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Supported and guided by Sir Yehudi Menuhin at a young age, Kirill Troussov is now widely recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. The international press describes his playing as « …impressive elegance, irreproachable technique, an exceptional musical sensitivity and sonorities of immaculate beauty…« . Kirill Troussov is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls and renowned international music festivals, all over the world.
His collaboration with celebrated conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Daniele Gatti, Lawrence Foster, Jiri Belohlàvek, Michail Jurowski, David Stern, Christoph Poppen, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikko Frank and Louis Langrée as well as with major orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de France, Radio Orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra has brought him, among others, to Tonhalle Zürich, Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palais des Beaux Arts Brüssel, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, De Doelen, NCPA in Beijing, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, Verbier Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and Menuhin Festival Gstaad.
His passion for chamber music and friendship connect Kirill Troussov with artists like Sol Gabetta, Yuja Wang, Daniel Hope, Joshua Bell, Gautier und Renaud Capucon, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Julian Rachlin, Christian Zacharias und Natalia Gutman.
Substitution for Gidon Kremer in Paris, Asia Tour with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, his spectacular performance at the BBC Proms and his activity as jury member at international competitions, a.o. at the “Schoenfeld International String Competition”, are just some of numerous highlights of his past concert seasons.
His international awards include the European cultural award “Pro-Europa”, the Davidoff-Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the international Yamaha Prize and the Reuters-Prize of the Verbier Festival.
Kirill Troussov regularly gives master classes at the Mozarteum Salzburg, European Music Intstitute Vienna, in Cremona, Milan, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Munich ,Oslo, Budapest, USA and Hong Kong.
Kirill Troussov’s recordings — among others for EMI Classics, Warner Classics, Dabringhaus und Grimm, Naxos and Farao Classics — have been repeatedly awarded by the international press. Furthermore he can be seen with Yuja Wang on her DVD with Kurt Masur.
His recent CDs « Emotions » (MDG) and « Memories » (MDG) have been highly praised by the international press and the public — among others by « Süddeutsche Zeitung » and the French music magazine « Diapason ». He completed his studies with Zakhar Bron and Christoph Poppen. His mentors have been Igor Oistrach, Herman Krebbers und Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
Kirill Troussov plays the Antonio Stradivari violin « Brodsky » of 1702, on which violinist Adolph Brodsky performed the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto, on December 4, 1881.
Loué pour sa remarquable palette de couleurs, sa présence confiante et concentrée sur scène, sa virtuosité et son équilibre technique, ainsi que pour la beauté de son timbre, Josef Špaček s’est progressivement imposé comme l’un des principaux violonistes de sa génération. Ses interprétations d’un large éventail de répertoire démontrent son « articulation et son athlétisme étonnants » (The Scotsman) et « une richesse et un piquant de timbre. » (The Telegraph).
Il se produit avec des orchestres tels que l’Orchestre de Paris, le Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, le Bamberger Symphoniker, le Scottish Chamber Orchestra, le Konzerthausorchester Berlin, l’Orchestre philharmonique tchèque, le Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Helsinki, l’Orchestre philharmonique du Capitole de Toulouse, l’Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, l’Orchestre symphonique métropolitain de Tokyo, l’Orchestre philharmonique du Japon, l’Orchestre symphonique de Shanghai, l’Orchestre philharmonique des Pays-Bas, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Luxembourg, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, l’Orchestre symphonique de Stavanger, le Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen et la Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Josef Špaček collabore avec d’éminents chefs d’orchestre tels que Jakub Hrůša, Semyon Bychkov, Manfred Honeck, Valery Gergiev, Thomas Adès, Krzysztof Urbański, James Gaffigan, James Conlon, Maxim Emelyanchev, Jiří Bělohlávek, Thomas Søndergård, Cornelius Meister, Michael Sanderling, David Zinman, Eliahu Inbal, Tomáš Netopil, Marc Albrecht, Aziz Shokhakimov, Christian Vasquez et Lio Kuokman.
Il aime également donner des récitals et jouer de la musique de chambre et est régulièrement invité dans des festivals et des salles de concert en Europe (notamment au Rudolfinum de Prague, au Konzerthaus de Vienne, au Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ d’Amsterdam, à l’Académie Kronberg, au Festival d’Évian, au Kaposfest et au Schloß Elmau), en Asie et aux États-Unis (notamment au Kennedy Center de Washington D.C., au 92Y de New York, au La Jolie à Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris, à l’Opéra de Paris et à l’Opéra de Paris), 92Y à New York, La Jolla à San Diego, le ChamberFest Cleveland et le Nevada Chamber Music Festival).
