazz is in very capable hands.”
Upcoming projects include a collaboration with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, featuring improvisations around folk songs and jazz standards, in addition to compositions by J.S. Bach and Nadia Boulanger. The duo debuted to a packed crowd at Bold Tendencies festival in Peckham in June 2021, where they will be performing again in September 2022, in addition to the Konzerhaus Dortmund, Germany in November 2022.
Harry is in-demand as a session musician, and has appeared on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, in addition to BBC1&2 with choirmaster Gareth Malone. He is also a passionate advocate for music education, and works as Accompanist with London Youth Choirs and at the Royal College of Music, alongside extensive private music tuition.
Austrian pianist Kiron Atom Tellian regularly performs with some of the greatest artists worldwide. Having finished his preparatory studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he now studies with Sergei Babayan at The Juilliard School, where is the recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Kiron has won numerous top prizes at international piano competitions, among them the First Prize and the Haydn Prize at the 17th Ettlingen International Piano Competition. Recent performances include concerts at the Viotti Festival in Italy, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Germany, and recitals in the Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus. Concerts next season will include performances with the Wiener Concertverein orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein and the opening recital of the music festival Kulturfest Schloss Walpersdorf.
Vsevolod Zavidov began his musical training at age four and made his concert debut at the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory at 8. In 2016, at age 10, he made his solo recital debut in the United States at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. The following year he performed Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, and a year later performed solo recitals in Manchester and Vienna, and toured the Northeastern United States. Vsevolod was winner of the 54th Dvorak International Concertino Praga (2020), which enabled him to record a CD. The following year, he won First Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition (Salt Lake City). He took part in The Stars of the White Nights and Mariinsky International Piano Festival a year later and last fall awarded the Georges Leibenson Prize at the Concours de Genève. Vsevolod is invited by Japan Arts to perform in Japan during 2023. He is an alumnus of the Lieven Foundation.
Tony Yike Yang first rose to international acclaim at the age of 16 after becoming the youngest-ever laureate in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, winning the Fifth Prize in 2015. Tony has also won prizes at the Van Cliburn, Gina Bachauer, Hilton Head and the Cooper International Piano Competitions. Recital highlights include performances at Koerner Hall (Toronto), Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Athenaeum in Bucharest, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Seoul Arts Center, Esplanade Singapore and Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre. He has also appeared with prominent orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic and Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal. Tony is a recent graduate of Harvard University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Ingesund Piano Center in Sweden.