Summer season 2026

Sergey Ostrovsky is a solo violinist, conductor, founder and first violin of the Aviv String Quartet for 27 seasons, founder and Artistic Director of the ‘Ensemble Symphonique de Genève’ and has taught violin at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève and Neuchâtel since 2009. He was First Solo Violin of the ‘Orchestre de la Suisse Romande’ from 2007 to 2012. He was also First Solo Violin of the ‘Orquesta de la Communidad Valenciana’ from 2012 to 2015.

Sergey Ostrovsky won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. He is a laureate of the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, 2nd Prize winner of the ‘Schubert and Modernity’ International Competition in Graz (Schubert Prize), as well as a laureate of the ‘Prague Spring’ International Competition and the Rodolfo Lipitzer Prize.

As a soloist, Sergey Ostrovsky plays with prestigious orchestras such as the ‘Orchestre de la Suisse Romande’, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra (Poland), the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the ‘Orquesta de la Communidad Valenciana’, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the ‘Luzerner Sinfonieorchester’ and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate conductor, Sergey Ostrovsky is regularly invited to conduct in Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia and Israel.

In 2015, Sergey Ostrovsky created a string ensemble, the ‘Solistes de Neuchâtel’, and in 2023 the ‘Ensemble Symphonique de Genève’. Sergey Ostrovsky's role as artistic director of the’ Ensemble Symphonique de Genève’ is multifaceted, both as an ‘artistic manager’ and as a musician ‘involved’ in the performances. From the latter point of view, he will be able to conduct the orchestra from the podium but also conduct the violin as a soloist.

As a chamber musician, Sergey Ostrovsky has played in the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Louvre Auditorium, the ‘Théâtre du Châtelet’, London's Wigmore Hall and the Sydney Opera House. His ‘Aviv String Quartet’ has also made numerous recordings (Hoffmeister, Dohnanyi, Shostakovich, Schubert, Schulhoff, etc.), some of which have received critical acclaim.

Noémie Bialobroda has been the violist of the Aviv Quartet since 2014, leading an active international career with the ensemble. Their performance of Beethoven’s complete string quartets at the Ansermet Studio in Geneva in 2018-2019 was a great success and strengthened their presence in French-speaking Switzerland.

Noémie Bialobroda, passionate about teaching, is since 2025, viola professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. She is also Chamber Music Professor and Chamber Music Coordinator at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. Previously, she taught at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and the Conservatoire de Genève. During the summer, she teaches at the Flaine International Music Academy. Her students have won prizes in prestigious national and international competitions.

In recognition of her contributions to music, Noémie Bialobroda was awarded the Leenaards Foundation cultural grant in the music category in 2024.

As a performer, she is invited to renowned concert seasons and festivals, including Wigmore Hall (London), the IRCAM Manifeste Festival, and the Cité de la Musique (Paris), among others. She performs with artists such as Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Yovan Markovitch, Luis Claret, Boris Garlitsky, François Guye, Philippe Müller, Tedi Papavrami, Jean Sulem, Jean-Pierre Wallez, and the Rosamonde Quartet, giving concerts across Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Dedicated to contemporary music, Noémie has premiered two solo viola pieces at IRCAM: Caprice for Solo Viola and Electronics by Japanese composer Keita Matsumiya (2012) and Drifting by Pierre Stordeur (2013). She is also regularly invited to perform with the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and the Contrechamps ensemble in Geneva.

Noémie Bialobroda studied with Nobuko Imai and Miguel Da Silva at the Haute école de Musique de Genève and later at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she completed an Artist Diploma (third cycle) with Professor Jean Sulem.

Noémie Bialobroda is the co-founder and artistic director of the Geneva International String Academy.

This is one of the best CD recordings of the year – perhaps of the decade […]. Here we encounter the closest we have witnessed […] to a new Casals.”

(Early Music Review on the CD recording of J.S. Bach’s 6 Suites for Solo Cello)

“Peter Bruns does what he does best on his Tononi cello from 1730: he declaims, just like Pablo Casals, who also used to own the instrument. Peter Bruns once confirmed the closeness to Casals, saying: ‘I also try to speak with the instrument.’”

(Maja Ellmenreich in Deutschlandradio Cologne)

The cellist Peter Bruns has established an excellent reputation in the international music world as one of Germany’s leading cellists. Born in Berlin, he studied with Professor Peter Vogler at Berlin’s “Hanns Eisler” Academy of Music.

Peter Bruns has performed as soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls throughout all continents, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, concert halls in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus as well as at the most important festivals including the Kuhmo, Bergen, Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival and Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus festival.

The artist has also performed as soloist with many major orchestras and has toured with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as with the RAI, MDR and Berlin symphony orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Prick, Marc Albrecht and Bruno Weil.

