Speakers

Laureate and Audience Prize Winner at the 63rd Ferruccio Busoni Competition 2021, pianist Vladimir Petrov is internationally hailed as one of the leading rising stars of our times.

Beata Pincetić and Christos Sakellaridis, are an internationally esteemed duo with a broad and exciting repertoire for piano four-hands or two pianos.

Lily Maisky was born in Paris and raised in Brussels where she is still based. She began her piano studies at the age of 4 with Lyl Tiempo and Alan Weiss, and she was a pupil at the “Purcell School of Music” from 2001 until 2005.

Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by The Telegraph as ‘potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century'.

Exceptionally gifted with an unusually broad repertoire, Freddy Kempf is one of today’s most celebrated pianists.

Winner of the Tampere Piano Competition in 2017 and the Leevi Madetoja Piano Competition in 2015, Ossi Tanner is steadily gaining the reputation as one of Finland’s most talented young pianists.

Born in Buenos Aires, José Gallardo is a graduate of the University of Mainz, where he studied under Professor Poldi Mildner.

Pianist Julien Quentin has established himself as a versatile and sensitive musician, exhibiting great maturity and poise. His remarkable depth of musicianship and distinct clarity of sound coupled with flawless technique, make him an artist in demand as both soloist and chamber musician.

Bulgarian-born Gergana Georgieva started receiving piano and music lessons at the age of six, and by the age of ten, she was accepted at the Pancho Vladigerov Music School in Burgas.