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Aaron Chan pursued his Bachelor of Music with Stephen Rose and Jinjoo Cho at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he also minored in Music History. He was the winner of the Concerto competition at CIM in the Fall 2017, awarding him a public performance with the CIM orchestra at the Severance Hall. In 2018, Aaron won the classical concerto competition and chamber competition with his quartet (Lafontaine Quartet) at McGill. He is now pursuing his Masters degree with Paul Kantor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Although born in Canada, Aaron spent his childhood in Hong Kong, where studied both violin and viola on full scholarship to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ Junior Program.
Equally at home as a soloist and as part of a chamber ensemble, violinist Mihaela Martin has collaborated with musical greats such as Kurt Masur, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, Leon Fleisher, and Menahem Pressler. As a young musician, she won top prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Montreal International Music Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She credits Silvia Marcovici and the great pedagogue, Stefan Gheorghiu, with whom she studied for 10 years, as key influences in her development as an artist.
Martin left Romania in 1986 and has since resided in Germany, where she now teaches at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. She is a regular guest at many chamber music festivals, and pursues her intense love for chamber music as member of the Michelangelo String Quartet, which she helped found in 2003.
Eduard Wulfson was born in Riga in 1953 and began his study of the violin at the age of six, giving his first concert at The Riga Conservatory at the age of nine. His early teacher, Professor Sturestep, was followed by Professor Waiman at the Conservatory of St Petersburg, and by Professor Bezrodny at the Moscow Conservatory.
In the 1970s, he continued working in Western Europe with Nathan Milstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szering and Miriam Solovieff. He is a prize‑winner of the Paganini and Zagreb Competitions and took a “Grand Prix des Beaux Arts” in Munich. He has performed as soloist all over the world, in collaboration with great musicians such as Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, Yehudi Menuhin, Ida Haendel and Dimitri Yablonsky with whom he has collaborated and recorded (for Naxos) two Rachmaninov Trios. The international media acclaim the incomparable playing of Eduard Wulfson. As described by Maestro Y. Menuhin, “the playing of Eduard Wulfson is in the best Russian tradition”.
Professor Eduard Wulfson has been a leading advisor to prestigious institutions and private clients on the subject of classical for more than thirty years. His company “Rare Musical Instruments Consulting” (Edwulstrad RMIC Ltd) is based in Geneva. He is especially known for advising on the fine stringed-instruments market and finding the best and scarcest instruments. Using his expertise, Professor Wulfson helps his prestigious clients to acquire many wonderful Italian stringed-instruments made by famous makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri Del Gesu, and Niccolo Amati. In 2008, Maestro V.Gergiev, world-famous conductor of The Mariinsky Theater and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Professor Wulfson to be his personal advisor in building the most incredible collection of rare stringed-instruments.
For thirty years, Eduard Wulfson has also been known as an eminent professor helping to prepare new generation of the greatest soloists.
Belgian violinist of Russian-Ukrainian heritage, Mr. Bouchkov is a sophisticated musician of impeccable aplomb and has carved an international career performing with leading orchestras and conductors across Europe. He is one of the most multifaceted and unique artists of the new generation. His orchestral appearances included performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Philippe Jordan, HR-Sinfonieorchester and Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and Lorenzo Viotti, and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. He has also appeared with the NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Hessische Rundfunk Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI in Turin, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra among others, collaborating with conductors such as nominated Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Philippe Jordan, Lorenzo Viotti, and Gábor Takács-Nagy, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Michael Sanderling, Andrey Boreyko, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Dmitry Liss, Christian Arming, Lionel Bringuier, Maxim Vengerov, James Judd, to name but a few.
