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International audiences and critics have consistently recognized the fiery intensity, brilliance, sensitivity and innate musicality in the pianism of Eduardo Delgado. His appearances have taken him to the major music capitals of four continents—Europe, South America, Asia and North America. Through the wide span of Delgado’s repertoire, audiences immediately feel and hear that music affects him very deeply and that he shares these profound and personal emotions freely with every listener.

A few of the international plaudits he has won are:

• “Virtuosity, clean sound, and passion…the best” reports La Capital of Argentina.
  Following an appearance in Tokyo in the Pablo Casals Hall, critics hailed his playing as “a marvelous performance, deeply emotional as well as lyrical” (Musica Nova – Tokyo).
• Norwegian critics described Delgado as “a pianist of a thousand nuances, a fantastic experience.” (Kristiansand).
• In Russia, “Delgado’s Bach had brilliance, a profound meditation and a musical tone rarely heard” (Sovietskaya Kultura – Moscow).

Born in Rosario, Argentina, Eduardo Delgado began his early training with his mother, Amelia, followed by studies with Arminda Canteros in Rosario, Sergio Lorenzi in Venice, Vicente Scaramuzza in Buenos Aires, Dora Zaslavsky at the Manhattan School of Music and Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School of Music, New York, NY. Some of his numerous awards and prizes include the Vladimir Horowitz Award, Mozarteum Argentino Award, Martha Baird Rockefeller and the Concert Artists Guild Awards.
Delgado is a notable and sought-after pedagogue, lecturer and teacher of master classes. He has been on piano faculties in various locations in Japan, the United States and Italy. He was a tenured Professor of Piano at California State University, Fullerton for 20 years where he established a scholarship fund for talented pianists in tribute to the renowned artist and his personal friend, Alicia de Larrocha.
He has been a jury member of international competitions such as the William Kapell, Gina Bachauer, Vega in Japán, the second Martha Argerich Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, San Antonio International Competition, Jose Iturbi Competition, Los Angeles, and Top of the World Competition in Tromso, Norway.
Delgado has performed at the Perugia and Dino Ciano Festivals in Italy, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and the Martha Argerich Festivals in Lugano and Buenos Aires. He has performed with Martha Argerich and Gabriela Montero.
He has appeared with the Pacific Symphony and Chorale at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA., and shared recitals and recordings with tenor Jose Cura.
Eduardo Delgado was awarded the Medal of Honor by UNESCO in Buenos Aires and appointed Illustrious Citizen in his native city of Rosario. In 2015 he received the title of Emerita Professor of Music at California State University, Fullerton.
During 2015, Eduardo’s performing and teaching appearances were numerous and world-wide as a partial listing demonstrates:

International:

• Argentina, China, Japan, Recitals and Master Classes
• Italy, performed and taught at the Schlern International Piano Festival and Todi Music Masters Festival in Todi, Italy
• Costa Rica, Festival de Piano Juvenil de Costa Rica, Solo Recitals and Master Classes

National:

• South Carolina, Southeastern Piano Festival, Columbia University
• New Jersey, Montclair University Taubman Festival
• California, Encore Series, La Quinta; Rancho Mirage, Orange, Fullerton

For 2016, selected listings of Delgado’s many engagements where he will be performing, lecturing, adjudicating and giving master classes are:

• January 18, Southern California Junior Bach Festival, Jury
• January 31, Pasadena Conservatory, Master Class
• February 7, Imperial Empire Piano Festival – Riverside, CA, Jury
• February 10, Claremont College, Lecture Demonstration, Alberto Ginastera 100th Birthday Celebration
• February 21, Pasadena Conservatory Mansions and Music Concerts, Fauré Piano Quartet Op. 15, Ravel
• March 13, Cal State Fullerton, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Ginastera
• April 3, Blue Skies of Texas, San Antonio, Recital
• April 5, Music Teachers National Association Convention, San Antonio, TX., Ginastera 100th Birthday Presentation
• June 5 – 12, San Antonio International Competition, Jury
• July, Italy, Schlern International Music Festival, Performing and teaching
• August 9 – 25, Italy, Todi Music Masters Festival, Performing and teaching
• September, Argentina, Solo Recital Tour
• October 10 – 15, Chiangmai Festival, Thailand
• October 16, Chiangmai, Thailand, Beethoven Emperor Concerto
• October 20, China

Some of Delgado’s recordings include:

• The complete solo piano music of Alberto Ginastera in two volumes for MA Records in Tokyo.
• A CD of romantic works of Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn, IRCO Records, Buenos Aires.
• A CD with tenor Jose Cura for ERATO Records
• Anhelo (Songs by Argentinian Composers), Jose Cura, tenor, Ernesto Bitetti, guitar, Eduardo Delgado, piano, Paris

Eduardo Delgado is a Steinway Artist.

