Pavel Baransky graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine, where he studied vocal under Professor Nikolai Kondratyuk. He is a prize-winner of many international competitions, a finalist of the Operalia, Plácido Domingo’s international singing competition, and the BBC Competition in Cardiff. He had his further training at the International Studio of the Zurich Opera.

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People’s Artist of the USSR
Honorary Academician of the London Academy of Arts
Officer of Fine Arts and Literature

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Pyotr Glavatskikh was born in Ekaterinburg in 1979. He finished the Specialized Music School at the Ural Conservatory (L. Kumische class), the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory (A. Kurashov class) and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Professor V. Snegirev class). He finished the post-graduate course, studying the marimba at the Stuttgart Academy for Music and Performing Arts. He is a first-prize winner and awardee of many international marimba and percussion instrument competitions.

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Lucas Debargue was born in French Department Oise in 1990. He started his first piano classes at the age of 11 at school in Compiègne. Having completed his general education, he stopped studying music and entered the Literature Faculty at the University of Paris; however, some time later he started taking private piano lessons.

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Vincenzo Capezzuto is a soloist of several ensembles and groups organized by Christina Pluhar – L’Arpeggiata, the European Baroque Orchestra. Continue reading “Vincenzo Capezzuto” »

The creative career of Misia has been influenced by two cultures – Portuguese and Spanish. She works with diversity of musical genres, though the dominant part is given to the traditional Portuguese genre – fado – notable for free improvisation.

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Katerina Papadopoulou was born in Athens. At the age of eight, she started singing in the choir that specialized in folk songs and old Byzantine music.

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Lu Xi was born into a family of professional musicians in China. At the age of 14, she went to study in Russia. She was an extern-student at the Novomoskovsk Music College, which she graduated with honors; then she studied under Professor Vladimir Reva at the Ural Conservatory. Continue reading “Lu Xi” »

Edyta Fil was born in 1973. She graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw and the postgraduate course at the Strasbourg Conservatory where she majored in the flute and chamber music. She is a prize-winner at the National Flute Competition in Olsztyn (Poland), international chamber music competitions in Castelfidardo (Italy) and Klingenthal (Germany). She is a participant of such festivals as Alternative, Vozvraschenie (Coming Back), Moscow Autumn, Another Dimension, Laboratorium (Warsaw). Continue reading “Edyta Fil” »