Adrian Sîrbu graduated from the “St. Basil the Great” Orthodox Theological Seminary of Iași, he holds two Bachelor’s degrees, from the “Dumitru Stăniloae” Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Iaşi, and from the Faculty of Composition, Musicology, Musical Pedagogy, and Theatre of the “George Enescu” University of the Arts from Iaşi, and a Master’s degree in in “Christian philosophy and Cultural dialogue” from the Faculty of Philosophy of the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași. He also graduated the Master program in Byzantine music of the State Conservatory of Athens, under the guidance of Professor Dr. Georgios Konstantinou. He is an alumni of the “Ζωοδόχου Πιγής” School of Byzantine Music from Athens and of State Conservatory of Athens, department of Byzantine Music, where he studied with Professor Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Archon Protopsaltes of the Ecumenical Archdiocese of Constantinople.

As the conductor of the BYZANTION Choir, that he founded in 1997, Adrian Sîrbu has developed many activities as a performer and researcher, and he took part in numerous festivals, international symposiums, and tours in Romania, Greece, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Russia, and the Czech Republic; he also participated in the festal Church Services from the Country and the Athos Mountain and edited 13 albums of byzantine music and Christmas carols. From 2004 he is a member of the Greek Byzantine Choir (Athens) and from 2010 he is a member of the Medieval Music Choir of Graindelavoix (Belgium). 

He expanded his research activity by publishing several articles in specialist journals and by translating several books from Greek into Romanian, such as “The Theory and Practice of Church Music” by Georgios Konstantinou, “The importance of Simon Karas’s research and teaching method in the signalling and inventorying of heironomic signs (oral interpretation of written tradition)”, and “The voices of Byzantium” by Lykourgos Angelopoulos. Adrian Sîrbu is also the architect and the main coordinator of the International Masterclass of Byzantine Chant, organised since 2008 at the University of the Arts in Iași.

Since 2009, he is a junior teaching assistant within the Department of Religious Music of “George Enescu” University of the Arts from Iaşi, and he is also the president of the “Byzantion” Cultural Foundation, Iași.

Since 2011, he is a PhD student within the Faculty of Musical Studies of the “Aristotle” University of Thessaloniki, under the scientific supervision of Professor Dr. Maria Alexandru.

“His mastery over each work made the rehearsals a time for excitement and pleasure. The result was a concert of great fulfilment for the large, expectant audience, who gave every sign of thoroughly enjoying the works on hand conducted by one of our country’s most promising young maestros.”

Edward Clark
Musical Opinion, St Petersburg, 2012

Award winning and critically acclaimed British conductor and composer Benjamin Ellin is currently Music Director of Thursford Productions, Principal Conductor of the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of Focus Opera and President of Pembroke Academy of Music, London.

In recent seasons Benjamin has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra (Japan), St Petersburg Symphony, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Orchestra del Teatro Regio Turin, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, New Russian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Chambre de Catalogne and the Luxembourg Philharmonic amongst others. Immediate plans include return visits to orchestras in Japan, France, Russia, Canada and USA, combined with his commitments across the UK.

A multiple award winner, Benjamin was awarded 1st Prize and the Public Prize from the inaugural Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in 2007. In September 2009 Benjamin was awarded the Barlow Endowment Prize for composition, becoming only the second British composer in twenty-five years to be awarded the prize. His subsequent commission for a trombone concerto was premiered by the New York Philharmonic’s Principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, in April 2012. Benjamin’s debut composition CD, Three States at Play, was released in Spring 2012; “…Ellin’s is a musical voice well worth getting acquainted with…” (Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone Magazine, October 2012.)

Benjamin has received commissions from organisations including the Hallé Orchestra, Orchestre Chambre D’Auvergne (France), Shanghai Opera, Trio Chausson, Concordia Foundation, Maison de la Culture in Amiens and the Fort Macleod International Festival, Canada as well as soloists such as Rivka Golani, Pascal Contet, Robert Cohen, Andrei Korobeinikov, Veronika Ilinskaya and Ilona Domnich. His works have been performed at festivals and venues across Russia, France, Norway, Canada, China and throughout the UK. In 2010 Benjamin was a featured artist at the Imaginez Maintenant Festival in Amiens. Commissions now in progress include a new symphonic work for the Orchestre de Picardie, a major collaborative work with the Blackfoot people of Alberta, Canada and his first full length opera Welcome to Deen. In 2007 Benjamin became one of the first classical composers to sign a deal with the Prince’s Trust Music Publishing, and also featured in BBC Music Magazine in their Rising Stars feature.

