Our 2023 Artists

KRISTEL AER | ORGAN
Kristel Aer graduated from Estonian Academy of Music (1992) as a choir conductor in the class of Prof. Kuno Areng ...

DMITRY BULGAKOV | OBOE
DMITRY BULGAKOV | OBOE | HIIUMAA Festival Organization Committee Dmitry Bulgakov is the founder of Hiiumaa Homecoming festival as well ...

CHRISTOPH CROISÉ | CELLO
Lauded for ‘delicate yet virtuosic’ playing (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘seamless subtleties of tone colour’ with ‘plenty of edge’ (The ...

ANTON DRESSLER | CLARINET
Born in Moscow he concludes his studies at the Moscow Conservatory under the leadership of Lev Mikhailov and Vladimir Sokolov; ...

STEFANO FERRARIO | VIOLIN
Since 2004 Stefano Ferrario has been holding a position of the First Concertmaster of the Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano/Bozen. He ...

ALEXANDER KOBRIN | PIANO
Gold medal winner of the 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition, distinguished pianist, Alexander Kobrin, has received wide acclaim for his ...

ROMAN MINTS | VIOLIN
Roman Mints was born in 1976 in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five. In 1994 ...

MIHKEL POLL | PIANO
Mihkel Poll has performed throughout Europe, in Asia and the U.S. in many important concert halls such as Wigmore Hall ...

JÜRNAS RÄHNI | FRENCH HORN
Jürnas Rähni started studying french horn at Aruküla Music School 2003. He continued his studies in Georg Ots Tallinn Music ...

PEETER SARAPUU | BASSOON
Peeter Sarapuu is a renowed bassoon player, chamber musician, concertmaster and pedagogue. His repertoire comprise preferably early music played by ...

OKSANA SINKOVA | FLUTE
Oksana Sinkova´s journey into music began at the age of 9. Since then music has been her passion and it ...

TIMUR YAKUBOV | VIOLA
Founder of the Quatuor Fratres, Timur won several prizes at the International Competitions, such as Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta, ...

YOUNG ARTISTS
Oleksandra Kiktenko Oleksandra Andriivna Kiktenko was born on October 17, 2003. In 2020 she graduated with honors from the Kharkiv ...
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BORIS ANDRIANOV | CELLO
Boris Andrianov was born in 1976 to a family of musicians. He graduated from the Moscow Gnessins’ School of Music, later studying at the Moscow State Conservatory (class of Natalia Shakhovskaya) and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler under ...

JAN JIRACEK VON ARNIM | PIANO
Born into a family of musicians, pianist Jan Jiracek von Arnim was described by BBC Music Magazine as one of the leading pianists of his generation.He won the first prize at the Steinway Competition in Hamburg at age ten, and ...

KSENIA BASHMET | PIANO
Ksenia Bashmet was born in Moscow in 1980. Graduated from the Gnesins’ Specialised Middle School of Music (class of Elena Efrussi and Tatiana Zelikman) and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (class of Professor Lev Naumov) where she also completed her ...

KRISTINA BLAUMANE | CELLO
Kristina Blaumane was born in Riga and graduated from the Latvian Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has been invited to play as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician around the world. She has ...

ELENA DAUNYTE | CELLO
Lithuanian cellist Elena Daunytė studied from 2000 to 2012 at the Arts School of M. K. Čiurlionis under Romanas Armonas. She continued from 2013 to 2015 at the Royal Northern College of Music of Manchester under Prof. Nicholas Jones and ...

INGRID FLITER | PIANO
Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter has won the admiration and hearts of audiences around the world for her passionate yet thoughtful and sensitive music making played with an effortless technique. Winner of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, one of only a ...

KÄRDLA KAMMERKOOR
Kärdla Kammerkoor (chamber choir) was established in 2011. The choir's founder and conductor is Raili Kaibald. Despite their very different background and interests of leaders, artists, sellers, electricians, teachers, etc the singers are combined by love for choral music. In ...

EGERT LEINSAAR | VIOLIN
Egert Leinsaar began his violin studies at Pärnu Music School with Leo Viller and later Tatyana Günter in 1995. In 2003, he became a student of Tiiu Peäske at Tallinn Music High School and he continued his violin studies at ...

MARA OOSTERBAAN | VIOLIN
Currently a member of the first violin section of the Residentie Orchestra, Mara graduated from the Royal Conservatoire the Hague, studying with Ilona Sie Dhian Ho and Philippe Graffin. Besides that she regularly followed extra classes with Mauricio Fuks, and ...

VICTORIA CALVO ORDOÑEZ | FLUTE
Spanish flutist Victoria Calvo Ordoñes took her bachelor's degree at the Conservatory of Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain) graduating with honors both in flute and chamber music. Thereafter she moved to Germany to obtain her soloist master's degree under the tutelage of ...

ANNA STASEVICH | CELLO
Anna Stasevich was born in Kaluga. After graduating with honors from the school at the Conservatory (the class of Olga Galochkina) and the Academy (the class of Alla Vasilyeva), Anna left for Italy, where she played in the orchestra in ...

PAVEL STRUGALEV | OBOE
Pavel Strugalev was born in Moscow. Graduated from the Gnessin Specialist Music School in Moscow and Detmold High School of Music, where he was also an assistant of professor G. Shmalfus. Pavel is a winner of the Russian National Competition ...

ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN | CELLO
Now regarded as one of the finest cellists of the younger generation, Alexander Chaushian has performed extensively throughout the world as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in- the-Fields, ...

ZHENYU CAO | BASSOON
Zhenyu Cao began music studies on piano at 4 years old. At the age of 9, he started to learn bassoon with Zhaolu Liu, the head of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's bassoon professor and Winds & strings department. Studied ...

MIKHAIL RUDOY | VIOLA
Mikhail Rudoy (viola) was born on March 8th 1986 in Moscow. He began his studies on the violin at the age of 5. In 2001 he entered Moscow Special Gnessin Music School where he studied viola with Prof. E. Ozol ...

