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.

Lukáš Klánský was born in Prague in 1989. As a winner of numerous competitions he has become a sought after soloist and chamber music player. He is a member of the successful Lobkowicz Trio which won the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, in  2014.   He won the second prize at the Hans von Bülow International Competition 2018 in the conducting from piano category. He regularly performs with violinist Jan Mráček, winner of Fritz Kresiler competition 2014 and concert master of Czech Philharmonic orchestra.

Lukáš Klánský performs with leading Czech orchestras under the baton of conductors such as Libor Pešek, Andrea Sebastian Weiser, Gundi Emilsson or Istvan Denes.  He has played at the Prague Spring Festival, Feasts of Music with Václav Hudeček, Talich’s Beroun  Festival, Prague Dvořák´s Festival, Festival Lago Maggiore, the Mendelssohn Musikwoche Wengen, Chopin Marathon Darmstadt, the Nafplion festival, Il Timbro Ivrea, Basel’s Kammermusik um halb acht,  to name but a few.

He is a laureate of many national as well as international competitions:  Hradec Beethoven Competition, the International Rotary Piano Competition 2012 and the Darmstadt International Chopin Competition 2013. At the age of fifteen he made his debut in the Dvorak Hall in Prague with the Prague Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart’s F Major concerto K459. 

Between 2004 – 2010 he studied at the Prague Conservatoire with Eva Boguniová, graduating with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 in f minor. He finished his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts, where he studied with his father, prof. Ivan Klánský. His musical development has been influenced not only by his tutors but also by Martin Kasík and the internationally renowned  Garrick Ohlsson, whose Prague masterclasses he attended. 

His countless concert performances have served to introduce  himself to audiences in many countries.  In addition to the Czech Republic he is known in Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Poland, Turkey, USA and South Africa. His recordings are available on the  Praga Digitals, Radioservis, Gramola and Naxos labels. 

Lukáš Klánský is also conducter and gives concerts conducting Mozart and Beethoven Piano concerti from piano. He studied conducting with Professor Leos Svarovsky.  

Lukas also cooperate with legendary czech violonist Václav Hudeček. They play concerts together and works on summer Academy for young talents in Luhačovice.

“Annegret Kuttner’s playing is characterised by considerable professionalism and perfection, by her contagious electrifying joy in performing music and by the great stylistic sureness of her interpretation.”
Sächsische Zeitung

„...Kuttner's ... light-fingered playing was impressive for its airy clarity..."
Irish Times

Pianist Annegret Kuttner impresses the audience with the naturalness of her interpretation and the lightness and clarity of her playing.

After successfully participating in the Robert Schumann Piano Competition in Zwickau, Annegret has performed already at the age of 16 as a soloist in concerts in Germany and other European countries, including with the European Union Youth Orchestra. She completed her piano studies at the Dresden Academy of Music with Professor Peter Rösel, and received further musical impetus from masterclasses with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Pavel Gililov and Amadeus Webersinke. Annegret augmented her training with postgraduate studies on piano accompaniment (as a répétiteur) with Professor Monika Raithel as well as studying harpsichord with the internationally renowned expert on ancient music, Professor Ludger Remy.

Annegret Kuttner now teaches at the Academy of Music and Theatre, Leipzig.
In addition to her teaching post, the highly sought-after pianist regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician in diverse musical and cultural centres in Germany and abroad.
Concert tours have taken her to the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Latvia, Ireland, South Africa and the USA.

Annegret performs regularly with Benjamin Schmid, Antje Weithaas, Natalia Prishepenko, Pauline Sachse, Ivan Zenaty and Robert Oberaigner. In New York, she played Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano together with cellist Peter Bruns. This concert was extremely well received by the public and press alike (New York Sun). Various internationally acclaimed CD recordings are released, including works for cello and piano by Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor, by Robert Schumann and Robert Volkmann as well as for the Beethoven anniversary in 2020 together with Peter Bruns/cello the cycle "Beethoven – Most Complete 1-3“, expanding his known repertoire of five cello sonatas and three sets of variations with another three sonatas and arrangements by Beethoven himself and by composers from his context, for instance the sonata op. 64 (!) and the "Kreutzer“- sonata arrangement for cello by Carl Czerny.