Alongside his success with the 2009 Barlow Foundation, Benjamin was also presented with the highest honour of an eagle feather from the Siksika Chieftains in Canada as a reflection of gratitude for his composition ‘Siksika’, commissioned by Rivka Golani in 2010. In 2011 Benjamin was invited to attend a Royal reception at Buckingham Palace by Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip for young people working in the performing arts.

A committed, active and innovative figure in musical collaboration and access for all, Benjamin was Director of Music at the Pembroke Academy in South London from 2006-2010. In 2010 he was made President of the Academy as a reflection of his achievements over his tenure as Director. Benjamin’s ongoing relationship with London’s Southbank Centre has resulted in major collaborations with Dan Zanes. Benjamin also took a major role within the 2011 Festival of Britain as conductor, composer and arranger.

As a collaborator, Benjamin has enjoyed working closely with musicians from across the Middle East, Asia, North America and Russia, and has worked in dance, theatre and across a range of multi-media. In 2008 he began his close relationship with Ney Soloist Louai Alhenawi. Their debut London concert in 2008 featured Ellin’s Concerto for Ney and Orchestra Tafahum, and a debut album of the same name is planned for 2013.

“Ellin coaxed the orchestra and the chorus and showed how exciting a masterpiece this work (Belshazzar’s Feast) could be.”
Ongaku no Tomo Magazine, Japan, November 2010

“Benjamin Ellin is a fine and serious musician. I have no hesitation in recommending him.”
Sir Colin Davis, CH, London, 2010

“Other heroes, the conductor Benjamin Ellin and Orchestra Chambre de Catalogne; a true conspiracy of talents…”
Michèle Fizaine, Le Midi Libre, France, March 2010

Boian Videnoff was born in 1987 in Sofia, Bulgaria to a family of well-known musicians. He received his first musical education at the age of four from his parents, Prof. Dora Bratchkova, first concertmaster of the German Radio Philharmonic, and Liubomir Videnoff, a noted baritone.

After several years of violin lessons with his mother and piano training in the class of Prof. Rudolf Meister at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim he began his conducting studies under the guidance of Prof. Jorma Panula. Later in 2008 he entered the conducting program at the prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena under M° Gianluigi Gelmetti. Prominent conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Günther Herbig, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Marcello Viotti have been important musical influences on Videnoff.

Since his conducting debut in Germany, at the age of eighteen, Boian Videnoff has appeared as a guest conductor with several orchestras in concert tours throughout Europe and Asia. His teacher Prof. Panula refers to him as “very musical” and praises “his expressive hands” and “his good memory”. In 2009 Videnoff founded the Mannheimer Philharmoniker, a young professional orchestra that serves as a platform between study and work, to provide young musicians the chance to gain orchestra experience and succeed at auditions for permanent positions. As its Artistic Director and chief conductor he regularly works with internationally acclaimed soloists, such as Johannes Moser, Sergei Nakariakov, Alena Baeva, Mona Asuka Ott, Alexander Gilman, Stefan Tarara and others. Renowned cellist Johannes Moser recognized after his collaboration with Videnoff his “great talent to inspire musicians to excel in what they are doing and be the best version of themselves”. Moser was also “struck by his musical initiative and communication with his fellow musicians.” The legendary conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky pointed out, that “the young conductor has all necessary qualities for a very successful professional career.”

Boian Videnoff is devoted to promoting classical music to younger generations. His strong belief and engagement resulted in the project Junior Philharmoniker, a social educative program with free lesson-concerts and instrumental music training for children from the age of six to eighteen.

In 2011 he made his debut at the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari. In the same season he toured China with 13 concerts in major provinces of the country with the Mannheimer Philharmoniker. Some of these concerts were broadcasted live on TV where 30 million people were watching. From 2006 to 2008 Boian Videnoff regularly worked as a guest conductor with the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mannheimer Ensemble. In September 2008 he was chosen by Gustavo Dudamel to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra within a masterclass with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. In addition he has conducted the following orchestras during several workshops, masterclasses and their final concerts: I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academic State Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg.

