Petrit Çeku has performed recitals throughout the world and was a soloist with symphonic orchestras such as Baltimore Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, State Hermitage Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Pannon Philharmonic and Zagreb Philharmonic. He collaborates regularly with The Zagreb Soloists and is a founding member of Guitar Trio Elogio. Hailed by Calgary Herald as “an effortless player, with a strong, projecting sound”, Çeku is the first prize winner of many international guitar competitions, including Parkening (Malibu), Schadt (Allentown), Biasini (Bologna), and Pittaluga (Alessandria). Çeku graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Darko Petrinjak and continued studies in Baltimore at the Peabody Conservatory in the class of Manuel Barrueco. Petrit Çeku teaches chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Petrit Çeku’s recordings have been released by various label,s and his album The Cello Suites for Eudora Records was nominated for ICMA Award. The recording sessions for this album, which includes Bach’s complete cello suites, were the subject of award-winning documentary film Sarabande by Kaltrina Krasniqi. Petrit Çeku is a D’Addario artist and plays on a Ross Gutmeier guitar.

Clémence de Forceville is one of the most compelling French violinists of her generation, recognised for the breadth of her musical activities and her refined artistry. She currently serves as first concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and is regularly invited as guest concertmaster with various ensembles, reflecting her strong leadership and orchestral experience. As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and several European ensembles, exploring a repertoire that ranges from major classical concertos to contemporary works. She appears regularly at festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée in Nantes, or Les Flâneries Musicales in Reims, and shares the stage with renowned artists including Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Anna Fedorova, Shani Diluka. A dedicated chamber musician, she has been a member of Trio Sōra, with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven piano trios to critical acclaim. Her collaborations extend to numerous distinguished musicians, and she is particularly engaged in ensemble work. In 2025, she released her debut album with pianist Ismaël Margain, devoted to works by Maurice Ravel and Mel Bonis, which received enthusiastic critical acclaim. Alongside her performing career, she is also active in teaching at the Paris Conservatoire. She performs on a 1777 violin by Lorenzo Storioni, generously loaned by the Boubo-Music Foundation.

“Is the young pianist the discovery of the year?” asked the classical music magazine Crescendo and answered in the affirmative. The reviewers of the magazine Concerti also consider her to be “on her way right to the top”. The German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists and captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her breath­taking technique, exceptional stage presence and musical depth. The 2025/26 season was full of highlights for Danae Dörken. She embarked on two extensive tours of the USA. As a piano soloist, she performed with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) in the Philharmonie in Cologne.  With the multimedia project “Bach in Space” she appeared in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, as well as in Göttingen and Bonn. As part of a piano duo with her sister Kiveli, she once again gave numerous concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. She also performed with her chamber music partners Annelien van Wauwe in Belgium and the Netherlands and with Benedict Klöckner in Switzerland. At the end of 2024, the album GLASS TWO, a collaboration with Luxembourgish vibraphonist and composer Pascal Schumacher, was released. The two artists received the Opus Klassik award in October 2025 for this album, which features works by Philip Glass and Schumacher himself. The programme has been performed at the award ceremony, as well as at the Beethovenfest Bonn and in Luxembourg. Of Greek descent, Danae Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) in 2015 together with her sister on the island of Lesbos.

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music is palpable in every one of her concerts. With her infectious enthusiasm and captivating presence, she values close contact with her audience, often addressing the listeners first, before sitting down at the piano and pushing the boundaries of sound diversity and artistic expression. Kiveli began her musical path as a seven-year-old student of the renowned piano pedagogue Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, who taught her until his death, ten years later. She continued her musical education with Prof. Lars Vogt, with whom she studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover until his recent death in September 2022.