Parmi ses partenaires en musique de chambre figurent Gil Shaham, Kian Soltani, James Ehnes, Clemens Hagen, Yuja Wang, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Máté Szücs, Miroslav Sekera, Tomáš Jamník, Suzana Bartal, Kristóf Baráti et Sharon Kam.
Supraphon a publié un enregistrement très élogieux des concertos pour violon de Dvořák et Janáček, couplés à la Fantaisie de Suk, avec l’Orchestre philharmonique tchèque dirigé par Jiří Bělohlávek. Le Sunday Times a écrit : « Le compte rendu individuel, profondément réfléchi et virtuose du violoniste sur la partie soliste de Dvorak est le point culminant de ce programme bien conçu », ajoutant que « dans ce répertoire, Špaček n’a rien à envier à personne aujourd’hui. » Ce disque a été élu « Enregistrement de la semaine » par le Sunday Times, « Enregistrement du mois et de l’année » par MusicWeb International et a reçu 5* dans Diapason. Les autres enregistrements réalisés à ce jour sont un disque de récital avec des œuvres pour violon et piano de Smetana, Janáček et Prokofiev avec le pianiste Miroslav Sekera (Supraphon), des œuvres pour violon seul et violon et piano de H.W. Ernst (Naxos) et un premier CD avec l’intégrale des Sonates pour violon seul d’Eugène Ysaÿe.
Josef Špaček a étudié avec Itzhak Perlman à la Juilliard School de New York, Ida Kavafian et Jaime Laredo au Curtis Institute of Music de Philadelphie, et avec Jaroslav Foltýn au Conservatoire de Prague. Il a été lauréat du concours international Reine Elisabeth à Bruxelles et a remporté les premiers prix du concours international de violon Michael Hill en Nouvelle-Zélande, du concours international de violon Carl Nielsen au Danemark et des Young Concert Artists International Auditions à New York.
Il a été premier violon solo de l’Orchestre philharmonique tchèque, le plus jeune de son histoire. L’orchestre l’a nommé « artiste associé » en janvier 2016. Il a quitté ce poste à la fin de la saison 2019/20 pour se consacrer exclusivement à sa carrière solo.
Josef Špaček se produit sur l’instrument de musique ca. 1732 » LeBrun ; Bouthillard » violon Guarneri del Gesù, généreusement prêté par Ingles & Hayday.
Il vit à Prague avec sa femme et leurs trois enfants. Pendant son temps libre, il pratique le cyclisme.
Kyung Wha Chung is recognized throughout the world as one of the finest violinists of her generation. A prolific recording artist, her dazzling and probing artistry has made her a much-acclaimed performer throughout her forty-year career. Lauded for her passion, her musicality, and the intense excitement that she brings to her performances, Chung’s uniquely expressive interpretations of the violin literature have established her as an artist of the very highest stature. Born in South Korea, Chung first heard the violin at the age of six. Instantly mesmerized by its tone, she was swiftly recognized as a child prodigy, making her concert debut aged nine with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. At thirteen, Chung enrolled at The Juilliard School, New York, and began studying with renowned pedagogue Ivan Galamian, and later with Joseph Szigeti.
Upon winning the prestigious Edgar Leventritt Competition in 1967, Chung was immediately engaged by major American orchestras – including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic – and also performed at the exclusive White House Gala. She made her sensational European debut in 1970, performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Sir André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, at London’s Royal Festival Hall. This concert was met with great critical acclaim and public attention, and – as a result – Chung received offers of concerts throughout the United Kingdom. Subsequently obtaining an exclusive recording contract with Decca/London, Chung’s debut album – of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos with Sir André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra – brought her to international attention, and she continued to perform with the world’s greatest orchestras (including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others). Throughout her career, Kyung Wha Chung has enjoyed working alongside the world’s finest conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Sir André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Georg Solti and Klaus Tennstedt. Her chamber music partnerships have included high calibre pianists such as Peter Frankl, Kevin Kenner, Stephen Kovacevich, Radu Lupu, and Krystian Zimerman.