His fascination with the ancient language of music and the instrumentation of the various stylistic periods has led to close collaboration with renowned orchestras in this field, in particular with the “Akademie für Alte Musik” Berlin, with whom Peter Bruns has played for CD productions, concerts and festivals (Bergen, Brügge, Berlin, Regensburg, Köthen).

From 1993-2000, Peter Bruns was Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. From 1998 to 2005, he was Professor for Cello at the Dresden School of Music and, since 2005, has held the same position at the Academy of Music in Leipzig.

Master classes led Peter Bruns to many German cities as well as to London, New York, France, Sweden and Australia.

Developing also a career as conductor, Peter Bruns is the Artistic Director of the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig since 2014, and performs regularly in its own concert series in the Gewandhaus Leipzig as well as on tours.

Peter Bruns has recorded a series of award winning CDs including Brahms’s Cello Sonatas, Bach’s Six Suites for Cello Solo, the works of Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Bloch, Charles Koechlin and Robert Schumann, a recording of a Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert which won the Cannes Classical Award for “Best CD of the Year”, Antonin Dvorak’s works for cello and orchestra with the Staatskapelle Dresden and his highly acclaimed recordings of Haydn’s, Schumann’s and Volkmann’s Cello Concertos with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.

Peter Bruns plays on a cello from Carlo Tononi, Venice 1730, which was once owned by Pablo Casals.

Natalia Grines is a graduate of the Nizhny Novgorod piano school. In 2004 she graduated the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatory (Academy) with professor Bella Alterman. In 2006 she followed her post-graduate courses at the chamber music faculty (studio of Natalia Matveeva) and straightaway began to work at the homeland Academy, where she was working until her repatriation to Israel in 2022.

Being a professor of music (chamber music and piano duo departments), she brought up a lot of students – prize winners of international piano competitions, served in jury in different contests, travelled with master-courses all over Russia, as well as in Armenia, Bosnia, South Africa, Spain, USA.

Natalia has performed in Russia, Israel, USA, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Armenia, Ukraine.

At the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition (2019) she played together with a cellist Anastasia Kobekina, who was eventually awarded the title of the 3rd prize winner. Natalia also took part as an accompanist of the XIII and XV Tchaikovsky competitions and was awarded the diploma of the best accompanist.

Since 2007 she was regularly collaborating with Vladimir Spivakov foundation.

Since 2016 Natalia has been tutoring a chamber ensemble at the AIMS Academy-Festival in Catalonia (Spain). She is also taking part at the Keshet Eilon string Academy as an official accompanist.
In 2017 together with Evgeny Brakhman and the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra of soloists, she took part in a series of concerts in Taiwan, including a performance in one of the best halls in the world - Taipei National Concert Hall.

Among Natalia’s chamber partners are violinists Alena Baeva, Daniel Lozakovitch, Sergey Ostrovsky; trumpetist Sergey Nakariakov, clarinetist Valentin Urupin, cellists Anastasia Kobekina, Alexander Ramm, Boris Andrianov, Zvi Plesser and others.

Since 2016, together with Evgeny Brakhman, Natalia has been a founder and codirector of the unique festival and art project in Russia - “Musical Landscapes” www.musiclandscape.ru The project combines arts of music and painting, consists of concerts with world-famous classical artists and mastercourses. In 2022 the 5th edition of “Musical Landscapes” brought together more than 150 participants.

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.

“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.

Sofya Vardanyan is a violinist from Yerevan, Armenia, currently based in Vienna, where she is pursuing her Master’s studies at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK).

She began playing the violin at the age of seven in a musical family and studied at the Tchaikovsky Specialized School for Music. She later continued her studies at the Detmold University of Music with Prof. Maria-Elisabeth Lott, and is currently studying with Prof. Boris Brovtsyn and Prof. Pavel Vernikov.

Sofya has participated in numerous international festivals and academies, including the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, the Moritzburg Festival, the Blaricum Music Festival, the Prussia Cove Masterclasses, the Yerevan International Music Festival, and the Sion Festival. She was also selected to participate in the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées Academy, touring under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe.

She has performed as a soloist with the Armenian National Orchestra and is actively engaged in chamber music projects across Europe.

Deeply devoted to chamber music, Sofya finds her greatest inspiration in collaboration and in exploring the emotional depth of the repertoire. Her playing seeks to reveal the inner world of the music, creating a sincere and communicative experience with the audience.

