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Nurie Chung is the second prize winner with age 16, in 2021 56th Premio Paganini competition in Genoa, Italy. He was also awarded two more special prizes, one for best performance for commissioning piece and the other for the youngest finalist. He is now studying with world renowned Prof. Boris Kuschnir in Vienna.
Most recently, he was invited to play for Maestro Vladimir Spivakov at a Masterclass organized by Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He also played a recital at Teatro Cucinelli (Perugia Musica Classica, Fondazione Brunello e Federica Cucinelli), Beautiful Thursday Concert Series at Seoul Kumho Art Hall (Which was broadcasted by KBS), 70th Anniversary Ceremony Concert of HanKookIlbo Newspaper at Lotte concert hall in Seoul and MECMA concert series in Dubai.
Boris Kuschnir, born in Kyiv in 1948, studied violin with Boris Belenkij and chamber music with Valentin Berlinskij at the Moscow Conservatory. Influenced by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he collaborated on late quartets, and David Oistrakh, his career began in 1969 after winning the All-Union Competition in Leningrad, performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto under Yuri Temirkanov.
A professor in Vienna since 1984 and Graz since 1999, Kuschnir has mentored leading violinists such as Julian Rachlin, Nikolaj Znaider, Maria Dueñas, and Sergey Dogadin, whose numerous competition victories highlight his teaching excellence. He is also an honorary professor at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music.
Kuschnir founded the Vienna Schubert Trio and Brahms Trio, earning major awards, and has performed at renowned venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, La Scala in Milan, and Wigmore Hall in London.
He is a recipient of Austria’s Grand Decoration of Honour and the Austrian Cross of Honour.
Arthur Trælnes was born in 2002 in Lausanne. He began learning the violin at the age of 6 and, at 16, joined the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU) in Gyula Stuller’s class, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in 2022. He then joined the class of Alexander Kerr (former concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam) at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA), where he earned a Solo Performance Diploma in 2023 and continued with Master’s studies.
Arthur has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions as a soloist, including 3rd Prize and the Audience Prize at the Tibor Varga Junior Competition in 2018, which led to an invitation from Gidon Kremer to perform as a soloist with his orchestra in Latvia. He also won 1st Prize at the International Violin and Orchestra Competition “Premio Rotary per la Musica” in Novi Ligure, Italy (2019), 4th Prize at the Tibor Varga Competition (2021), the Contemporary Music Prize at the Spohr Competition in Weimar in 2022, and 3rd Prize at the Franco Gulli Competition in Rome in 2024.
Arthur has performed as a soloist multiple times in Switzerland, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, and the United States. He served as concertmaster of the Verbier Festival Orchestra from 2022 to 2024, working closely with renowned conductors such as Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, Klaus Mäkelä, and Lahav Shani. He has also been a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra since 2023.
He is regularly invited to participate in masterclasses, including at the Kronberg Academy Festival in 2021 (with Kolja Blacher) and at the Thuringian State Music Academy in Sondershausen (with Friedemann Eichhorn) in 2022, where he performed Tchaikovsky’s Concerto with orchestra. In November 2024, he performed Mozart’s 5th Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York during a masterclass with Maxim Vengerov.
Arthur plays a Giovanni Battista Ceruti violin from 1797 (Cremona, Italy). During the 2023 edition of the Verbier Festival, he had the opportunity to perform on a Stradivarius (“Hrimali,” 1712).
He also regularly performs as a jazz violinist, notably with his quintet Crome, which has already released two albums (Komorebi, 2020, and Oneiroi, 2023).
Amanda Håøy Horn is a Norwegian violinist based in Oslo. Chamber music has played a substantial part in her musical life, and she has guested several Norwegian festivals. After finishing her studies with Elise Båtnes at the
Norwegian Academy of Music, she gained further insight as an academist in the Oslo Philharmonic and at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, performing under Valery Gergiev. This ultimately led her to pursuing a career in the Oslo Philharmonic, the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Ensemble Allegria and on tour at the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival. She plays on a violin made by Gaetano Pollastri and bows by Sartory and Rolland
Kolja Blacher studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. He has performed as soloist all over the world, with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Symphony, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, and Baltimore Symphony, and with conductors including Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski, Dimitri Kitajenko, Mariss Jansons, Matthias Pintscher, Markus Stenz, Simone Young, and Asher Fish. Blacher works regularly as conductor and soloist with the Nordic Chamber Orchestra (Sweden), the Norrlands Opera (Sweden), the South Denmark Philharmonic, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz, and many others. He was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg before returning to his hometown of Berlin, where he teaches at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’. A born and bred Berliner — his father was the Baltic-German composer Boris Blacher — Kolja Blacher lives with his family in Berlin. He plays a 1730 Guaneri del Gesu violin, generously on loan from Ms Kimiko Powers.