Kyung Wha Chung has recorded numerous award-winning albums, and her extensive discography reflects the impressive breadth of her repertoire. Following her recording contract with Decca/London, in 1988 Chung subsequently signed for a period with EMI Classics, and also released recordings with RCA and Deutsche Grammophon. Winner of two Gramophone Awards (the first, for her Deutsche Grammophon album of Strauss and Respighi sonatas with Krystian Zimerman; the second, for her EMI recording of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle), Chung has also received many prizes and top honors – including the Medal of Civil Merit from the South Korean government, and the Ho Am Prize for the Arts in 2011.
Following an injury to her hand, Chung stopped performing in 2005. During this time away from the stage, she found a new calling as a teacher, joining the faculty of her alma mater, The Juilliard School. In addition to this, Kyung Wha Chung is Chair Professor for Music at Ewha University in Seoul, and Charity Ambassador for Better World (an active patron for their Child Rescue Project in Africa). She is also the Artistic Director of the Great Mountains Music Festival & School, based in South Korea.
Five years after her retirement, 2010 marked Chung’s triumphant return to the Asian stage. Greeted by enthusiastic audiences and the highest critical acclaim, in 2013 she embarked on an extensive Asian tour of fifteen cities, including Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing. Kyung Wha Chung made her much anticipated return to the European concert platform in December 2014, with a national UK tour culminating in a sensational sell-out recital at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In July 2016 she opened the prestigious Verbier Festival, performing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Verbier Festival Orchestra and Charles Dutoit. Kyung Wha Chung has signed an exclusive international record contract with Warner Classics, the first release of which – Solo Bach Sonatas & Partitas – was released in October 2016. Chung has performed works from the CD at Suntory Hall (January 2017), The Barbican (May 2017) and Carnegie Hall (May 2017).
Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and most exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” wrote Tim Ashley (The Guardian, May 2015) of his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding.
Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often turn into an existential experience for both the interpreter and the audience; suddenly old familiar works appear in a completely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto which he successfully championed, and he also attempts to bring important new works into the repertoire such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and performs approximately 100 concerts every year.
Born in Hamburg in 1966 and now living in Berlin with his family, there are three things that make this musician unique, aside from his astounding skill on the violin. He interprets the musical manuscript in a literal fashion, perceives music as a language, and views great works as narratives which reflect existential experiences. As obvious as it may sound, he brings an unusual approach in his daily concert routine.
Christian Tetzlaff tries to follow the manuscript as closely as possible – without regard for “performance tradition” and without indulging in the usual technical short-cuts on the violin – often allowing a renewed clarity and richness to arise in well-known works. As a violinist Tetzlaff tries to disappear from the music – paradoxically this makes his interpretations very personal.
Secondly, Christian Tetzlaff “speaks” through his violin. Like human speech, his playing comprises a wide range of expressive means and is not aimed solely at achieving harmoniousness or virtuosic brilliance.
Above all, however, he interprets the masterpieces of musical history as stories about first-hand experiences. The great composers have focused on intense feelings, great happiness and deep crises in their music; as a musician Christian Tetzlaff also explores the limits of feelings and musical expression. Many pieces deal with none other than life and death. Christian Tetzlaff’s aim is to convey this to his audience.
Christian Tetzlaff played in various youth orchestras for many years. His teacher at the Lübeck University of Music was Uwe-Martin Haiberg, for whom musical interpretation was the key to mastering violin technique, rather than the other way round.
Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet in 1994, and until now chamber music is still as important to him as his work as a soloist with and without the orchestra.
The Tetzlaff Quartett received the Diapason d’or in 2015, and the trio with sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy award. Christian Tetzlaff has also received numerous awards for his CD recordings, including the “Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” in 2018, the “Diapason d’or” in July 2018 and the Midem Classical Award in 2017. The new Ondine recording of Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati is highly anticipated in autumn 2019.
Of special significance is his solo recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, which he has recorded for the third time and was released in September 2017. The Strad magazine praised this recording as “an attentive and lively answer to the beauty of Bach’s solos”.
Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin made by the German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy.
Daniel Lozakovich, dont la musique enchante les critiques et le public, est né à Stockholm en 2001 et a commencé le violon à l’âge de sept ans. Il fait ses débuts en solo deux ans plus tard avec le Moscow Virtuosi et Vladimir Spivakov.
Lozakovich a ouvert la saison actuelle avec sa première apparition aux BBC Proms, interprétant Brahms avec le BBC Symphony Orchestra et Fabien Gabel au Royal Albert Hall.
Il est l’Artiste en Résidence de la saison avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, donnant des concertos et récitals tout au long de l’année.
