Nour Ayadi

Nour Ayadi was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and began playing the piano at the age of 6. At age 17 she was admitted to the Conservatoire of Paris, in Claire Désert’s class, and to the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot. She moved to Paris to pursue her musical career...

Dale Backus

Dale Backus is a Project Engineer/Manager for KBR in Colorado Springs, CO. He has worked for KBR (formerly Honeywell) for 26 years and enjoys the challenge of helping maintain and improve a United States Air Force (USAF) satellite communications system that has been in service for over 60 years. Dale...

Jacqueline Bourgès-Maunoury

Deirbhile Brennan

Deirbhile is a chartered accountant, currently working as a Head of Compliance in Ireland. Deirbhile holds a degree in music from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Royal Irish Academy of Music (gained more recently following a lengthy break from her piano studies). Studying...

Nina Del Ser

Nina del Ser was born in 1996 in Sri Lanka to French and Spanish parents. She grew up in Kazakhstan and started her piano studies there, later moving to the UK. Having previously studied physics at Cambridge, Nina moved to the University of Cologne in Germany to do a PhD...

Arnaud Dupont

Born in 1997, Arnaud Dupont began studying piano at 6 with Beatrice Tiquet and Tatiana Guerchovitch. He entered Rena Shereshevskaya’s class in 2009, famous professor from the Moscow Conservatory. After winning an unanimous First Prize for piano from the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory in 2011, he was also awarded first prizes for...

Mahmoud El Moussaoui

Toshiki Eri

Born in Saitama, Japan, in 1982, Toshiki Eri began playing the piano at the age of six. He studied the piano with Haruko Uehara, Haruko Ueda, and others. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and became a doctor in 2006. At the same time, he pursued his career as...

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...

Julien Lombardo

Julien Lombardo started practicing the piano at the age of six. His meeting with the pianist and pedagogue Jean-Claude Oleon at the Conservatory of Bastia revealed soon his passion for classical music and the instrument. Julien then studied at the Conservatory of Marseille in the class of the internationally renowned...

Matthieu Provansal

Matthieu Provansal began the cello at the age of 5 in Marseille and then joined the class of his first mentor François Baduel in the neighboring town of Aix-en-Provence until the advanced cycle. During these years, he developed a great affection for chamber music and approached many formations, from duos...

Paul Anthony Romero

Romero composed his first piano concerto at the age of 13 which was premiered at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. Romero was the piano soloist. Romero is currently composing a 3-hour soundtrack score for Trion World Network. Romero is the winner of several...

Brock Summers

Dr. Brock Summers is a noted classical saxophonist in Los Angeles. He began his studies at the age of 14 in Tennessee and continued studying the instrument at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Summers went on to become a successful medical doctor but returned to the saxophone 12 years ago. He has...

Pierre Watrin

Zach Weiner

Zachary Weiner is a San Francisco-based software engineer, where he works on education products at Google. A regular in the amateur piano community, he has won prizes at PianoLink, PianoBridges, Boulder Bach Festival, competitions in San Diego and Paris, and he has performed with orchestras at PianoTexas, California Concerto Festival,...

Sho Yamasaki

Sho Yamasaki started studying the piano at age five, with Aki Kawazoe and Yuzo Asaka. When he was in the University of Tokyo, he was selected as a representative pianist for the Steinway concert. Sho has performed recitals in Tokyo throughout his life, while actively engaging himself in the chamber...