Violinist Haerim Oh, born in Daejeon, South Korea, began her musical journey at the age of four. Renowned for her brilliant artistry and passionate interpretations, she has received numerous distinctions, including Laureate and Excellent Performance of Virtuoso Pieces at the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition (2015), First Prize at the Ewha Music Competition (2017), Winner of the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition (2021–22), Special Prize at the Ysaye International Music Competition (2022), and Second Prize at the Chicago Violin Competition (2024). She was selected through the Kumho Art Hall audition in Seoul to present a solo recital.

As a soloist, she has appeared with ensembles such as the Bucheon Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Teleradio-Moldova, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory Symphony. She has also participated as a fellow in prestigious festivals and projects such as ICEP Music Sharing (2025), Ravinia Steans Institute of Music (2023–25), IMS Prussia Cove (2024), the 8th Emirates International Peace Music Festival, the SUMMIT Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival (2018), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Haerim has been actively participating in various international violin competitions, such as Queen Elisabeth Competition, Isang Yun International Violin Competition, Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, Heifetz International Violin Competition, and Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition for Young Musicians.

Haerim earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance at the New England Conservatory, studying under Miriam Fried. She continued her study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Midori Goto, and is currently an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under the class of Augustin Dumay.

Born in London into a family of musicians, Léa Bensaid began playing the violin at the age of four using the Suzuki method. After graduating with distinction from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where she studied with Virginie Robilliard, she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the same institution.

She has served as concertmaster of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra for two consecutive years, as well as of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lausanne for the Route Lyrique in June 2025. Since 2023, she has held the position of concertmaster of the Lausanne Soloists under the artistic direction of Xavier Phillips, with whom she recorded a CD dedicated to Piazzolla, to be released in September 2026, alongside concerts in Switzerland and Paris.

She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at prestigious festivals, including the Festival Puplinge Classique, Festival Stravinsky, Nice Classic Festival, Lavaux Classic, Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

As a chamber musician, she was selected to participate in the Académie internationale Lumières d’Europe in Bucharest in 2025, where she performed as part of the Enescu Festival. She has also been invited to perform this summer at the Geneva International String Academy and the Fiskars Summer Festival.

Her training has been further enriched through masterclasses with Tabea Zimmermann, Marc Danel, Vincent Coq, Gilles Apap, Olivier Charlier, and Raphaël Merlin.

In September 2025, she was awarded a distinction by the Rotary Club of Lausanne, which has entrusted her with a 19th-century Charles Jacquot violin.

Dániel Hodos was born in Hungary and studied at the School for Exceptional Young Talents of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2021, he received a Kohl Scholarship to study at the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles, where he studied with Joan Kwuon. He is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in the studio of Prof. Tobias Feldmann at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

Hodos is a winner of the 2023 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant and was invited to perform at the Salon’s annual Gala Awards Concert at Merkin Hall in New York. His performances have been featured on The Violin Channel and on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. He is also a recipient of the 2023 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholarship, an honor awarded annually to 20 outstanding young musicians by NPR’s From the Top. This year, he was selected as a Student Artist for the 2025 Starling–DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School.

He is a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition, the Jenő Hubay International Violin Competition, and the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition. He was also winner of the Colburn Academy Concerto Competition.

As a soloist, Hodos has appeared with leading orchestras such as the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, and the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He has participated in masterclasses with Midori Goto, Catherine Cho, Philip Setzer, Tatjana Masurenko, Kirill Troussov, Shlomo Mintz, and Barnabás Kelemen.

Hodos has attended several prestigious summer programs, including the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2023, where he studied with Robert Lipsett as a Starling Fellow. In 2022, he attended the Meadowmount School of Music on a full scholarship, studying with Gerardo Ribeiro. In 2024, he was selected to participate in the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden.

Born in 2001, in Kyiv, Ukraine in a family of musicians Georgii received his early music education at Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum under Olha Korinets.

From 2019 to 2023 Georgii got his Bachelor degree at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) in a class of Professor Qian Zhou where one started actively performing and establishing himself on the internationally recognized stages.

Georgii is a top prize winner of Singapore International Violin Competition (2026) - Singapore; 3rd Alberto Lysy International Violin Competition (2024) - Gstaad, Switzerland; 9th Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition (2023) - Nagoya, Japan; International violin competition "Grumiaux" (2017) - Brussels, Belgium as well as a semi-finalist of Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition (2024) and prize winner of the XII International Jean Sibelius Competition (2022) - Helsinki, Finland;

Georgii has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, and more.

Georgii was a concertmaster of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and performed in many orchestras such as Berliner Philharmoniker and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

As well as a part of various chamber ensembles such as string quartets, piano trios, duos, etc.

Georgii was mentored by artists such as Shlomo Mintz, Midori Goto, Chaim Taub, Vilmos Szabadi, Ilia Kaler, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Vadim Gluzman, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Dmitry Berlinsky, Sergei Ostrosky and many others.

