New Nordic
Young Masters
2023
Huge congrats to our Young Masters 2023!
Lóa Yona
Kristín Ýr Jónsdóttir/ Iceland
Kristín (flute) is currently finishing her Master degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Alena Walentin.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and participated in various competitions, both as soloist and chamber musician.
Her woodwind quintet Vindtro won first prize at The Nordic Wind Chamber Music Competition in 2021, and was selected for P2 Chamber Music Competition in 2022.
Kristín regularly substitutes in various orchestras in Denmark and Iceland, including Danish Chamber Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Bruce Baird
Emma Baird/ Scotland
Emma (violin) started playing the violin at the age of four, and subsequently attended the Junior Department of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and St Mary’s a Music School.
She pursued undergraduate studies as a scholar of the Royal Academy of Music, London, under So-Ock Kim and Ying Xue, and also studied Baroque Violin with Nicolette Moonen.
She is currently studying her postgraduate degree under Andrea Gajic at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Recent performances of solo and chamber repertoire have included those at the Bath Festival, Petworth Festival and St James Church Piccadilly.
An avid chamber musician, Emma has recently been awarded the 2022 RAM Isaacs and Pirani Piano Trio Prize and the 2023 RCS Governor’s Recital Prize for Chamber Music.
Justin Julian/ Australia
Eduardus Lee
Justin Julian (viola) was born in Sydney and is currently Principal viola of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
He has also performed as guest principal with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and worked with the Opera Australia Orchestra.
While studying with Roger Benedict at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Justin was an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and completed the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship program.
Justin has taken masterclasses with Anne Sophie Mutter, Isabelle van Keulen, Hartmut Rohde, Jean Sulem, and William Coleman amongst others. He has also participated in courses including the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Mozarteum Summer Academy and the Carl Flesch Academy.
Federico Cardamone
Francesco Massimino/ Italy
Chagall Trio
Francesco (cello) was born in Turin in 1999. He graduated at the age of 17 from the “G. Verdi ”of his city with full marks and academic mention, as a pupil of M ° Massimo Macrì.
Since 2018 he has been a student of M. Antonio Meneses at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Since 2021, thanks to the support of the De Sono Music Association, he has been a student at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland in the class of M. Thomas Demenga
From 2013 with the violinist Edoardo Grieco and the pianist Lorenzo Nguyen Ba Francesco Massimino founded the Chagall Trio, a formation that won the 2nd Prize in 2019 (with the first not awarded) and 3 special prizes at the prestigious competition "Premio Trio di Trieste "
Trio Chagall is one of the European Chamber Music Academy Ensembles.
Robert Einenkel
Antonia Ohnimus/ Germany
Antonia (viola) was born in 1999 in Hamburg and received her first violin lessons with Petru Munteanu in Hamburg, later in 2016 she switched to the viola. Since 2018, she is pursuing her master‘s degree at the Universität der Künste (Berlin) in the class of Hartmut Rohde.
She is a multiple prize winner of International and National competitions.
Since 2022, she plays regularly with the Vienna Philharmonic/Vienna State Opera and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Frankfurt, Main) as a substitute. In addition, she is a member of the international Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
She has also received several scholarships from the Jugend Kammermusik Initiative (Hamburg) and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
She received musical impulses from renowned artists such as Hans Peter Ochsenhofer (Vienna Philharmonic), Tobias Lea (Solo Viola, Vienna Philharmonic), members of the Artemis Quartet, Barbara Westphal (Lübeck), Erich Krüger (Weimar).
Reiner Schilling
Sebastian Pilz/ Germany
Sebastian (cello) was born on 31 July 1999 in Munich and received his first cello lessons at the age of five.
In the following years, he was a student of Manuel von der Nahmer, Ilia Yourivich Laporev, Aleksandr Khramouchin and Prof. Justus Grimm.
Sebastian is currently studying in the class of Prof. Mathias Johansen (Feldkirch, Austria).
He is a multiple prize winner of the prestigious competition "Jugend Musiziert" including a first prize in the solo category at national level.
As a member of the ODEON Youth Symphony Orchestra (sponsor orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic) he toured Europe and China.
