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Romain Coharde

Romain Coharde began to study the piano in the Champagne region with his teacher Monique Didier, with whom he worked during more than twenty years. During his learning years, he won several first prizes in national competitions in France. He graduated as an engineer for Météo-France, the state service for...

Mikhail Dubov

A promising piano student in his teens, Mikhail Dubov had eventually chosen a career in tech over being a concert pianist. He still kept performing and in 2014, won the 3d prize and the Press award at the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in Paris. Since then, he has...

Olivier Dupont

Olivier Dupont is a financial engineer. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 2010, and then started working for the HSBC bank as a financial analyst. He also studied piano at the Tourcoing conservatory, where he received his first Prize in piano performance and Chamber music....

Ye Feng

Ye Feng was born in Shanghai on 24th of Dec, 1979 and started learning piano since he was 6. He has never studied in any conservatory or music school. He now works in the home theater equipments business. A boring guy who knows nothing but classical & Jazz music, movies,...

Robert Finley

Robert Finley was born in Hull, England, and is a retired electronics engineer. He began to play the piano at the age of 7, studied at Trinity College of Music and with Norma Fisher, Albert Ferber and in the masterclasses of Jorge Bolet, Louis Kentner and Vlado Perlemuter. He studied...

Matthias Fischer

Matthias Fischer from Germany got his first piano lessons from his parents. He won prizes at German youth-competitions for piano solo and duo. He studied piano in Munich but switched to medicine after one year (1994). Currently he works as a consultant at the university-clinics of psychiatry in Rostock, dealing...

Mark Fuller

Mark Fuller began studying piano when he was six years old. Although soon hailed as a “major talent,” he ultimately chose to pursue degrees in economics and law in lieu of a full-time career in music. He later returned to the piano, studying with Robert Hamilton and attending summer festivals...

Johannes Gaechter

Johannes Gaechter - pianist and computer-scientist, living in Germany near Stuttgart, was born in Alsace (France). His father, Michel Gaechter is a pianist and teaches piano at the conservatory in Strasbourg and his mother is a piano-teacher as well. Johannes learned to play piano at the age of four -...

Thierry Goldwaser

French pianist Thierry Goldwaser began music studies in Paris at age 10. In 2005, Thierry receives first prize at the International Competition for Outstanding Piano Amateurs in Paris. In 2010 he also gets a special prize at the International Piano Amateur Competition in Berlin. Thierry has made recital appearances in...

Negar Haeri

Julien Kurtz

Julien Kurtz started learning piano at age five and got his initial training with Catherine Silie, a former assistant of French pianist Pierre Sancan. Later on, while pursuing his studies in Humanities and Social Sciences in “Classes préparatoires BL”, and then at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan to become...

Lana Levin

The Levins were born in Soviet Union and graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where they studied with Yakov Milstein, Lev Vlasenko and Michael Pletnev. The family came to the United States in November 1989 and have since resided in Overland Park, Kansas. From 1989 to 1995 the couple...

Slava Levin

The Levins were born in Soviet Union and graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where they studied with Yakov Milstein, Lev Vlasenko and Michael Pletnev. The family came to the United States in November 1989 and have since resided in Overland Park, Kansas. From 1989 to 1995 the couple...

Sylvain Levy

Mara Lobo

Born in Portugal to a family of Brazilian musicians, Mara Lobo started her music studies at the age of 2, taking the cello at 4 under Jaroslav Mikus, and the piano at 6, as a second instrument. At the age of 17, Mara entered Stefan Popov's class at the Guildhall...

Brice Martin

Brice Martin was born in 1981 and began studying piano at the age of five. He gave his first concert at the age of 14 and was simultaneously admitted in the Nîmes Conservatory in the class of Catherine Silie, a former student of Yves Nat and Pierre Sancan. In 1999,...

Charles-Thibault Petit

Born in 1987, Charles-Thibault began his musical studies in Paul Dukas academy (Paris) in 1994. He obtained there in 2002 his qualifications in musical notification and studied piano from 1995 to 2001 with Professor Florence Aramburu. Totally seduced by the oboe during a concert, he has been student of Professor...

Polina Rendak

Polina Rendak was born in the northern Russian city of Petrozavodsk. At home everyone played the piano, and Polina was no exception. She did not stop playing when she moved to Moscow to study economics at Higher School of Economics, and then - to Paris to study finance at HEC...

Jörg Wischhusen

In parallel to his studies of biochemistry Jörg Wischhusen obtained a concert diploma for piano chamber music with Prof. Friedemann Rieger in Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland. He has won prizes in international music competitions (Chartres, Markneukirchen, Prague), made recordings for CD and radio stations and performed with acclaimed soloists at the Prague...

June Wu

June Wu is Chief of Staff to the President of Google Marketing Solutions at Google and a pianist who has performed in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Moscow, and Paris. Recent highlights include solo recitals in Bayreuth, Germany, and Shanghai, a concerto performance with the Newark Symphony Orchestra in Delware,...