He graduated from the Drama School “Themelio” of Nikos Vastardis in 1999. Ιn 2020  he won the Best Lead Actor Award for his performance in the film Eftychia, from the Hellenic Film Academy. He performed in many plays, such as The Ghost Sonata, Don Juan, Philoctetes, La poudre aux yeux, Thesmophoriazusae (Women at the Thesmophoria), Tonight We Dine at Jocasta’s, Black Comedy, Le dîner de cons, Couple of the Year, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Birthday Party, Enigma Variations, A View from the Bridge. He has appeared in many Greek television series and films.

Called “the discovery of the year” by classical music magazine Crescendo and “on her way to the very top” by Concerti magazine, German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken (b. 1991) is among the elite of internationally acclaimed artists of a new generation, electrifying audiences and peer musicians alike with her stunning technical skills, exceptional charisma, and great profundity of her musical thinking. A uniquely gifted talent at very young age, Danae received the support of Lord Yehudi Menuhin when she was seven, and soon began to cause a stir at major European venues with her “sparkling joy of playing” (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). Following her studies with the internationally venerated teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and with Lars Vogt, she is today a regular guest of major orchestras, including the Munich Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan Symphony and Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. She has performed to great critical acclaim at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, KKL Lucerne, Cologne Philharmonie, Philharmonie Essen, at Gasteig in Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bozar Brussels, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Danae Dörken also performs regularly at major festivals, including Kissinger Sommer, Schwetzingen Festival, LuganoMusica, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Piano Espoo Finland, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Musik Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival and the renowned Spannungen Festival in Heimbach. Danae Dörken’s groundbreaking recording of piano concertos by Mozart and Mendelssohn (with Royal Northern Sinfonia) was released in 2016, to raving critical acclaim. Previously, her solo recording of fantasies by Schumann, Schubert und C.P.E. Bach (ARS Produktion) was nominated for on ICMA Award. Her 2012 debut CD, featuring solo works by Leoš Janáček (also on ARS Produktion), received equally enthusiastic reviews. Her new duo album, Appolo & Dionysus, recorded whith her sister Kiveli, is due to be released early this summer by Berlin Classics. Of Greek descent, Danae Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) in 2015 together with her sister Kiveli and Dimitris Tryfon 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 a 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 (b. 1995) began her musical path as a seven-year old student of the renowned piano pedagogue Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. She continued her musical education with Professor Lars Vogt at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover  where she is studying until today. She is a member of the TONAListen agency, and has received scholarships and support from various foundations, such as the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the renowned Spannungen Festival, the International Musikadamie in Liechtenstein and the Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung (no relation). 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 gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing César Franck’s Variations symphoniques under the direction of conductor Alondra de la Parra. She has performed in most European countries, China and the USA, in some of the most famous halls, the Elbphilarmonie, the Mariinsky-Theatre 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 Schwetzingen Festival, the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights of her early career were performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and for the German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Kiveli dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music. She performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Maximilian Hornung and Tanja Tetzlaff. Together with her sister Danae Dörken, she has been playing as a piano duo since the age of five. In 2015 she founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek island of Lesbos, of which she is also the artistic director. The MIMF does not only bring the tradition of classical music to Lesbos, but it has also become a symbol of hope for the entire region. In 2022 Kiveli released her debut CD with the label ARS Produktion featuring solo and chamber music works by Josef Suk. Together with her sister Danae they have recorded a new album, Appolo & Dionysus, which is due to be released early this summer by Berlin Classics.