Cette saison, ses engagements incluent des performances avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique d’Oslo sous la direction de Klaus Mäkelä, ses débuts avec la série d’abonnements de la Filarmonica della Scala au Teatro Alla Scala sous la direction de Riccardo Chailly, le Singapore Symphony, le Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, et le Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
Lozakovich se produit régulièrement avec les meilleurs orchestres et chefs d’orchestre de renommée mondiale, parmi lesquels Adam Fischer, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Järvi, Cristian Măcelaru, Kazuki Yamada, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani, Tugan Sokhiev, Dina Slobodeniouk et Lorenzo Viotti. En tournée, il a joué au Japon avec le hr-Sinfonieorchester sous Andrés Orozco-Estrada et en Asie avec Valery Gergiev.
Parmi les moments forts de ses performances en Amérique du Nord figurent ses apparitions avec le Chicago Symphony Orchestra, le Cleveland Symphony Orchestra sous la direction de Klaus Mäkelä, le Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra et The Philadelphia Orchestra dirigé par Nathalie Stutzmann, le Boston Symphony Orchestra sous Andris Nelsons, et le Los Angeles Philharmonic sous Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Récitaliste très recherché, Lozakovich donne son premier récital cette saison dans la Grande Salle du Concertgebouw et se produira la saison prochaine au Carnegie Hall. Il a déjà donné des récitals dans des salles historiques comme le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, la Fondation Louis Vuitton, la Tonhalle de Zurich, le Victoria Hall de Genève, le Conservatorio G. Verdi de Milan, le Théâtre Mariinsky et bien d’autres. En tournée, il s’est produit dans des salles prestigieuses telles que l’Elbphilharmonie de Hambourg, le Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam et le Konzerthaus de Vienne.
Participant régulier à des festivals de musique internationaux, Lozakovich s’est produit au Verbier Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Baltic Sea Festival, White Nights Festival, Festival de Pâques – Aix-en-Provence, Tanglewood Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, Corinthian Summer Music Festival en Autriche, Colmar Festival, Festival de Saint-Denis, Tsinandali Festival et bien d’autres.
Comme musicien de chambre, il a collaboré avec des artistes tels qu’Emanuel Ax, Ivry Gitlis, Mikhail Pletnev, Sergei Babayan, Martin Fröst, Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Alexandre Kantorow, Behzod Abduraimov et David Fray.
À l’âge de 15 ans, Lozakovich a signé un contrat d’enregistrement exclusif avec Deutsche Grammophon, et en 2018, il a sorti son premier album des deux concertos pour violon de Bach en collaboration avec le Kammerorchester des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks ainsi que la Partita en solo n° 2. Cet album a atteint la première place dans la catégorie musique en général d’Amazon France et dans les classements d’albums classiques en Allemagne. Le deuxième album de Lozakovich, None but the Lonely Heart, est sorti en 2019. Dédié à Tchaïkovski, il inclut le Concerto pour violon, enregistré en direct avec le Philharmonique National de Russie et Vladimir Spivakov. Le magazine Gramophone a nommé cet enregistrement comme “Top choice”, parmi 70 ans des meilleures interprétations du Concerto pour violon de Tchaïkovski. Son troisième album, sorti en 2020, est consacré au Concerto pour violon de Beethoven, enregistré en direct avec le Münchner Philharmoniker sous la direction de Valery Gergiev, disponible en album audio et e-vidéo pour le 250e anniversaire de Beethoven, un projet particulièrement significatif pour Lozakovich, qui considère ce concerto comme l’un des plus grands jamais écrits.
Lozakovich a remporté de nombreux prix, dont le 1er prix du Concours International de Violon Vladimir Spivakov en 2016 et le prix “Jeune Artiste de l’Année 2017” au Festival of Nations, le Premio Batuta au Mexique, et le Prix Excelentia sous la présidence honoraire de la reine Sofia d’Espagne. Lozakovich a étudié à la Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe avec le professeur Josef Rissin à partir de 2012 et a obtenu son diplôme de Master en 2021. Depuis 2015, il est encadré par Eduard Wulfson à Genève. Daniel Lozakovich joue sur le Stradivarius « ex-Sancy » de 1713, prêté généreusement par LVMH / MOET HENNESSY.LOUIS VUITTON.