Georgii is currently studying at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Professor Antje Weithaas. Georgii is playing on the 1829 J.B. Vuillaume violin kindly loaned by Camerata Lysy.

Born in Paris in 2005, Clara Messina began playing the violin at the age of six. She studied successively with Rodica Bogdanas, Christophe Poiget and Agnès Reverdy at the regional conservatoires (CRR) of Boulogne-Billancourt and Paris, before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at fifteen, in the class of Stéphanie-Marie Degand.

In 2022, she won second prize and the audience prize at the Cambrai International Violin Competition, followed by second prize at the Concours Jeunes Talents in Paris.

In 2023, she was the only French violinist selected for the semi-final of the Mirecourt International Competition, on which occasion she was entrusted with a violin by Andreas Guarnerius.

Selected for several international academies (Santander, Villecroze, Tibor Varga in Sion, Sincronia Musica in Rome), she obtained her Bachelor's degree in 2024 by unanimous decision of the jury, with its congratulations, and took part in the Caunes-Minervois festival, playing in duo with cellist Edgar Moreau.

Clara performed Nun komm by Thierry Escaich at the “Thierry Escaich and Friends” recital in January 2025, and in July once again takes part in the Santander academy, where she will have the opportunity to play in six chamber music concerts, including one with clarinettist Gabor Varga.

In January 2026, she took part in the Musikfest at the Philharmonie de Paris, playing alongside Liya Petrova, Alexandre Kantorow, Daniel Hope, Jean Rondeau and Lise Berthaud, among others.

Born in Alabama to a Korean-American family, violinist Haeun Honney Kim has established herself as a versatile and accomplished artist, recognized for her performances as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader across more than twenty countries. Since 2022, she has been a member of the LGT Young Soloists, where she serves as the leader of second violins and regularly appears as a featured soloist. She has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Melbourne Recital Centre, Victoria Hall Singapore, Tonhalle Zürich, and Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul.

Honney began violin studies at the age of four, inspired by her pianist mother, and quickly gained national recognition. She is a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the Blount-Slawson National Young Artist Competition, Lois Pickard Competition, YoungArts, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Leopold Auer International Violin Competition, and was a semifinalist at the Cooper International Violin Competition. At age eleven, she made her solo debut with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and has since appeared with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Delta Symphony Orchestra, Southern Adventist Orchestra, and the Georgia Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her artistry has also been shaped through participation in internationally renowned festivals and academies, including the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra, Fiskars Summer Festival, Korean National Symphony Orchestra Academy, Masterclass Apeldoorn, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Rencontres Musicales Camerata Lysy, Orchestre National des Jeunes du Luxembourg, Aspen Music Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the National Youth Orchestra of the United States.

An experienced orchestral leader, Honney currently serves as the Violin Fellow of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and has held concertmaster and leadership positions under distinguished conductors such as Marin Alsop, Jörg Widmann, David Reiland, Manfred Honeck, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Jaime Laredo.

She studied at the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, and is currently pursuing her Master of Music in Violin Performance at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany.

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).

Yiqun Huang (born 2002) began studying the violin at the age of eight. At fourteen, he was admitted to the Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Ms. Shuting Wu. Since 2018, he has pursued viola studies under the guidance of Professor Nian Liu, violist of the Han Quartet and a member of the Imai Viola Quartet.

In 2021, he was admitted to the Bachelor’s program at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as the top-ranked candidate in the national entrance examination. In 2025, he was accepted into the Conservatory’s Master’s program, ranking first in viola, and continues his studies with Professor Nian Liu.

As a soloist, he received the Grand Prize in the Strings Category C at the 2020 “City of Barletta” International Youth Competition (Italy), the First Prize in Category E at the 21st Valsesia International Music Competition (Italy), and the Second Prize at the 5th Moscow International Music Competition (Russia). During his undergraduate studies, he participated in several international competitions and was awarded the First Prize at the 2023 UK International Music Competition, subsequently becoming the Quarter II Grand Prize Winner.

In chamber music, his quartet won Second Prize at the 5th Moscow International Music Competition in 2021. In 2023, he joined the Vitality Trio and toured Serbia and Montenegro, where the ensemble was awarded Second Prize in the Chamber Music Category at the Bridge International Music Competition.

Porté, avant même sa naissance, par les harmonies de l’alto, guidé par une mère musicienne et accompagnatrice au CRR de Toulouse, Baptiste s’est naturellement laissé envoûter par cet instrument. À peine âgé de six ans, il franchit les portes du conservatoire, comme on entre dans une maison familière, rejoignant la classe de Valérie Apparailly.

