The Franco-Lithuanian pianist MŪZA Rubackytė lives between Vilnius, Paris and Geneva. After studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she won the All Union Competition in St Petersburg. In 1981 she won the Grand Prize at the Budapest Liszt-Bartok International Piano Competition. A resistance fighter in Lithuania, she was unable to leave the USSR until 1989. In Paris she won First Prize for Piano at the International Competition Les Grands Maîtres Français of the Triptyque Association, founded by Ravel, Dukas and Roussel.
Cansu Şanlıdağ is a solo pianist, renowned for her expressive playing and virtuosity. She began her musical training at the age of seven at the Dokuz Eylul Conservatory in Izmir, before continuing her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Mons and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel under Dalia Ouziel and Aleksandar Madzar. She then completed her training in the Postgraduate programme at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Markus Hadulla.
Clara Ponty belongs to a new generation of singer-songwriters who embrace an eclectic approach to their art and inspiration. Born in Paris and raised in Los Angeles in an environment open to all kinds of music (her father, a classically trained musician, is the renowned jazz violinist and composer Jean-Luc Ponty), she showed exceptional musical talent from a very early age.
Matthieu Stefanelli, winner of the Orléans and Bremen competitions and of the Banque Populaire Foundation, performs both his own Concerto for piano and chamber orchestra Chroma and the classical and romantic repertoire.
As a disciple of Jacques Rouvier, Prisca Benoît and Bruno Rigutto, and with his experience as a composer, he brings a personal touch to his performances.
The richness and elegance of its sound palette, combined with its remarkable and intense sensitivity, make Cyril Guillotin an artist apart, an unclassifiable pianist.