Hope works regularly with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Iván Fischer and Christian Thielemann, as well as with renowned symphony orchestras around the world and composers such as Alfred Schnittke, György Kurtág, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Tōru Takemitsu and Tan Dun. His discography includes more than 30 albums, which have received awards including the German Record Critics’ Prize, the Diapason d’Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award and the Prix Caecilia.
Hope studied violin with Zakhar Bron, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Felix Andrievsky and he completed his training at the London Royal Academy of Music. He worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous concerts worldwide. He lives with his family in Berlin and plays the « Ex-Lipiński » Guarneri del Gesù from 1742, which is generously made available to him.
Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2012 and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.
Highlights among her recent and forthcoming solo engagements include performances with Berlin Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, London Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Manfred Honeck, Zubin Mehta, Mariss Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Esa Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov and Sir Simon Rattle.
She regularly appears at festivals in Salzburg, Verbier, Lucerne, London Proms, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lockenhaus, Mostly Mozart Festival, Prague Spring Music Festival and George Enescu Festival Bucharest. As soloist and in recital, Vilde has performed at venues such as the Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Tonhalle Zurich, Bozar Brussels, Rudolfinum, Tchaikovsky Hall, in Vancouver Recital Series, Boston Celebrity Series, San Francisco Performances, and at Carnegie Hall.
Vilde Frang is an exclusive Warner Classics artist and her recordings have received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, Edison Klassiek Award, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’Or and Gramophone Award.
Born in Norway in 1986, Vilde was engaged by Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve to debut with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
She studied at Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg and Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. She has also worked with Mitsuko Uchida as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship winner 2007, and was a scholarship-holder 2003-2009 in the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
Vilde Frang performs on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1866.
Alexander Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow into a family with a well-established musical tradition. His concerto debut came at the age of eight, and in the same year he moved to the UK to study at the Menuhin School. Lord Menuhin was his inspiration throughout his school years and they performed together on several occasions.
The forthcoming season will see his returns to Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Rogue Valley Symphony Medford in the United States. He will also visit New York again several times as part of the prestigious CMS at Lincoln Center. He will also return to the direct the Romanian Youth Orchestra, Detmold Chamber Orchestra and Leopoldinum Orchestra Wroclaw and appear at numerous festivals across Europe, such as Stavanger, Music for Galway and Verbier Festival at Schloss Elmau.
Amongst the highlights of previous seasons are his debuts at Vienna’s Musikverein with the Tonkünstler Orchester, tour with the North Netherlands Orchestra as well as return visits to the Manchester Camerata, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, English Symphony Orchestra and Anima Musicae Orchesta Budapest. He also tours regularly with Julia Fischer as a permanent member of her string quartet.
Highlights of his recent concerto performances include appearances with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bolivia, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra.
He is also much in demand as a director and has directed and performed as a soloist regularly with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, London Mozart Players, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Players, Camerata Zurich, Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Romanian Sinfonietta. He is also regularly invited as guest soloist with orchestras touring the UK and these have recently included the Russian Philharmonic Novosibirsk, Brussels Philharmonic, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and the Tonkünstler Orchester.
His critically acclaimed CPO recording of Andrzej Panufnik’s Violin Concerto with the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin commemorating the composer’s 100th birthday won an ICMA Special Achievement Award. His most recent recording with the English Symphony Orchestra of Philip Sawyers’s Violin Concerto was released to great critical acclaim.
Alexander was awarded 1st prize at the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition alongside pianist Wu Qian. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Bowers Program (previously named Chamber Music Society Two) at the Lincoln Center, and in 2016 received the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.
Alexander is a founding member of the award-winning Sitkovetsky Trio with whom he has performed worldwide. The trio won the BBC Music Magazine award for Chamber Music in 2022.
Alexander plays the 1679 ‘Parera’ Antonio Stradivari violin, kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.
Born in Athens, violinist Leonidas Kavakos had by the age of 21 already won the 1985 Sibelius Competition and the Paganini and Naumburg competitions in 1988. This led to him making the first ever recording of the original Sibelius Violin Concerto, which won the Gramophone Concerto of the Year Award in 1991. Today he is recognised across the world as an artist of rare quality, acclaimed for his matchless technique, captivating artistry and superb musicianship, and the integrity of his playing. He is the Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist in 2021/22 and is an exclusive recording artist with Sony Classics, who released his eagerly awaited recording of the complete set of Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. He plays the ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius violin of 1734.
