Xin Wang established herself in spite of her young age as one of the leading pianists of the inner Mongolia China. She came into public attention when she won a special prize at the national Piano Competition China with the age of seven and has since gone on to give piano concerts an recitals in concert halls all over China. She studied with Jolio Largacha and Gabriel Rosenberg in Cologne and Nurnberg. During her study she got a scholarship of the DAAD. Xin Wang has won numerous honors and prizes including the piano competition Lengano Italy, the piano competition Bettona Italy and many others.

She is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Europa and Asia like Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Concert Hall in Xiamen, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo, Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot and many others. As a soloist Xin Wang appeared with many famous orchestras, among them Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg, Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists and Berliner Camerata under the baton of famous conductors like Kazem Abdullah, Christopher Ward, Conrad van Alphen, Marek Štilec, James P. Liu, Juri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. She is a regular guest at international festivals such as Skrjabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival „federi musica“ Neapel Italy, International Piano Festival Salerno Italy, „IBLA Claasic“ Sicilia Italy, Piano Festival Orbetello Italy, „Friday Nights with Yury Revich“ Wien Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Deià Spain, Festival „Palau March Museu“ Palma Spain, „Festival de musique classique a Pompignan“ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden Germany, „Monschau Klassik“ Germany, „International Piano Festival Wuhan" China and many others. As a passionate chamber musician she regularly works with colleagues like Echo-Klassik prize winner Yury Revich or Alexandre Debrus in China and Europe.

Xin Wang is founder and artist director of the international piano festival in Geilenkirchen Germany and jury president of the international piano competition "Euregio Piano Award". She is often inivited as a jury member in many international piano competitions such as Campillos Spain, „Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition“ Novi Saad Serbia, „Neue Sterne“ Wernigerode Germany, „Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize“ Barletta Italy, „Notes in Harmony“ Bettona Italy, „Academy Award“ Rom Italy, Asian Youth international piano Competition Hongkong, and many others.

Since 2012 she teaches as a guest professor at different music universities in China and gave several master classes in China and Germany with prestigious teachers from well known music universities in Europe.

As a soloist Sigfridsson has played with the leading Finnish orchestras and numerous orchestras throughout the world, including the MDR Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National Lorraine Metz, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonics, Musica Viva Moscow, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the “Junge Deutsche Philharmonie”, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, State Philharmonic Orchestras of Izmir and Istanbul, Bucheon and Wonju Philharmonic Orchestras, and many others, under the baton of prestigious conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Sir Neville Marriner, Tugan Sokhiev, Juraj Valcuha, Dorian Wilson, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Daniel Raiskin, Young-Min Park, Lior Shambadal, Georg Alexander Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alexander Lazarev, Beat Furrer, Andreas Delfs, Dennis Russel Davies, Lawrence Foster, Howard Shelley, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Thomas Henglbrock, Jacques Mercier, Jun-Ichi Hirokami, Roman Kofman, Stefan Blunier, Christoph Poppen, Heinrich Schiff, Johannes Wildner, Theodore Kuchar, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Okko Kamu, Hannu Lintu, Ari Rasilainen and Leif Segerstam.

In 2005 Sigfridsson won the First Prize at the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Bonn, where he got the Audience Prize and Chamber Music Prize as well. As the winner of the Second Prize of the Zurich Geza Anda Piano competition 2000, Sigfridsson not only impressed the Jury under the chairmanship of Vladimir Ashkenazy, he won the hearts of many members of the public who attended the final concert in the Zurich Tonhalle, and he walked off with the Geza Anda Audience Prize. Sigfridsson got first prizes at the 1994 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar and at the 1995 “Nordic Soloist Competition”. Moreover he got the second prize 2004 at the Maria Callas Competition in Athens.

Sigfridsson has made notable performances in the Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Concert Hall, Berlin, Cologne and Munich Philharmonies, Munich Herkulessaal, Munich Prinzregententheater, Berlin Konzerthaus, Stockholm Concert Hall, Zurich Tonhalle, St. Petersburg Philharmony, major halls in Japan, Italy and Austria, Wigmore Hall London, Kennedy Center Washington, Megaron Athens, Theatre Chatelet Paris, Luxemburg Philharmony, Auditorio Nacional Madrid etc. Sigfridsson performs at very prestigious festivals like the Salzburg Festival, Augsburg Mozart Week, the St. Petersburg Musical Olympus Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival, the Heidelberg Festival, the Kissinger Sommer Festival, the Interlaken Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Davos, Gstaad Menuhin and Interlaken Festivals, the Styriarte Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival and Mondsee Festival.