At the age of eight, she gave her orchestral debut. She has since performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Camerata Bern and the Athens State Orchestra. In 2019, Kiveli Dörken gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing Ceasar Francks Variations symphoniques under the direction of conductor Alondra de la Parra. In 2025 she performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in the big Hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She has performed in most European countries, China, Japan, Korea and the USA, in some of the most famous halls, the Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg, the Mariinsly-Theater in St. Petersburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Alte Oper Frankfurt, to name just a few and is a regular guest at many prestigious festivals, like the Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Kiveli  Dörken dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music. She performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Julian Steckel, Antje Weithaas and Tanja Tetzlaff. Together with her sister Danae Dörken, she has been playing as a piano duo since the age of five. She is a member of the Franz Ensmeble, that won an OPUS Klassik for their debut CD featuring works by Ferdinand Ries. In 2015 together with her sister Danae they founded and co-direct until today the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek Island Lesbos, of which she is also the artistic director. The MIMF brings the tradition of classical music to Lesbos and has become a symbol of hope for the entire region. In 2020 Kiveli recorded her debut cd with the label ARS featuring solo and chamber music works by Josef Suk.

Greek cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe, most recently as a soloist with conductor-violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Athens State Orchestra. He made his first major US solo appearance in 2016 with the Kansas City Symphony under the direction of Robert Spano. Since then he has performed with major orchestras, such as the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Israel Camerata et al. He gained international recognition as a top prizewinner at the prestigious International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland. Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin is a founding member of Trio Zimbalist, with which he tours in both Europe and North America. Their first album was released under the Curtis Studio Label with raving reviews by the Gramophone Magazine and the BBC Music Magazine. In 2017, he was named Artist-in-Residence at “Performance Today”, the most listened-to classical music radio programme in the United States. In 2023, he was named artistic director of the Samos Young Artists Festival, a position which he holds till now. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Apollωn Ensemble, a small chamber music group founded by Leonidas Kavakos. An avid chamber musician, Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin has collaborated with important musical figures, such as Leonidas Kavakos, Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Kim Kashkashian, Roman Rabinovich, and Jonathan Biss. He has participated at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Athens Epidaurus Festival among many others. Ηe studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory.

Nickos Harizanos was born in Athens. He is the General Secretary of the Contemporary Music Research Centre (KSYME) (founded by Iannis Xenakis) and member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). His music has been performed in 34 countries and published by Schott (Germany), Musica Ferrum (UK), Rowman & Littlefield (USA), Tetractys (UK), Les Procuctions d’ Oz (Canada), TEM (Taukay Edizioni Musicali, Italy) and released by Naxos (UK), Phasma (Greece, Poland), TEM (Italy), Subways Music (Greece).

Much in demand as both a soloist and chamber musician, Vashti Hunter has been invited to important festivals such as Lockenhaus, Ernen, Heidelberger Frühling, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Boswiler Sommer and Shanghai chamber music festivals. She has collaborated with artists Steven Isserlis, Martha Argerich, Pekka Kuusisto, Nicolas Altstaedt and Vilde Frang and performs regularly around the world with her piano trio, Trio Gaspard. The Ensemble was formed in 2010 alongside violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Pianist Nicholas Rimmer and studied with Hatto Beyerle at the European Chamber Music Academy. Vashti is also a member of the Kelemen String Quartet and will record all 6 Bartok quartets for the record label Alpha in 2023. Vashti has won top prizes in international competitions in Vienna, Prague and Weimar. She teaches cello to Master’s students at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock. Vashti plays on a Rombouts cello built in 1720 in Amsterdam. 

