Biographies

Naama BEN ZAKEN

Naama BEN-ZAKEN

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2024
  • Nationality: Israel
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 18
  • Last or current school: Jerusalem Music Center
  • https://www.jmc.org.il/en/
  • Instrument played: Naama plays a violin generously lent to her by the Jerusalem Music Center.
Mishel BUSHKOVA

Mishel BUSHKOVA

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Israel
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 19
  • Last or current school: Cleveland Institute of Music
  • https://www.cim.edu/
Elizaveta Cibotaru

Elizaveta CIBOTARU

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Moldova
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 19
  • Last or current school: Haute Ecole de Musique, Genève
  • https://www.hesge.ch/hem/
  • Instrument played: Plays a Honoré Derazey violin from the Lalive Foundation in Geneva.
Sofija DODIG

Sofija DODIG

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2024
  • Nationality: Serbia
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 18
  • Last or current school: University for Music and Performing Arts Graz
  • https://www.kug.ac.at/en/
Miray ITO

Miray ITO

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: U.S.A.
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: The Juilliard School
  • https://www.juilliard.edu/
  • Instrument played: Plays a 1734 Pietro Guarneri violin on a generous loan from the Ryuji Ueno Foundation
Eliane MENZEL

Eliane MENZEL

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Germany
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: The Juilliard School
  • https://www.juilliard.edu/
Vasilisa NELIUBINA

Vasilisa NELIUBINA

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Russia
  • Instrument: Violin
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Haute Ecole de Musique, Genève
  • https://www.hesge.ch/hem
  • Instrument played: Plays an1880 Samuel Nemessanyi violin lent by the LaLive Foundation
Brian ISAACS

Brian ISAACS

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2022
  • Nationality: U.S.A.
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Yale School of Music
  • https://music.yale.edu/
  • Instrument played: Plays on a 2011 Douglas Cox viola, on generous loan from the Virtu Foundation.
Leonardo JELVEH

Leonardo JELVEH

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Italy
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 24
  • Last or current school: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
  • https://www.conservatoiredeparis.fr
Natanel LAEVSKY

Natanel LAEVSKY

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Israel
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 23
  • Last or current school: Manhattan School of Music
  • https://www.msmnyc.edu/
  • Instrument played: Samuel Zygmuntowicz 1987 Viola, generously loaned to him by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF)
Katie LIU

Katie LIU

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: U.S.A.
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 25
  • Last or current school: Yale School of Music
  • https://music.yale.edu/
Matthew MCDOWELL

Matthew McDOWELL

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: U.S.A.
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 25
  • Last or current school: Yale School of Music
  • https://music.yale.edu/
Sarah STROHM

Sarah STROHM

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2022, 2021
  • Nationality: Switzerland
  • Instrument: Viola
  • Age during Academy: 18
  • Last or current school: Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
  • https://cmg.ch
Cosima FEDERLE

Cosima FEDERLE

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2022, 2021
  • Nationality: Germany
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig
  • https://www.hmt-leipzig.de
  • Instrument played: Cello by Nicolas Lupot, Paris 1821, that has been given to her as a loan by the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“
Marlene FORSTEL

Marlene FÖRSTEL

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Austria
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 22
  • Last or current school: University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
  • https://www.mdw.ac.at
Maxime GRIZARD

Maxime GRIZARD

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: France & Germany
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 16
  • Last or current school: CRR Claude Debussy, Saint Germain en Laye
Jiayi LIU

Jiayi LIU

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: China
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 20
  • Last or current school: Musik Akademie Basel
  • https://www.musik-akademie.ch
  • Instrument played: Plays a cello made by Carlo Antonio Testore lend by the Musik Akademie Basel
Auguste RAHON

Auguste RAHON

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2022
  • Nationality: France
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 24
  • Last or current school: Haute Ecole de Musique, Genève
  • https://www.hesge.ch/hem
Vilem VLCEK

Vilém VLČEK

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Czech Republic
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 25
  • Last or current school: Musik Akademie Basel
  • https://www.musik-akademie.ch
Arne ZELLER

Arne ZELLER

  • Edition of the Academy: 2023
  • Nationality: Germany
  • Instrument: Cello
  • Age during Academy: 16
  • Last or current school: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig
  • https://www.hmt-leipzig.de
  • Instrument played: Plays a French cello by Georges Chanot I. from 1840 in federal governmental possession. Furthermore he is kindly supported with the Charles Maucotel cello „ex-Tortelier“ (1850), courtesy of a member of the Stretton Society.
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