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Born in Osaka Japan, living in Poland as a Honorable Citizen of Szczawno-Zdrój city.
Artistic Director of Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Festival.
Honorary Professor of Payap University Thailand.
Honorary Chairman of Japan Ginastera Association.
In 1977 Atsuko Seta graduated from the Department of Music, Piano Course, Osaka Kyoiku University. In 1978, she completed a Postgraduate Course, starting her career as a pianist, mentored by Argentine pianist Eduardo Delgado.
She also studied at the Summer Academy of Wien Austria with Prof. Jenner Alexander, at the International Summer Music Academy of Sion Switzerland with Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr, at the Summer Master Course in Flaine France with Prof.Pascal Devoyon, at the French Music Academy in Kyoto Japan with Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
In 1996, Atsuko won the Top prize of the Masterplayers International Music Competition in Italy. Her talent has been noticed by the president conductor Maestro Richard Schumacher.
“This phenomenal Japanese pianist has played to standing ovations. One of the greatest pianists I have ever heard !”(Richard Schumacher)
Since 1997, she has performed in Europe every year, especially Piano Concertos with Sudety Philharmonic in Poland.
“Extraordinary technique exceptional sound and dynamic impetuous temperament” (Walbrzyski Tygodnik,Poland)
In 2003, Atsuko Seta received the Music Critic Club Prize, which is given to the most active musician in West Japan.
In 2004, she received the IBLA Grand Prize Ginastera Special Award in Italy. In 2003 and 2004, she began performing piano concertos with the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, the first Japanese pianist to do so.
In 2005 she visited the United States, performing in Los Angeles and New York City, giving Ginastera recitals at the Yamaha Center and at Carnegie Hall and New York University during which she performed Ginastera Sonata No.1 amongst others.
“ Japanese Pianist Atsuko Seta is one of the true highlights of the evening, she is obviously in love with the music of the 20th Century Argentinean master Alberto Ginastera. She presents his music with such abandon and high-wattage enthusiasm,smiling with such delight in what she is creating.” (Jeffrey James)
In 2006, Atsuko performed premiere Ginastera Piano Concerto No.1 with Sudecka Philharmonic in Poland. In 2007, Grieg Piano Concerto with Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. In 2011, Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 with Osaka Doctor’s Philharmonic in Japan. In 2012 Rechmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 with Ternopil Philharmonic in Ukraine. In 2013, Solo Recital in Italy and Germany. In 2014, Solo Recital in Holland.
In 2016, Ginastera Recital at Leipzig Hochschule“ Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ” in Germany. In 2017 with Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra in Vietnam. In 2018 with Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ternopil Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
2008 – 2018 she has been living in Thailand Chiangmai, performing many Solo Recitals and Piano Concertos with Chiangmai Philharmonic Orchestra. She was teaching as a Guest Professor at Payap University Music Department. In April 2015, she organized Japan Concert Tour with her students, this was aired on Japanese TV.
In 2016 She founded Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Festival and Competition, now she is continuing to work wonderfully as an Artistic Director.
In 2018 She moved to Poland , living with her husband in Szczawno-Zdroj city where she was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen.
Official Website http://atsuko-pianist.com

Prize and Jury

• 1993 Best Soloist Prize of All Japan Musician’s Association Competition
• 1996 Masterplayers Prize of Masterplayers International Music Competition in Italy
• 2003 Music Critic Club Prize in Japan
• 2004 IBLA GRAND PRIZE in Italy, Ginastera Special Award