Isang Enders was appointed Principal Cello of the Staatskapelle Dresden at the age of twenty, making him the youngest section leader in Germany. After four years, however, Isang decided to embark on a solo career. Ever since he performed as soloist with conductors like Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, and Eliahu Inbal. Isang’s recording of the Bach cello suites has received unanimous critical acclaim and his dedication for contemporary music gave him the opportunity to perform the Cello Concerto by Unsuk Chin in Tokyo, São Paolo, and Paris. Ever since Isang could be heard regularly at London Wigmore Hall, as well as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, amongst others. In addition to his standard repertoire, Isang devotes himself to performing contemporary commissions and chamber music, especially as a member of the Sitkovetsky Trio. Some of his collaborators are the pianists Kit Armstrong, Igor Levit and Sunwook Kim but also Veronika Eberle, Ning Feng or the guitarist Sean Shibe. Isang got awarded for his numerous recording projects with the Diapason d’Or Arte, Opus Klassik and BBC Music Magazine Award. He currently plays a cello by Carlo Tononi, Venice 1720, loaned by a generous sponsor through the J & A Beare Violin Society.

Tobias Feldmann is one of the most renowned musicians of his generation. Awarded at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover and as a winner of the German Music Competition, his career has since achieved international reach and recognition. He has had great success as a soloist in collaborations with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, the BBC Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. A passionate chamber musician, he can already look back on concerts in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Wien, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Kumho Art Hall Seoul and at renowned festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Schubertiade Hohenems and Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival. In 2018, at the age of only twenty-six, he was appointed to a professorship at the Würzburg University of Music. He has been teaching at the Leipzig University of Music since 2022. He plays a violin made by Niccolò Gagliano (Naples, 1769).

Lefteris Giovanidis was the Αrtistic Director of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus (2020-2023) and of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani (2018-2020). He studied at the Athens Drama School – Giorgios Theodosiadis and he graduated in 1995. In 1997 he moved to New York, USA, to study stage directing at Michael Howard Studio and Herbert Berghof Studio. He also attended classes at the Actor’s Studio NYC. Up to now Giovanidis has directed more than forty-nine plays, has translated in Greek more than fifteen plays, and has made six adaptations of books for theatre. He had been teaching drama and improvisation at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. Giovanidis has collaborated with many theatres and institutions, such as the National Theatre of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, Croatian National Theatre (Gradsko kazalište Marina Držića), Patras Municipal and Regional Theatre, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens Epidaurus Festival etc.

For anyone new to violinist Noé Inui, the wide variety of influences that have shaped his character and career may surprise. To Noé, born in Brussels in 1985 to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, it is as logical and organic as breathing. His talents have been recognised internationally, at the 2005 Sibelius Competition (special prize for Young Talents), the 2007 Louis Spohr Medal and the 2009 Young Concert Artists / New York among others. At the Verbier Festival Academy in 2012, he was awarded the coveted Prix Julius Bär. In 2020 the Concertgebouw Amsterdam selected Noé as one of their Classical Futures Europe Artists. Orchestral collaborations include the Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, as well as Kaohsiung Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Athens State Symphony, and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Noé is a committed chamber musician, he co-founded the successful Piano Quartet Corneille and the Trio Bell’ Arte. Invitations by various festivals worldwide enable him to perform with musicians such as Martha Argerich and Leonidas Kavakos amongst others. Noé Inui has recorded seven CDs, the most recent of which is dedicated to the solo sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe. It contains as a bonus the world première recording of the work Étude-Poème by the same composer.

Benedict Klöckner, born in 1989, is one of the outstanding artists of his generation. He has won numerous competitions and awards, most recently the OPUS Klassik 2021. He performs worldwide as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Kremerata Baltica, the Camerata Oslo and the Munich Chamber Orchestra and works with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Sanderling, Heinrich Schiff, and Sir Simon Rattle.  A keen chamber musician, Benedict is performing with artists such as Sir András Schiff, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, Antoine Tamestit, Emmanuel Ax, Fazil Say, Lisa Batiashvili, Yuri Bashmet, Benjamin Grosvenor, Lars Vogt and Christian Tetzlaff. In October 2021 Brilliant Classics released his recording of the Bach cello suites. Since 2014 Benedict is the artistic director and founder of the International Music Festival Koblenz. Benedict Klöckner studied with Martin Ostertag, and as a young soloist of the Kronberg Academy Master with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman. He plays an Italian cello by Francesco Rugeri (Cremona, 1690), formerly played by Maurice Gendron, and a bow by Etienne Pajeot (Mirecourt, 1820).

