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...

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...

Paul Chalumeau

Michael Cheung

Born with a condition on the left hand, Michael was prescribed the piano by a hand surgeon as a physiotherapy starting age 4. He displayed a growing interest in the piano and trained under private tutors and in masterclasses in North America, Europe and Asia. The piano took a hiatus...

Daniel Chow

Daniel Chow is dually versed as a Chartered Accountant and a dynamic concert pianist. He has performed in prestigious venues including Salle Gaveau in Paris, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle, Chan Centre in Vancouver and performances broadcasted on NPR and CBC. In addition, Daniel is well versed as...

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....

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...

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...

Simon Ghraichy

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

Jean-François Heisser

Juliette Journaux

Olivier Korber

Olivier Korber doubles as concert pianist and economist. His first album Double Jeu released in February 2018 with 1001 Notes has been awarded by the musical press (Diapason and Pizzicato magazines, 4 and 5 stars respectively). After graduating from the CNR of Paris in Billy Eidi’s class in 2003, Olivier...

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...

Sylvain Levy

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...

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,...

Ekaterina Mechetina

Ekaterina Mechetina is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation and a leading light in piano performance and the advancement of art and culture in Russia. What marks her out however is not only the awards and accolades she has achieved throughout her career, but also the...

Pierre Muller

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...

Tristan Pfaff

Tristan Pfaff is a regular guest of the most prestigious venues: Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, the Folles Journées, Heidelberg, Nohant, the Roque d'Anthéron, Liszt en Provence, the Serres d'Auteuil, the Musicales du Golfe, Menton, Pablo Casals, Orangerie de Bagatelle, Cité de la Musique, Victoria Hall, Petit Palais, Salle Cortot, Hotel Matignon, the...

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...

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...

Ian Roy

Ian was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and attended Wick High School. He began playing the piano at age eight and studied initially with Emma Bruce in Wick. After leaving Wick High School he studied for two degrees in maths and physics at the University of Aberdeen. Ian then worked on...

Rena Shereshevskaya

Anna Trukhina

Anna Trukhina was born in Moscow and started playing the violin at the age of eight. It became clear very soon that her life will be inextricably intertwined with music. After nine years at school, she continued her violin studies at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, which...

Ayaka Uenomachi

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...

Joan Zarry

Joan was born into a musical family in Toronto, Canada. Her businessman father began his career as a jazz musician and in later life regularly combined business trips with sitting in and playing with bands in New Orleans and other cities. Joan graduated from the University of Toronto with a...