Henri Sigfridsson feels a very deep commitment to chamber music. He appeared with Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Guy Braunstein, Isabelle van Keulen, Gordan Nikolic, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Peter Hörr, Mischa Maisky, Sol Gabetta, Johannes Moser, David Geringas, Michel Lethiec, Milan Turkovich, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Boris Berezovsky and Melvyn Tan to name a few.

Sigfridsson began studying with Sävy Nordgren at the Turku Conservatory and later at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki ( Prof. Erik T. Tawaststjerna). He completed his studies at the Cologne Music University with the highest distinction (Prof. Pavel Gililov). 1995-97 he studied at the Franz Liszt Music University in Weimar (Prof. Lazar Berman) as well.

2008-2009 Sigfridsson had a guest professorship at the Graz University or Music and Dramatic Arts in Austria. 2010-2012 he was a guest professor at the Music University Hanns Eisler in Berlin and from 2011 professor in Essen at the Folkwang University of the Arts as a holder of one of the highest chairs for piano in Germany.

BORISLAVA TANEVA has presented herself on the international stage as a pianist, chamber musician and composer. She is a laureate of international piano, chamber music and composition competitions in Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Greece, Luxembourg and Norway, and in 2010 she was awarded the Grand Prix Exceptionnel at the First International Composition Competition “Artists des Herbes ” in Luxembourg, and in 2017 she was awarded the second prize at the Edvard Grieg Composition Competition in Oslo. Her extensive repertoire also includes works by contemporary composers, as well as works by her father Alexander Tanev. B. Taneva was the first Bulgarian pianist to give an integral performance of the piano sonates of Joseph Haydn in 9 concerts. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Bulgaria, India, Greece (with the Thessaloniki Philharmonic Orchestra and “Orchestra ton chromatin”- Athens), The Ashdod chamber orchestra – Israel, the Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine, Orchester Wallisellen Switzerland.

Borislava Taneva graduated from the National School of Music in Sofia with a gold medal and the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music majoring in piano under Nikolay Evrov, Julia and Konstantin Ganev and composition studies under Parashkev Hadjiev. Since 1990 she has taught piano at the National Academy of Music in various capacities. In 1999/2000 year she won a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and specialised contemporary music with prof. Cherie Broome in Milano, where she also performed multiple concerts. She is currently a Professor in Piano in the Piano Department and since 2016 she has been Vice-Dean for Artistic and Creative and International Activities at the National Academy of Music. She is a PhD in Music since 2013. She teaches piano at the New Conservatory in Thessaloniki, and teaches a class on contemporary music interpretation in Athens. She also collaborates with conservatories in Geneva and Larissa, where she gives music seminars on various topics. She has given master classes in Greece, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, Norway, USA. Her graduates have been repeatedly awarded prizes at international and national music forums. She regularly adjudicates at music competitions in France, Austria, Finland, Singapore, Luxembourg, Greece, Serbia, Malta, Bulgaria.

She is a founder and member of the Swiss-Bulgarian cultural association SBAC, based in Geneva. In 2014, she was awarded the Golden Quillis Award for outstanding contribution to Bulgarian culture and art, and in 2015 – the Crystal Lyre Award of the Union of Musicians and the Musician of the Year Award of the Bulgarian National Radio for active creative work. Since 2016 she has been co-chair of the Pianissimo Foundation. The London publishing house Musica Ferrum has published her piano works for children, which have been awarded several times at international forums.

She has participated in a number of festivals including: “Sofia Music Weeks”, “European Music Festival”, “New Year Music Festival”, “March Music Days”, “Musicexchange”, “Sound and Connection”, “ppIANISSIMO” – festival for contemporary piano music – Sofia; Balkan Forum Serres, Kefalonia Music Festival, Delphi Music Festival – Greece, Tortoreto Chamber Music Festival, San Benedetto Music Festival – Italy and Craiova muzicala Music Festival – Romania. She has played in the prestigious halls of the “Palau de la Musica” – Barcelona, “Auditorio National de Musica” – Madrid, Brandenburg Theatre, “Megaro musikis” in Thessaloniki and Athens. In 1998 she participated in the Second International Meeting of Women Composers in Athens. She has made recordings for Bulgarian National Radio, National Television and Greek ERT3.

