Born in Munich in 2000, Anjulie Chen started playing the piano at the age of three – in the beginning coached by her mother Yumiko Yamamoto but very soon by Prof. Martina Bauer. However, she didn’t only follow her passion for the piano but dedicated most of her time to professional ballet training at the Heinz-Bosl Stiftung in Munich.
Due to an injury in 2016, she stopped taking intense ballet classes and started devoting her time primarily to her piano studies. In October of the same year, she became a Junior Academy Member at the Leopold-Mozart Zentrum in Augsburg with Prof. Christine Olbrich as well as at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Munich with Prof. Thomas Bockheler where she progressed to becoming a full-time piano student in 2017. Two years later, Anjulie won third prize at the International Piano Competition Lagny-sur-Marne and was soon after that awarded with the DAAD scholarship which allowed her to continue her music education at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Prof. Colin Stone.
Alongside her studies, Anjulie Chen gives concerts both nationally and internationally, and she has performed in the Beethoven Festival at the Bunka-Kaikan Concert Hall in Tokyo in January 2022. She has received extensive tuition from eminent artists such as Dina Yoffe, Thomas Ades, Pascal Devoyon, Herbert Schuch, Yevgeny Sudbin, Pascal Roge, Kirill Gerstin and Prof. Klaus Schilde.

Annouk Brönnimann, born in Zurich in 2000, started playing the violin at the age of six. From 2011 to summer 2018, she was taught at the Zurich Conservatory (MKZ) by Jens Lohmann, among others, and was part of the Precollege (MKZ) for three years.
In autumn 2018, Annouk began her Bachelor’s degree at the Zurich University of the Arts with Professor Andreas Janke. In June 2021, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Zurich and from October 2021 to summer 2022, she continued her Bachelor’s studies in the artistic profile with Professor Mi-Kyung Lee at the Munich University of Music and Theatre.
In July 2022, she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and began her Master’s degree with Professor Mi-kyung Lee in autumn 2022. Since February 2023, she has been studying with Professor Lena Neudauer at the University in Munich, and has she also received important artistic inspiration from Igor Ozim as part of the Gstaad String Academy, Ingolf Turban, Pierre Amoyal, Felix Andrievsky, Andreas Janke, Kirill Troussov, Jacqueline Ross, Wonji Kim and Priya Mitchell, among others.
Annouk has been an Academy Member of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig since September 2023. She was deputy concertmaster in the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra and a long-standing member of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra Stringendo and the Zurich Youth Symphony Orchestra, where she was concertmaster. Annouk has been a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium since summer 2022 and a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München e.V. since 2023.

Elisabeth Buchner began playing the violin with Simone Michielsen at the age of four. She was later taught by Peter Michielsen, who encouraged her to switch to the viola. After four years of lessons from Adrian Mustea, she began studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Professor Roland Glassl in autumn 2018. She spent her third year studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Professor Lars Anders Tomter as part of an Erasmus exchange programme.
Elisabeth is a multiple first prize winner of “Jugend musiziert”, received the Sparkasse special prize for outstanding achievements and was supported for two years with the Germany Scholarship. As a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, she has been playing a viola by Otto Erdez since 2014.
Elisabeth has been a member of the Hermann Levi Academy of the Bavarian State Opera since May 2022. She received important impulses at masterclasses with Prof Barbara Westphal, Prof Thomas Riebl, Prof Hartmut Rohde and Prof Jean Sulem.

Lukas Rothenfusser, born in Munich, received his first cello lessons at the age of eight from Stefan Bohn and Hanno Simons. From 2016-2021 he studied with Prof Reinhard Latzko at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and since 2021 he has been a master’s student with Prof Leonid Gorokhov at the HMTM Hannover.
He has received further artistic inspiration in masterclasses from Frans Helmerson, Johannes Moser, Wolfgang Boettcher, Miklós Perényi, Troels Svane, Gustav Rivinius, Frank-Michael Guthmann and the Ensemble Modern, among others. He is a multiple 1st national prize winner at the “Jugend Musiziert” competition and has also won a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. As a prizewinner of the “Musica Juventutis” competition, he made his debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in the 2019/20 season.
He has given chamber music concerts with Volker Jacobsen, Ulf Wallin, Thomas Selditz and Ernst Kovacic, among others, and has also been a Cusanuswerk scholarship holder since 2018