Born in Athens of Albanian and Greek heritage, Jonian Ilias Kadesha possesses boundless imagination of sound and curation, constantly exploring new avenues. His playing is characterised by stylistic accuracy and idiomatic interpretation from early to contemporary works. Kadesha has performed widely as soloist throughout Europe, including with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir András Schiff, Scottish Chamber Orchestra on tour in Copenhagen, London Mozart Players, Munich Radio, Lübeck Philharmonic, Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and Thessaloniki State Orchestra. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Louvre, Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Molière Lyon, Goldener Saal Augsburg and made his debut at the Konzerthaus Berlin as soloist and artistic director of the Caerus Kammerensemble. Festival appearances include the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier Festival Academy, Heidelberger Frühling, Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus and Schubertiade. Kadesha is a committed chamber musician and has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Ilya Gringolts and Pekka Kuusisto. He is co-founder of the award-winning Trio Gaspard, which regularly appears at festivals and in the music centres of Europe and the USA. In 2021 Kadesha signed to Linn Records. His debut solo album featuring Bach’s Violin partita in D minor alongside the premiere commercial recording of Helena Winkelman’s Ciaccona and works by Biber, Schnittke, Kurtág and Auerbach was released in June 2022. His numerous awards include prizes at the 2015 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, 2017 Windsor International String Competition and 2013 Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition and was selected for representation by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2018.

Born in Salzburg as the daughter of South Korean musicians and raised in Germany, Byol Kang debuted as soloist at the age of twelve with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie. The winner of the German Music Competition and laureate of international violin competitions (Henri Marteau, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Valsesia Musica, and Max Rostal), she has since appeared at prestigious concert halls, such as the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Vienna, and the Carnegie Hall New York. After obtaining her degree with distinction under Michael Gaiser at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Byol Kang continued her studies for Konzertexamen (2010-2013) with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she teaches her own class since 2022. As a dedicated chamber musician, Byol Kang has performed in various constellations, among others at Spannungen Festival in Heimbach, Heidelberger Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, PODIUM Festival in Esslingen and numerous recitals throughout Germany. The Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship recipient has released two CDs with pianist Boris Kusnezow under the label GENUIN. Since the season 2016/17, Byol Kang is Concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Susanne Kessler was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and lives currently between Rome and Berlin. She studied painting at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Royal College of Art in London. She became a winner of the DAAD and the Goslarer Kaiserring scholarships, and the Paul Strecker Prize. More recently she won the “Europe” scholarship of the Berlin Senat for the realisation of “Mappa Mundi I and II”. She has held solo exhibitions in the Von-der-Heydt Museum Wuppertal, Gustav Lübcke Museum Hamm, Landesmuseum Mainz, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Museum Schloß Moyland / Van der Grinten Collection, Museo Macro and GAM in Rome as well as exhibitions in several “Kunstvereine” (art associations) such as Lingen, Speyer, Lippstadt, Würzburg and Wiesbaden. She participated in group shows worldwide. The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Centre in Washington, D.C., published her book Framing Space that looked at 30 years of her installation art. In 2018 the Museum Kunst der Westküste (MkdW) sponsored her show Odissea, which used indoor and outdoor installations on the theme of getting lost at sea in both ancient and modern times. She currently works on the subject of “oceans.”  The US Department of State and all the museums mentioned carry works by Kessler in their collections. This year, 2022, Susanne Kessler, has received the “Von der Heydt- Cultural Prize” of the city of Wuppertal.

One of the outstanding artists of his generation and prizewinner of numerous international competitions, Benedict Klöckner performs as a soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, the Radio Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Kremerata Baltica, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. He collaborates with renowned conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Sanderling, Ingo Metzmacher, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Joana Mallwitz, Sir Simon Rattle.   He has performed in prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is also a regular guest at international festivals, sharing the stage with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Lisa Batiashvili, Gidon Kremer and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Since 2014 he has been the artistic director and founder of the Koblenz International Music Festival, where he recently invited legendary conductor Myung Whun Chung, and performed with Augustin Dumay, and the Modigliani Quartet.  In 2025/26, he played as a soloist and in recitals in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Philharmonie Cologne, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Suntory Hall Tokyo and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His recordings have been acclaimed by the press and have won awards such as the OPUS Klassik Award and the Supersonic Award. Benedict Klöckner studied at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Martin Ostertag and at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman. He is a professor at the École Normale de Musique Paris.

