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	Da Sol Kim / PIANO
	(20, SOUTH KOREA / GERMANY)
	Da Sol Kim won top prizes in numerous national and international competitions including Nagoya International Competition(1st Prize), Asia International Chopin Music Competition(1st Prize), Isang Yun International Music Competition(2nd Prize), 2008 the 63rd Geneva International Music Competition(3rd Prize) and, in 2009, he again won the 3rd prize at the 11th International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, Germany. He had recitals at his hometown city, Busan in South Korea and also has various concerts of orchestral performance and recital actively in Germany including performing with German Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra and Miracle Chamber Orchestra.


	Alexej Gorlatch / PIANO
	(21, UKRAINE / GERMANY)
	Alexej Gorlatch is the winner of the 1st Prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece at two highly reputed international piano competitions: Dublin 2009 and Hamamatsu 2006. He won several competitions such as the 1st Prizewinner of the International August Everding Competition in Munich(2006), the XV. International Chopin Competition in Warsaw(2005), Beethoven Competition Richard Laugs in Mannheim, International Beethoven Competition (Bonn 2007), and the 2nd Prize at the Seoul International Piano Competition 2008. He also won the highly reputed German Musikpreis 2008 as the first pianist in recent 15 years.


	Manuel Araujo / PIANO
	(26, PORTUGAL)
	1st prize in piano competitions in Portugal, Spain and Italy. Performed in major concert halls in the Netherlands like the Stadsschouwburg of Amsterdam, the Lucent in The Hague, the Philips Hall in de Stadsschouwburg of Eindhoven, the Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Theater De Vest in Alkmaar and the Schouwburgs of Rotterdam, Utrecht and Leiden. Performed all over Portugal, as well as in Macedonia, Trento, Bergamo, Brescia, Brussels, Brasilia and S.Petersburg and Sydney. In 2002 and 2003 was invited to record live for RDP (Portuguese National Radio), in the commemoration of the centenary of the Portuguese composer Frederico de Freitas and in the 50 years of death of S. Prokofiev, performing three of his sonatas. He also recorded for the radio ABC classics, Australia. As a soloist, performed with the Oporto National Orchestra, the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra do Norte and with the Orquestra Filarmonica di Stato "P. Constantinescu" di Ploiesti.



	Danae Doerken/ PIANO
	(16, GREECE / GERMANY)
	Danae Doerken received 21 first prizes at Jugend Musiziert from 1998 to 2009, the International Steinway Competition, the International Grotrian Steinweg Competition and awarded the Prix Unique at the International Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, and many other competition. She was awarded a composition scholarship from the YAMAHA Foundation, and is also holding scholarships of the Werner Richard-Dr.Carl Doerken Foundation. Since 2000, invited to perform in various renowned international festivals in Europe and performed the concertos of Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, Mozart with several orchestras.


	Ching-Yun Hu / PIANO
	(TAIWAN / UK)
	Ching Yun Hu, captured the top prize at the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, where she was also awarded the Audience Favorite Prize. Her concert appearances had taken her to such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot in Paris, Aspen Music Festival, Chopin International Festival in Poland, National Chiang Kai-Shek Performance Hall, Osaka Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Opera House in Tel Aviv, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, National Concert Hall of Taipei, Rubinstein Philharmonic’s Hall in Lodz, the Maputo International Music Festival in Mozambique, Africa and in various other concert halls in the world. She also has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Israel Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra etc.


	Claire Huangci / PIANO
	(19, CHINA / USA)
	Claire Huangci is the 1st Prize winner of the 11th International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt(2009), International Piano Chopin Kosciuszko Competition(2006), Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Competition(2002), Kathryn MacPhail Young Artist Competition of the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra(2002), World Piano Competition (under age 17), Grand Prize(1999), Bucks County Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition(1999), Landsdown Symphony Youth Artist Competition(1998) etc. She also has perform in France (Salle Cortot, Champs de Elysees, and Jeunes Talents), Germany (Hannover, Baden Baden, Munchen, Bonn, Hamburg, Berlin, Karlsruhe, and Leipzig), Austria (Vienna Konzerthaus with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Salzburg Mozarteum) America (Rockefeller Center, USC Theater, Carnegie Hall, and Kimmel Center), Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Morocco, Japan (Yamaha Ginza, Yokohama Mirai Hall, Nikkei Hall, and Sai no Kuni Saitama Art Theatre) China, etc.


	Drew Petersen / PIANO
	(15, USA / USA)
	Drew Petersen has performed actively in USA as soloist with several orchestras including Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Westchester Philharmonic. He has been awarded numerously, among others, the 1at Prize at 2009 Friday Woodmere Young Artist Piano Competition, 2008 Yonkers Philharmonic Concerto Competition, 2005 Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Competition. He studies at College-level course at Harvard University Extension School and from 2003 to present also at Manhattan School of Music Precollege.


	Aaron Pilsan / PIANO
	(13, Austria / Austria)
	Aaron Pilsan was born in 1995. At fine years age he got first piano lesson and since September 2007 he studies at the Institute for encouragement of highly talented students at Mozarteum University Salzburg with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling. He won several prizes at the Austrian regional and national competition “Prima la musica” as soloist and young accompanist. For his orchestral debut in 2008 he performed Haydn’s concerto in D Major in conjunction with the orchestra of the Society of Music Amateurs Bregenz.