Xavier Aymonod
Xavier Aymonod studied piano at Aix-en-Provence conservatory and obtained unanimously a gold medal. He was laureate of international piano competition for outstanding amateurs in Paris from 1998 to 2000, and won 15th international piano competition for outstanding amateurs of Ecole Polytechnique. He was also semi-finalist of international piano competition for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Caroline Kirchhoff
Caroline Kirchhoff started playing piano at the age of five. She studied with Klaus Hellwig in Essen, with Volker Banfield in Hamburg and with Leonard Shure in Boston. After her Konzertexamen she taught piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. Additional to her musical career, she studied business economics....
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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...
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Damien Lemonnier
Damien Lemonnier has been both educated as classical pianist and applied mathematician. Next to his job in mathematical finance, he is regularly invited to give concerts across Europe. He has earned several awards in different international piano competitions, including the 1st prize in the PianoLink International Amateurs Competition in Cremone,...
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Lana & 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...
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Andy Liao
Andy Liao earned Bachelor of Music (Piano) and Bachelor of Science (Actuarial Science) degrees from the University of Iowa, having studied with Daniel Shapiro, Sergey Schepkin, and Uriel Tsachor as well as participated in masterclasses with Joseph Kalichstein and Menaheim Pressler. After college, he spent almost two decades in the...
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Thomas Prat
Thomas Prat graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2009, a French engineering school. He’s working in insurance area as a modeling actuary specialized in financial risk and life insurance. He started piano at 6. In parallel with his engineering studies he studied with Jean Marie Cottet at Conservatoire National de...
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Aloïs Scrizzi
Aloïs Scrizzi started playing the piano at a very early age in the Vannes conservatory in Jean Gabriel Ferlan’s class. She received her piano diploma with the highest honors in Bretagne, as well as a first prize in Chamber music, and performed as soloist Schumann’s piano concerto with the Youth...
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Dmitry Shishkin
Dmitry Shishkin is a critically acclaimed Russian pianist who has been highlighted for both his creative and individual approach to music, as well as his brilliant piano skills by the international press. “In his playing we can hear both excellence and playfulness.” He was awarded a silver medal in June...
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Christophe Strassel
Christophe Strassel was born in Metz (France) in 1971. He started playing the violin at the age of 6 and got a « First Prize » in violin at the Conservatoire national de Région of Metz at the age of 12. He also studied the violin and chamber music at...
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Geoffroy Vauthier
As a French civil engineer, Geoffroy Vauthier, born in 1974, is in charge of the construction the Grand Paris Express transport project. He was before in charge of the design and construction of the Paris Philharmonia Hall. He has previously worked on the French Embassy in Berlin (Pariser Platz) and...
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Emanuela Zaharia-Donici
Emanuela is currently attending piano lessons with Y. Sugimoto-Shestiperov at the local music school called Hofer Symphoniker Musikschule, which was also the place of her youth. In her youth her teachers were T. Cosacchi, Prof. A. Hamary, and Prof. C. Vickers and as an adult she spent five years of...