Biographies

Musicians selected for the 2025 edition

Alphabetical order per instrument - Last school

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Quatuor Solveig

Quatuor Solveig

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: France
  • Last or current school: Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris
David Baik

David Baik

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Canada
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 24
  • Last or current school: Royal Conservatory of Music - Toronto
  • Internet web site: https://www.davidbaikviolin.com
Iryna Borysova

Iryna Borysova

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 18
  • Last or current school: Haute École de Musique de Genève/Neuchâtel
  • Instrument played: Plays the violin made by Augustino de Planis (Venice, 1771) from the collection of the LALIVE Foundation
Simon Hagopian

Simon Hagopian

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: USA
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: Juilliard School
  • Grand Prize Winner of both the Raada Rise and Servaas International competitions
Eva Kobor

Eva Kobor

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: France
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Franz Liszt Academy of Music - Budapest
Cheng Io Lo

Cheng Io Lo

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: USA
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 24
  • Last or current school: Juilliard School
Sory Park

Sory Park

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: South Korea
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 25
  • Last or current school: Yale University
Andrew Samarasekara

Andrew Samarasekara

  • Edition of the Academy: 2024-2025
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 27
  • Last or current school: Yale University
  • Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition – First prize,
Barbora Butvydaite

Barbora Butvydaitė

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Lituania
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 28
  • Last or current school: University Mozarteum Salzburg
  • Internet web site: http://barboraviola.com
  • Instrument played: Viola made for her by luthier Jürgen Manthey
Baptiste Donadio

Baptiste Donadio

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: France
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 22
  • Last or current school: Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris
  • Instrument played: Joue un alto de Stephan Von Baerh, prêt de la fondation d'entreprise Société Générale
Theresa Hořejší

Theresa Hořejší

  • Edition of the Academy: 2024-2025
  • Country: Germany
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 25
  • Last or current school: Haute école de musique de Lausanne - site de Sion
David Kang

David Kang

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: USA/South Korea
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 27
  • Last or current school: University of Southern California Thornton School of Music
Tilman Sandvoss

Tilman Sandvoss

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Canada
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Hochschule für Musik Basel FHNW
Alessandra Yang

Alessandra Yang

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Italy
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 21
  • Last or current school: Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien
Jonathan Gerstner

Jonathan Gerstner

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 21
  • Last or current school: Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Mar Gimferrer

Mar Gimferrer

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Spain
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Zurich University of the Arts
  • 1st prize in the Solistenwettbewerb in Austria, the 1st Prize of the Pjetër Gaci International Competition, the Galimusic Prize and the 1st Prize in the BBVA Music Talent Competition in Spain
Chiara Kaufman

Chiara Kaufman

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Italy/USA
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano & Stauffer Academy for Strings in Cremona
Henriette Knauer

Henriette-Luise Knauer

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Germany
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 16
  • Last or current school: Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre - Leipzig
Juan Pozas

Juan Pozas

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: Spain
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 22
  • Last or current school: Real Conservatorio Superior de Música - Madrid
  • 1st prizes at several competitions, including the XIII International Cello Competition Jan Vychytil (Prague, 2019), where he also received the “Overall Winner Prize”, the XXX International Competition FLAME (Paris, 2019) and the IX Concurso de Corda Cidade de Vigo (Spain, 2020)
Xuanhan Xu

Xuanhan Xu

  • Edition of the Academy: 2025
  • Country: China
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre - Leipzig
  • Won the 1st prize at the Pablo Casals International Award for Young Cellists. 1st Prize from Chieti Classica Cello International Competition.
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