Acclaimed as “a player of impressive authority and presence” (The Strad) and “one of the top violinists of tomorrow” (Diapason), Yossif Ivanov, has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting violinists of his generation. At the age of 16 he was awarded First Prize at the Montreal International Competition, and two years later the Second Prize, as well as the Public Prize, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
Over the past seasons Yossif Ivanov has made acclaimed debuts in all the major European halls. He has performed with orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Vancouver Symphony, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lucerne Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Milano Verdi Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Luxemburg Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, as well as all major Belgian orchestras.
He has collaborated with well-known conductors such as Neëme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vladimir Jurowski, Kazushi Ono, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Philippe Herreweghe, Jaap Van Zweden, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Ion Marin, Yuri Simonov, Louis Langrée and John Axelrod.
In 2010 he was invited to tour North America with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (under Vladimir Jurowski) and made his Asian debut (Malaysian Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestras).
Yossif Ivanov has been invited to play recitals at a.o. the Menton & Montpellier Festivals (France), Mozarteum Salzburg, Tokyo (Kichijoji Theatre), Philharmonie Essen, Beethovenfest Bonn, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Roma, Carnegie Hall (New York), and the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club in Montréal. As well as his regular recital partner Itamar Golan, Yossif has collaborated with Ingrid Fliter, Frank Braley, David Kadouch and Plamena Mangova.
Highlights of 11/12 included debuts with the Philharmonia Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Bruch), Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI (Bartók 2), Vancouver Symphony (Mendelssohn), Oregon Symphony (Dutilleux), as well as return visits to the Brabants Orchestra (Bruch), Orchestre National d’Ile de France (Brahms), etc.
Future orchestral projects include debuts with the Polish Chamber Orchestra in Stuttgart (Beethoven), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Chausson and Ravel) and several Belgian orchestras. Future recital engagements include performances at the Montreal Chamber Music Society, Brussels (Bozar), as well as a tour in Italy (Ravenna, Ferrara and Imola).
His debut recording on the Ambroisie/Naïve label (sonatas by Franck,Ysaye & D’Haene) was awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année. Both his concerto recordings (concerti by Bartók & Shostakovich, as well as a Dutilleux-CD) also received high critical acclaim.
Yossif Ivanov has studied the violin with Zakhar Bron, Igor & Valery Oistrakh and Augustin Dumay. Since 2008 he is the youngest violin teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Yossif Ivanov plays on the 1699 “Lady Tennant” Stradivarius, kindly lent by the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.
Boris Brovtsyn, a fourth-generation musician, is renowned as a versatile violinist in high demand worldwide. He has an extensive repertoire of over fifty violin concertos and hundreds of chamber works, frequently premiering new pieces. Brovtsyn is a regular at “Les Grands Interprètes” in Geneva and Spectrum Concerts Berlin, where he has performed every season since 2008.
Trained at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has held professorships at the GSMD, Trinity College, and currently at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna.
As a soloist, he has collaborated with maestros like Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, and orchestras including the London Philharmonic and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. His chamber music partners include Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, and Misha Maisky, with appearances at top festivals like Verbier and Salzburg.
His recordings on Decca, BIS, and Naxos have earned accolades, including an ECHO Klassik award.
Nikita Evgeny Koller studies with Robin Wilson, Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School in London. His
previous teacher was Liana Tretiakova in Zurich. Since 2022, Nikita has also attended the Zakhar Bron Academy in Interlaken. He is a prizewinner
of national and international music competitions: David Oistrakh Violin Competition (2023, Astana), Artur Grumiaux Competition (2022), Swiss
Youth Music Competition (2021 – 2024). At age ten, he made his debut as soloist with a chamber orchestra (2020), and with a symphony orchestra a
year later. He has since performed with several ensembles and orchestras, among them Zürcher Kammerphilharmonie, Camerata Tchaikovsky (London), Gringolts Quartett, Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, at venues including KKL Luzern, Stadtcasino Basel, Mozarteum, and Carnegie Hall. Nikita is a passionate soloist and dedicated chamber musician; he loves to play chamber music with friends.