Estonian-born and American-raised, conductor Kristjan Järvi is a unique musical personality pushing back classical music’s borders with his fresh ideas, charisma and technical prowess. Hailed by the New York Times as “a kinetic force on the podium, like Leonard Bernstein reborn,” Järvi has combined his classical roots and affinity for traditional repertoire with an infectious enthusiasm for creating original programmes, propelling classical concert halls around the globe into the 21st century.

Kristjan Järvi’s name has become synonymous with artistic and cultural diversity, embodied in his roles as Artistic Advisor to the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Founder and Music Director of New York’s Absolute Ensemble. His imaginative programming has been embraced by leaders of classical, jazz and world music spheres alike. Järvi’s authentic commitment to all genres is reflected in his collaborations with Arvo Pärt, Tan Dun, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, H. K. Gruber, Renйe Fleming, Joe Zawinul, Benny Andersson, Goran Bregović, Paquito d’Rivera, Eitetsu Hayashi and Marcel Khalifé.

Kristjan Järvi has actively sought the commission of over one hundred new works. Premieres in the 2009-10 season include works by Indian composer Nitin Sawhney with the London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Schnyder with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, James MacMillan with the London Symphony Orchestra and Tim Garland with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Järvi will also record Arvo Pärt’s newly commissioned Stabat Mater with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Kristjan Järvi is a dynamic and enterprising music educator. He is Founding Conductor and Music Director of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic. With the support of former German Chancellor Schröder, Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic aims to become an education and performance hub for the Baltic region. In 2009 the BYP opened the Bremen Musikfest and the Usedom Music Festival and toured the Baltic Sea Nations.

Additionally, Järvi is the founder and Music Director of the Absolute Academy (resident annually at the Musikfest Bremen) and co-founder of the Muusikaselts Estonian Orphanage Programme. Kristjan Järvi has worked with Japan’s Hyogo Youth Orchestra, the Norwegian Youth Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Sydney Sinfonia and the National Repertory Orchestra, Colorado.

Kristjan Järvi is highly sought-after as a guest conductor. He appears regularly and exclusively in London with the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he will tour Europe and Asia in the 2009–10 season. In 2009 Järvi conducted the Teatro Reggio Torino in a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi. Further guest conducting engagements in this and last season include concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, NDR Hamburg, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, the Sydney Symphony and NHK Symphony in Japan.

Kristjan Järvi is a passionate recording artist with more than twenty-five albums to his credit. He has received a list of accolades, including a Swedish “Grammy” for Best Opera Performance, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for Best Album and a Grammy Nomination. The 2009 Chandos release of Bernstein’s epic Mass was met with widespread acclaim and was Gramophone Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice.” Other recent releases include Haydn’s Paris Symphonies and Schmidt’s Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln. In 2009 Kristjan Järvi will release Mahler’s little-known arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra and Absolute Zawinul – the late Joe Zawinul’s last studio recording.

An accomplished pianist, Kristjan Järvi studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music and conducting at the University of Michigan. He began his career assisting Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, followed by posts as Chief Conductor and Music Director at both the Norrlands Opera and Symphony Orchestra in Sweden (2000–2004) and the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna (2004–2009). In 2007 the Musikfest Bremen honoured Kristjan Järvi and the Absolute Ensemble with the Deutsche Bank Prize in recognition of Outstanding Artistic Achievement.

Kristjan Järvi makes his home in Vienna and Florida together with his wife and three children.

Dmitry Liss is a representative of the Moscow conductor’s school and a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory (Dmitry Kitayenko’s class).

Awards:

– Winner of the LOVRO FON MATAČIĆ First International Conductors Competition in Zagreb, Croatia (1995)

– Winner of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Governor’s Award in Literature and Art (2001)

– Named as a “Conductor of the Year” by Russian newspaper “Music Review” (Moscow, 2002)

– The Russian Federation State Award in Literature and Art (2008) for outstanding contribution to the development of philharmonic activity in Russia (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 4, 2009, No.626)

– People’s Artist of Russia National Award (2011)

Dmitry Liss has recently worked with the Russian National Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, State Symphony Orchestra New Russia, the National Orchestra of France, the National Orchestra of Lille, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and symphony orchestras of Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, etc.

Dmitry Liss has led the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra for 17 years; he has achieved new creative heights while also preserving and enriching the traditions of his predecessors.

Dmitry Liss and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra have been on more than 20 tours in 10 countries (Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Japan, and the United States).