Danae Kontora is a coloratura soprano from Greece. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. She sang the part of the Queen of the Νight at Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Stuttgart, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, Oper Leipzig and on tour in Beijing, Macao, and Taiwan. Other parts include Philippe (The Devils of Loudun) at the Bavarian State Opera, Frasquita (Carmen) at the Greek National Opera, Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Finnish National Opera, Fritzi (Die Weiden) at the Vienna State Opera, Oscar at Israeli Opera, Blonde (The Abduction from the Seraglio) at Oper Leipzig, Tigrane (Radamisto) at Oper Frankfurt, Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann) at Theater Erfurt. At the Edinburgh International Festival, she sang the Woodbird (Siegfried) and Woglinde (Götterdämmerung) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Andrew Davis. Danae Kontora also gave her BBC Proms debut at Royal Albert Hall in London with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Constantinos Carydis.

Adrien La Marca’s playing is characterised by a depth of expression, technical mastery and a sound with rich, deep, burnished quality. His charismatic stage presence makes La Marca one of today’s most compelling musicians. As a soloist, La Marca has performed with renowned Orchestras such as Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (MDR), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hong-Kong Sinfonietta, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (Artist-in-Residence for 2018/19 season), Insula Orchestra, Les Siècles, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre National de Metz. Named “New Soloist of the Year 2014” by French Victoires de la Musique, La Marca has since then performed in most prestigious venues all over the world. His recordings English Delight (2016, La Dolce Volta) and Heroes have been highly praised by the press and received many awards. His most recent album Chanson bohème together with pianist Danae Dörken has already received international acclaim for its “sheer beauty” and “sensitivity of a higher kind”. Born in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1989 to a family of musicians, Adrien La Marca began playing piano and viola at the age of four. He studied in Paris with Jean Sulem, in Leipzig with Tatjana Masurenko and further in Berlin with Tabea Zimmermann. Later, Adrien worked with inspiring musicians including Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, Gidon Kremer, Sir Andras Schiff and Menahem Pressler. La Marca has additionally won numerous prizes in international competitions including William Primrose, Lionel Tertis and Johannes Brahms Competition. La Marca plays an outstanding viola by Nicola Bergonzi (Cremona, 1780), on generous loan from the Boubo-Music Foundation.

Dionysis (Dennis) Makris was born in Athens in June 1984 and graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre in 2010. He is a member of the theatre group “Little Things Orchestra” where through Hamlet of William Shakespeare, he was nominated for the ”Dimitris Horn” Award in 2015. In the theatre, he has also collaborated with Jan Fabre doing a 2-year world tour, with Μihail Marmarinos, Thomas Moschopoulos, Nikos Karathanos, Lydia Koniordou, Dimitris Katalifos, Eleni Skoti, Giannis Skourletis, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos among others. He has worked in major theatrical organisations, such as the National Theatre, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Foundation, and Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In cinema he has collaborated with Yannis Smaragdis, Christophoros Papakaliatis and others. He starred in the television series Ant1 “Tamam”, and additionally he offers acting classes to those who are interested in going to drama school. He has lent his voice to many animation movies, series, and commercials.

Sebastian Manz, international soloist, chamber musician and principal clarinetist of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, had his big breakthrough in 2008, when he won 1st prize in the clarinet category of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Manz subsequently received the Echo Klassik Award for outstanding cd recordings three times, as well as the sought-after Emerging Artist Award in New York. During the 2025/26 season, Sebastian Manz gave solo performances across Europe, including at the Tonhalle Zurich, with the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra, and the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra, and once again appears at the Music@Menlo Festival in the USA. Alongside his chamber music partners, such as Franziska Hölscher, Stephen Waarts, Felix Klieser, Andrei Ioniță, Theo Plath, he performs at various venues, including the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. He is a welcome guest on renowned stages, performing with ensembles such as the Armida Quartet and the Schumann Quartet, as well as with his long-standing musical partners Danae Dörken, Herbert Schuch, Maximilian Hornung, Martin Klett and Sebastian Studnitzky.  Recent performances include concerts in Innsbruck, in Liechtenstein and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The season culminates in the presentation of his groundbreaking project Quasi Cool at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Hohenloher Kultursommer. Manz’s enthusiasm for arranging and composing is reflected in his concert programmes and in his discography, which have won numerous awards.

