Born in Bucharest, Romania to a family of musicians, Cristian Sandrin started his musical training with Marina Dragomirescu and Cristian Dumitrescu at the Dinu Lipatti Art College. He had his solo debut at the famous Romanian Atheneum Hall in 2006. He is currently studying under Diana Ketler and Christopher Elton for Advanced Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. He is the recipient of MMus (DipRAM) and BMus degrees from the same institution, holding scholarships from the Imogen Cooper Music Trust, Countess of Munster Trust, John S Cohen Foundation, Carold Craxton Memorial Prize, Help Musicians UK, the Hattori Foundation and the Tillett Trust.

Among numerous prizes and distinctions in international piano competitions, such as the top prize of the Windsor International Piano Competition 2018, the Sheepdrove Intercollegiate Piano Competition, Automobile Club de France Piano Competition, the ‘Animato’ Competition in Paris, ProPiano International Competition or the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist competition, Cristian is a recent holder of the Harold Craxton Chamber Music prize at the Royal Academy of Music, being also a past recipient of the William Sterndale Bennett Prize.

Cristian Sandrin is a frequent guest artist at the venues such as Wigmore Hall, Queen Elisabeth Hall, St James Piccadilly, Brighton, Oxford,Salle Cortot Paris, Salla Manuel de Falla in Madrid, Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano, ‘La Fenice’ Theatre in Venice and performed as a soloist with Bacau National Philharmonic, Sibiu National Philharmonic, Ramnicu-Valcea National Philharmonic and Bucharest Symphony Orchestra and many others.

Irma Gigani was born in Tbilisi in 1996. She studied at the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Central Music School with L. Firashvili and at the Tbilisi V. Sarajishivli Musical Seminary with Tengiz Amirejibi. Since 2013 Irma studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory with Manana Doijashvili alongside the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she is a student of Stefan Arnold.

Irma is a laureate of many piano competitions including Minerbio International Competition Italy, Georgian National Music Competition, Aarhus International Competition (Denmark). She participated in number of master classes held by renowned musicians such as Arie Vardi at the Piano Academy Eppan Italy, Norma Fisher at the London Master Classes and many more. Irma Gigani performed the the international Festivals around the world and played concertos with number of prestigious orchestras. Her performances include concerts with Ankara Symphony Orchestra organized by V. Spivakov Fund, recital at Nice Opera Theatre organized by UNESCO, music festival ‘Beethoven Superstar’ at the Tel Aviv Museum of art, concert with Israel Camerata Orchestra – conductor Avner Biron, Concerto performance in the Big Hall of Moscow Conservatory with Chamber Orchestra of Bolshoi Theater, recitals in the S.Rachmaninoff Hall and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, concert with the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra – conductor Burak Tuzun and many more.

Koenraad was born in 1991, in Amsterdam. He started his lessons at the age of six and soon was seen in several children’s competitions. When he was eleven he started playing the drums instead, and here he first found his interests in Latin- American rhythms and harmonies. In search of the origins of this wonderful music he returned to the piano, and started his lessons with the Argentinian pianist Juan Pablo Dobal with whom he studied in harmonic theory and in the art of free improvisation for two years. At the age of 17 he started studying at the conservatory of Utrecht with the Hungarian pianist Klára Würtz. He finished his studies with the highest mark, a 10.

In 2017 he finished his master studies, again with Klara Wurtz, with a 9.6. In the same period he studied jazz piano with the legendary Bert van den Brink, and composition with Caroline Ansink. During these years his preferences and earlier fascinations culminated in the finding of the music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, a composer that according to Koenraads vision ‘has it all’. His final recital existed solely of works by the Russian master and in his thesis he researched the harmonic morphogenesis in Scriabin’s piano sonatas and later symphonies. Currently he is studying in Sofia, Bulgaria, with professor Atanas Kurtev, a master in Scriabin’s music.

Born in 1990, the young Pierre Delignies studied piano at the conservatory of his hometown, Santander, with professors Miguel Sierra and Irini Gaitani. Subsequently, with a scholarship award from the Botín Foundation, he moved to San Sebastián, where he completed his Bachelor studies at the Musikene with professors Marta Zabaleta, Miguel Borges, and Ricardo Descalzo for contemporary music, graduating with honors. In 2012, after receiving another scholarship from the Botín Foundation as well as the Albéniz Foundation, Delignies began studying in the Queen Sofia College of Music under the pedagogy of Prof. Galina Eguiazarova, who, at the end of the 2013-2014 year, awarded him the title of Most Outstanding Student in The Class.

His current recording include Dutch music by R. Escher and T. Loevendie. His first solo cd ‘Shades of Melancholy’ released in April 2016 with the label Orpheus. Pierre Delignies also takes part in many chamber music groups and projects. Pierre Delignies is with out a doubt a rising musical talent who is becoming a reference in the incipient generation in Spain. With a sincere, temperamental and intricate style, this pianist is building what the public and many artists demand: music that goes to its roots without banal ornaments, and an honest and close connection with his audience.

Seán Morgan-Rooney is one of Ireland’s leading young piano talents today. A multi-faceted pianist, Seán performs as a soloist and chamber musician across Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Camerata Ireland Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the Torún Symphony Orchestra in Poland and the Hornton Chamber Orchestra in London.

Seán currently studies under David Kuyken as a Master’s student at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied under Professor Christopher Elton. Prior to this he was a student of John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

Seán is the winner of numerous prizes for his solo playing, including the Charles J. Brennan Prize at the 10th Dublin International Piano Competition, the Else Cross prize for contemporary music awarded by the Royal Academy of Music and most recently a BBC NI Young Musicians’ Platform Award. He is also a past piano finalist of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.

Earlier this year, Seán released his début album entitled ‘Musica Ricercata’, a programme of solo piano music by Ligeti, Bach and Bartók.

Vivianne Cheng has performed extensively throughout Europe and the United States. She was born in North Carolina, where she gave her debut solo recital at the age of ten. Since then, Vivianne has made appearances in the most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Hall, Musikverein, Lincoln Center and many more.

Vivianne’s studies have included the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Naum Grubert, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg with Andreas Groethuysen and Pavel Gililov, and Curtis Institute of Music with Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Prior to Curtis, Vivianne studied at The Juilliard School where she was accepted into the university programme at fifteen years old.

Previous major teachers have included Ruth Slenczynska, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Arkady Aronov. Furthermore, she has taken masterclasses with legendary pianists including Alicia de Larrocha, György Sándor, Claude Frank, Earl Wild, Boris Berman, Dmitri Bashkirov, Kirill Gerstein, Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, and Arie Vardi.

Vivianne is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions including Tureck International Bach Competition, New York International Piano Competition, Bartók-Kabalevsky- Prokofiev International Piano Competition, Wideman International Piano Competition, Concours International de Piano de Lagny, Philadelphia Orchestra’s Albert M. Greenfield Concerto Competition, and the inaugural Arts Arena–Curtis Institute of Music Award.

Her performances have been broadcast on PBS, Y Arts ‘On Stage at Curtis’, The Classical Network (WWFM), Good Morning Television New Zealand, and in the acclaimed documentaries ‘On a Personal Note’ (2010) and ‘Die Martins- Passion’ (2004).