Mr. Bouchkov has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Teatro alla Scala, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Dresden Frauenkirche, Concert Hall of St. Petersburg, Tonhalle Zürich, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Paris’ Theatre de la Ville, Maison de Radio France, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin among several other venues. A fine chamber musician, he is a regular guest of the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
Highlights of Mr. Bouchkov’s last seasons included appearances with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislav Kochanovsky and the Hessische Rundfunk Orchestra, Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Philippe Jordan and the Munich Philharmonic, as well as recitals and concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, and the Schubertiade in Hohenems. After a bunch of very successful concerts at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and in Montenegro and Greece, Mr. Bouchkov performed with pianist Mao Fujita in Latvia, at the Riga Jurmala Music Festival, and in Georgia at the Tsinandali Festival, where he played five different programs including performances with the pianist and conductor Lahav Shani and Brahms’ Double Concerto with cellist Mischa Maisky under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. In 2021 he was invited to perform at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ludovic Morlot, followed immediately after by an invitation to be artist-in-residence of the orchestra in 2022/2023. During the season he appeared with the orchestra at the Concertgebouw performing Korngold, Stravinsky, and Brahms’ violin concertos under the baton of Lorenzo Viotti, Ryan Bancroft, and Hannu Lintu. In March 2023 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan, performing Korngold’s violin concerto under Lorenzo Viotti. During the Verbier Festival in July 2023, he will perform the entire cycle of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano with pianist Mao Fujita.
Marc Bouchkov’s first recording by Harmonia Mundi is of special significance since it includes two world première pieces by Eugéne Ysaÿe, and two works composed by himself. The album was awarded a Diapason d’Or and a Diapason Découverte as well as nominated for the ICMA 2018 and received tremendous acclaim on Gramophone reviews. The English magazine featured him as “One to Watch “.
Marc Bouchkov’s artistic development has been marked by a string of international awards. He won the first prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition and he is a silver medallist of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition. He received the London Music Masters Award and has been honored with the music prize of the Kulturstiftung Dortmund.
Marc Bouchkov was born into a family of violinists. He received his first lessons at the age of five from his grandfather. Studies with Claire Bernard and Boris Garlitsky followed. With Mihaela Martin, Marc developed as a Young Soloist in a postgraduate course at the Kronberg Academy. Since October 2018 he is under the musical tutorship of Eduard Wulfson.
Mr. Bouchkov currently serves as professor on the faculty of the Conservatoire Royale de Liège (BE) and the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein. From 2017 to 2019 he taught at the Kronberg Academy (DE) as Artistic Assistant.
Marc Bouchkov plays a Carlo and Michelangelo Bergonzi violin from 1742-44 as a private loan on behalf of Edwulstrad RMIC Ltd.
His early professors include Leonid Kerbel, Leon Souroujon and Igor Oistrakh.
In 1997, Sascha made his Carnegie Hall debut in a Gala for the Rainforest Foundation, performing Saint-Saens “Carnaval des Animaux” alongside artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Victoria Mullova and Martha Argerich.
At the age of twelve, the course of his musical education led him to the Purcell School in London where his professors were Macej Rakowski and Evgueny Grach. Sascha has had the privilege of receiving musical guidance from star musicians such as Julian Rachlin, Maxim Vengerov, Felix Andrievsky, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Vadim Gluzman, Edvard Grach, Nam-Yun Kim and Dmitri Sitkovetsky.
Sascha performed solo and chamber music works at prestigious venues such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, Brussels Conservatoire, Prague Castle and the British Embassy in Paris. Moreover, Mr. Maisky has performed on several occasions in trio with his father Mischa and sister Lily.
Having completed his studies in England with honors, Sascha has now moved to Vienna where his Professor is Boris Kuschnir.
One of the brightest representatives of the Russian violin school, Sergei Dogadin is establishing a career as soloist and chamber musician that takes him across Russia and the world.
Dogadin has won some of the most prestigious violin competitions, including IX Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover (2015), Singapore International Violin Competition (2018), and most recently the XVI Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, where he was awarded first prize and the Gold Medal. This major success led to invitations from Valery Gergiev to perform with him and The Mariinsky Orchestra at the European summer festivals in Mikkeli and Grafenegg, as well as Moscow’s First Zaryadye International Festival in autumn 2020. He also took part in the Tchaikovsky Competition Winners’ tour of Japan, combining concerto performances with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norichika Iimori, and recitals in various chamber music formations.