Critics from around the world (Postdate Nachrichten, Fanfare, New York at Carnegie Hall Concert reviews, Musica, consider Gianluca Luisi one of the most interesting Italian pianists of our time. His performances have received enthusiastic acclaim in many places of the world.

In Italy, he graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Pesaro; studied at the Incontri col Maestro International Academy in Imola and with Aldo Ciccolini in Naples and Paris. Gianluca Luisi has performed in prestigious halls and important venues, such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Bellini Teather in Catania, at the San Carlo in Naples, the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg), in the Mozart Saal at the Bachakademie in Stuttgart, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, the Music Festival of the Saarland, in Weiden and Sulzbach for Meisterkonzerte, in Bauman Auditorium in Newberg (USA) and many other U.S. cities (Washington, New York, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Lower Columbia College in Washington), as well as other places in Europe (Malta, Porto, Oslo, Helsinki, Berlin, Neuhardenberg, Frankfurt).

Among the extensive selections of his repertoire are the complete Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach, a work he has performed countless times from memory, receiving enthusiastic acclaim from international critics and one he recorded for the American label Centaur. Fanfare and American Record Guide described his recording as an absolute reference with the historic atmosphere of Edwin Fischer; the magazine “Piano News” (Düsseldorf) rated Gianluca’s recording 6 out of 6 stars for the quality of his interpretation.

Gianluca has made 26 recordings, some of them are devoted to unusual repertoire, including unpublished works and world premieres. He has taken part in the complete recording project of the Gradus ad Parnassum by Clementi and has issued a CD dedicated to Liszt with the Years of Pilgrimage, Italy (also for Centaur). Two additional CDs that have received accolades from critics, include the Quintet written by G. Onslow and Chopin Piano Concertos with the Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt for Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG). For Naxos International Gianluca recorded 1 CD with music by F. Liszt, two CD’s with chamber compositions of L.Thuille (including the complete works for violin and piano with violinist Marco Rogliano), two CDs with the complete set of the 100 J.B.Cramer Etudes.

Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the historical Italian”Pianist Cup” competition, born in 1968 and member of the Alink Argerich Foundation AAF , of the “Osimo Piano Hours” festival and in 2015 he was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city. He is a member of the Shenzhen Artstar Cultural Community Co. LTD and International Piano Museum Organizing Center of Shenzhen (China). He teached at the Academy of Imola Incontri col Maestro, at the Music Academy of Pescara, the Piano Academy of the Marche of Recanati high-level courses, the Engadine Sommer Academy of Samedan in San Moritz and Disentis , at the Umberto Giordano Conservatory of Foggia and is actually Professor at the Giacchino Rossini Conservatorio in Pesaro. He has held postgraduate courses in some important American Universities (Portland George Fox, Nevada Las Vegas, New York Westminster Conservatory, Lower Columbia College Washington, Denver State University Colorado), in the Hochschule of the Saarland, in Japan (Nagoya Yamaha faculty) and China at the Shanghai Music Conservatory.

The German pianist and music manager Florian Koltun studied at university of music in Cologne and at the University of Music Trossingen by Prof. Ilja Scheps and Tomislav Baynov.

He had Masterclasses also with prestigious teachers like B. L. Gelber or G. Rosenberg. His active concert work started at the age of 14 when already calling attention to himself by winning several first prizes at the German competition Jugend musiziert as well as the national Bach Competition in Köthen.

He is first prize winner of several international piano competitions, like the piano competition in Caraglio / Italy, the international piano competition for young pianists in Luxembourg, the Henri Herman Concours in Maastricht / Netherland or the international piano competition “Notes in harmony” in Bettona / Italy.

Florian Koltun is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Germany, Belgium, Netherland, Italy, France, Spain or China. He performed recitals in prestigious places such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berliner Philharmonie, Thürmer-Saal Bochum or Schloss Koethen.

He is artistic director diffrent concert series and festivals in Germany (Heinsberg, Aachen, Windeck, Geilenkirchen, Boltenhagen and Monschau) and gave several masterclasses at different music universities in China and Europe since 2012. From 2015 until 2017 he was teaching piano at the music university Cologne.