Helene Freytag was born into a family of musicians in Leipzig (Germany) in 2005. She received her first violin lessons at the age of five. In 2013, she passed the entrance exam at the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in the class of Prof. Uta-Maria Frenzel. Currently, she is in the class of Hellen Weiß. Since 2019, she has also been at the Julius-Stern-Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts. There she is taught by Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg.From the winter semester 2024/25, she will continue her Bachelor's degree at the MUK in Vienna with Julian Rachlin.

Helene attended master classes with Prof. Mihaela Martin, Prof. Natalia Prishepenko, Prof. Zakhar Bron, Prof. Pawel Vernikov and Prof. Boris Brovtsyn. In addition she is a scholarship holder at the "International Music Academy Liechtenstein" and takes part in the "Intensive Weeks" with Prof. Ana Chumachenco, Prof. Ingolf Turban and Marc Bouchkov.

Helene is multiple first prize winner in the national competition "Jugend musiziert” with highest number of points. In this connection, she received spezial prizes as as soloist, as well as a chamber musician, including a prize of the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben", the concert series "Freunde Junger Musiker" and the "WDR3-Klassik radio prize". Together with her sister at the piano she was awarded the 2nd prize at the "Carl-Bechstein-Wettbewerb" in Berlin (2021).

At international level Helene won the 3rd prize at the "International Kocian Competition" in Usti nad Orlici (2019) as well as at the "15th International Violin Competition in Honour of K. Lipinski and H. Wieniawski" in Lublin (2021).

As a soloist Helene performed with the "Staatskapelle Halle", the "Sion Festival Orchestra" and the "Elblandphilharmonie Sachsen", among others. In addition, Helene has a great passion for chamber music. Together with her siblings, she successfully plays piano trio, since 2023 in the class of Prof. Boris Kusnezov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig. Additionally, Helene was a participant in the chamber music projects, such as "Meister von heute und morgen” in Dresden, the "China Youth Music Academy" in Dresden, "Mit Musik-Miteinander” of the Kronberg Academy and the "Geneva international String Academy". There she got inspiration from Prof. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Anastasia Kobekina, Prof. Walter Küssner and Sergey Ostrovsky. Since 2019 Helene is a member of the "National Youth Orchestra of Germany".

As a laureat of the 28th competition of "Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond", she has the honour of playing an Italian violin by L. Ventapane (1806) and being additionally supported by a scholarship as well as concerts of the foundation "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben". In September of 2022, she was also accepted into the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" and the "Hans und Eugenia Jütting Stiftung".

Leonardo Vasile began the violin at the age of four. He studied at the Geneva Conservatoire and the Haute École de Musique de Genève, then went on to a master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.

He has taken part in the Musical Chairs Festival in Montreal and the summer academy of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and performs regularly in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. With the Junge Philharmonie Würzburg he played the solo violin part in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

The Kâla Quartet was founded in 2020 by Lilya Chifman, Seamus Mc Namarra, Salomé Kirklar and Loris Sikora. It has performed at the Musique à Flaine festival, among others, and took part in the Geneva International String Academy in 2022 with Lilya Chifman and Diane Cavard on violin, Salomé Kirklar on viola and Loris Sikora on cello.

Lilya Chifman, born in Pontoise in 2000, studied at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Paris with Larissa Kolos and Florin Szigeti (diploma in 2014, advanced prize in 2017, concert prize in 2018), then joined Marianne Piketty’s class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in 2018. A keen chamber musician, she formed a string quartet and a piano trio there with fellow students and attended masterclasses with Alfred Brendel, Pierre Colombet and Guillaume Sutre. Winner of the CNSMD concerto competition in 2020, she played Prokofiev’s First Concerto at the Auditorium de Lyon under Alexandre Bloch; she also performs with the Trio Parhélie.