He plays an instrument by the French violin maker Christian Bayon.
Federico Cardamone
Francesco Massimino/ Italy
Chagall Trio
Francesco (cello) was born in Turin in 1999. He graduated at the age of 17 from the “G. Verdi ”of his city with full marks and academic mention, as a pupil of M ° Massimo Macrì.
Since 2018 he has been a student of M. Antonio Meneses at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Since 2021, thanks to the support of the De Sono Music Association, he has been a student at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland in the class of M. Thomas Demenga
From 2013 with the violinist Edoardo Grieco and the pianist Lorenzo Nguyen Ba Francesco Massimino founded the Chagall Trio, a formation that won the 2nd Prize in 2019 (with the first not awarded) and 3 special prizes at the prestigious competition "Premio Trio di Trieste "
Trio Chagall is one of the European Chamber Music Academy Ensembles.
Kamil Piotr Grabowski
Maja Majkowska/ Poland
Maja (violin) was born in 2004. She started playing violin when she was 7 years old.
She won many of the competitions from all around the world: The United States, Italy, The United Kingdom, France or Austria. The latest awards she received in II Kyoto International Music Competition - second prize and North American Virtuoso International Music Competition - platinum award.
She participated in workshops with the most experienced artists.
In 2023 Maja ended secondary music school in Wroclaw with honour mark.
Magdalena Stasiak
Matylda Stasiak/ Poland
Matylda (violin) is 17 years old, and attends the 5th grade of Fryderyk Chopin Secondary Music School in Krakow, where she studies in the class of Aleksandra Steczkowska.
Matylda improves her skills on numerous violin courses studying with such outstanding teachers as Prof. Wojciech Koprowski, prof. Juliette Kang, Prof. Ariane Matthäus, Prof. Magdalena Szczepanowska, prof. Yair Kless and Prof. Eyal Kless.
Matylda performed on the stage of the Castle in Łańcut, in Bratislava on the stage of the Academy of Art, with the Archetti orchestra in Jaworzno, in Krakow Philharmonic and in Krzysztof Penderecki concert hall in Luslawice.
She is a laureate of numerous violin competitions, both playing solo and in chamber ensembles. In the last school year, she won the title of laureate by taking part in national and international competitions, among others in Budapest, Dolny Kubin, Prague, Rome, Kraków, Łódź.
She is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
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Elisa Bartolomé Gómez/ Spain
Elisa (flute) fulfilled the elementary and professional flute grades in the Tenerife Professional Music Conservatoire.
She continued with Francisco García Castro (co-soloist of the Symphonic Tenerife Orchestra) in the Superior Music Conservatoire of The Canary Islands, finishing Bachelor with the highest grade in her career’s final recital.
She is currently studying the classical flute master in the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Alena Walentin.
She has taken part in FIMUCITÉ festival (Tenerife International Cinema Music Festival), collaborated with the Atlantic Symphonic Orchestra and the Atlantic Youth Symphonic Orchestra, the CSMC Contemporary Music Ensemble, Maximum Ensemble.
Grace Bilelo
Hannah Gerrard/ UK
Hannah (dance) trained at KSDance in the United Kingdom where she graduated with the Trinity Level 6 Diploma in Professional Dance majoring in ballet and contemporary.
She is a qualified classical ballet teacher, also. She has worked with companies such as the Allegrodance Touring Company, New Creations Collective and Ballet North West.
Hannah has performed roles such as 'Odette/Odile' in Swan Lake and has been a soloist in 'La Sylphide' and Corps de ballet member in 'The Nutcracker'.
She is currently a dancer with Ballet Do Douro based in Porto, Portugal.
She is also an accomplished musician playing the trombone and flute.
Kaat Schraepen/ Belgium
Kaat (viola) attention was immediately caught hearing the warm sound of the viola, leading her to pursue this passion from the age of 7.
Since then her musical horizons have broadened and, a profound love for solo playing and chamber music has grown.
Always looking to enrich her musical vision, she has taken part in masterclasses and festivals with renowned musicians all over Europe, currently studying with Mikhail Zemtsov.