Costas Mantzoros was born in 1960 in Athens. He was taught theory of music by Giannis Ioannidis and Haris Xanthoudakis, piano by Michel Bichsel and attended in the Department of Electroacoustic Music in the Athenaeum Conservatory. He collaborates with the Contemporary Music Research Centre (KSYME) since 1986 and mainly composes electroacoustic music as well as music for small ensembles or solo instruments accompanied by electronic music. His works have been performed in concerts in Greece and abroad.

The French-Egyptian violist Sindy Mohamed is one of the most promising young musicians of her generation. As a soloist and chamber musician, Sindy Mohamed is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Moritzburg Festival, the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Kronberg Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Heidelberger Frühling. Her chamber music partners include artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Isabelle Faust, Lawrence Power, Tabea Zimmermann, Jan Vogler, Elena Bashkirova, Kian Soltani, Michael Barenboim and Julien Quentin. Highlights of the 2025 season as well as previous seasons include her debut in the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, her debut with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Simon Crawford−Phillips, touring with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss under Isabelle van Keulen as conductor and violinist. It included her debut as well with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Golo Berg, her debut with the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Johannes Klumpp at the Heidelberger Frühling, her debut at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and her der debut with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ahmed El Saedi. Other concerts have taken her to the Mannheim Palace Concerts and the Berlioz Festival with the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire under Pascal Rophé. Sindy regularly performs with the Boulez Ensemble as Viola-Solo under renowned conductors such as François-Xavier Roth, Zubin Mehta, Matthias Pintscher, Antonio Pappano and Antonello Manacorda. She has been a member of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra under the direction of maestro Daniel Barenboim since 2013. Sindy Mohamed plays a viola by Matteo Goffriller, which was kindly made available to her by the Miller-Porter collection through Beare’s International Violin Society.

She was born in Thessaloniki in 1998. At the age of eight she took up flute and violin lessons at the Conservatory of the Municipality of Polygyros. In 2019 she completed her studies in flute at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki and acquired her diploma with distinction: Grade A and first award (L. Kokoria’s and N. Dimopoulos’ class). She has attended seminars with D. Bouriakov, N. Dimopoulos, V. Belomazov. In November 2021 she participated in the National Music Competition Tasos Pappas and was awarded first prize in her category as well as the Special Prize Tasos Pappas for her excellent music performance. In 2021 she completed her studies in violin with professor D. Chandrakis at the University of Macedonia, Department of Music Science and Art along with her studies in violin at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki and acquired her diploma with distinction, grade 10 and first prize (Ι. Selalmazidis’ class). During the Erasmus programme she studied for a semester with E. Kovacic at the University of MDW Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has also attended seminars With G. Demertzis, D. Patras, M. Michelic and E. Orio. She is a member of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra and has also been a member of the Greek-Turkish Youth Orchestra and Thessaloniki Concert Hall Youth Symphony Orchestra MOYSA.