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.

David Orlowsky is an internationally renowned clarinettist and composer, celebrated for his captivating and expressive performances of works ranging from Mozart to klezmer. An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics, he has released nine albums and won the ECHO Klassik award three times. In 1997, he founded the award-winning David Orlowsky Trio, which toured worldwide until their farewell tour in 2019. Orlowsky has collaborated with esteemed ensembles such as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Danish String Quartet, as well as renowned musicians including Martha Argerich and Alban Gerhardt. Many of his compositions for the trio are published worldwide by Schott Music. In April 2023, his clarinet quintet The Clockmaker premiered successfully with the Quartetto di Cremona at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and the premiere of his clarinet concerto premiere is planned for 2024. Orlowsky studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Muriel Razavi is in great demand as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician in the baroque as well as in the contemporary music field. She is the Assistant Principal Violist of the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and is currently enrolled in a doctoral programme (Dr.sc.mus) at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, under the artistic supervision of Daniel Barenboim, where she is conducting research on Re-Orientalism in music. She has taken on an honorary mentorship in the Mentoring Arts Programme at the University for Music and Theatre in Leipzig, preparing students for their careers in the field of music. Since October 2022 she teaches her own viola class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In the last years Muriel has been working on special concert designs and formats with music by Iranian composers of contemporary classical music from the “Iranian Female Composers Association” and was commissioned a viola concerto by Golfam Khayam. In 2022 she received the “award for an outstanding programme with special societal relevance” for her performance at the D-bü Competition.

Evripidis Samaras was born in Thessaloniki in 2005 in a family of musicians. He started taking cello lessons at the age of four. He graduated with honours from the class of Dimitris Patras at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and received the first prize (unanimously awarded). He has excelled in many national and international competitions. As a winner of a national competition, he has performed the Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camille Saint-Saëns with the Athens State Orchestra under the baton of Charles Olivieri-Munroe. As a winner of an internal competition of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki he has performed the Concerto by Antonín Dvořák with the Municipal Orchestra of Thessaloniki under the baton of Vladimiros Symeonidis. At the age of eight he made his first appearance as a soloist at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall with the New Symphony Orchestra of the town. He has participated in seminars given by Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Konstantin Heidrich, Sebastian Klinger, Claudio Bohórquez, Leonid Gorokhov, Angelos Liakakis and Ulrich Voss. Since 2015 he has been a member of the MOYSA-Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki Concert Hall. He studies music theory and has been awarded in national composition competitions. In summer 2021, he participated in the international educational programme of music composition MakeMusiCoviT under the guidance of George-Emmanuel Lazaridis. He also studies piano under the guidance of Eleni Pistopoulou at the “E. Samaras” Conservatory. He studies at the Hellenic College of Thessaloniki (3rd grade) with a scholarship.

Stavros Samaras was born in 2006. He started violin lessons at the age of three. He entered the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki with Professor Evangelia Delfinopoulou and he continues his studies with Yannis Korbetis. He has attended violin seminars with Kurt Nikkanen, Dimitris Chandrakis, Lena Neudauer, Noé Inui, Apollon Grammatikopoulos, Kostas Panagiotidis, Ben Sayevich and Martin Funda. At the age of six he played as a soloist with the New Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. As a soloist he has also performed with the Panarmonia Orchestra of the Municipal Conservatory of Drama and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki State Conservatory. At the age of sixteen he won the first prize in the Maria Cherogiorgou-Sigara Panhellenic Music Competition at the Athens Concert Hall. He has been a member of the Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra “MOYSA” since 2017. He is a member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and the new Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. With the MakeMusicCoviT team and under the guidance of George-Emmanouel Lazaridis and Safira Antzus-Ramos, he participated in the competition for the Empress Theofano Prize at the iconic monument of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki, in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou. He is studying (A’ Superior level) piano with Inessa Pavlidou Simonidou and Eleni Pistopoulou at the “E.  Samaras” Conservatory in Thessaloniki. He attends composition classes under the guidance of his father Kampanis Samaras. His musical compositions have been performed in major music halls (Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall etc.) of Greece by major orchestras.