Passionné par le quatuor à cordes, il cofonde le Quatuor Amalthée au CRR de Toulouse, puis le Quatuor Solveig au CNSMDP, avec lesquels il se produit notamment au festival Cordes sur Ciel, au festival ClassicaHors, aux côtés du Quatuor Dutilleux, et prochainement au festival Les Chaises Musicales, par invitation du quatuor Ébène.

Il aura également l’occasion de perfectionner son jeu et sa personnalité artistique à travers plusieurs résidences et académies, notamment à Genève, où il participa avec son quatuor et en solo à l’académie d’été 2025, à Manchester dans le cadre du programme international ECMA 2025 et, toujours avec son quatuor, à Bourg-en-Bresse aux côtés de Louis Rodde, avec qui il aura la chance de jouer le quintette de Schubert dans le cadre des sessions internationales Musethica.

Il se produira également en sonate et en trio au Festival de Toulouse avec Constant Després et Claire Bouyssou.

Depuis 2022, il poursuit ses études au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, dans la classe de Jean Sulem, et, depuis 2024, en licence de quatuor à cordes auprès de Louis Rodde et Jean Sulem. Depuis février 2025, il joue sur un alto signé Stephan von Baehr, prêté par la Fondation d’entreprise Société Générale.

Carried, even before his birth, by the harmonies of the viola, guided by a mother who is both a musician and accompanist at the CRR of Toulouse, Baptiste was naturally captivated by this instrument. At just six years old, he entered the conservatory, as one enters a familiar home, joining the class of Valérie Apparailly.

Passionate about string quartet repertoire, he co-founded the Amalthée Quartet at the CRR of Toulouse, and later the Solveig Quartet at the CNSMDP, with whom he has performed notably at the Cordes sur Ciel Festival and the ClassicaHors Festival, alongside the Dutilleux Quartet, and will soon appear at the Les Chaises Musicales Festival by invitation of the Ébène Quartet.

He has also had the opportunity to refine his playing and artistic personality through several residencies and academies, notably in Geneva, where he took part both with his quartet and as a soloist in the Summer Academy 2025, in Manchester as part of the international ECMA programme 2025, and, again with his quartet, in Bourg-en-Bresse alongside Louis Rodde, with whom he will have the opportunity to perform Schubert’s String Quintet as part of the international Musethica sessions.

He will also perform in sonata and trio formations at the Festival de Toulouse with Constant Després and Claire Bouyssou.

Since 2022, he has been studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Jean Sulem, and since 2024, he has also been pursuing a bachelor’s degree in string quartet performance under the guidance of Louis Rodde and Jean Sulem. Since February 2025, he has been playing a viola made by Stephan von Baehr, generously loaned by the Fondation d’entreprise Société Générale.

Sophie Kiening is a German violist based in Frankfurt am Main. She studied with renowned musicians including Tabea Zimmermann, German Tcakulov, Pauline Sachse, and Jean Sulem, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in chamber music under the guidance of Tabea Zimmermann.

She has received additional artistic inspiration from Prof. Sào Soulez Larivière, Prof. Simone von Rahden, and Prof. Roland Glassl. A multiple first-prize winner at the Bundeswettbewerb Jugend Musiziert, Sophie was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium by the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin for three consecutive years. She subsequently received scholarships from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation and the Rotary Club Siena, as well as first prize at the XV International Szymon Goldberg Competition in 2024.

In 2025, she was awarded a scholarship at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, where she was also admitted to the concert promotion program and received a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Sophie has a particular passion for exploring unconventional chamber music formations and discovering lesser-known repertoire. Recent engagements include performances at the Con Spirito Festival Leipzig (2025), the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele in a viola quartet alongside Tabea Zimmermann, Jelena Antić, and Arcan İsenkul, participation in Sol Gabetta’s CD production “Lise Christiani” with Cappella Gabetta, and a string sextet performance at Musique à Flaine.

Lénaëlle Planat hails from Grenoble, where she began her violist's studies.  At the age of 17, she entered the CNSMDL (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, France) in the class of John Stulz and Fabrice Lamarre for her Bachelor's degree, and has since taken part in various masterclasses, notably with Kim Kashkashian, Antoine Tamestit, Jean Sulem, Pauline Sachse and Thomas Riebl. She has also studied in Vienna with Jennifer Stumm during one year of international exchange.

Currently in the last year of her Master's degree, she won first prize and Clara Levillain Prize at the French national competition for young violists in 2023, as well as the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary work. She joined the 'Orchestre Français des Jeunes' (OFJ) as co-soloist violist.

Passionated about chamber music, she co-founded the Misia Quartet in 2023, with whom she will study in Paris for the next years. They benefit from the teaching of musicians from the eminent Casals, Danel, Rosamund, Béla and Diotima quartets, and they perform together at the Lyon Auditorium, among other venues.