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Pham Quynh Trang is a piano teacher and a Concert Pianist at Vietnam National Academy of Music. She started piano at 5 years old with teacher Mrs. Trinh Nhat Anh and Ms. Hoang Kim Dung. Pham graduated with a bachelor degree of Music, with excellent certificate, major in Piano Performance in 1994. She finished Master of Music, Piano Performance under the direction of Professor/Dr. Tran Thu Ha. She has accumulated experiences in teaching and performances. Besides working at the Vietnam National Academy of music, she performed Rhapsody in Blues by George Gershwin with Hanoi Opera and Ballet Theatre and chamber music programs with Vietnam Symphony Orchestra. Recently she played Concerto Mozart No 23 with VNSO under the French Conductor Claude Brendel. Concerto for two pianos of Poulenc . Triple concerto of Beethoven for Piano ,Violin and Cello …. Pham is a member and performs regularly with Song Hong Chamber Music. She is also a member of May Duo Piano. Both Song Hong Chamber Music and May Piano Duo are well-known chamber music groups in Viet Nam. They are considered the most active groups in the chamber music field. The two groups have performed with Verandi Cameranta from London. International musicians gave high praises towards their concert for the Contemporary Music Festival in Nanning, China. Furthermore, she performed in exchange culture events with well-known viola player Nobuko Imai and violinist Ryu Goto, Cellist Edith Salman, Jeffrey Solow. She studied at Franz Liszt Hochschule fur Musik in Weimar, Germany. While studying there, Pham performed with European artists at many concert halls. She and Song Hong Chamber earned a scholarship to study in USA with Proffessor Eduard Schmider. Trang receives great critical acclaim by the Vietnamese and international professional musicians.
With the incentive to inspire, share her passion and channel her love for music to young, gifted individuals, she established May Space in 2017, numerous students have already achieved prestigious awards, distinction certificates from national and international competitions and examinations. She is the Founder and Artistic director of Rising Stars International Arts Festival and Competition in Viet Nam . She was invited to judge numbers of Piano Competitions in the world .
In addition, she is also the host/founder of the annual charity concert ‘Thu Yêu Thương’ where all profits are donated to the ‘Khăn Ấm Cho Em’ fund. The money is utilised to build a school in mountainous regions of Vietnam for unfortunate children that need education the most!
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Pianist, composer and conductor. Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando Prize in 2006, only other well-known Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla, has won this important recognition in the History of Spanish music. As a composer, Tévar was awarded with the Guerrero Foundation Award in 2008 and Amics del Liceu Foundation Award 2009, among others, and he won First Prize at the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition in New York as a pianist. Well-known for his international career, Manuel Tévar is one of the most complete and internationally recognized Spanish musicians of his generation. His agenda as conductor, pianist and composer has taken him to theaters all over the world, premiering over 50 works in 10 different countries as composer and performer. He has conducted, among others, I Musici della Scala di Milano, Orquesta Filarmonica Marchigiana, CRR Istambul Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Polifónica Siciliana, Orchestra de Chambre du Luxembourg, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo and the United Nations Youth Ensemble, and he has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba, lOrquesta RTVE Española, Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia, Orquesta Sinfónica of Indiana Wesleyan University and Silesian Chamber Players. Tévar is the artistic director of the Atlantida Chamber Orchestra, as well as several international music festivals in Spain. He has performed in prestigious venues and festivals like Carnegie Hall in New York, Rudolfinum in Prague, Palacio de Foz in Lisbon, Wiener Koncerthaus, Palais des Academies in Brussels, Lake Como Festival, Skopje Internacionational Music Festival, Festival of Rediscovered and Forgotten music in Poloand, among many others all over the world. In Spain, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Teatro Real, Auditorio Miguel Delibes, Teatro Monumental, Fundación Juan March, Palau de la música de Barcelona, Palau de la música de Valencia, Fundación Botín, MNCARS, Festival de Segovia, Festival de Musica Española de Cádiz or Festival ENSEMS can be highlighted. Tévar has also recorded for the National Spanish Television and Radio (RTVE), Radio France and Österreichischer Rundfunk in Viena. After several tours around Europe, USA and Latin America in the last months, he has upcoming proyects that will take him to the Berlin Philarmonie or Sala Verdi in Milan, as well as his Asian debut with the State Symphony Orchestra of Kazakhstan. Manuel Tévar has cultivated the success of his artistic work for years, achieveing in each concert an unmatched conection with the public’s most intimate sensitivity. He positions himself as an integral musician who combines all his sides in one, like the complete musician of another era.
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A Hong Kong versatile Pianist, Ricky Tsang has performed in local, mainland China, Southeast Asia, the USA and toured Australia with engagements from Qantas Airways and Jayday Music as presented as First Prize of International Inter-School Performance Challenge Award of Australia and also was featured as guest artist in 39th St. Cecilia Music Concert Series and presented a solo recital at Albert Hall in Australia where he received his Music Fellowship from St. Cecilia School of Music, Australia. Other awards include First Prizes of 12 th Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Open Piano Competition and China Shenzhen 10 th Piano Duo National Competition, Second Prize of 2 nd Asian Youth Music Competition, Third Prize of 15 th Hong Kong Asia Open Competition, “Osaka” Prize of 1 st Hong Kong-Osaka International Music Competition and among others.

