Guest artists at the piano festival

As a concertmaster, he has appeared with many leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Lisa Schatzman gave her first solo performance with an orchestra at the age of six as the youngest pupil of the Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga. Her studies led her to Hagai Shaham at the Rubi…

As a soloist and chamber musician, he has given concerts and recitals in most European and American countries, in Hong Kong and Japan. In summer 2008 he was Artist in Residence at the Murten C…

Heiner Reich has made a name for himself as an accomplished cellist and stylistically confident musician whose repertoire ranges from baroque to modern.

David Desimpelaere has been principal double bass with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester since 2018. He has held the same position with the “Orchestra della Svizzera italiana” in Luga…

In 2019, aged 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition, where he also won the Grand Prix, which has only been awarded three t…

Capuçon has built an extensive discography and records exclusively with Erato/Warner Classics. His recent releases include a recording of Bartok’s two violin concertos with the LSO/Roth,…

For some years now, French pianist David Fray has been one of the world stars of the younger generation. Born in Tarbes (southern France) in 1981 to a German teacher and a Kant-and-Hegel schol…

Violinist Janine Jansen regularly works with the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. A…

Samuel Niederhauser is a Swiss cellist and prizewinner, trained in Zurich (ZHdK) and at the Basel Music Academy. He is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition (2022), received the Guy Fa…

Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Martha Argerich began her first piano lessons at the age of five with Vincenzo Scaramuzza. Considered a child prodigy, it was not long before she was performi…

Akane Sakai was born in Nagoya (Japan) and studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and at the Lemmensinstituut in Belgium with Midori Miura, Alan Weiss, Lilya Zilberstein and Pavel…