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Dutch violinist Pieter van Loenen, who now studies with Pavel Vernikov, graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2016 and was awarded the prize for the best exam of the year. He won Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Dutch Oskar Back National Violin Competition (2016) and the Dutch Classical Talent Audience Award (2019), giving him an opportunity to perform throughout his home country. In addition to being active as both a soloist and chamber musician, Pieter was Artist in Residence of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra in 2019. He plays a Marc de Sterke violin with a Sartory bow on generous loan from the Dutch Music Instrument Foundation.
Anna Savkina studied at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow with Alexander Vinnitsky and went on to earn her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she is now pursuing her Graduate Diploma as a student of Vladimir Ivanov. She is also studying for her Konzertexamen Degree of the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany with Boris Garlitsky. She has been awarded top prizes in many prestigious violin competitions, including the Sendai Competition in Japan, the Louis Spohr in Germany, David Oistrakh in Russia, Heino Eller in Estonia, Buchenau Spring in Germany, Andrea Postacchini in Italy and the Astana Competition in Kazakhstan. Anna graduated from Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the rank ‘Best Graduate 2018’.
Aubree Oliverson made her Utah Symphony debut at age 11 and her Carnegie Hall Weill Hall recital debut at age 12. She has gone to perform to sold out audiences at the Grand Teton Music Festival, SOKA Performing Arts Centre, and the SCERA Centre for the Performing Arts. She has been featured on NPR’s From The Top numerous times. Aubree won a 2016 National YoungArts Foundation Award and the Dorothy Delay Fellowship Prize at Aspen, and was named a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021, where she was presented a ‘Special Prize of Merit’. In 2022 she was signed to Askonas Holt for general management.
Oliver Neubauer attends the Juilliard School, where he studies with Li Lin and Donald Weilerstein, and where he is a recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. He has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the National Repertory Orchestra, the Sound Symphony Orchestra, the New York Concerti Sinfonietta and the Symphony of Westchester, and was awarded Third Prize at the ArsClassica International Competition (2023) and the Gold Award at the National Young Arts Competition (2018). Highlights of 2022/23 include a recording project in London with members of the Royal Academy and conductor Barbara Hannigan, as well as appearances with Jupiter Chamber Players and at the Mostly Music Series (New York). He also makes his debut at Chamber Music Sedona and at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Oliver previously took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021. He plays a 1780 J.B. Guadagnini violin, generously on loan to him from the Juilliard String Instrument Collection.
Mathilde Milwidsky studies in Munich with Mi-kyung Lee. She was the only British violinist selected for the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competition and in the same year won Third prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition. She has performed as a soloist at venues throughout the United Kingdom, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, in addition to appearances across Europe. Her debut CD for pianist Sam Haywood, was released in 2020 and received widespread acclaim, including Mathilde being named Classical Music Magazine’s Artist of the Month. Her latest recording with the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rimma Sushanskaya, featuring Beethoven’s Romances for Violin and Orchestra, received five-stars from Musical Opinion.
Tianyou Ma a été le premier lauréat de nombreux concours internationaux, notamment le Concours international de musique de Sendai, le Concours de violon Menuhin (où il a remporté le Prix Bach), le Concours Postacchini, le Concours J.S. Bach et le Concours de violon de Chicago. Il a également reçu des bourses complètes pour l’intégralité de ses études. Il a été étudiant unique à l’Elder Conservatorie of Music, où il a étudié avec Keith Crellin de 2010 à 2013 ; étudiant de Diana Galvydyte à partir de 2014 à la Yehudi Menuhin School et, depuis 2019, il poursuit son diplôme de premier cycle avec une bourse complète du Curtis Institute of Music de Philadelphie, où il étudie avec Pamela Frank et Shmuel Ashkenasi.
Ravil Islyamov graduated from the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and now studies at the Moscow Conservatory. His teacher is Alexander Vinnitsky. Ravil has had much success in competition, including the Gold Medal at the Youth Delphi Games of Russia (Tyumen, 2016; Vladivostok, 2018), the Grand Prix at the Ludwig van Beethoven International Violin Competition (Austria, 2016), and wins at the Youth Delphi Games of Member States of the CIS (Moscow, 2016) and the All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2018). Ravil was also named ‘Best Participant of the Second Round’ at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2019. Since 2010 he has been a grant-recipient of the Yuri Rozum International Charitable Foundation.
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.
Harmony Zhu entered the Juilliard School at age 8, where she continues to study with Veda Kaplinsky and Emanuel Ax. She is also World Chess Champion of her age, Woman Candidate Master since age seven, Young Steinway Artist since age 10, Lang Lang Foundation Scholar, and fellow of Yale University’s Artemisia Akademie. She has appeared with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín and with conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and John Giordano. Harmony also loves playing violin, composing and improvising. She has been featured many times on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Elizaveta Ukrainskaia was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, and grew up in St Petersburg, Russia. She studies with Alexander Sandler at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, and previously worked with with Lyubov Rudova at the Special Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory and with Vera Ovcharova at the Lyahovitskaya Music School. Elizaveta is a First Prize winner of the International Piano Competition in Bremen (2016), RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition (2018), and of the Delphic games (Rostov, 2019). Elizaveta’s performances have brought her across Europe, and to the United Kingdom and America. She first took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021.