From 1996 to 2012, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra participated in the following international projects and festivals:

Festival of Giya Kancheli’s music (Yekaterinburg, 1996)

Festival in memory of Avet Terteryan (Yekaterinburg, 1999)

International Festival “XXI Biennale of Contemporary Music” in Zagreb, Croatia (1999)

International Festival of French Music (2002)

International Festival of Contemporary Art of the Netherlands (2002)

Cannes Music Festival (2002)

Europalia. Russia (Belgium, 2005)

Le Festival International de Piano à la Roque d’Anthéron (2005, 2008, 2010)

II Festival of Symphony Orchestras of the World (Moscow, 2007)

La Folle Journée (France, Spain, Japan 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012)

Music Festival Crescendo (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

Le festival de Radio France (2008, 2010)

Le festival de musique classique à Saint-Riquier (2008)

International Festival Stars on Baikal (Irkutsk, 2009)

International Winter Festival Arts Square (St. Petersburg, 2009)

Nuits de la Citadelle à Sisteron (2010)

I International Eurasian Music Festival (Yekaterinburg, 2011)

Russian Christmas at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC, 2011)

The graduate of the Ural State Conservatory (cello and symphonic conducting classes). He was studying to the class of the people’s artist, Prof. M.I. Paverman. The conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra (UPO) since 1991.

Enkhe’s international debut was in Germany in 1996. In 1998 – 2006 Enkhe had been leading the Chamber Orchestra of the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic Society and teaching orchestra classes at the Ural State Conservatory.

Third prize Winner of the VI International Prokofiev Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2003).

As the UPO’s conductor Enkhe performs more than 30 programs per season. He cooperated with well-known soloists. Among them there are Dmitry Kogan, Naum Sctarkman, Dmitry Bashkirov, Vladimir Krainev, Eliso Virsaladze, Paul Badura-Skoda, Natalya Gutman, Aleksandr Rudin.

Among the distinguished projects with maestro’s participation are the International Piano duo Festival in Yekaterinburg, opera concert performance George Gershwin’s the Porgy and Bess and playing of the suite The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner as well as the «Russian Seasons in Paris: 100 years» art and fashion festival and the co-project of the Sverdlovsk and Moscow Philharmonic Societies called «Fairytales with the Orchestra».

In 2006 and 2010 Enkhe admirably runs the Gala concerts of the Russian open composer contest «Peter and a Wolf» which turned to be a remarkable event in the music life of Russia. This is the contest for creation of original compositions of symphonic music for children.

Maestro Enkhe was one of the originators of the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra creation, which combines functions of both concert team and a Philharmonic academy. Since 2007 he has been its principal conductor. The orchestra-academy headed by Enkhe makes over 20 programs every year, performing in more than 30 concerts within the subscription series on the stage of Big Concert Hall of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Society and its branches. The orchestra is involved in the educational programs for the higher education institutions of Yekaterinburg and charitable projects for orphanage. Leaded by Enkhe the orchestra participated in internationally recognized festivals and projects such as Eurochestries, the European Youth Orchestra Festival (Russia in 2007, France in 2008); The third Music Festival «Crescendo», Art Director Denis Matsuev (Yekaterinburg, 2007); concert in the Big Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in subscription concert series of the Moscow Philharmonic Society (2009). Furthermore, thanks to his initiative and prestige, Enkhe could attract the leading orchestral music-making specialists of Russia to the educational program of the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra. In August 2012 UPO under conduction of maestro Enkhe presented Russia in International Music Festival «Young Euro Classic» in Berlin and join the number of the best Youths Symphonic Orchestras in the world.

For the circle of concerts «Evenings with the big orchestra» and his contribution to creating of the Philharmonic Academy and the project «Music available to all» maestro Enkhe is honored with the Governor’s Award of the Sverdlovsk region «For excellence in Literature and Arts» (2009, 2011).

Huichang Yan was conferred the title of National Class One Conductor at the First Professional Appraisal of China in 1987. He joins the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in June 1997. Yan was awarded the “Cultural Medallion (Music)” by the National Arts Council of Singapore in September 2001. In 2004, he was awarded a Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in recognition of his remarkable achievements in Chinese music as well as his efforts in promoting Chinese music. In 2008, he was awarded the Jurors’ Award for Conducting at the 6th China Gold Record Awards – Multi Arts Category. In 2010, Yan was awarded the Overseas Award for Music at the 51st Literary and Art Works Awards of the Chinese Writers’ & Artists’ Association (Taiwan).

