Artists

Mario Brunello is one of the most multifaceted and sought-after artists of his generation. A soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and a pioneer of cello piccolo, he is the first European ever to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986. Brunello is a cellist of an extraordinary talent that balances performing a wide-ranging repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary.

Unparalleled in her ability to incarnate complex psychology of the most challenging opera roles, from Salome to Tatiana and from Aida to Renata, soprano Elena Stikhina is revered for her magnetic presence and her soft-grained, seductive tone. This season she returns to the Metropolitan Opera and Opera Bastille and stars in the new production of Aida at Bayerische Staatsoper.
“A captivating diva”. NEW YORK CLASSICAL REVIEW

“When Pavel Kolesnikov made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2014, it was immediately obvious that we were witnessing the early stages of the rarest of talents. Kolesnikov balances intimacy with drama in his intensely personal interpretations, often daring in their originality. He approaches the keyboard with love in his heart and extracts from it a succession of spells”.
CRITICS’ CIRCLE MUSIC AWARDS 2019

Slagwerk Den Haag is one of the leading ensembles for contemporary percussion music. Since its foundation in 1977, the members of the ensemble have been passionate about performing and developing percussion music in its most diverse forms. They have never been content to remain with their existing repertoire and have continuously worked together with numerous contemporary composers to explore new sounds.

Performing music from baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova has established a reputation as one of the most accomplished and intriguing violinists.“The immediacy and honesty of Ibragimova’s playing has the curious ability to collapse any sense of distance between performer and listener”. THE GUARDIAN

Lauded for the originality and intense drama of his interpretations, pianist Samson Tsoy is a great believer in the importance of establishing meaningful ways to venture outside the familiar and conservative. Recent projects attesting this include a collaboration with the great American artist Richard Serra, and two large scale projects at the former car-park at South East London with Philharmonia Orchestra. Samson plays in a duo with Pavel Kolesnikov which was praised as “inspiration for our dark times”
in SUNDAY TIMES.

Through her distilled and often surreal works, Eva Vermandel (°1974) explores how we perceive the world, drawing attention to the mundane by suspending its ‘normality’. Her work is in the collections of the V&A, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.