The Franco-Lithuanian pianist MŪZA Rubackytė lives between Vilnius, Paris and Geneva. After studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she won the All Union Competition in St Petersburg. In 1981 she won the Grand Prize at the Budapest Liszt-Bartok International Piano Competition. A resistance fighter in Lithuania, she was unable to leave the USSR until 1989. In Paris she won First Prize for Piano at the International Competition Les Grands Maîtres Français of the Triptyque Association, founded by Ravel, Dukas and Roussel.
Cansu Şanlıdağ is a solo pianist, renowned for her expressive playing and virtuosity. She began her musical training at the age of seven at the Dokuz Eylul Conservatory in Izmir, before continuing her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Mons and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel under Dalia Ouziel and Aleksandar Madzar. She then completed her training in the Postgraduate programme at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Markus Hadulla.
Amandine Habib was born in Marseilles in a family of music lovers. Her father was a jazz fan, her mother had won a first piano prize at the Tunis Conservatory at 18, her grand-parents were keen on opera and on the piano, her great grand-mother played the mandoline while singing Ladino or Yiddish melodies... Thus, Amandine’s DNA is all quavers and appoggiaturas. At 9, Amandine enters the Marseilles Conservatory in Nathalie Lanoë’s class then in Edouard Exerjean’s chambermusic one. In 1998, she obtains two first prizes in both subjects.
Matthieu Stefanelli, winner of the Orléans and Bremen competitions and of the Banque Populaire Foundation, performs both his own Concerto for piano and chamber orchestra Chroma and the classical and romantic repertoire.
As a disciple of Jacques Rouvier, Prisca Benoît and Bruno Rigutto, and with his experience as a composer, he brings a personal touch to his performances.
Jean Muller performed the complete cycles of Beethoven’s and Mozart’s piano sonatas in concert. His discography won numerous awards, such as the Gramophone Critic’s Choice, International Piano Choice, Stern des Monats Fono Forum, DeutschlandRadio Kultur CD der Woche, Pizzicato Excellentia, etc.
Pianist Christian Chamorel is remarkable for the diversity of his repertoire and his exacting artistic approach.
The richness and elegance of its sound palette, combined with its remarkable and intense sensitivity, make Cyril Guillotin an artist apart, an unclassifiable pianist.