As a performer, his major notable performances includes the New Year Concert by the government of Xinjiang, China and 7th Icy and Snow Cultural Festival to perform "Yellow River" Piano Concerto as soloist with orchestra and has been broadcasted widely in Xinjiang, China and he has been highlighted as guest artist in the Grand Opening Ceremony of Zendai Himalayas Art Festival and the first pianist to perform at Daguan Theatre in Shanghai, China, the masterclass series of Hong Kong Arts Festival and also the Closing Concert of China Shenzhen 10th Piano Duo Competition in Shenzhen Concert Hall.

As a pedagogue and adjudicator, his students are highly accomplished with ABRSM and Trinity Music Grade and Diploma Examination with Distinction results. He has been awarded “Teaching Excellence Award” from Pearl River Cup National Piano Competition in China, Guangzhou and twice nominated “Music Teaching Excellence” from China Shenzhen Piano Duo National Piano Competition. He has also adjudicated in Thailand Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Festival & Competition, China “Duke” International Piano Competition, “Hope China” National Music Competition, China Hailun Cup National Piano Competition, Hong Kong International Music Competition & Festival, Hong Kong Virtuoso Music Competition and others.

As an entrepreneur, he is the founder and artistic director of Hong Kong International Music Competition for Young Pianists and a committee member of International Piano Festival and Academy of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and also the executive director of Hong Kong – Rome Athenaeum International Music Academy. He had been a faculty at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Summer Piano Festival and presented a lecture about piano competition – Behind the Scene and also has been invited to give some Music Sharing in different local music organizations. He worked and associated with many distinguished musicians as Alexander Ghindin, Antonio Di Cristofano, Benjamin Loh, Dmitry Masleev, Golda Vainberg-Tatz, Mikhail Voskresensky, Myrthala Salazar, Oxana Yablonskaya, Sergey Koudriakov, Pierre Reach and Yuliana Avdeeva and among others.

Ricky received his professional music training at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and later at Shanghai Conservatory of Music where he became a committee member of International Piano Festival and Academy. His main piano teachers include Li Ming Qiang, Franz Mo Cheung Yu, Gabriel Kwok, Zhou Keng and Angela Cholakian, a disciple of Yevgeny Malinin – the Heritage of Heinrich Neuhaus. He has also benefited from other distinguished pianists and pedagogues include Anton Kuerti, Tigran Alikhanov, Oxana Yablonskaya, Hilary Coates, Monique Duphil, Sharon Mann, Mack McCray, Yoshikazu Nagai, Vanessa Latarche, Stephen Savage and Joseph Banowetz.
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Chao Tang, a recipient of a full scholarship and the Piano Artist Diploma from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, USA, and also received a full scholarship for study and exchange at Princeton University in the United States. He has successively served as the Executive Director and judge of the 4th Alberti International Piano Competition, a judge at the Golden Key Music Festival Carnegie Hall Performance Competition in New York City, the Executive Director and judge of the Ginastera International Music Competition in China, a judge and performing guest at the 2018 Ningbo International Piano Art Festival, and a special lecture guest at the 2022 Blüthner International Music Festival, among other professional competition judges both domestically and internationally. He has won awards in professional piano competitions at home and abroad and frequently holds concerts and lectures in China and the United States.

In recent years, Chao has performed at the Princeton International Festival Concert Hall, the Leamington Cathedral in New Jersey, the Hartford Polish Chopin Philharmonic Association Hall, the China Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the China Art Palace, Shanghai Education Television, Ningbo Grand Theater, Wuxi Grand Theater, Changzhou Grand Theater, Zhoushan Grand Theater, and other venues. He has participated in the translation and compilation of the Alfred Cortot "Chopin Study Edition" series (Etudes, Preludes, Ballades, Nocturnes), "Moszkowski Etudes" (Op. 72, 92), and C. P. E. Bach's "Essay on The True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments," which have been published and reprinted by Shanghai Education Publishing House and Zhejiang Education Publishing House, with a total translation of more than 300,000 words of various monographs and documents. In 2022, he was invited to record the "Echoes" flute and bassoon chamber music album with Juanrui Zhang, the principal flutist from the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, and Ruijie Chen, the vice-principal bassoonist from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, which was released by the Shanghai Music Publishing House.
In 2024, he recorded the complete set of Czerny's "30 New Progressive Etudes for Left Hand" (Op. 861) for the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House.

