OUR ARTISTS

DMITRY BULGAKOV | OBOE | Festival Organization Committee © Rene Jakobson / renejakobson@hotmail.com Dmitri Bulgakov was born in 1978 in Moscow. He graduated from the Gnessin Specialist Music School in Moscow and Detmold High School of Music. His teachers were ...
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ANTON DRESSLER | CLARINET Born in Moscow he concludes his studies at the Moscow Conservatory under the leadership of Lev Mikhailov and Vladimir Sokolov; at the Bologna Conservatory with Italo Cappicchioni and at the La Scala Academy with Fabrizio Meloni ...
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ALEXANDER KOBRIN | PIANO The distinguished pianist Alexander Kobrin— heralded as the “Van Cliburn of today” by the BBC Russia—has placed himself at the forefront of today's performing musicians. His many prize-winning performances have been praised for their brilliant technique, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Roman Mints was born in 1976 in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five. In 1994 Roman won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, and also studied at the Guildhall School ...
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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 ...
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Timur Yakubov was born in 1976 in Moscow and began playing violin at the age of 5. He studied in Gnessin Music School with Natalia Fikhtengolz and E. Ozol. In 1994, he was invited by the Russian Culture Foundation to ...
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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 ...
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Jürnas Rähni started studying french horn at Aruküla Music School 2003. He continued his studies in Georg Ots Tallinn Music College in 2011 under the guidance of Kalmer Kiik. Since 2017 he studies in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre ...
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Peeter Sarapuu is a renowed bassoon player, chamber musician, concertmaster and pedagogue. His repertoire comprise preferably early music played by original intruments (Baroque and Classical bassoon) and also contemporary music and solo programs often include French music.Peeter Sarapuu began music ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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