His profile rapidly rising, Dogadin will soon make his debuts with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Edo de Waart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott, with whom he returns to Grafenegg Festival. Previously, he has worked with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover with both Andrew Manze and Robert Trevino, and West Australian Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Carter.
In Russia, Dogadin has performed with all the major orchestras, and in addition to his growing association with The Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, he continues to develop his relationship with St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov. He toured the UK with them in 2019 under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky, and in 2019/20 he returns to work with the orchestra for a number of projects, including the opening of the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow and a tour of Asia in spring 2020. Later in the year, he appears at prestigious German festivals Kissinger Sommer and Rheingau Musik with the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and Alexander Sladkovsky.
An active and passionate chamber musician, in 2019/20 Dogadin appears at the Philharmonie in Munich as part of MPHIL 360° Festival, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao and Arts Square Festival in St Petersburg, to mention a few highlights. He regularly performs with internationally renowned musicians such as Daniil Trifonov, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Denis Matsuev, David Geringas, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alexander Knyazev, Maxim Rysanov and Alexei Ogrintchouk.
Dogadin is currently continuing his studies under Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, having previously studied with him in Graz. He has also studied at St Petersburg Conservatory with Vladimir Ovcharek, International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad with Maxim Vengerov, and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Mihaela Martin. He plays a 1721 Domenico Montagnana violin on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore and has had the opportunity to perform on various rare instruments including legendary Paganini’s ‘Sivori’ violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and an Amati once owned by Johann Strauss.
The Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his extremely virtuosic playing and sensitive interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges. As a sought-after soloist, he devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire as well as to contemporary and seldom-played works. He has premiered compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, Christophe Bertrand, Albert Schnelzer, and Michael Jarrell. This season he will add a new work by Bernhard Lang to this list. He is also interested in historical performance practices and collaborates regularly with ensembles such as the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and Arcangelo.
Ilya Gringolts has performed with leading orchestras around the world such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and both orchestras of the SWR (Southwest German Radio). Recent highlights include projects with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Singaporean Symphony Orchestra, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
He kicked off the 2019/20 season at the Enescu Festival with a performance of Michael Jarrell’s Violin Concerto. This is followed by further invitations to play with internationally renowned ensembles such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, and NRK Norwegian Radio Orchestra. In spring 2020, Ilya Gringolts is artist in residence at the Badenweiler Musiktage, where in addition to his own Gringolts Quartet Meta4 and Kristian Bezuidenhout will guest.
Ilya Gringolts is also first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, which he founded in 2008 and which has enjoyed great success at the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad and Edinburgh Festival, and at major international houses such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Dortmund Konzerthaus and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. An in-demand chamber musician, Ilya Gringolts regularly collaborates with artists such as James Boyd, David Kadouch, Itamar Golan, Peter Laul, Aleksandar Madzar, Nicolas Altstaedt, Christian Poltera, Andreas Ottensamer, Antoine Tamestit, and Jörg Widmann.
He has made numerous critically praised recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, Hyperion and Onyx, and received outstanding reviews for his recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin in 2013. In the orchestral realm, he has released recordings of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Violin Concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015 as well as Dvorak’s violin concerto with the Prague Philharmonia for Deutsche Grammophon, and concertos by Korngold and Adams with the Copenhagen Philharmonic under Santtu-Matias Rouvali. In 2018 he released the second CD in his recording project of Stravinsky’s complete violin works, recorded with the Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia under Dima Slobodeniouk.
After studying violin and composition in St. Petersburg, he attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. In 1998 he won the International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, the youngest finalist in the history of the competition. In addition to his position as professor of violin at the Zurich Academy of the Arts, he is also a Violin International Fellow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Ilya Gringolts plays a Stradivari (1718 “ex-Prové”) violin.
