Concerts at Mr and Mrs Wuarin's home

HunJu Sohnn, Korean born pianist, has been performing both solo and chamber music concerts in Switzerland, England, Germany, France, South Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica, as well as throughout the United States.

Highly appreciated for her qualities in collaborative work, HunJu has been invited to appear with various instrumentalists and performed with the wind ensemble Ensemble Five ±, as well as the European-based Varias Ensemble at the New Year’s Music Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. HunJu has collaborated in masterclasses for world-famous artists such as Pinkas Zukerman, Nobuko Imai, Kyung-Wha Chung, Tabea Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, as well as Yo-Yo Ma, Franz Helmerson, and Ralph Kirshbaum. She has been the pianist/coordinator of the viola masterclass at the Verbier Music Festival and Academy. HunJu has participated in a television documentary featuring Nobuko Imai, which was distributed worldwide and performed with Ms. Imai for France Musique Radio program during the Verbier Festival.

HunJu Sohnn continues to perform in Europe and the US, while holding a teaching position at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique Danse et Théâtre in Geneva. She also participated in studio recordings, most recently in a project of complete works for piano and winds by Francis Poulenc released by Kleos Classics. HunJu Sohnn received her Master's degree from New England Conservatory and holds a Doctoral degree for Piano Performance from Rice University.

She has graduated from Toho Gakuen Music High School (2010), the Toho Gakuen College Music Department (2014), the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory of Music in Trieste (2017), and the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music in Venice (2021). She studied piano with Yuko Harashima, Kumiko Kumekawa, Nobuko Kondo, Naoko Shibanuma, Nobutatsu Kawashima, Giuseppe Albanese, Francesco Bencivenga, Igor Cognolato, and Marcella Crudeli; harpsichord and basso continuo with Nooki Ueo and Chiyoko Arita; and piano accompaniment/repetiteur work with Kazuoki Fuji, Fabrizio Del Bianco, Patrizia Tirindelli, and Silvano Zabeo.

She has worked as an accompanist at the Jacopo Tomadini Conservatory of Music in Udine (2019–2020), the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music in Venice (2019–2022), and the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory of Music in Trieste (2019–2025).

She has accompanied various festivals and masterclasses of important musicians such as Leone Magiera, Bruno De Simone, Maxim Vengerov, Ilya Grubert, Emmanuel Pahud, Jacques Zoon, Aylen Pritchin, Solenne Paidassi, Tatiana Samouil, Justus Grimm, Anna Kandinskaja, and Thomas Carroll.

She has also worked as a choral singer in productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, Ferrara, and Rovigo (2018) and Niccolò Piccinni’s Il Regno della Luna at the Teatro Malibran in Venice (2018); and as a harpsichordist/repetiteur for Tommaso Albinoni’s La Statira at the Teatro Malibran and Teatro Comunale di Treviso (2019) and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona at the Teatro Malibran (2020).

She is the official pianist for the “Seghizzi” International Chamber Vocal Competition in Gorizia (since 2018), the “Giovani Musicisti – Città di Treviso” International Music Performance Competition (since 2019), the “Musica Goritiensis” International Competition (since 2022).

Since June 2025, she works as a full time accompanist with permanent contract at the Agostino Steffani Conservatory of Music in Castelfranco Veneto.

Sherzod Abdiev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1999 and began studying the violin at age 6. He attended the Academic Music High School under the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with L. Slavyanova, then the YST Conservatory of Music under Professor Qian Zhou, and currently studies with Professor Sergey Ostrovsky at HEM Geneva-Neuchâtel.

He performed a recital with the State Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan in Tashkent at age 19 and won first prize in the 'Merzlyakovka priglashaet' competition in Moscow (2018), first prize in the 'III Marine Iashvili International Competition' in Tbilisi, Georgia (2025), and third prize at the '13th Marie Cantagril International Violin Competition' in Toulouse, France (2025). In addition, he was a semifinalist in the Odesa and Markneukirchen International Violin Competitions, where he received a special prize from iPalpiti Artists International provided by E. Schmieder (2025).

He has participated in masterclasses with Ilya Kaler, Dora Schwarzberg, Sergey Ostrovsky, Shlomo Mintz, Dmitriy Berlinskiy, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Koichiro Harada, Tatiana Samuil, Sarah Nemtanu, Guillaume Chileans, and others. He took part in the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse in 2022 and 2025.

He plays a Petrus Gaggini violin generously loaned by the LaLive Foundation (Geneva).

Originally from Grenoble, Louise began her musical studies on the violin at her local conservatory, before continuing at the Conservatoire de Lyon and later at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2024 in the class of Alexander Rozhdestvensky.

Alongside her violin studies, she took up the viola at the Conservatoire de Genève with Noémie Bialobroda. Her passion for the instrument soon led her to devote herself fully to it.

In addition to her instrumental practice, Louise is deeply interested in teaching and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in pedagogy at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Máté Szücs.

Since taking up the viola, she has had the opportunity to work with musicians such as Andriy Viytovych, Gilad Karni, Françoise Gnéri and German Tcakulov, notably through masterclasses at the Keshet Eilon Academy and the Musique à Flaine festival.

Daphne Richman Poleg (2003) an Israeli cellist based in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Thelma Yellin School of art, The Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv, The Jerusalem Music Centre which included, The excellence program "Huberman", the "Goldman" chamber program and the Young Israeli philharmonic orchestra. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, where she studied with Prof. Hillel Zori.

Winner of the Golden Baton Soloist Competition and played in concerts the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Israel Sinfonietta Be'er Sheva (2025), First Prize at the Paul Ben-Haim Competition (2020), First Prize at the Israel Conservatory of Music Competition (2015, 2019), and winner of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music String Competition (2024). In 2023, she was selected by audition to perform as a soloist in a project led by Kati Debretzeni. A scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), with special distinction (2019–2026). Receiver of certificate for outstanding achievement - the BMSM symphony (2024)

Performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in live broadcasts on “Kol HaMusica.” As a chamber musician, she is a Part of the Chamber Series in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She played with artists such as Sergey Ostrovsky, Noémie Bialobroda, Boris Brovtsyn, Chen Halevi and Hillel Zori.

Daphne has served as Principal Cello of the Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra (2022–2025), the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra (2019–2021), and the Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra (2019-2022) under the baton of conductors such as Lahav Shani, Zubin Mehta and Karl-Heinz Steffens. She has also taken part in projects with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.

She participated in the "Geneva International String Academy" (2024), Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse (2023–2024), and the AIMS Festival (2015–2022).

She participated in masterclasses with Prof. Peter Bruns, Prof. Danjulo Ishizaka, Prof. Leonid Gorokhov, prof. Claudio Bohórquez, Prof. Gary Hoffman, Prof. Frans Helmerson, Prof Hans Jürgen Jensen, Prof. Jens Peter Maintz and Prof Yitzhak Perlman.