Dinh Hoai Xuan is the founder of the Cello Fundamento program series, which is held annually to bring classical music in general as well as the cello in particular closer to the Vietnamese public.

Currently, she has completed her PhD thesis in Cello performance at Bucharest National University of Music, Romania and became the first female Doctor of Cello in Vietnam.

"Soviet Toan Thang is one of Vietnam's leading music artists. He is known as one of the talented and influential contrabass players in the music community

Ngo Toan Thang started his music career at a very young age. After graduating from Hanoi National Music University, he continued to study at Tchaikovsky Music Academy in Moscow, Russia. This is one of the world's most prestigious schools for music, where he is well-trained and learns from the best teachers.

Ngo Toan Thang has performed on many domestic and foreign stages. He has performed with many leading artists and is a member of many prestigious bands and orchestras. His career is not limited to performing, He also contributed to the training of generations of young artists and was a lecturer at leading music schools.

With his contrabass, Ngo Toan Thang has brought to the audience life rhythms, from plump melodies to vibrant palaces. This music star has made a deep mark in the hearts of music-loving audiences with the ability to play a variety of music genres, from classical music to jazz and pop.

Ngo Toan Thang's achievements in the music career have been recognized by various awards and titles. He is a symbol of contrabass art in Vietnam and continues to inspire generations of young artists."

• He comes from a musical family: his mother, Silvia Dumitrescu, is a pop/jazz/blues singer, and his father, Florin Ochescu, is a musician and guitarist.

• He began studying piano at an early age and later attended the Colegiul Național de Muzică “George Enescu” in Bucharest, graduating under the guidance of Professor Gabriela Enășescu.

• He subsequently continued his studies at the National University of Music Bucharest.

• He has won over 20 awards at national and international piano competitions.

• Notable distinctions include:

  • First Prize, the “J.S. Bach” Award, and the Grand Prize at the Millenium Piano International Competition.

  • First Prize at Pro Piano – Romania.

  • Second Prize at the Vienna International Piano Competition – Panmusica (Austria).

  • Third Prize at the San Sebastian City International Piano Competition.

  • Second Prize at the Chamber Music Plovdiv Competition, performing with the Ludens Piano Trio.

   

• He has participated in masterclasses with numerous distinguished pianists and educators, such as Justus Frantz, Andrei Gavrilov, Dan Grigore, Petras Geniušas, Markus Schirmer, among others.

• His professional activities include:

   

  • Serving as a soloist with the Romanian National Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Ion Dumitrescu Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Performing as a member of the Ludens Piano Trio, the Violoncellissimo Ensemble, and the Romanian Youth Orchestra.

  • Holding a scholarship in the SoNoRo Interferențe program, through which he has collaborated with artists such as Alexander Bouzlov, Corinne Chapelle, Alissa Margulis, and Răzvan Popovici.

  • Acting as an official accompanist at the 2016 George Enescu International Competition.

   

• He has appeared at numerous international festivals, including the Aurora Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), isaFestival (Austria), and the SoNoRo Chamber Music Festival, among others.

• His work also includes recordings for Romanian Radio and Romanian Television.

Voted ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year at Midem in Cannes, awarded the Sacem Georges Enesco Prize, guest artist at the 23rd Victoires de la Musique in Toulouse and a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, Nicolas Dautricourt is one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation.

In January 2019 he made his debuts at the Paris Philharmonie with Orchestre National d’Ile de France, performing Prokofiev second violin concerto under british conductor Jamie Philipps, and appears regularly at major international venues, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées among others. He also appears at many classical and jazz festivals such as Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Festival Enesco in Bucharest, Music@Menlo, Pärnu, Ravinia, Sintra, Davos, Tokyo and Nantes Folles Journées, Jazz à Vienne, Marciac Jazz Festival, Jazz à la Grange, and has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, SWR Saarbrücken, BBC Wales National Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Aachen Symphony, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Quebec Symphony, Oulu Sinfonia, Liège Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Novosibirsk Philharmonie, International Players Busan, Mexico Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra and the Kanazawa Orchestral Ensemble, under conductors Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, Fabien Gabel, Yan- Pascal Tortelier, Tugan Sokhiev, Frédéric Chaslin, Stanislas Lefort, Philippe Auguin, David Niemann, Dennis Russell Davies, Wolfgang Doerner, Carlos-Miguel Prieto, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Yuri Bashmet, Michaël Francis, François-Xavier Roth, Kazuki Yamada and Vahan Mardirossian.

In the fall 2023, will be released a recording of the Schumann Violin Concerto with the Manchester Camerata under conductor and former leader of the legendary Takacs Quartet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, for the German label Haenssler, and a recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto with BBC Wales under great conductor Frederic Chaslin, is under process.

Awarded in numerous international violin contests, such as Wieniawski, Lipizer, and Belgrade, he has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and since September 2023, is a member of the Ensemble Midtvest based in Herning (Danemark).