After returning to China, he was successively employed by the College of Arts and Media at Tongji University and the Social Education School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to teach piano major and piano pedagogy courses. Students he has taught have been admitted to renowned institutions such as the Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Northwestern University, University of Cambridge, and Tokyo College of Music.
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Thai pianist REMI NAMTEP was born in Chiang Mai on January 7, 1980. She began studying piano with her mother AYU NAMTEP at the age of four. Later, attending Payap University, she studied with Jamie Shaak and Bennett Lerner, with whom she studied in Payap’s Master’s degree program. Ms. Namtep has won prizes in the Nat Yontararak Piano Competition and the Mahidol Youth Music Competition, and, when sixteen years old, passed the Trinity College of Music ATCL exam with the highest score.
A beloved piano teacher, whose students regularly win prizes, she has received the Trinity College of London Best Teacher certificate. Ms. Namtep is currently teaching at Payap University Music Academy. She loves reading, drawing and studies Japanese.
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Winner of the first prize in the Chamber Music category at the Vietnam National Music Competition “Autumn” in 1993, violinist Pham Truong Son obtained his Master of Music degree from the Vietnam National Academy of Music under the tutelages of Dr. Do Xuan Tung and Professor Ngo Van Thanh. From 2009 to 2013 he studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. In 2014 he studied chamber music with Professor Edward Schmieder of iPalpiti International and concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Martin Chalifour in 2014. He also studied with Nobuko Imai, world leading violist.

A prolific performer, Mr. Son has performed in Suntory Hall and Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, Japan, Leo Frankel Concert Hall in Bervelly Hills, USA and number of concert halls in Europe, China, Indonesia, and Thailand. He has appeared as a soloist with the Hanoi String Orchestra and Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1993 and 1994 and has served as co-concertmaster/principle second of the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra since its inaugural season in 1997.

In 2009, Mr. Son founded Song Hong Chamber Music and it has now become one of the leading chamber ensembles in Vietnam. Song Hong has given hundreds of concerts in most of the major cities in Vietnam and went on several tours in Thailand, China, Indonesia and the United States.

Mr. Son is currently on the violin faculty of the Vietnam National Academy of Music and head of the Chamber Music program of the String department here. He has served on the jury of the Thailand Mozart String Competition in 2011, He has judged and performed at the International Music Festival and Competition in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2016.