Rosanne Philippens is an extraordinary communicator, with an innate musicality and an infectiously joyful yet sincere approach to music-making. She is in high demand across the Netherlands, both as soloist and chamber musician. She is also a keen play/director and recently made her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon leading the orchestra in a hugely successful performance. Recent highlights include performances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Residentie Orkest both in The Hague and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Elsewhere, Philippens has played with the Barcelona Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, and with orchestras across Germany, Finland, and Switzerland, with conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lawrence Foster, Otto Tausk, Jan Willem de Vriend, Antony Hermus, and Nicholas Collon. Philippens plays regularly with artists such as István Vardai, Vilde Frang, Julien Quentin, Vikingúr Olafsson, Amihai Grosz, Camille Thomas and Zoltán Fejérvári. She runs her own concert series “The Amsterdam Salon Pop-Up”, presenting high-quality concerts in carefully sought-out and unusual locations. Philippens records exclusively for Channel Classics and all her recordings have received glowing praise. The Strad has described her latest CD Insight as being “both softly spoken and intensely powerful”. Earlier albums include Dedications, featuring works by Kreisler, Fauré and Ysaÿe, and a recording of Prokofiev’s 2nd Concerto, described by BBC Magazine as “a triumph”. Philippens was taught from an early age by Anneke Schilt at the Amstelveen music school. She continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Vera Beths, Anner Bylsma and Ulf Wallin, receiving the highest distinction from both institutes. Philippens won 1st prize at the Dutch National Violin Competition in 2009 and the Freiburg International Violin Competition in 2014. Philippens plays on the “Barrere” Stradivarius (1727), thanks to the generous support of the Elise Mathilde Foundation.

Odysseas Tsakalidis was born in Thessaloniki in 2009. Since the age of three his violin teacher is Lefter Zhulla. He also attends the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, class of Marina Shelkova. He has participated in violin masterclasses with Georgios Demertzis, Haiou Meng and Skerdjano Keraj. He has won several first prizes in competitions in Greece and abroad, such as the 7^th National Music Competition Maria Cherogiorgou–Sigara, the Solon Michaelides Panhellenic Competition in Cyprus, the 4^th National Competition Orpheus Soloists 2021, the Muse 2021 International Music Competition, the Nouvelles Étoiles International Online Music Competition 2021. In November 2021 he was awarded first prize at the 3^rd National Music Competition Tasos Pappas, as well as the highest distinction, the   Special Prize Tasos Pappas for his exceptional performance. Odysseas regularly performs in solo recitals and concerts in Greece and abroad. In December 2019 he performed as a soloist with the Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra and conductor Haris Iliadis at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. In July 2021 he was invited to perform at the “Young Artists Recital” at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. In August 2021 he performed at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and at the Concert Hall of the Conservatoire de Vincennes in Paris.

Awarded the OPUS Klassik 2025 as “Instrumentalist of the Year,” Antje Weithaas is one of the most distinguished musical personalities of our time. Her remarkable career began early: following numerous competition successes, she quickly established herself as a virtuoso young soloist alongside renowned orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the major German radio orchestras. But what makes her one of the “great violinists of our time” (FonoForum) is the depth and sincerity of an artistically mature, consciously shaped career, supported by long-standing partnerships, interpretative maturity, artistic integrity, and a wealth of experience. Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon were awarded the 2024 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award for their complete recording of the sonatas for piano and violin by Ludwig van Beethoven. Released on CAvi-music and digitally distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, the recordings have already been presented in full-cycle concerts at the Casals Forum in Kronberg, Budapest and in China.  With an impressive discography of thirty albums and a wide-ranging repertoire that spans the most important violin concertos from the Classical era to the modern day, Antje Weithaas is a leading European authority in the art of violin playing. Her latest studio album, a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and Serenade for Strings with the Camerata Bern, was recently released on the DG partner label CAvi-music — presumably the first recording of these works led from the violin by the soloist herself. This was preceded by the OPUS Klassik award-winning recording of Vasks’s Violin Concerto No. 2, also with Camerata Bern. Antje Weithaas shares a long-standing artistic partnership with the ensemble, having served as its artistic director for nearly a decade. Today, she is a sought-after play-conduct leader with international chamber orchestras and recently toured South America as soloist with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. She teaches at Hans Eisler Academy of music and together with Oliver Wille, she serves as artistic director of the Joseph Joachim Competition. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.