Yan has been appointed guest or visiting professor by several music institutions, a position that allows him to promote Chinese music for the continuation of its heritage. He has given lectures and talks at the Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, The Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Xi’an Conservatory of Music and China Conservatory in China, and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in Hong Kong. Yan has been a keen promoter of music education. In 2006, he was instrumental in proposing and the subsequent implementation of the Professional Orchestra Internship scheme through collaboration between The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. It was followed by The HKCO Orchestral Academy, which was a realization of Yan’s innovative vision. In the same year, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by HKAPA, with an appointment as Visiting Scholar of its School of Music, where he gave master classes in conducting and established Master’s degree courses in Chinese music conducting. In 2010, Yan initiated the world’s first ever ‘International Conduction Competition for Chinese Music’, which was enthusiastically supported and highly commended by professional music conservatories in China and overseas. In March 2012, he was invited to give master classes at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, the Conservatoire de Luxembourg, and the Conservatoirenational supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, which made him the first ever Chinese to hold such classes there.

After graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1983, Yan was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Chinese National Orchestra of China. As a conductor who has worked with all professional Chinese orchestras in Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and philharmonic or symphony orchestras such as the China National Symphony Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Yan has won the acclaim of the music circles in China and abroad for his artistic and conducting talents. He is now the Specially Invited Conductor of Chinese Music of the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra of China. Yan has also been involved in music of other genres. Apart from conducting on the concert stage, Yan is also actively engaged in composition and has won numerous awards. His representative works include the symphonic poem The Sound of Water, Nostalgia for pipa solo, Buddhist music The Weiyang Sect, Qing Lian Yu Yue (‘Cyan Lotus under the Moon’) and Chuan Deng Xu Ming (‘The Passing of the Light’). In the early years of his career, Yan had been the composer and producer of digital music for record releases. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s audio and video releases over the years have been made under his baton.

Led by Yan, the Orchestra has seen omni-direction growth in the last decade, and is a driving force behind the promotion of Chinese music culture in China as well as other parts of the world.

Ton Koopman was born in Zwolle (The Netherlands) and after a classical education he studied organ, harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam and was awarded the Prix d’Excellence for both instruments. From the beginning of his musical studies he was fascinated by authentic instruments and a performance style based on sound scholarship, and at the age of 25 he created his first Baroque orchestra. In 1979 he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed by the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1992.

Koopman has appeared in the most important concert halls and festivals of the five continents. As an organist he has played the most prestigious historical instruments of Europe, and as a harpsichord player and conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir he has been a regular guest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Philharmonie in Berlin, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo as well as in London, Brussels, Madrid, Rome, Salzburg, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Munich, Athens.

Very active as guest conductor, Koopman has worked with the most prominent orchestras of the world. Among them the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonic, BR Orchestra in Munich, DSO Berlin, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Paris, Vienna Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, as well as Cleveland Orchestra, where he is Artist in Residence.

Koopman’s extensive and impressive activities as a soloist, accompanist and conductor have been recorded on Erato, Teldec, Sony, Philips and Deutsche Grammophon. In 2002 he created his own record label “Antoine Marchand”, distributed by Challenge Records.

Between 1994 and 2004 Ton Koopman has been engaged in a unique project, conducting and recording all the existing Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, a massive undertaking for which he has been awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis “Echo Klassik”, the BBC Award, the Prix Hector Berlioz and has been nominated for the Grammy Award (USA) and the Gramophone Award (UK).

Recently Ton Koopman has embarked on another main project: the recording of the complete works by Dietrich Buxtehude, one of the great inspirers of the young J.S. Bach. By now 16 volumes have been released, including the complete works for organ and harpsichord, and four volumes with vocal works. The chamber music will be released in the course of this season. Ton Koopman is President of the “International Dietrich Buxtehude Society” and in 2012 he was awarded the Buxtehude-Preisträger der Stadt Lübeck as well as the Bach-Preisträger der Stadt Leipzig.

Ton Koopman publishes regularly. He has been engaged in editing the complete Händel Organ Concertos for Breitkopf & Härtel. Recently he has published new editions of Händel’s Messiah and Buxtehude‘s Das Jüngste Gericht for Carus Verlag.

Ton Koopman leads the class of harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, is Professor at the University of Leiden and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Ton Koopman is artistic director of the French Festival “Itinéraire Baroque”.