Artistic director of the « Fêtes Musicales de Corbigny », Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivari, the "Château Pape-Clément" (Cremona 1713), on loan from Bernard Magrez, and in January 2021, has received from the French Ministry of Culture, the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

Juan Fermin Ciriaco, born in 1974 at Pamplona (Spain), starts playing the violin at Conservatoire Pablo Sarasate de Navarre. At age 13, Leo Spierer, konzertmeister of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, gets him an exceptional scholarship from the Spanish Government, to study in Italy with Mario FERRARIS, 1st violin of the Scala de Milan.
He enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where he obtains the Diplôme de Formation Supérieure with professor Jacques GHESTEM (violin) and Cristian IVALDI & Alain PLANES (chamber music). He joins, at age 22, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and becomes, in 2001, one of the soloists of this prestigious formation. As an authentic chamber music lover, he regularly performs in France and abroad, with renowned artists such as Bruno Rigutto, Anne Quéffelec, Roland Pidoux… He is also a founder of two festivals, ArteMusica & BWD12, and in 2019, joins the Capriccio Quartet.

First prize at the Avignon International Violin Competition in 2003 and « Revelation Classique de l’Adami » in 2005, Cecile Agator is soloist at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France since 2007. She appears in various chamber music festivals (Folles journées de Nantes, Nuits musicales catalanes, Pablo Casals, Musicora, Musique dans les Vignes, Flâneries de Reims, Radio France), alongside artists like Paul Meyer, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Dana Ciocarlie, Gérard Caussé, Truls Mork, Klaus Mäkelä, Nicolas Dautricourt… In 2012, Cécile founds the Capriccio Quartet, which is awarded at the Concours International d’Illzach (1st prize), and at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition. Their first CD « Capriccios », was released in 2019 for the label Orchids Classics

Clémence de Forceville is considered one of the most promising French violinists of her generation. Her numerous activities as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher make her an accomplished and versatile musician.

Born in 1991, she began playing the violin at the age of 4 with Radu Blidar. She won her first international prizes at the age of 9 and gave her first concerts. She studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Olivier Charlier and then perfected her skills in Germany with Antje Weithaas and Mihaela Martin. Selected in international masterclasses such as Ravinia Stean's Music Institute, IMS Prussia Cove or Ozawa Academy, she receives the advice of great masters such as Daniel Barenboim, Eberhard Feltz, Andràs Schiff, Alfred Brendel, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Zakhar Bron..

Marie-Emeline Charpentier starts viola at age 7 with professor Alain Jeannot at the CNR de Marseille.
She therefore studies in Paris with Jean-Baptiste Brunier, where she is awarding 1st prize unanimously at the CNR de Paris, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Bruno Pasquier (viola) and Christian Ivaldi (chamber music).
Four years a member of the Andrea Quartet, she receives precious advise from Quatuor Ysaÿe, Amadeus Quartet, Walter Levin, Günter Pichler and Valentin Erben... in the frame of the ProQuartet Association.
She regularly performs in France and abroad, with renowned artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Roland Pidoux, Alain Meunier and Xavier Philips, among others.
Since 2006 she is a member of Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and gives with this prestigious formation many concerts, in France and abroad.
A passionate teacher, she used to teach at the Conservatoire du 15e arrondissement and since 2019, teaches at the Conservatoire du 7e arrondissement de Paris.

Benedict Klöckner, born in 1989, is one of the outstanding artists of his generation. He has won numerous competitions and awards, most recently the OPUS Klassik 2021.
He performs worldwide as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the MDR -Sinfonieorchester, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Kremerata Baltica, the Camerata Oslo and the Munich Chamber Orchestra and has worked with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Cristian Măcelaru, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Sanderling, Heinrich Schiff and Sir Simon Rattle.
He has appeared in concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Symphony Hall Chicago, Arts Center Seoul, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Musikverein Vienna, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Tonhalle Zurich, Gasteig in Munich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall London. His chamber music partners have included Emanuel Ax, Lisa Batiashvili, Yuri Bashmet, Christoph Eschenbach, Vilde Frang, Gidon Kremer, Anne Sophie Mutter and Sir András Schiff.
Benedict Kloeckner regularly works with the great composers of our time. In 2018 he performed the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Double Concerto for 2 Cellos and Strings. With the Mozarteum Orchestra under Peter Tilling, he also gave the Austrian premiere of Dai Fujikura's Cello Concerto in Salzburg.
His CD recordings have been highly praised by the international press and won prizes such as the OPUS Klassik award and the Supersonic Award, among others.
His recordings were made in collaboration with artists such as Gidon Kremer, the conductors Heinrich Schiff and Michael Sanderling and the composer Wolfgang Rihm.
Benedict Kloeckner received his artistic education from Martin Ostertag at the Karlsruhe
University of Music and from Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman at the Kronberg Academy, made possible by the Angela Winkler Scholarship.
Benedict Kloeckner plays the “Ex Maurice Gendron” cello by Francesco Ruggeri (1680).

Samuel Étienne started his musical studies at the CRR de Boulogne Billancourt with M. Strauss & X. Gagnepain (cello) before studying successively with E. Peclard, R. Pidoux and J. Starker. He also dedicates himself in chamber music, especially in string quartet, and encounters at this occasion members of Amadeus, Borodine, Ysaye, Lasalle, Berg Quartet.
A very versatile musician, he teaches at the Conservatoire Francis Poulenc in Paris, he is a member of the Ensemble les Dissonances with D. Grimal, as well as the cellist of the Capriccio Quartet.
He is also the artistic director of the association Köchel 440, which aims to form young instrumentalists to various aspects of a musician’s life.
He is the founder in 2004 and the artistic director of the Festival BWD12, and regularly performs in the greatest venues: Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra de Paris, Radio France, Opéra de Dijon..., as well as in various festivals, such as Les Flâneries musicales de Reims, Saint-Robert, Corbigny and the Festival de quatuor à cordes of Luberon.....