She is also involved in various interdisciplinary projects, and over the past three years has taken part in the creation of several contemporary pieces and choreographed performances.

Amalia Bosch, born in Seville, is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree at the Reina Sofía School of Music under the guidance of the professor Diemut Poppen.

She has been a member numerous chamber groups, currently performing with the Viardot Trio. Also member of the School’s Camerata, and Historical Performance ensembles.

She has received masterclasses from distinguished musicians including Joaquín Riquelm, Jonathan Brown Heime Müller, Gérard Caussé, Gregor Sigl, Tomoko Akasaka, Wenting Kan, Laure Gaurdon, and Carla Marrero. She has also participated in programmes such as the NHC Master Course, the Ribeira Sacra Festival, Barenboim Said Fundation and the Santander summer orchestra.

In 2024, she was awarded First Prize and Audience Prize at the Ribeira Sacra festival. 

Vincenzo Keawe Calcagno is currently pursuing a master’s degree with Ettore Causa at the Yale School of Music, where he was a finalist in this year’s concerto competition. He received his bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. 

An expressive and versatile musician, Vincenzo has performed in numerous recitals and concerts as a soloist. Recently, he has featured works by new composers and played recitals collaborating with clarinet and guitar. He has served as principal violist with the Yale Philharmonia, Juilliard Orchestra, and the Music Academy of the West Chamber Orchestra. With his string quartet, he performed in the Master Class Series at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with the Calidore Quartet and at Carnegie Hall in A Celebration of Meredith Monk. 

Last year, Vincenzo studied at the Verbier Festival Academy, where he participated in masterclasses with Antoine Tamestit, Lawrence Power, Máté Szücs, Isabel Charisius, Ilya Gringolts, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. Earlier the same summer, he attended the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, where he had the great privilege of performing with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. In previous summers, Vincenzo has studied at the Taos School of Music, the Perlman Music Program (the “Littles Program”), and the Music Academy of the West, where he was invited to work intensively with the Takács Quartet. Vincenzo is also honored to have been invited to the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program and the Ravinia Steans Institute. 

He is tremendously grateful to have also had the opportunity to study with luminaries such as Cynthia Phelps and Richard O’Neill, received chamber music coaching from Nina Lee, Merry Peckham, Darrett Adkins, Molly Carr, Joseph Lin, Robert McDonald, Martin Beaver, and Rainer Honeck, and has played in masterclasses for Hartmut Rohde, Richard O’Neill, Kim Kashkashian, Toby Appel, the Cavani Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Takács Quartet. 

Vincenzo comes from a long line of Kanaka (Native Hawaiian) musicians and entertainers and grew up surrounded by his family’s music, along with the diverse sounds of the San Francisco Bay Area. He commenced his classical music training with the San Francisco Boys Chorus, where he had the opportunity to sing in the San Francisco Opera’s production of Mefistofele. Not long after, he began his studies in violin and soon after discovered the compelling and rich sonority of the viola. At 15, Vincenzo was accepted into the studio of Helen Callus, Professor of Viola at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, whose mentorship inspired him to fully dedicate himself to the viola and played a pivotal role in shaping his musical path.

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.

Adi Varon began her cello studies with Luba Rabin in 2011. She studied with Zvi Plesser between 2016 and 2022.

Adi is currently a student of prof. Hillel Zori at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University.

Adi won the First Prize at the Paul Ben-Haim Competition in 2022 and at the BMSM String Competition in 2024. She has been a scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation since 2015 and of the Ronen Foundation since 2024. Adi was awarded the 2025 Music Prize of the Bruno Frey Foundation in Germany.

In 2025, Adi was selected by Maestro Lahav Shani, and performed as a soloist under his baton with the School of Music Symphony Orchestra at the annual gala concert at the Heichal HaTarbut, Tel Aviv.

Adi is a member of the The Musethica international program. She is also among the alumni of the Perlman Music Program and of the Keshet Eilon Mastercourse. In 2022, she served as principal section leader in the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.

Adi took part in the David Goldman Program, the Israel Philharmonic Young Orchestra, and the Huberman Program of the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Adi has performed in live chamber music radio broadcasts on Kol HaMusica in the “Young Artists at the Centre” program of the Jerusalem Music Centre (2020, 2025, 2026) and the “Excellence - The Next Generation” program of the Eden-Tamir Music Center (2023, 2025).

Adi has participated in masterclasses with world-renowned musicians such as Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Orfeo Mandozzi, Clara Kim and Chaim Taub, among others.

Beginning in October 2026, Adi will join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Academy Program.