Violinist Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. During the season 2025/26 she is “Artist-in-Residence“ with the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as “Featured Artist” with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Both residencies include a number of orchestral and chamber music projects throughout the season.
Extensive tours are planned with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mäkelä, London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano and the Tonhalle Orchester/Järvi. She continues her Artistic Partnership with Camerata Salzburg culminating in tours across Asia and Europe.
Further orchestral engagements are planned with Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä and Filarmonica della Scala/Luisi.
She continues her musical partnership with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky in a number of concerts including in Vienna, Lucerne and Tokyo. Alongside her regular duo partner Denis Kozhukhin.she presents a Brahms Sonata programme on tour in South Korea and Japan.
Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording released in June 2024 features Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 together with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was met with high critical acclaim throughout.
She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht as well as Co-Artistic Director of Sion Festival. Since November 2023 she is Professor of Violin Studies at Kronberg Academy.
Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.
Janine Jansen plays the Shumsky-Rode Stradivarius from 1715, on generous loan from a European benefactor.
Janine Jansen is a PIRASTRO artist playing Evah Pirazzi Neo strings.
French violinist Renaud Capuçon is firmly established internationally as a major soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is known and loved for his poise, depth of tone and virtuosity, and he works with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, artists, venues and festivals.
Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon began his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fourteen, winning numerous awards during his five years there. Following this, Capuçon moved to Berlin to study with Thomas Brandis and Isaac Stern and was awarded the Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1997, he was invited by Claudio Abbado to become concert master of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which he led for three summers, working with conductors including Boulez, Ozawa, Welser-Möst and Claudio Abbado.
Since then, Capuçon has established himself as a soloist at the very highest level. He performs with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic (VPO), London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala, Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic. His many conductor relationships include Gergiev, Barenboim, Bychkov, Dénève, Dohnanyi, Dudamel, Eschenbach, Haitink, Harding, Paavo Järvi, Nelsons, Nézet-Seguin, Roth, Shani, Ticciati, van Zweden and Long Yu.
A great commitment to chamber music has led him to collaborations with Argerich, Angelich, Barenboim, Bashmet, Bronfman, Buniatishvili, Grimaud, Hagen, Ma, Pires, Trifonov and Yuja Wang, as well as with his brother, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and have taken him, among others, to the Berlin, Lucerne, Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, Roque d’Anthéron, San Sebastián, Stresa, Salzburg, Edinburgh International and Tanglewood festivals. Capuçon has also represented France at some of the world’s most prestigious international events: he has performed with Yo-Yo Ma under the Arc de Triomphe for the official commemoration of Armistice Day in the presence of more than 80 heads of state, and played for world leaders at the G7 Summit in Biarritz.
Capuçon is the Artistic Director of two festivals, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, since 2016, and the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, which he founded in 2013. From the 2021/22 season, Capuçon is also the Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne; his first set of recordings with the ensemble entitled ‘Tabula Rasa’, released in September 2021, is an album devoted to the music of Arvo Pärt.
Capuçon has built an extensive discography and records exclusively with Erato/Warner Classics. Recent releases include a recording of Bartok’s two violin concerti with the LSO / Roth, Brahms and Berg with the VPO / Harding, and chamber music of Debussy. His latest recording, ‘Au Cinema’, featuring much loved selections from film music, releases in October 2018. His latest album ‘Un violin à Paris’, recorded with Guillaume Bellom and released in November 2021, features a large range of shorter works arranged for violin and piano.
In 2017, Capuçon founded a new ensemble, the Lausanne Soloists, comprised of current and former students of the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where he has held a professorship since 2014. He plays the Guarneri del Gesù ‘Panette’ (1737), which belonged to Isaac Stern. In June 2011 he was appointed ‘Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite’ and in March 2016 ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur’ by the French Government.