TALENT MUSIC 
MASTER COURSES
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PIANO PROFESSORS

Dmitri Alexeev
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
Juror for International Piano Competitions, including Leeds, Chopin (Warsaw), Van Cliburn, Santander, Beethoven (Vienna), Tchaikovsky (Moscow). He has performed with the most important orchestras and conductors of the world
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Paolo Baglieri​​​​​​​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master and Masrers Meetings
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”.
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Michel Beroff​​​
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
First prize at the first O. Messiaen International Competition, performed with the most prestigious orchestras under the direction of C. Abbado, D. Barenboim, L. Bernstein, etc. Jury member in many importants  competitions as Tchaikovsky, Van Cliburn, Leeds, Clara Haskil and Marguerite Long competitions. Professor at the Paris Conservatory
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Andrea Bonatta​​​​​​​
professor for the programs:
Masterclass in Piano Performance, Annual Course, Artistic Master, and Post-Graduate Master
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.
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Milana Chernyavska​
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
Piano Professor at Art University in Graz. She appears regularly at international festivals as the Lucerne, the Rheingau and the Schwetzingen Festivals, Klavierfestival Ruhr and at halls like Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall New York, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, just to name few. As a soloist she performs with many renowned orchestras and her discography consists in more than twenty CDs with leading labels and international prizes. Sought after teacher at international master classes as well as a jury member at various prestigious piano competitions, her students are regularly winners of first prizes at important international competitions as Santander, Maria Canals and Malta Piano Competitions.
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Ruben Dalibaltayan​​​​​​​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master and Masters Meetings
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.
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Andreas Frölich​​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master and Masters Meetings
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
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Pavel Gililov
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
He is the winner of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the International Viotti Piano Competition in Vercelli (1st prize). From 1979 to 2013 he was a professor at the Cologne University of Music and since 2007 he is professor for piano at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
The engagements with the leading orchestras and his numerous performances in the most important cultural metropoles of the world were enthusiastically received by the audience and critics. Pavel Gililov founded the International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn and has always been its artistic director and president of the jury.
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Bernd Goetzke​​
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
International pianist and professor, winner of the international piano competitions of Paris, Milan, Epinal, Athens, and Bruxelles. He was student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and last pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Professor at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
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Markus Groh​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
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. He performs solo recitals all over the world. Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin succeeding Prof. Klaus Hellwig
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Konstantin Lifschitz​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
He performs solo recitals at major festivals and the most important concert venues worldwide and appears with leading international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, to name just a few, and with leading conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Temirkanov, and many others. As chamber musician, he has collaborated with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Misha Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, etc…Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and professor of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
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M​assimiliano Mainolfi
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician Mr. Mainolfi has performed throughout Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, England, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, South Africa and the United States. He recorded for the labels Ducale and Claves Records. Currently he is a Decca Artist.
Mr. Mainolfi is regularly invited to join the jury of national and international music competitions. He is currently Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg, Germany.
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Anna Malikova​
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
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...
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Péter Nagy​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
First prize at the Hungarian Radio Competition. Concerts tours throughout Europe, performing concertos and solo recitals in Finland, Germany, Greece, Russia, throughout the former Soviet Union, France, and London, as well as many other engagements. He regularly collaborates with partners such as the New Zealand String Quartet, Zoltán Kocsis, László Polgár, Miklós Perényi, Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian, Nobuko Imai, Jan Vogler, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson and Colin Carr, to name a few. Professor of piano at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and professor of piano at the Musik Hochschule in Stuttgart.
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N​oriko Ogawa​
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
After her success at the Leeds International Piano Competition, Noriko Ogawa she appears with all the major European, Japanese and US orchestras. Artistic Director of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, she is a professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Piotr Paleczny​​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master and Masters Meetings
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.
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Philippe Raskin​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
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
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Pascal Rogé​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
Winner of Georges Enesco piano competition and 1st prize of Marguerite Long Piano competition, he became an exclusive Decca recording artist at the age of seventeen. He has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and with every major orchestra across the globe and has collaborated with the most distinguished conductors in history, including Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Masur, and others. Recently chairman of the Geneva Piano competition, Pascal Rogé is also dedicated to teaching and gives regular masterclasses in France, Japan, United States and United Kingdom.
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J​acques Rouvier
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
Prize winner at the Maria Canals and Viotti Piano Competitions. Jury member at major international competitions such as the  Tchaikovsky, Marguerite Long, Leeds, Paderewsky, Rubinstein, Chopin, Santander, Dublin, Geneva, Montreal, Hamamatsu, Sendai, etc., he regularly gives concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe and Asia. Among his most eminent graduates are Arcadi Volodos, Hélène Grimaud, David Fray, David Kadouch, Philippe Giusiano, to name just a few. He is professor of piano at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.
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Georg Friedrich Schenck​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
Professor at Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and “Honorary Guest Professor”
at the China Conservatory in Beijing. His students have won several international competitions as Chopin Competition Warszawa, Concours Reine Elisabeth Bruxelles, Van Cliburn Competition Fort Worth, Sviatoslav Richter Competition Moscow, Concorso Alessandro Casagrande Terni, Maria Canals Competition Barcelona, Internationaler Musikwettbewerb Köln, Valsesia Musica International Competition and more.
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Ilja Scheps​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
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
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Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master and Masters Meetings
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.
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Konstantin Semilakovs​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
Laureate of the First Prize of the International Piano Competition in Porto, Portugal, prizewinner of the Competition for Young Pianists Ettlingen, Germany and Città di Pinerolo, Italy. He performed at the International Beethoven Festival Bonn, the Frankfurt Musikmesse, the Braunschweig Classix Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festivals and at the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg.
After teaching positions at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and Nuremberg University of Music, he was 2018 appointed professor of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
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Wojciech Switala
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
Prizewinner of international competitions, including Long-Thibaud and Montreal Piano Competitions. He received an award for the best interpretation of a polonaise, as well as several other prizes at the 12th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1990.​​​ Foreign tours have taken him to most European countries as well as Argentina, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, the USA and Canada. Professor and Head of the Piano Department at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Jury member at competitions as Long-Thibaud, National Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Paderewski, Chopin Piano Competition in Singapore and at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
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Jan Jiracek von Arnim
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
A top prize winner at the Busoni Competition (Italy) and Maria Canals Competition (Spain), Jan Jiracek von Arnim was of the winners of the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Professor at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, and Artistic Director and Chairman of the International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna
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Arkadi Zenziper​​
professor for the programs:
Annual Course, Artistic Master, Post-Graduate Master
Winner of international competitions, he is professor and dean of piano department at Dresden’s Hochschule Carl Maria von Weber. He is on the adjudicating panel of the Anton Rubinstein International Piano competition
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D​ina Yoffe
professor for the programs:
Masters Meetings
Winner of the IX Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition and of the VI Robert Schumann International Piano Competition. Jury member in the most renowned international piano competitions, such as Cleveland, Hamamatsu and Fryderyk Chopin of Warsaw
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