Hailed by the London Evening Standard as a ‘prodigy, of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry’, Nicholas Walker possesses a rare combination of talents combining sensitivity with ‘the flair of a full scale virtuoso and a sparkling intelligence’ (BBC Music Magazine).
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won all the major awards for both piano and composition, and subsequently at the Moscow Conservatoire.
While still a student in Moscow, he won the First Newport International Piano Competition and has since played with many British Orchestras, including the City of Birmingham and National Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, the London Festival and New Queen’s Hall Orchestras, the Philharmonia and the BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales. As well as performing in all the major London concert halls, he has played in North and South America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, Australia and Russia. He has recorded for BBC Radio 3, Cirrus, ASV, BMG Arte Nova, Chandos, Toccata Classics and Naxos Grand Piano. Equally at home in chamber music, he is sought after as an imaginative and sensitive accompanist, and his CD with Lydia Mordkovitch of Russian violin music was Daily Telegraph CD of the week.
Although Walker’s performances of Beethoven have brought him special notice, and his performances of the lyrical and late romantic piano music have also been singled out for the highest praise, it is for his championing of the cause of the neglected leader of ‘The Mighty Handful’, Mili Alexei Balakirev, that he is best known. Described by the Financial Times as ‘the nearest thing to a natural Balakirev performer’, Walker’s two discs of Balakirev piano music for ASV (CD DCA 940 & 1048) received great critical acclaim, and he has also received high praise for his performances of other Russian composers, including his live recording of the Liapunov Sonata on Danacord (DACOCD 539), described by Jeremy Nicholas as ‘thrilling… a tour de force’
His now complete series for Naxos Grand Piano is however unique, in that it introduces music that has never before been performed or published, including a substantial sonata and works that Nicholas has finished off himself. All the CDs garnered enthusiastic reviews, and CD3 was CD of the week on Musiq3. James Harrington of the American Record Guide has called them the “reference set”; Damian Thompson, writing in the Spectator, said that the series “has to be heard to be believed”, while Jeremy Nicholas in the Gramophone described the playing as “bravura with integrity”.
Nicholas’s next recording project is a double CD of all the Liszt etudes and the Sonata in B minor. The Wigmore Hall has programmed a Balakirev Day on 27th April, 2024 and invited Nicholas to give a lunchtime recital and an evening concert that day.
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In 1989 Ian Fountain became the youngest winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of 19.
He was educated as a chorister at New College, Oxford and later at Winchester College. He studied piano under Sulamita Aronovsky at the RNCM.
Since that time he has enjoyed a wide-ranging and varied career, performing extensively throughout Europe, the USA, the UK and the Far East, with orchestras such as the London Symphony and Sir Colin Davis, the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, and the Czech Philharmonic and Jiri Belohlavek. He has also performed with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Halle, CBSO, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and Utah Symphony amongst many others. In Moscow he was invited to open the 1992/3 season of the Moscow Conservatoire and in Poland he marked the 150th anniversary of Chopin’s death by playing both Chopin Concertos in Krakow.
As recitalist, he has performed in major centres such as New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Jerusalem. He is a regular guest of international festivals such as Prague Spring, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Enescu (Bucharest) and Kuhmo. He has performed an extensive repertoire of over 60 concertos, including the complete Mozart Concertos.
As a chamber musician, he enjoys many long-standing collaborations with musicians such as David Geringas, Erika Geldsetzer and the Mandelring Quartet, performing in concerts and festivals throughout Europe, Japan and Korea.
Recent performances include concerts with the Hungarian Philharmonic and Zoltan Kocsis in Budapest, the Enescu Philharmonic and Cristian Mandeal in Bucharest, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Jarvi in Japan, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and the RLPO in Liverpool. In 2018 he made his recital debut in China, and future plans include performances at major festivals in New York, Duszniki (Poland) Prague, Siena, and Shenzhen.
Ian Fountain has made several critically acclaimed recordings, including for EMI (20th Century Piano Sonatas), CRD (Beethoven Diabelli Variations), and for Sony and Haenssler Classics the complete works for cello and piano of Beethoven, Chopin and Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov with the cellist David Geringas. In 2015 he won an ECHO gramophone prize in Germany.
In 2008 he collaborated in the preparation of the present editions of Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Cello published by Henle Verlag, Munich. In January 2019, his fingerings for the complete Beethoven Variations for piano was published in the new Henle edition.
Since 2001, Ian Fountain has been a piano professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His students have won many competitions and awards. He holds an annual summer masterclass in Cervo, Italy, and further masterclasses around the world, in Beijing, Berlin, Hanover, Budapest and Jerusalem. He has served on the juries of many international piano competitions, including at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 2011.
Since 2022, Ian Fountain is Artistic Director of the International Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund, Germany.