Her ongoing quest for improvement, being awarded at national and international competitions, has placed her as one of the most remarkable viola players of her generation.
Simon van Boxtel
Frank Bloedhorn
David Moosmann/ Germany
David (violin) finished his Bachelor studies with Prof. Heime Müller at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. Currently he is in his Master studies with Prof. Thomas Reif at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
In June 2021 he was an active participant in the Masterclass of the Kronberg Academy and was teached by Gerhard Schulz and Kolja Blacher.
David was concertmaster of the „Junge Deutsche Philharmonie“ and played concerts with Nicolas Altstaedt in the Elbphilharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie and Dresdner Philharmonie.
As a soloist he played with the „Sønderjyllandssymfoniorkester“, "Kammerphilharmonie Rhein- Erft“ and the Symphonic Youngsters Flensburg.
Currently David is an academist of the „Bayerische Staatsoper“ in Munich and plays in the „Bayerisches Staatsorchester“.
Federico Cardamone
Lorenzo Nguyen/ Italy
Chagall Trio
Lorenzo (piano) was born in 1998.
After achieving the Master degree obtaining the highest degree cum laude and honors, he is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland.
He has appeared both as a soloist and a chamber musician, sharing the stage with artists like Dmitry Matvienko, Bruno Giuranna, Giampaolo Pretto, Luca Ranieri and Roberto Bolle.
He is the pianist and one of the founders of Trio Chagall, prize winner of the National and International competitions.
Trio Chagall is one of the ensembles of the renown European Chamber Music Academy.
Maximilian Busch
Theresa Laun/ Austria
Theresa (cello) started playing at the age of 5 and is currently studying with Reinhard Latzko in University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
She has won both the national competition "Prima la musica" and "musica juventutis" leading to multiple performances in Wiener Konzerthaus and Wiener Musikverein, Mozarthaus, Biennale Horn.
Theresa is a member of the Celloquartet “Die Kolophonistinnen”. With her ensemble she has recorded their CD "Heldinnenleben", has won the BePhilharmonic competition and was placed second at Fanny-Mendelssohn Förderpreis.
She toured through Chile and played in many of Austrias most important concert venues and halls in Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein and Musikverein Graz.
Victoria Elmas
Archie Auger/ UK
Archie (bassoon) enjoys a varied career across Europe. He is currently working as Second Solo Bassoon in Det Kongelige Kapel in Copenhagen and has worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Odense Symfoniorkester, Aarhus Symfoniorkester and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
As a soloist he has performed the Jolivet Bassoon Concerto and Daugherty’s outrageously stylish Dead Elvis.
Archie studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag.
As a chamber musician, Archie performs in the multinational Tesaru Woodwind Quintet in Copenhagen who were semi-finalists in the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition 2023 and 3rd prize winners at the P2 Kammermusikkonkurrence 2023.
Sebastian Eskildsen
Freja Julie Rasch Eskildsen/ Denmark
Freja (violin) just received her bachelor degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with professor Tim Frederiksen and professor Peter Herresthal as teachers.
She is a former prize winner at Berlingske Klassiske Musikkonkurrence, Øresunds Solist and Jacob Gade violinkonkurrence, and is a part of Jacob Gade’s talent program focusing on chamber music and performance.
She has participated in solo masterclasses in Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Canada and Germany and is as well an invested chamber musician playing with her trio, Trio Vita.
Juraj Žilinčár
Veronika Yungova/ Slovakia
Veronika (dance) was born on September 25th, 2000, in Bratislava. She is of half Slovak and half Chinese descent. Since the age of three, she has been taking dance lessons, and when she turned eleven, she was accepted into the Dance Conservatory of Eva Jaczova in Bratislava.
During her studies, she had the opportunity to perform in various classical pieces at the Slovak National Theater, such as Nutcracker (Clara and Pas de Trois) and more.
Upon graduating from the conservatory, Veronika was immediately offered a position as a member of the corps de ballet at the Slovak National Theater, where she currently works.
Additionally, since 2020, she has been pursuing a degree in pedagogy of classical dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she has just completed her bachelor's degree. During her childhood, she also played the piano for eight years.
