After studying cello with Claude Brion and Guy Besnard, Frédéric Defossez is unanimously admitted at the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance – CNSMDP – in the class of Jean-Marie Gamard. There he studies with Marc-Didier Thirault and Patrick...
Simone Zgraggen studied in Lucerne, Basel and Karlsruhe with Alexander van Wijnkoop and Ulf Hoelscher and finished all studies “summa cum laude”. She attended master classes in Europe with F. Gulli, I. Ozim, S. Bron, A. Chumachenco, R. Kussmaul, T. Zehetmair as well...
Prize-winner of many prestigious international violin competitions such as N. Paganini Competition in Genoa, P.I.Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, R. Lipizer Competition in Gorizia; winner of International Competition in Portogruaro (Italy), Juventus Award (by the...
Coming from a family of musicians, Stefan Muhmenthaler studied violin with Ulrich Lehmann and piano with Rosemarie Stucki-Balmer at the Bern Conservatory. In 1976, he won the first prize of violin and second prize of piano in the competition of “Jeunesses Musicales...
Reported by the ‘Mitteldeutsche Zeitung’ as having an “…Extraordinarily soft, expressive sound…” Included amongst her former teachers and mentors are internationally renowned violinists Dongsam Ji, Prof. Koh Gabriel Kameda, and Prof. Eckhard Fischer. Hyuna Min has...