upported and guided by Lord Yehudi Menuhin at a young age, Kirill Troussov is meanwhile widely recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. He works with renowned orchestras and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals and in famous concert halls of the world. According to the international press his playing is caracterised by “impressive elegance, irreproachable technique, an exceptional musical sensibility and sonorities of an immaculate beauty”. Kirill Troussov regularly gives masterclasses at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Colburn School Los Angeles, Beijing and Nanjing Central Conservatory, European Music Institute Vienna, in Cremona, Milan, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, Budapest, USA and Hong Kong. He is frequently invited as jury member to international violin competitions, among others to Schoenfeld International String Competition, Ysaÿe International Music Competition and Carl Flesch International Violin Competition. Since 2023 Kirill Troussov is Artistic Director at the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden and since 2021, he is Chairman and Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Young Musicians Competition. Since 2023 the label Orchid Classics releases the series Kirill Troussov Live, where over forty of his celebrated live concert performances will be available on all audio-streaming platforms. Kirill Troussov plays the Antonio Stradivari violin “Brodsky” (1702), on which violinist Adolph Brodsky performed the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto on 4 December 1881.

As a piano scholar of the Greek State Scholarships’ Foundation, the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Theodore Tzovanakis studied piano at the Cologne University of Music, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, completing his studies as a solo pianist and being awarded the titles of Konzertexamen and Master’s in Performance. He has also gained a degree in Music Studies by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has studied with Domna Evnouhidou, Roswitha Gediga, Geoffrey Douglas Madge among others. He has won three first prizes in national piano competitions as well as the MacΚenzie Award in New York. As a soloist, he has collaborated with symphony orchestras and music ensembles from Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Israel, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. She has given piano recitals in many European countries, he has performed and recorded premiere works for solo piano and songs by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Emilios Riadis. His recent recording includes songs by Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Mendelssohn. Tzovanakis is a piano professor at the Athens Conservatoire.

With his characteristic warm sound and sensitive interpretation, Lech Antonio Uszynski has become a sought-after violist on international stages. As a soloist and chamber musician he has played in concert halls that include the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Philharmonie in Berlin, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich, Wigmore Hall in London, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In June 2022 he had his critically acclaimed solo debut at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław under the direction of Krzysztof Urbański. In 2023 Uszynski has been appointed Professor of viola at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. In 2019 his solo album Progetto Gibson was released by RCA Red Seal (Sony Classical). The pieces on this recording are related to Antonio Stradivari’s “Gibson” Viola (1734), which Uszynski played from 2010-2017. In 2018 his quartet released two CDs (Works by Schumann & Schubert) for RCA Red Seal. In 2021 he received much critical acclaim for his live recording of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in a version for viola solo which was published on YouTube. Uszynski was born in 1986 into a family of Polish musicians in Padova, Italy, but moved to Switzerland the following year. It was there that he grew up, studying with Ana Chumachenco, Zakhar Bron and Michel Rouilly at Zurich’s University of the Arts. He also received mentoring and encouragement as a viola player from Rudolf Barshai. He currently performs on a rare viola (1690) by the maker Hendrick Willems.

Brimful of energy, Antje Weithaas’ brings her compelling musical intelligence and technical mastery to every detail of the music. As a soloist, she has worked with most of Germany’s leading orchestras and numerous major international orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, and the BBC Symphony. She has collaborated with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar.  There were rave reviews for Antje Weithaas’ project for CAvi, the complete recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas and Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas. The cpo recording of the violin concerto by Robert Schumann and the double concerto by Johannes Brahms with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, cellist Maximilian Hornung and conductor Andrew Manze, received the 2021 BBC Music Magazine’s “Concerto” Award. Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of four and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with professor Werner Scholz. She is winner of several international competitions. Together with Oliver Wille, she has taken over the artistic leadership of the renowned Joseph Joachim Competition. Antje Weithaas is professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler and plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.