Pianist Julia Hamos combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and the Mannes College of Music in New York with Richard Goode, Julia studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and is now studying at the Kronberg Academy where her studies are generously supported by the Henle Foundation. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a series of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven solo piano and string sonatas. She also delved into György Kurtág’s 8 Pieces, Op. 3 together with the composer at the Budapest Music Center.
She is the winner of the Sterndale Bennett Prize for Romantic Music at the Royal Academy of Music and the Fidelman Prize for Contemporary Music from the Mannes School of Music in New York and won the Grand Prix of the International Virtuoso Competition in New York City.
Julia is in international demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She performs at the Pierre-Boulez Saal, Berlin, the Wigmore Hall, London, as well as in New York at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Liszt Academy in Budapest and other concert halls in Europe and overseas.
She has given recitals and chamber music performances at the Krzyzowa Festival in Kreisau, Poland as well as at the Trasimeno Music Festival in Italy, at the Prussia Cove Festival in Cornwall, as part of the Verbier Festival Academy, at the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina, at the Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine, at the Ravinia Steans Institute in Illinois, and most recently at Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World in collaboration with Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Tetzlaff.
Passionate about exploring dynamics between student and teacher, from 2017-2019 she taught at the 92nd Street Y School of Music in New York. She also gains new insights from working closely with other art fields, resulting in collaborations with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the New English Ballet Theater and the New School’s Drama Division.
At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, she appears in the Building Bridges series of concerts throughout Europe in the 2022/23 season. Notable recital appearances include performances at Wigmore Hall, Beethoven Haus Bonn, the Magyar Zene Hàz in Budapest and the Luxembourg Philharmonie. She will play Ligeti Piano Concerto in Berlin’s Boulez Saal this season with the Boulez Ensemble and Matthias Pintscher as well as chamber music with members of Kronberg Academy including Tabea Zimmermann in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. She recently completed a recording of the Mozart Concerti with Howard Griffiths and the Camerata Schweiz for Alpha Classics. She is set to record her first solo CD of a program based around Schumann this spring. Julia also currently serves as the assistant to the musicology program at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin.
She has just had her debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal playing the Ligeti Concerto with Matthias Pintscher and the Boulez Ensemble.

Polish pianist Julia Klimek was described by The Guardian as “flamboyant” after her debut at the world-renown Wigmore Hall performing Clara Schumann’s Song Cycle. She marked the Weinberg Centenary at the University of Manchester and has performed alongside cellists Adrian Brendel and Mats Lindstrom. She has been invited to give recitals in Warsaw, Lvov and in Calgary in Canada.
Julia recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction, in addition to winning two institutional prizes – DipRAM for outstanding performance in a final recital and the Regency Award in recognition of a consistently exceptional level of achievement with Prof James Baillieu. While at the Academy, she initiated the Student Union Choir which she conducted in both classical and jazz repertoire, championing works by Ola Gjeilo, Bob Chilcott and John Rutter.
She has appeared in masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Steven Isserlis, Julius Drake, Helmut Deutsch, William Bennett, Brindley Sherratt, Roger Vignoles and at the Penderecki European Music Center.
Aside from her concert career as an international chamber musician based in London, she is honoured to hold the Artistic Advisor and Head of Piano Adjudication position at the Rococo Elite Musicians Competition in Hong Kong. She is a successful and devoted teacher to her exclusive piano class and regularly gives piano masterclasses. She is also the founder of “ISH Concerts” series at the International Students House in London.
A special sensitivity to music making is supported by her passion for painting, poetry, and ballet, which enriches her as a chamber musician, pianist and conductor. She is a passionate advocate of late 19th and 20th-century repertoire, Polish repertoire and women composers such as Grace Williams, Lili Boulanger and Clara Schumann.

Russian mezzo soprano Aleksandra Kenenova, was worn in Moscow> In 2020 finished Russian Institute of Theatre Arts ( opera theatre faculty). For three years worked at the GITIS theatre (Moscow, Russia), where you can hear her Olga (Eugene Onegin), Zelatrice, the Abbess, Principessa (Suor Angelica) and many others.
In 2021 with support and guidance of Dennis O’Neill gained a full sponsorship for a MA course in Wales International Academy of Voice (Cardiff, Wales) from American Trust and Dennis O’Neill’s Foundation . In autumn 2022, sung Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor in Normansfield Theatre , London with Instant Opera Company. Aleksandra was lucky enough to take part in a unique art song project made by Linda Kitchen (Wales opera Works, Detective Notes,Cardiff, March/April 2023)
In August 2023 sponsored by Music Community (NY, USA) participated in Michael Chance’s Opera School SienAgosto (Siena , Italy). In October 2023 as part of the R.A.C.H. project, she recorded a CD with composer and pianist Fydor Biryuchev at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.