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Krit mekara was born in Chiang Mai. He began studying violin with Assistant Professor Sompong Wongdee and Mr.Samuck Kajaikum. After high school; he continued studying music at Payap University where he studied violin with Assistant Professor Sompong Wongdee and Mr.Pana Nackwatchara. During that time he passed Trinity College of music violin grade 8 with Merit. Krit used to be member of Kad Youth Orchestra, Chiang Mai String Ensemble as well as Payap Symphony Orchestra’s Concert Master. After graduated from Payap Univesrsity, he taught violin at Payap music school and private student.
Krit received his Master degree in Violin performance from the College of music, Mahidol University, where he studied violin with Mr. Juris Madrevich and Mr. Sittichai phengcharoen. During he studied he was a member of Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO), Chiang mai Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and make the recordings included film music.
Krit is now a concert master of Chiangmai Symphony Orchestra. He also a part time teacher for Chiang rai Rajaphat University, Substitute teacher at Chiang mai international School and Pik’s studio (his own studio).
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Apirat Praphanwong was born in May 30, 1981. He started to learn music at the age of eight years old, first piano, later changing to violin. He studied with Sompong Wongdee, Samak Gajaikam, and Phana Nagavagara and studied conducting with dr. George Mcdown, Sompong Wongdee and dr. Chaipruk Mekhala . He received an undergraduate degree from Payap University with honors in 2003 and master degree in music performance at College of Music, Mahidol University with A. Inga Causa in 2007. Now, he works as a violin instructure and conductor for many ensembles in Payap University.
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Mrs. Dao Tuyet Trinh – Cellist – Vietnam
Mrs. Trinh currently is a member of the Sun Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading symphony orchestras in Vietnam.
Mrs. Dao Tuyet Trinh graduated with High Distinction degree in both undergraduate and graduate, majoring in Violoncello Performance at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.
Trinh was a cellist, principal cellist, and soloist of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured in countries such as the USA, China, Russia, Italy, Japan, and more.
She was the Vietnamese artist invited to perform contemporary music at the Southeast Asian Composers Festival in the Philippines. Mrs. Trinh has performed as the principal cellist for the ASEAN Youth Orchestra in Bangkok (1997). She won First Prize in the Violoncello Ensemble category at the National Autumn Competition (1999)
She is a member of the Sông Hồng Chamber Music, which has been invited to perform in the USA, UK, China, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia,… and also is a member of the Hanoi New Music Ensemble.
Mrs. Tuyet Trinh has been invited to participate in numerous chamber music concerts in Vietnam and abroad as both an ensemble artist and soloist. She was invited to judge the first Mozart Competition in Bangkok, the Chiangmai Ginastera competition, and performed at the Pundaquit Festival in a chamber music series alongside renowned artists from the Philippines, Singapore, and the USA.
Mrs. Tuyet Trinh was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist in 2012, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the field of music in Vietnam.
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Asep Hidayat first studied cello at Middle School (1982) with Yoesbar Djaelani and continue study at Indonesia Institute of The Art (1986) with guidance Dutch cellist Rene Berman. Later he was granted a full scholarship from the Japanese Government to study of Master performance at Osaka Kyoiku under Prof. Aich Oki. Currently, he teaching at Indonesia Institute of the Art and in the stage completing his doctoral degree at the same institution.
As a Professional cellist, he actively play repertoire ranging renaissance era to contemporary music, as a soloist and with chamber music. He Joined the Australian Vistuoso Ensemble (1997) Heinrich Shultz Ensemble In Japan (1999-2002), and also was elected as adjudicator of the International chamber music competition in Baku Azerbaijan (2014).
He served as the artistic director of the annual Yogyakarta International Chamber music Festival (2010-2015). He has Completed 100 tours in Indonesia and Asia’s Big cities (2013) and Received the David Award from the Greek Government.
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Chaipruck Mekara is a Chiang Mai native. After graduating from Payap University, he received his Masters of Music degree (double major in Music Composition and Clarinet performance) from Roosevelt University, where he studied with Dr. Robert Lombardo. In 2003, Mekara received his DMA in Music Composition from Northwestern University, where is studied with Dr. Stephen Syverud, Dr. William Karlins, and Dr. Jay Allan Yim. Like many Asian composers who went abroad to continue their education, he realized the value of his native culture while in a foreign land. His music attempts to combine the aesthetic philosophy of the East with the compositional techniques of the West. Mekara’s music was performed by the Thai Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Chiangmai Symphony Orchestra and by various artists such as TIMF Ensemble (Korea), TICF artists in resident (Thailand). His composition also was premiered at the World Choir Games, 2012, Cincinnati, OH, International Trumpet Guild, 2011 Minneapolis, MN. Thailand International Composition Festival, Thailand, and Asian Young Musicians’ Connection, Chaipruck also gave series of lecture at several Schools of Music in the US. for example Northwestern University, IL, Columbia College, IL, University of Iowa, California State University, San Bernardino, CA and Illinois Wesleyan University, IL. In Thailand, Chaipruck founded the Chiangmai Youth Philharmonic Band and Symphony Orchestra Foundation. As a conductor, in 2005-2006, he was a music director and conductor of the Musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat” Produced by The Voice Studio. In 2005, Mr. Mekara composed and conducted the “Farung Rum Thao” for Symphonic Band and Thai Classical Orchestra for the Princess of Thailand. Mekara was invited as a conductor in resident of China-ASEAN Music Week, 2015 in Nanning, Quangxi, China. He is now the music director and conductor of the Chiangmai Symphony Orchestra and the Chiangmai Philharmonic Band. Mr. Mekara also serves as the Music Composition instructor at the College of Music at Payap University
