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...

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...

Florian Chevallier

A graduate of the ingenior school Centrale Paris, Florian Chevallier is working in the energy sector as marketing director in ENGIE. As a passionate young musician, Florian Chevallier studied in the Conservatoire national de région in Lyon, where he graduated at the age of 12. In 1998, as a student...

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...

Cyril De Saint-Amour

Tatjana Dravenau

Tatjana Dravenau studied piano and Liedgestaltung with Till Engel in Essen, Richard McMahon in Cardiff and Friedemann Berger in Munich. In her musical career, she focusses on the dialogue between music and language; therefore she specialised on Lied and on creating programmes, which combine music and literature. She performs regularly...

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...

Ensemble Osare

Mathieu Frimat

Mathieu FRIMAT was born in 1988 in the North of France. He grew up in Nancy, in the East of France, until his baccalauréat, in 2005. After these years, he studied maths and physics, then joined the Ecole Polytechnique in 2007, a French engineering School. He began working in the...

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...

Julien Hanck

Born in 1994 in Barcelona, Julien Hanck started learning the piano at 5. Although he came early to his passion of Science, he took somewhat longer to confirm his love for Music. Only after graduating from Mathematics Higher School Preparatory Classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand did he come back more keenly...

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....

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...

Loïc Lafontaine

French pianist Loïc Lafontaine grew up in Martinique and later got his musical training in the Bordeaux conservatory, before his admission in the Paris Conservatory. He received many prizes in international competitions, including the Jury, Press and Audience prizes in the Paris international piano competition for outstanding amateurs in 2010,...

Axel Lenarduzzi

The relationship between the piano and Axel Lenarduzzi started as a pinnacle that brought on many more: the end of his education, in the mythic city of Rome, was crowned by a prestigious diploma - Diplôme supérieur de perfectionnement à l’unanimité - issued by the no less prestigious Académie nationale...

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,...

Claire Meissner Bernard

Claire Meissner-Bernard began her musical education with the baroque transverse flute and the recorder, which she played for about ten years. In parallel, she started playing the piano at the age of 12. She won among others a 2nd prize at the Ile de France International Piano Competition in 2018...

Pierre Muller

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...

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...

Damien Théophile

Sofia Tiar

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...

Maëlle Vilbert

Eva Zavaro