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Professor at the Royal College of Music, London

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Cello Professor at Nuremberg Music Hochschule

Principal cello at Bavarian state opera orchestra

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Gabriel Schwabe

Professor at the Musikhochschule Lübeck

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Professor at Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot, Paris

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Emmanuelle Bertrand

First woman cello professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris

Simone and Cino Del Duca Acting Award 2017

Victoire de la musique "instrumental revelation" in 2002, "instrumental soloist of the year" in 2022

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Anne-Lise Gastaldi

Piano professor at the CNSMD in Lyon and at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris

Professor of pedagogy at the CNSMD in Paris

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Professor at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg i.B.

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Gérard Caussé

International soloist

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Kim Kashkashian

She coaches chamber music and viola at New England Conservatory of Music.

She won a Grammy Award for her recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works in 2013

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Principal flute of the Orchestre de Paris

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Patrick Messina

Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London where he is a regular visiting professor

Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and at the IESM

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Professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo.

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He is head of department of piano major at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

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She is a professor at Seoul National University in Korea.

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Professor at the Seoul National University

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Professor at Seoul National University

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Professor at the Yonsei University in Seoul.

Music director and conductor of Seoul Chamber Orchestra.

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Evgeny Sinaisky

Professor of chamber music and an official accompanist at the Vienna Conservatoire.

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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi

He has been the President of Suntory Hall since 2007, and currently teaches at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

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Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory

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Professor at the Geneva University of Music, where he leads the keyboard instruments department.

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Professor at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna

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Professor at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna

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She serves on the juries of international competitions around the world.

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The Colburn Conservatory of Music created the Carol Colburn Grigor Piano Chair in his honour, and he teaches there.

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Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig

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Leonid Gorokhov

Professor at the Hochschule Für Musik,Theater und Medien in Hannover

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Professor at the CNSMD in Paris

She is solo violin of the Orchestre national de France

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Rena Shereshevskaya

Professor at the Alfred Cortot Paris Superior Music School

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Professor of cello at the Geneva University of Music and the Bern University of Arts.

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Pierre Génisson

He won the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Jacques Lancelot International Competition in Tokyo.

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Philippe Graffin

Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and at the CNSM of Paris.

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Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

International soloist and concert artist

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Professor at the Royal College of Music of London.

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In 1990, he won the First Prize at the Geneva Competition.

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In 2006, he won first prize in the International Paganini Competition.

He was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition.

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Professor at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva.

He won several important international prizes in the 1990s.

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Professor at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris

Professor at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, in Italy.

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One of the world's leading clarinet soloists, she has worked with renowned orchestras.

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Professor at the Haute école de musique de Genève. International soloist and concert artist.

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Isabel Charisius

Member of the Alban Berg Quartet from 2005 to 2008.

Teacher at the European Centre for Chamber Music - ProQuartet.

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He won first prize at the Piano Competition of Hungarian Radio, at the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition and at the Géza Anda Competition.

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Claire-Marie Le Guay

Professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

First prize winner at ARD Competition in Munich (1994).

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Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl-Maria von Weber in Dresden.

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Professor of violin at New England Conservatory in Boston.

At the age of 20, she won the Paganini Competition.

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Professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

In 1988, he won first prize and a special prize of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition.

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François Le Roux

Former professor at the CNSMD of Paris, then at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot of Paris.

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Jens Peter Maintz

Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.

He formed the cello duo « Cello Duello » with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.

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Boris Garlitsky

Professor at the Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen.

He offers masterclasses at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule or Kronberg Academy…

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Francois Dumont

Professor at Haute-Ecole de Musique de Genève - Neuchâtel

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Tatiana Samouil

Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and at the Superior Center of Arts Musikene

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Professor at the Zurich Hochschule der Künste.

Jury president at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 2019.

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Michel Dalberto

Professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

From 1991 to 2009, he chaired the jury of the Clara Haskil Competition.

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Professor at the CNSMD of Lyon.

Anne Gastinel won numerous prizes in major international competitions (Scheveningen, Prague, Rostropovitch)

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Svetlana Makarova

Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Professor of the highly esteemed Konservatorium Wien University.

Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne.

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Professor at the University of Music in Cologne.

Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva.

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Jacques Rouvier

Professor at the CNSMD in Paris and at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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Professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music

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Frans Helmerson

Professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid.

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Stephen Kovacevich

He has conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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Professor at the School of Music Yonsei University in Seoul and visiting professor at the Royal Academy London.

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Philippe Bernold

Professor of flute and chamber music at the CNSMD of Paris.

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Professor at Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris

He was the artistic director of the International Summer Academy in Nice.

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Professor at the Mendelssohn Hochschule Leipzig.

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Olivier Charlier

Revealed by the Long-Thibaud Foundation competition.

Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Audition in 1989.

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Professor at the CNSM of Paris.

From 1991 to 2009, he chaired the jury of the Clara Haskil Competition.

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Professor at the Royal College of Music of London.

1st viola of the Gurzenich Orchester Cologne since 2016.

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She has gained international recognition for being a vocal coach to many singers who have developed advanced careers in professional singing.

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Marie-Josèphe Jude

Professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

In October 2017, she was appointed President of the Nice International Summer Academy.

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Maarten Koningsberger

He has taught singing at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, the CNSMD of Paris and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

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He is Artistic Director of the Kaposvár International Chamber Music Festival.

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Lars Anders Tomter

Professor at the State Academy in Oslo.

Professor at the Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen.

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Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

He has been directing the destiny of the Studio de l'Opéra de Lyon (SOL).

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Jean-François Heisser

From 1991 to 2016, he was a professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

He is the President of the Maurice Ravel International Academy.

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Günter Pichler

Founder of the Alban Berg Quartett.

Teacher at the European Centre for Chamber Music - ProQuartet.

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Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

He offers masterclasses at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan School, San Francisco, and Juilliard School and other.

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Professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

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Finghin Collins

He will chair the jury of the Clara Haskil Competition in 2023 and 2025.

He was a member of the jury of the Clara Haskil Competition in 2021 and the Dublin International Piano Competition in 2022.

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Former professor at the CNSMD of Paris, the CNR of Paris, and the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris.

Professor at the Showa University of Music in Japan since 2010.

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Dmitry Sitkovetsky

International soloist and conductor.

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Clive Greensmith

Professor at Colburn School.

Member of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet and Montrose Trio.

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Davide Formisano

Professor at Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, principal flutist at the Scala.

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Professor at the CNSMD of Paris.

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Former professor at the Beijing Conservatory.

He founded the China Philarmonic Cellists and the SuperCello festival.

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Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.

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Professor in Residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.

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Barnabás Kelemen

Professor at Budapest’s Liszt Academy and the University of Cologne.

Winner of numerous international awards.

Member of the Kelemen Quartet and renowned violinist.

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Alissa Margulis

International soloist and professor at Folkwang University, Germany.

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Pianist and singing teacher.

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Aleksandar Madžar

Professor at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.

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Alexander Chaushian

Professor at the Royal College of Music of London.

He is a laureate prize winner of many international competitions, including International Tchaikovsky Competition.

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Alexei Ogrintchouk

Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève and guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles.

1st violin of the legendary Tokyo string quartet.

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