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Norrasate Udakarn started learning music at the Prince Royal’s College Winds with Aj Somchai Jaitong and Aj. Yuttapol Sakthamjalearn at age 11, during this period, Norrasate attended many of music activities such as The Emotion of Music part 1-13, The Show in Closing 13th Asian Game . After that, he entered to the Chiamg mai University and graduated Bachelor of Art in Political Science (2nd Class Honor) and came back to the school as Band director for a year, then futher his music study to master degree at Mahidol College of Music in Trombone performance major. At Mahidol, Norrasate studied with Pf.Phillip Brink, Dr. Joseph Bowman and Dr.Daren Robbins. He’ve attended the Masterclass with Boston Brass, Ambrassador brass, Ronald Baron, Reinhold Friedrich, Joe Burgstaller, Yeh Shu Han, Jarod Vermette, Christophe Ess and many of brass artists. At Mahidol, he’s the member of Mahidol Winds Symphony, Mahidol Symphony Orchestra and Mahidol Pop Orchestra. Norrasate’ve been the member of the South East Asia Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble in 2007 and 2008. In 2013, he performed Williams Goldstein’s Colloquy for Trombone with The Chiang Mai Wind Ensemble and Launy Grondahl’s Trombone Concerto with Chiang Mai Symphony Orchestra in 2016. In addition to his performances, Norrasete has published many academic articles, research works and books, such as 60-minute drill for trombone (2023).
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Dr. Jakaphan Chaiya is a trumpet professor at the College of Music, Payap University. He has most recently achieved his doctoral degree from the College of Music, Mahidol University.
Dr. Jakaphan has gained a wide variety of music and playing experiences. He played with Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bandung Philharmonic. He has also performed and recorded with several artists from Chiang Mai such as Foxy, Funkster, Harmonica Sunrise, Hum. Moreover, Dr. Jakaphan has also participated in prestigious festivals such as The International Trumpet Guild (ITG) in 2007, 2011 and 2016 in the United States. In 2018, He won 1st prize at the Chiang Mai Ginastera International Music Festival.
Currently, Dr. Jakaphan is the principal trumpet of Chiang Mai Philharmonic band and orchestra, Nimman Street Orchestra and Someday Brass.
He is selected by Conn-Selmer, Inc., USA as an artist for the Vincent Bach Trumpet in Thailand.
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Luisa Sello, defined by the New York Concert Review “lovely mix of extroverted passion and genuine tenderness, with excellent breath control, brilliant technical rendering, engaging intensity, sonorous range and abundance of charm” is a Flute Miyazawa Artist and an Ambassador of Music and Italian Culture, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Her international career includes collaborations with Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Muti, Wien Symphoniker Orchestra, Thailand Symphony Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, Alirio Diaz, Philippe Entremont, Bruno Canino, Karl Leister, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, Prazak string quartett, the composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Aldo Clementi, Adriano Guarnieri, Rainer Bischof (première performances). Visiting professor at the University of Music in Vienna, she is Flute Professor at the Academy of Music in Trieste (Italy), Doctoral Professor at the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and visiting professor at the University of music in Vienna (Austria). In obtaining both her ArtD (Concert Doctor Degree, Bratislava Academy) in Performing Arts and her PhD in Linguistic and Literary Sciences (Udine University), she studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot and Alain Marion, who proclaimed her “very musical, superb,” and at the Accademia Chigiana with Severino Gazzelloni, who remarked her “magnificent interpretive sensibility and excellent sound”, she records for Stradivarius (Italy) and Millennium (Beijing).
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Esti Rofé, described as one of the most talented flutist of her generation, was born in Israel.
She recently made her Carnegie hall debut as a first prize winner of the 2012 Alexander & Buono international flute competition. Her wide international career has taken her over the world, giving concerts in leading halls, such as “Cité de la Musique” and Salle Gaveau, Paris, The “Berliner Schauspielhaus” and the Tel Aviv Museum.
Esti Rofé was among the very few flutists to be accepted to the prestigious “Cycle de Perfectionnement” soloist program in the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, where she studied with Maurice Bourge and Shopie Cherrier. She studied at the Musikhochschule in Munich under the direction of Professor Andras Adorjan and received her second degree with highest distinction. Esti Rofé graduated the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv.
Esti Rofé is a prize winner of many prestigious international competitions, including the Rampal international flute competition, Paris, the “Leonardo de Lorenzo” international flute competition, Italy, the international flute competition “A Puncielli”, Italy, and the Tel Aviv Academy woodwind competition.
Rofé has been a soloist with many orchestras, among them: the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Roma Academia Philharmonia Orchestra, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Camerata Jerusalem and “Orchestre de Prix” du CNSM, Paris.
She leads a very active musical life, participating in various festivals including the Danish Chamber music festival, the “Stars of Tomorrow” festival in Paris, the “Santander” festival in Spain, the Pablo Casals festival in France and the “Rising Stars” festival in Berlin.
Esti Rofé was a member of the Villa Musica Ensemble in Germany and she was supported by the “Yehudi Menuhin” Live Music New Foundation for encouraging young artists. She has won an outstanding award from the Meyer Foundation and the Marc Rich Foundation for artistic achievements and was supported by the American-Israeli Cultural foundation.
She has recorded for television and radio, including the SWR radio, Germany, the Polish National Radio, the Israel Broadcasting Authority and the Danish radio and television.
She played as a solo flutist with the English National Opera, The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, among others.
She is currently the principal flutist of the Israel Camerata Jerusalem.
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Christian Lavernier was born in Imperia July 27, 1979, and took his first steps in classical guitar studies with M° Mario Senise. He graduated from the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, with the Maestro Paolo Chierici. He attended master classes held by some of the most representative teachers of the international guitar scene including Alirio Diaz, Conrad Ragosnig and David Russell. He deepened the study of the contemporary repertoire, with Angelo Gilardino.