Born in Budapest to a Korean family, Jinseok Jeong began playing the cello at the age of five, quickly discovering his affinity to music and the instrument. His mentor, Kian Soltani, has described him as “a cellist with exceptional musicality and remarkable technical abilities.”

Jinseok received his first cello lessons from Krisztina Dávid, later continuing his studies with Zsuzsanna Antók. At the age of eight, he won first prize at the Hungarian National Youth Cello Competition, and three years later was admitted to the Young Talents Program of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Professors György Déri (2017–2020) and István Varga (2020–2024).

He is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Buchet International Cello Competition (2024), the Antonio Janigro Junior Competition (2022), the Jan Vychytil International Cello Competition (2021), and the David Popper Competition (2021). Most recently, he was awarded the Kodály Prize at the Budapest International Competition. His concert appearances have taken him to venues such as the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, and the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Sofia Philharmonic, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Zugló Philharmonic, and Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra.

Jinseok has been invited to participate in leading international festivals and academies such as the Verbier Festival Academy, Gstaad Festival Academy, Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Seiji Ozawa Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, Schiermonikoog Festival, NUME Festival, the Geneva International Strings Academy, and the Musikakademie in Liechtenstein. He is currently studying with Prof. Peter Bruns at HMT Leipzig and Prof. István Várdai at MdW Vienna. He has gained further inspiration through masterclasses with esteemed cellists including Frans Helmerson, Miklós Perényi, Ivan Monighetti, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, László Mező, Reinhard Latzko, Wen-Sinn Yang, Alban Gerhardt, Anne Gastinel, László Fenyő, Claudio Bohórquez, Marc Coppey, Leonid Gorokhov, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and Nicolas Altstaedt.

Born on La Palma in 2009, Anouk began playing the cello at the age of six.

Since autumn 2025, she has been pursuing her bachelor’s degree with Prof. Danjulo Ishizaka at the Musikakademie Basel.

She has received important artistic guidance from Antonio Meneses, Conradin Brotbeck, Wen-Sinn

Yang, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Jens-Peter Maintz, Troels Svane, Thomas Grossenbacher, Robert Levin, Claudio Martínez Mehner and Dénes Várjon.

As scholarship holder of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, she regularly participates in its masterclasses and concert series.

She first came to public attention when, at just 7 years old, she won the International Rising Star Competition, which included a performance at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. She subsequently won numerous first prizes with distinction at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and at the German Jugend Musiziert, in the categories cello, baroque cello, duo and piano trio.

Due to her achievements she has been a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for young artists from 2022 to 2025. In duo with her sister, she also received the WDR Classical Music Prize, with the performance broadcast by WDR.

In 2022, she won both First Prize and the Jury Special Prize at the International Dotzauer Competition, as well as First Prize at the International Luigi Cerritelli Competition, where she additionally received the Young Artist Award. Further distinctions include prizes at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition and the International Young Ludwig Competition, and she was awarded the Lions Music Prize 2024.

Anouk Toth has already established a vibrant concert career, performing throughout Europe. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Budweis Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie under Marcus Mast at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Lyra Chamber Orchestra Vienna, and the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra at the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival. She is regularly invited to renowned festivals including the Gstaad Baroque Festival, Festival Automne Musical d’Olon (AMO) and the Chios Music Festival. In 2025, she was featured as Duo with her sister in the Jeunes Découvertes series in La Prairie, Biel.

As a passionate chamber musician, she has performed at the YARO Excellence Chamber Music Forum alongside artists such as Valeriy Sokolov, Friedrich Thiele and Julia Hamos. Anouk Toth performs successfully with her siblings Anatol and Manoush in the Toth Piano Trio Toth, which has received multiple awards as best ensemble at the Swiss and the German Youth Music Competition . In 2019, the trio was invited to the Trame Sonore Mantua Chamber Music Festival. This was followed by performances of Beethoven’s triple Concerto with the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie under Jens Bachmann, as well as at the opening concert of the Murten Classics Festival 2025 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Králové under the baton of Christoph-Matthias Müller.

Since November 2025, she has been a member of the LGT Young Soloists, with whom she tours internationally.

She performs on a fine cello by Sébastian Philippe Bernadel (1838), generously on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Alongside her musical career, she is deeply devoted to classical painting.

Swiss cellist Jonathan Gerstner was born on the shores of Lake Geneva in 2003. He began playing the cello at the age of five with Aude Pivôt, continued his path with Martin Reetz at the Lausanne Conservatoire and from 2020 studied with Patrick Demenga at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU). Since 2022, he has been studying with Reinhard Latzko in Austria at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw). From 2025 he also studies with Julia Hagen and in 2026 wins the first prize of the 1st Heinrich Schiff Competition there. Further valuable input came from Jens Peter Maintz, Peter Bruns, Thomas Grossenbacher, Valentin Erben, Troels Svane, Marc Coppey and Pieter Wispelwey among others.

