BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST combine his ever-increasing solo engagements with AWARDS 2007 his position as principal oboe of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is the oboist of choice for many of today‘s conductors and as a Jermolaj Albiker violin chamber musician he is much in demand Berlin born violinist Jermolaj Albiker is studying at throughout the world by chamber partners of the the moment with Antje Welthaas at the Hanns highest calibre. Eisler Conservatory in Berlin. He has played with Contact: Lorna Neill at Music InterAlia numerous renowned national and international +44 208 878 6191 orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester mail to: [email protected] Berlin, Prague Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic and www.musicinteralia.com Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras and has won www.ogrintchouk.com many awards and prizes such as the German Music Competition in 2003 and at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. He is particularly dedicated to chamber music and has played together with many BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST international musicians such as Steven Isserlis, FELLOWSHIP AWARDS Lars Vogt, Tatjana Masurenko, Baiba Skride, Lylia Zilberstein, Hartmuth Rohde and Isabelle Faust. Vilde Frang violin Contact: Mireya Salinas at Salinas Musik Management Born in Norway, Vilde Frang studied from 1993-2002 + 49 30 8109 9561 at the Barratt-Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Since mail to: [email protected] 2003, she has studied with Kolja Blacher and Ana www.salinasmusik.de Chumachenco in Germany. Since Mariss Jansons engaged her to give her debut with the Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra at the age of 12, she has performed with symphony orchestras all over Quatuor Ébène string quartet Europe. She has appeared in festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and Quatuor Ébène is considered one of the very best Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern and young quartets worldwide. In the coming seasons performed with Gidon Kremer and Yuri Bashmet at the quartet will take part in a Haydn cycle at the Chamber Music Connects the World Festival. London‘s Wigmore Hall. They will also celebrate the Vilde Frang performs Bach‘s Double Concerto with Haydn anniversary in 2009 at the Palais des Beaux- Anne-Sophie Mutter in a tour of Scandinavia and Arts Brussels as well as performing in the Théâtre Germany in 2007. A concert with the London des Champs-Elysées Paris, Concertgebouw Philharmonic at Eastbourne in 2007/08 is also Amsterdam, Rotterdam De Doelen, Tonhalle Zurich, planned. Musikverein Vienna and many other venues in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Britain, Contact: Hans Dieter Goehre at Concerto Winderstein Belgium, Switzerland, the United-States and Japan. +49 89 3838 4640 In June 2006, Quatuor Ébène was admitted to the mail to: [email protected] BBC New Generation Artists scheme. In 2004 the www.concerto.de quartet won First Prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich. Chamber music partners include internationally-renowned musicians such as Michel Dalberto, Frank Braley, Nicolai Lugansky, Gary Hoffman, Michel Portal and Paul Meyer. The Lavinia Meijer harp Quatuor Ébène has recorded a live Haydn CD Lavinia Meijer studied with Erika Waardenburg at (Mirare, Harmonia Mundi), released in February the Conservatory of Utrecht and Amsterdam, where 2006. They release a Bartók CD in February 2007. she received her Bachelor‘s and Master‘s Degree Contact: Romain Blondel at Solea Management cum laude. Her major prizes include international + 33 1 42 36 45 33 harp competitions in Brussels, Vienna, Israel and mail to: [email protected] the USA. Lavinia Meijer has performed solo across www.solea-management.com Europe, Asia and the USA and concertos with many www.quatuorebene.com renowned orchestras. She has been invited to perform solo recitals in the Rising Stars series, which includes Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Birmingham, Athens, Stockholm, and New York Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe (Carnegie Hall). As an ambassador for the harp, she Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of the most outstanding promotes it as a true solo instrument by searching oboists performing today and he is still in his for lesser known works as well as commissioning twenties. He combines astounding technique with new works. virtuosity and lyricism. Originally from Moscow, Contact: Mikloss Schwalb at Schwalb Alexei has been performing on the international Concertmanagement scene since the age of 13. He is the winner of a +31 36 5230 125 number of international competitions and awards mail to: [email protected] including the Geneva Competition, Rising Stars and www.schwalbconcertmanagement.com the BBC New Generation scheme. He manages to www.laviniameijer.com Navarra Quartet string quartet appeared with the Orchestre de Paris, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin, Frankfurt and Xander van Vliet violin Copenhagen and the Kremerata Baltica. Marije Ploemacher violin Simone van der Giessen viola Performances have taken him to festivals such as Nathaniel Boyd cello Spannungen-Festival Heimbach, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Beethoven-Festspiele Bonn and on Winners of the 2005 Florence International to the stages of the Philharmonie Berlin, Chamber Music Competition, and selected for Philharmonie Munich, Théâtre du Chatelet Paris and representation by Young Concert Artists Trust in the Seoul Arts Center. Julian Steckel plays chamber 2006, the Navarra Quartet is fast emerging as one music with musicians such as Christian Tetzlaff, of the outstanding quartets of its generation. Isabelle Faust, Lars Vogt and the Guarneri Quartet. Formed in 2002 under the guidance of Dr Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music, in Contact: Nikolaus Schmidt at Konzertbüro Nikolaus Schmidt 2005 the Quartet was awarded the Professional + 49 40 2805 6617 Performance Diploma with distinction. They are mail to: [email protected] currently Junior Fellows at the RNCM and also www.schmidtkonzert.de study with the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne. As a www.juliansteckel.com Quartet the Navarras have participated in masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich, Thomas Riebl, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, the Chillingirian and Endellion Quartets. They have also taken part in the Irina Zahharenkova piano/harpichord/fortepiano International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and in 2007 return to Aldeburgh as Resident Irina Zahharenkova is one of the most outstanding Quartet at the Britten-Pears School. keyboard performers to emerge from Estonia today. She performs frequently on the piano and Contact : Rosemary Pickering at Young Concert Artists Trust harpsichord in solo recitals, chamber music concerts + 44 207 379 8477 and as soloist with orchestras. In 2007 she will mail to: [email protected] appear in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Finland, www.ycat.co.uk Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, among others. www.navarra.co.uk She has won first prizes in several major international piano competitions, including Leipzig‘s Bach Competition and Italy‘s Casagrande Competition in 2006. She holds a Master‘s degree Julian Steckel cello from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Julian Steckel was born in 1982. He studied with Presently she lives in Finland and pursues further Boris Pergamenschikow and is now a pupil of studies at the Sibelius Academy. Heinrich Schiff. Julian Steckel is a prizewinner of Contact: Irina Zahharenkova the international competitions of Berlin (Emanuel +358 456 324221 Feuermann), Paris (Concours Rostropowitsch) and mail to: [email protected] Kronberg (Pablo Casals). As a soloist he has

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