Roberto González-Monjas, très demandé à la fois comme chef d’orchestre et violoniste, s’impose rapidement sur la scène musicale internationale. Doté d’une vision artistique forte, d’un charisme naturel, d’une énergie communicative et d’une grande intelligence musicale, il est reconnu comme un véritable leader dans son domaine. Depuis août 2021, il est chef principal du Musikkollegium Winterthur en Suisse, directeur musical de l’Orchestre symphonique de Galice en Espagne depuis août 2023, et depuis septembre 2024, chef principal du Mozarteumorchester de Salzbourg. Il est également directeur artistique de l’Iberacademy en Colombie. Il a été chef invité principal de l’Orchestre national de Belgique de 2022 à 2025, et la Dalasinfoniettan en Suède l’a honoré du titre de chef honoraire après quatre années à sa tête, de 2019 à 2023.
La saison 2025/26 s’annonce riche en projets majeurs : Roberto dirigera La Flûte enchantée de Mozart au festival Mozartwoche de Salzbourg ainsi que Così fan tutte à l’Opéra de Zurich. Il assurera la création mondiale du concerto pour violoncelle d’Edmund Finnis, avec Sheku Kanneh-Mason et le Philharmonique de Los Angeles. Il mènera également une tournée importante au Royaume-Uni avec l’Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, une tournée asiatique avec le Mozarteumorchester, et fera ses débuts avec l’Orchestre national espagnol et l’Orchestre de Bamberg. Après plusieurs collaborations réussies ces dernières saisons, il retrouvera l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Oslo, le Philharmonique de Hong Kong, l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse et l’Orchestre de chambre des Pays-Bas. Au-delà de 2026, ses engagements incluent des invitations auprès de formations prestigieuses telles que l’Orchestre symphonique de la Radio suédoise, l’Orchestre de Paris, la Philharmonie de Dresde, les orchestres philharmoniques des Pays-Bas et de Francfort, ainsi que l’Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
Roberto collabore régulièrement avec de grands artistes internationaux, parmi lesquels Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, André Schuèn, Hilary Hahn, Lisa Batiashvili, Juan Diego Flórez, Clara-Jumi Kang, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazil Say, Reinhard Goebel, Mao Fujita, András Schiff, Jan Lisiecki, Kirill Gerstein, Yeol Eum Son, Alexandre Kantorow, Paul Lewis, Kit Armstrong et Steven Isserlis. Par ailleurs, il est très engagé dans la création contemporaine, ayant donné plusieurs premières mondiales et collaboré étroitement avec des compositeurs comme Richard Dubugnon, Andrea Tarrodi, Anders Hillborg, Diana Syrse, Thierry Escaich et Hannah Kendall.
Très impliqué dans la formation des jeunes talents, Roberto a cofondé l’Iberacademy avec le chef Alejandro Posada. Cette académie vise à construire un modèle durable d’éducation musicale en Amérique latine, avec un focus particulier sur les jeunes issus de milieux vulnérables et les musiciens d’exception. Basée à Medellín, en Colombie, Iberacademy étend également ses activités en Bolivie, au Pérou, au Chili et à Cuba, offrant ainsi des opportunités déterminantes à ses étudiants. Parallèlement, Roberto enseigne le violon à la Guildhall School of Music & Drama de Londres, où il accompagne régulièrement les orchestres de chambre et symphoniques, notamment lors de concerts au Barbican Hall.
Après le succès international de son premier disque consacré aux Sérénades de Mozart avec le Mozarteumorchester (chez Berlin Classics), Roberto prépare la sortie début 2026 d’un nouvel album regroupant les concertos pour violon complets de Mozart. Ses enregistrements avec le Musikkollegium Winterthur témoignent de sa curiosité et de son éclectisme, explorant des répertoires allant de Mozart, Beethoven et Saint-Saëns à Schoeck, Prokofiev, C.P.E. Bach et Andrea Tarrodi. Il collabore aussi régulièrement avec les Berlin Baroque Soloists et figure en soliste sur leur enregistrement des Concertos Brandebourgeois de Bach sous la direction de Reinhard Goebel (Sony Classical).
Roberto a commencé sa carrière comme violoniste soliste, musicien de chambre et leader d’orchestre. Il a été premier violon de l’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia pendant six ans, avant de diriger le Musikkollegium Winterthur en tant que leader jusqu’à l’été 2021. Il joue sur un violon Giuseppe Guarnieri ‘filius Andreae’ de 1710, généreusement prêté par plusieurs familles de Winterthur et la fondation Rychenberg.