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...

Louis Dalaveris

Louis Dalaveris was born in Greece and grew up in Pennsylvania, USA. He studied with several local teachers during high school, and then attended Columbia University where he majored in Chemistry and minored in German Literature, and also studied piano with Niels Ostbye. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi...

Rebecca Davis

Minnesota homemaker Rebecca Davis began her studies at the age of four in Philadelphia and at age thirteen performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was a finalist in Leonard Bernstein s Young Peoples Auditions. A recipient of numerous awards, grants and scholarships, she received a Teaching Fellowship at The Juilliard...

Henri Delbeau

Dr. Henri Delbeau began his piano studies at 7. He soon after made his orchestral debut with a New York City area orchestra as a soloist, as well as winning several prizes in national and international competitions. Since then, he has had many solo, chamber and orchestral performances, both in...

Abdel Rahman El Bacha

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...

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...

Olivier Herbay

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....

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...

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,...

Gerardo Molina

Gerardo Molina was born in Puebla City, Mexico on September 15th, 1969. He started piano lessons when was 6 years old under his father direction. During 20 years continued studying particularly and participating in master classes with famous mexican and foreign piano teachers. In parallel with piano, he is a...

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...

Thomas Yu

Dr. Thomas Yu has redefined what it means to be an amateur pianist, owning a busy periodontal practice while performing with the BBC Orchestra of Wales, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared as a guest soloist at Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Munich...

Eberhard Zagrosek

Eberhard Zagrosek was born into a family of musicians. He grew up in Munich and Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany. He spent seven years in a famous boy's choir, «Regensburger Domspatzen». His musical education started with piano at the age of six and was very intense until he was 18....