Diane Cavard began the violin at the age of four at the Clermont-Ferrand conservatoire, joined Manuel Solans’s class in Gennevilliers in 2019 and then the CNSMD de Lyon, where she studied with Marianne Piketty, Harvey De Sousa and Manuel Solans until her master’s degree. With the Gallus Quartet she performed at the Auditorium de Lyon in 2024 alongside the Kronos Quartet and the Quatuor Debussy. Since December 2024 she has been a second violin in the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

Salomé Kirklar studied for her master’s degree in viola at the CNSMD de Lyon, where her teachers included Françoise Gnéri, Wolfram Christ and Michel Michalakakos; she is also the violist of the Quatuor Alberta. Loris Sikora, born in Nice in 1996, studied at the CNSMD de Lyon with Yvan Chiffoleau and Pascal Jemain, and then with Emmanuelle Bertrand.

Born in 2001, Héloïse Houzé earned her master’s degree in viola at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in Jean Sulem’s class in 2022, with the jury’s congratulations, and has continued there in the postgraduate cycle. In 2026 she completed a residency at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Miguel da Silva and the Elite Programme of the École normale de musique de Paris in Gérard Caussé’s class.

Winner of the Grand Prix Ravel in 2022, she was awarded second prize and the audience prize at the Oskar Nedbal International Competition in Prague in 2023. She is regularly invited as principal viola by European orchestras and appears at many festivals.

In February 2026 she founded the ensemble Talismans, which champions the viola’s concertante repertoire and where she develops conducting as well as directing from the instrument. She plays a viola by Paul Noulet on loan from the Talents & Violon’celles foundation.

Born in 1998, Joon Hurh entered the Yehudi Menuhin School at the age of eleven, supported by a Music and Dance Scheme scholarship. After studying the violin with Akiko Ono and the viola with Boris Kucharsky and Andriy Viytovych, he completed his bachelor’s degree with Thomas Riebl at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and went on to a master’s degree in viola with German Tcakulov at the University of Music and Theatre Munich.

He has performed in Europe at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Gower Festival, Maiastra Chamber Music and the Salzburg Mozartwoche, and has worked with Nobuko Imai, Hartmut Rohde, Roland Glassl, Rainer Schmidt and Wilfried Strehle, among others. In 2017 he was awarded third prize at the Central International Music Competition in Malta.

A scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and, since 2022, of Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate, he has played for Live Music Now Salzburg and has been one of the musicians of Live Music Now Berlin since 2025.

Auguste Rahon was born in 1999 in Reims. He played the cello for the first time at the age of five. At twelve he entered the Conservatoire régional de Lyon and studied there with Augustin Lefebvre. In 2012 he had his first experience as a soloist in Prague with Fauré "Elegie". Since then, he has played regularly in solo recitals, chamber music recitals, solo performances with orchestra and also as a orchestral musician.

In 2016, Auguste started studying in the HEM de Genève, first with Denis Severin (bachelor grade), then with David Pia (master grade). He was a finalist in Murten Classics cello competition in 2018 and laureate of the Marescotti Fondation in 2021. Auguste is currently in residence in the Académie de l'Opéra de Paris.

Born in Nice in 1996, Loris Sikora began the cello at the age of six with Jacques Perrone in Menton, then studied with Cyrille Lacrouts in Aulnay-sous-Bois and with Frédérique Audibert at the Monaco Academy. In 2017 he entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in the classes of Yvan Chiffoleau and Pascal Jemain; he now works with Emmanuelle Bertrand.

He has attended masterclasses with Jérôme Pernoo, Marc Coppey, Xavier Phillips, Philippe Muller, Ophélie Gaillard, Christoph Henkel and François Salque. He plays with the ensemble Bestiaire and the Orchestre de chambre de Lyon, played from 2017 to 2019 with Julien Chauvin in the CNSMD chamber orchestra, and in 2020 was a member of the Orchestre français des jeunes under Fabien Gabel and of the first edition of the Orchestre de chambre de l’île de Groix.

In 2020 he co-founded the Kâla Quartet with Lilya Chifman, Seamus Mc Namarra and Salomé Kirklar; the quartet has performed at the Musique à Flaine festival and took part in the Geneva International String Academy in 2022.