Latvian soprano Oksana Lepska made her Carnegie Hall concert debut when she was only twelve years old. She has since performed in concert halls all across Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Oksana moved to London in 2015 after receiving an offer to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where she successfully completed her Bachelor of Performance Degree. Her studies continued at the Royal College of Music, where she was fully supported by the Bruce-Payne Vaseppi scholarship. Under the tutelage of Patricia Bardon, she completed a Master of Performance Degree with Distinction in 2021.
Oksana’s most notable achievements to date include: first prize in the National Mozart Competition in London and second prize in the Pendine International Voice of the Future Competition in Llangollen, the role of Mimì in Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème for Hurn Court Opera in the United Kingdom and the role of Alcina in Handel’s Alcina for Saluzzo Opera Academy in Italy, participation in the Oxford International Song Festival and the Life Victoria Barcelona Lied Festival and nine solo recitals including the most recent at the National Liberal Club in London.

Born in Kingston Jamaica, Robert Winslade Anderson was an ABRSM International Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music. He started his UK solo career with Birmingham Opera Company followed then on to Welsh National Opera as a member of the full time chorus.
As a freelance soloist, he made appearances with many of the UK’s Opera Houses & Companies such as Scottish Opera, Opera North, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera Holland Park, Bampton Classical Opera & Grange Park Opera to name a few.
Operatic roles include: Antinous/Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Shaklovity/Khavanchina, Massetto/Don Giovanni, Marquis of Calatrava/Force of Destiny, Ramphis/Aida, Colline/La Boheme, The Old Man/Phoebus/The Day After (Jonathan Dove), 2nd Grail Knight/Parsifal, 1st Nazarene/Salome, Philip II/The Monk/Don Carlos, Don Fernando/Fidelio, Death/The Kaiser From Atlantis, Jake/Porgy & Bess, Clarence/American Lulu.
Concert highlights include the: Verdi Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, the Mozart Requiem with Sir Roger Norrington, appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Bridgewater Hall with the Halle Orchestra and the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra.
He has enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Mark Wigglesworth, Richard Farnes, Keri Lynn Wilson, Gerry Cornelius, Martin Brabbins, Stephen Barlow, Sir Richard Armstrong and directors such as the late Sir Graham Vick, Tim Albery, John Copley, John Full-James, and Sir David Pountney.
Robert is a member of the full time chorus of English National Opera. Last season, he understudied the roles Fasolt/The Rheingold and Father/Blue. This season, he performed An Eye/Handmaids Tale, the 2nd Armed Man/The Magic Flute and understudied the roles of Dr Grenville/La Traviata and Don Basilio/The Barber of Seville. He will return to Grange Park Opera this season to perform the role of Zemfira’s Father in Aleko by Rachmaninov.

Welsh tenor Ceri Davies is from Cardigan Bay, West Wales. He graduated from the Wales International Academy of Voice as a Master of Arts in 2022 where he was fortunate enough to study with some of opera’s greatest artists such as Dennis O’Neill CBE, Della Jones, Ryland Davies, Susan Bullock and many more.
Ceri is a familiar face within the concert scene in Wales and further afield having traveled to America as a soloist with Eschoir to sing at the North American Festival of Wales’ Grand Gala Concert in Philadelphia and performing at the Royal Chapel at the Cathedral of Seville. He is also a frequent guest on Welsh TV channel S4C’s magazine show’s called Prynhawn Dâ and Heno as well as featuring on a number of Welsh comedies for welsh comedy channel Hansh.
2022 proved very busy for Ceri with him performing for H.R.H King Charles III and Prime Minister Ralph Gonzalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines being only two of the many engagements.
2023 has also proven busy for him, along side concerts and recitals across the United Kingdom, he has toured with Opera Cymru’s production of Così fan tutte, performed along side soprano, Anna Gregory in Red Earth Opera’s  Coronation Concert, made his debut as Turiddu in Duchy Opera’s touring production of Cavalleria Rusticana, and ended the year by making his debut as Tybalt in Red Earth Opera’s production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi.