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Moscow. As a chamber musician he played with Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlav and Emanuel Ax among others.
Dutch cellist Ella van Poucke (1994) is one of the most important cellists of her generation. After her studies at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson, she finished these at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Gary Hoffman. In November 2015 she won the 1st prize at the International Isang Yun Cello Competition. In addition, she received the Leopoldium Award 2015, the special prize as “recognition of her outstanding performance during the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann 2014, the Prix Nicolas Firmenich 2013, the 1st prize of the Princess Christina Competition and she was Dutch Musician of the Year 2012. In 2013-2014, Ella, as Dutch “rising star”, was invited by the Concertgebouw to give two Carte Blanche concerts. She has performed in all major venues in the Netherlands and can also be heard regularly in many European countries and the US. She also creates furore as a soloist with orchestras and made her debut with the Brussels Philharmonic in BOZAR in March 2017. In the summer of 2017 she was Young Artist in Residence during the NJO Music Summer. Ella recently received the Grachtenfestivalprijs 2017.
Greek master pianist Vassilis Varvaresos (1983) was in 1998 the youngest winner ever of Young Concert Artists/New York. After that, several international prizes were awarded to him, including the 3rd prize of the 2014 Enescu Competition in Bucharest and the 2nd prize of the Monte Carlo Piano Masters in 2015. He completed his studies at Juilliard School/New York and at the CNSM Paris, where he studied with Michel Dalberto. Vassilis can be heard frequently in most European countries and toured Japan and the USA with violinist Noé Inui. Apart from being a chamber musician, Vassilis is also regularly heard as a soloist with orchestras. He played solo recitals in halls such as Tonhalle / Zürich, the Wiener Musikverein and the Parisian Salle Gaveau and toured Korea, Japan and the USA, where he performed at most prestigious concert venues, such as Morgan Library and Lincoln Center in NYC and the Kennedy Center in Washington. The year 2017 brought him several solo concerts and recitals in France, Germany, Austria, Greece, Jordan and Egypt. Vassilis has 3 CDs to his name; his 4th, titled ‘V for Valse’ was released in May 2018.