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He has performed in Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Palestine, Israel and Chile for over 300 concerts in some of the most important concert halls. Jury member of international piano competitions, as Treviso, Paderewski, Clavicologne, Malta, Yerevan, Astana, Madrid, Verona, Brasov, Lyon, Moscow. He holds the position as President of the italian academy Talent Music Master Courses of Brescia. Artistic Director and Chairman of the Jury of the “Brescia Classica International Piano Competition”.

Guest Professor at the Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg and Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. Artistic Advisor of the International Piano Competition “F. Liszt” in Utrecht and jury member of the most important piano competitions, such as Van Cliburn Texas, Rubinstein Tel-Aviv, Beethoven Bonn, Géza Anda Zürich, Cleveland, etc.

Ruben Dalibaltayan

Prize winner of the China International Piano Competition in Beijing, the Svetislav Stančić International Piano Competition in Zagreb and at the Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition in Yerevan.

He performed in Europe, Asia and America. Serving since 2005 as a Professor of piano at the Zagreb University Music Academy. During last ten years he raised a new generation of young pianists as Ivan Krpan and Aljosa Jurinic.

Andreas Frölich

Professor at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Aachen and Guest Professor at the Summeracademy Mozarteum Salzburg.
In the last years his students won more than 70 prizes in major international piano competitions. Jury Member in many International Piano Competition. Artistic Director and Jury Chairman at the MozArte International Piano Competition. Artistic leader at the Orpheo Concert Series in Kerkrade/ Holland

1st prize in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition Brussels in Belgium 1995. His worldwide concert activities include performances with the London Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Washington D.C., the San Francisco Symphony, the New Japan Philharmonic and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under such distinguished conductors as Ivan Fischer, Neeme Jaervi, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Jonathan Nott or David Robertson. Markus Groh performs solo recitals all over the world in some of the most important venues. In April 2014 Markus Groh started teaching as professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin succeeding Prof. Klaus Hellwig

Laureate of international competitions like Valsesia Musica, A. Scriabin, Ferrol and Las Rozas. He has performed extensively in Europe, Asia and America. Artistic Director of Campillos International Piano Competition, Piano Department of Valencia International Performance Academy and several piano and chamber music concert series in Spain. Jury member of competitions in Campillos, Las Rozas, Cantù, Aachen, Moscow, Hartford, Washington DC. Master classes in Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, China, Korea and USA. Professor and dean of piano department at Jose Iturbi Conservatory of Valencia. His students has achieved more than 100 top prizes in national and international piano competitions.

Prize- winner of the important international competitions in Oslo, Warsaw (Chopin Competition), Sydney and 1st prize at the ARD Competition Munich. Jury member of international piano competitions in China, Italy, Japan, Poland, etc...

Alexander Mndoyants

Laureate at the V International Van Cliburn Competition in the USA. Over the past years he went to all parts of the former USSR with concerts, made his appearances almost in all capital cities of the former Union republics, as well as in Poland, Finland, Japan, France and Portugal. A. Mndoyants is also active in his pedagogical work. Since the year of 1979 he has been one of the leading pedagogues of the Central School of Music, since the year of 1991 he has been holding the rank of Professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Among his pupils there are over 100 Laureates of different national and international competitions.
In 1991 A. Mndoyants was awarded the title of “Honored Artist of RUSSIA”

Top Prize Winner of five international competition and jury member in most of the renowned competitions. Artistic Director of International Duszniki Chopin Piano Festival and International Paderewski Piano Competition.

Philippe Raskin

Winner of the Spanish Composers International Piano Competition, Philippe Raskin performs many recitals all over the world. Jury member in several international piano competitions and artistic director of the César Franck International Piano Competition, he teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels

Professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Students of Prof. Scheps are winner of important international piano competitions so as exclusive artists of “Sony” and “Universal” Records. Jury member of international piano competitions and a chairman of “Mozarte” International Piano Competition in Germany

Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy

Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim, is one of the leading pianists of his generation. Since he was a child he has been winning an impressing amount of top-prizes in international piano competitions throughout the world. His students have won numerous first prizes in international and european piano competitions. Since 2007 Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy is also teaching at the prestigious “École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot” in Paris.

Henri Sigfridsson

First prize and the audience prize in the 1st International Beethoven Competition Bonn, second prize and the audience prize at the Géza Anda Competition. Henri Sigfridsson has been appointed as a professor in Essen Folkwang University