Jonathan has been part of the 2024 Verbier Festival Orchestra (VFO), playing under the direction of conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano and Klaus Mäkelä.

Highly passionate about chamber music, he has studied with teachers such as Vincent Coq in Lausanne and currently Johannes Meissl and Stefan Mendl in Vienna, as well as receiving invaluable advice from Eckart Runge, Hatto Beyerle, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Patrick Jüdt and Dirk Mommertz within the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA). In 2025, as part of the Cuore Piano Trio, he won the first prize along with a special prize at the 10th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk.

In recent years Jonathan performed on stage with artists such as Sergey Ostrovsky, Noémie Bialobroda, Marko Ylönen, Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, Patrick Demenga, Philippe Graffin and Reinhard Latzko. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared on all four of Switzerland’s national classical radio stations, and performed at international festivals and concert venues including the Geneva International String Academy, Musikverein Wien, Prague Spring Festival, Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, Lavaux Classic, K&M Festival Stavanger, Loisiarte, Beethovenhaus Baden and the Musikfestwoche Meiringen.

Philadelphia-born cellist Eliana Razzino Yang has performed solo recitals in London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Helsinki, Boston, and Philadelphia and concertos with orchestras in Italy, across the US, and England. She has also performed as part of Harrisburg’s Market Square rising star series and the Taos Chamber Music Group, and has received top prizes in the Adelphi Orchestra, All City Orchestra, YCVT, Caprio, Charleston, and Vivace competitions.

Eliana has collaborated with members of the Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Vermeer, Audubon, Aizuri, and Momenta string quartets, Ensemble Epomeo, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Recital partners include pianists Ieva Jokubaviciute, Amy Yang, and Clare Hammond.

In 2015 she traveled to Budapest, Hungary, to play for composer György Kurtág and cellist Miklós Perényi and in 2016 she played for composer George Crumb. Past programs include IMS Prussia Cove, La Jolla Music Society Fellowship, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, Castleman Quartet Program, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, and Carnegie Hall’s New York String Orchestra Seminar.

Eliana received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard under the tutelage of Natasha Brofsky, Richard Aaron, Zvi Plesser and Clara Kim.

Born in 2004, Matteo Fabi began studying the cello with his father at the age of nine, then continued his training at the Conservatory “G.F. Ghedini” in Cuneo, graduating with top marks, honors, and a special mention under the guidance of Andrea Cavuoto. 

In recent years, he has perfected his skills with Antonio Meneses at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona and the Chigiana Academy in Siena, and with Jing Zhao at the Solo Music course in Bologna. In 2025, after only two years instead of the expected three, he obtained his Artist Diploma with top marks and honors at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the guidance of Giovanni Sollima, with whom he had already studied from 2017 to 2020 at the Accademia “R. Romanini” in Brescia. He currently attends the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf under the guidance of Pieter Wispelwey. 

He has performed solo recitals and concerts in various chamber ensembles, from duos to sextets, for important festivals and associations such as Amici di Paganini, Festival Back to Bach, Classiche Armonie, Toret Artist TreSeiZero, Chigiana Summer Festival, Amici della Musica di Mestre, as well as having appeared several times as a soloist with orchestra (concertos by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Dvorak, and Gulda). He regularly collaborates with Salvatore Accardo, with whom he has already performed at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, the Teatro dei Rozzi in Siena, and the Teatro Toniolo in Mestre. Since 2025, he has been a member of the Trio Ares, with whom he attends the masterclass held by Ivan Rabaglia at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He collaborates as principal cellist with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra. 

He has won prizes in various national and international competitions, including the Milan International Cello Competition (1st prize), the Verão Clássico Academy Award (1st prize), the Crescendo Prize in Florence (1st prize and prize for best cellist), Rome Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition (1st prize), and the European Music Competition City of Moncalieri (1st prize overall). He has received the prestigious De Sono Association scholarship for two consecutive years. 

He has attended masterclasses at prestigious institutions including the Saline Royale Academy, Blackmore Academy, Accademia Stauffer, Verão Clássico Academy, and Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo with internationally renowned teachers such as Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, David Geringas, Gary Hoffman, Marc Coppey, Enrico Dindo, Sol Gabetta, Enrico Bronzi, Giovanni Gnocchi, Mario Brunello, Robert Cohen, Myklos Perenyi, Ludwig Quandt, Massimo Polidori, Bruno Canino, Enrico Pace, and Claus-Christian Schuster.

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.