He participated to several prestigious national and international competitions winning the first prize in International Competition Joannhes Brahms, Francesco Forgione International Competition, National Competition Borromean Islands, Paul Harris International Competition.

He has performed at major festivals around the world including: London International Guitar Festival (England), Elise Saint-Martin d’Etiolles (Paris), International Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome), Andrés Segovia International Festival Linares (Granada), Palace of the Guitar in Tokyo (Japan), International Guitar Academy Yokohama (Japan), International Guitar Festival in Sapporo (Hokkaido-Japan), International Guitar Festival of Morelia (Mexico), International Guitar Festival Magnitogorsk (Russia), Clarke Recital Hall in Miami (Florida, USA), XII Festival International de la Guitarra of Burgos (Spain), National Library Rosario (Argentina), International Festival Ciudad de Bolivar (Venezuela), the Centre Festival Guitarra Cordoba (Argentina), Hong Kong International Guitar Festival (Hong Kong-Shenzhen), Istanbul International Guitar Festival (Turkey), Aalborg International Guitar Festival (Denmark).

As interpreter he collaborated with the world leading composers Azio Corghi and Alberto Colla. Since 2013 he has been working with artists of different genres: Tommy Emmanuel, Antonella Ruggero, Sarah Jane Morris, Peter Finger. He carries an intense artistic activity and he world widely teaches Master Class in renowned musical institutions such as Conservatory of Ceuta (Spain), Conservatoire de las Rosa (Mexico), University of Miami Frost School of Music (Miami, Florida USA), Guitar Academy Yokohama (Japan), Conservatoire National de Linares (Spain), National University of Littoral in Santa Fe (Argentina), Conservatoire National de Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela), Conservatoire National de Ubeda (Spain).

After the prize awarded in Burgos in 2009, in 2013 Christian Lavernier was awarded the International Prize for Artistic Trajectory by the University CUI Ixtlahuaca. In July 2014 he performed the Concerto de Aranjuez with the C.D. Bolivar Orchestra as opening concert of the Festival International de Guitarra de Angostura (Venezuela). On this occasion he received his third prize for his artistic career. He has recorded concerts for major television and radio broadcasters in Italy, Spain, Argentina, France, Venezuela, Russia, Japan, USA, Mexico. Since 2001 Christian Lavernier has been Artistic Director of the International Music Festival ”Piani Musicali”. Currently, he is Artistic Director of “Rovere D’Oro” International Music Competition.

Christian Lavernier plays Josè Ramirez Guitars and is an official endorser for Aquila Corde Armoniche. In 2016 the Master luthier Carlos Gonzales Marcos forged the first and unique guitar “tiorbata” imagined, created and dedicated to Christian Lavernier for his new vision and interpretation of music.

From 2018, starts the new project Contemporary Futurebased on “La Soñada”. The project involved some great italian and international composers (A. Gilardino, A. Talmelli, F. Chaviano, F. Iannitti…) who have create innovative pieces dediceted to this new instrument and to Christian Lavernier.

Always in 2018, the meeting with M° Nicola Campogrande has given rise toa very productive collaboration. As reseults, a publication of « 12 Preludi a getto d’inchiostro » re-thoughts “La Soñada” and edited by the major Universal Music – Ricordi with revision and fingering by Christian Lavernier.

The Universal Music – Ricordi edit also the new composition Redobles y Consonancias dedicated to Christian Lavernier and to “La Soñada” by M° Azio Corghi. Revision and fingering have been entrusted to Lavernier himself.

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