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	Shaun Choo / PIANO
	(19, SINGAPORE / AUSTRIA)
	Shaun Choo has performed as a soloist with various internationally renowned orchestras, such as the Lindau Festival Orchestra, Suedwestdeustche Philharmonie Konstanz, Mozarteum Symphony Orchestra Salzburg, Niederbarischer Philharmonie Passau/ Landshut/ Straubing, National Symphony Orchestra China, Singapore Festival Orchestra and Leipzig Academic Orchestra. The 2009/2010 season will include several notable performances by Shaun Choo, in the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Century theater Beijing, Leipziger Gewandhaus and Chopin’s birthplace in Warsaw, Poland. This period has also seen him win several international piano competitions, emerging as first prize winner in the 2009 Grotrian Steinweg Piano Competition, Beijing, first and public prize winner in the 2006 Rotary Club Piano Competition in Lindau, Germany, first and public prize winner in the 2010 ZF MusikPreis Friedrichshafen, first prize winner in the 2010 Chopin International Competition Budapest. He was awarded second place in the 2010 "Flame" International Competition in Paris, the 2009 Bluthner Golden Tone Award Piano Competition in Vienna, and third place in the 2009 Singapore National Piano Competition.



	Fernando Altamura / PIANO
	(24, ITALY / USA)
	Fernando Altamura's numerous prize winning careers include Mozarteum Summer Academy International Competition in Salzburg 2004, Johannes Brahms International competition in Italy 2005, Bitola Interfest International Piano Competition in Macedonia and others. He had recitals in several festivals such as Gargano Inernational Festival, Florence International Music Festival, International Piano Festivals like Tropea, Bruxellers and Spoleto and Euro Music Festival Leipzig. He was also observed by perfofming with several orchastras Mozart "Rondo for Concert K.382", Ravel "Piano Concerto G Major", Bach "Conerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra C Major", Poulenc "Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra", John Adams "Gran Pianola Music". Since 2003, he has been showing another different musical aspect of his own through various recording.



	Jakob Koranyi / VIOLONCELLO
	(26, SWEDEN / GERMANY)
	Winner of 2nd Grand Prix and special prize for best interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 2009, Jakob Koranyi has emerged as one of the most interesting young Scandinavian artists of today. He has been awarded prizes and scholarships from numerous international festivals and foundations, such as the Prix d'Honneur and Ferminich Prize at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He has also won all the major Swedish competitions including the prestigious Swedish Soloist Prize in 2006 that launched his debut recording with works by Brahms, Britten, and Ligeti to great critical praise. As a chamber musician, he has performed with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Leonidas Kavakos, Denis Kozhukhin, Mischa Maisky, Lawrence Power and Julian Rachlin.



	Da Sol Kim / PIANO
	(21, 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
	(22, 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.



	Danae Doerken/ PIANO
	(17, 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
	(20, 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.



	Aaron Pilsan / PIANO
	(14, Salzburg / 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.