Masters
and rising stars

Founder and first violin of the Aviv Quartet for 27 years, he has won numerous prizes at international competitions: the Grand Prize at the 3rd Melbourne Chamber Music Competition, the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition, the Prague Spring Competition and the “Schubert and Modern Music” Competition in Graz, Austria. Since 2013 he has devoted himself intensively to conducting, leading the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Armenian Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Estonia, the North Baltic Chamber Orchestra, the Lviv Soloists, the Avetis Festival Orchestra, the Neuchâtel Soloists and the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists. In 2023 he founded the Ensemble Symphonique de Genève, where he is artistic director and principal conductor.

He grew up in a family of musicians and at 13 graduated from the CRR in Besançon (DEM) in the class of Bernard Mauppin. In 2007 he joined Larissa Kolos’s class at the CRR in Paris, and then Svetlin Roussev’s at the CNSM in Paris. In 2016 he earned his master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Professor Friedemann Eichhorn. From 2018 to 2020 he was a member of the prestigious Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and since 2023 he has been solo violinist of the Neues Orchester Basel in Switzerland. He plays a violin made especially for him by Jacques Fustier, with the support of CIC Nord.

She began studying the violin at the age of four at the Dobrin Petkov music school for gifted children, specialising in violin and viola with Violeta Stoyanova and Georgy Naidenov. She continued her violin studies at Texas Christian University in the United States, graduating cum laude under Curt Thompson and Michael Shih, concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. She earned a Master of Music degree from DePaul University in Chicago, where she received a scholarship to study with Ilya Kaler.

She has received various awards and scholarships, including the DePaul University Music Talent Award, a scholarship with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, support from the Mimir Chamber Music Festival and a TCU Orchestra Grant.

She has served as concertmaster of the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and, by special invitation, the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, and as principal second violin of the Monterrey Symphony Orchestra in Mexico. She has also performed with the Orquestra de les Arts in Valencia, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Plano Symphony, the Irving Symphony and the Plovdiv Philharmonic.

She is currently a member of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia.

As a soloist, she has appeared with several orchestras in her native Bulgaria, including the Pazardzhik Symphony, AMTI Sinfonietta and the Dobrin Petkov Orchestra.

She has collaborated with renowned musicians such as José Feghali, Daniel Binelli and Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet.

In concert, she plays a violin made by Joseph Albani around 1727.

Born in Murcia in 1999, Álvaro García Ros studied from 2017 to 2024 with Nobuko Imai and Wenting Kang at the Fundación BBVA Viola Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music, supported by a Fundación Albéniz scholarship. In his final year, he received the diploma for the most outstanding student of the Chair from H.M. Queen Sofía. He has attended masterclasses with Antoine Tamestit, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power, Timothy Ridout, Joaquín Riquelme, Jonathan Brown, Hariolf Schlichtig, Máté Szűcs, Günter Pichler and Heime Müller, among others.

He has received numerous awards for solo and chamber music performance, including first prize at the Antón García Abril International Chamber Music Competition with the Schubert Quartet, third prize at the Villa de Llanes International Viola Competition, first prize at the Villa de Cox National Music Performance Competition, first prize in chamber music at Entre Cuerdas y Metales, first prize in the Roque Baños Extraordinary End-of-Studies Award, and regional and national distinctions at the Intercentros Melómano Competition. He also won first prize in different categories of the Villa de Molina Competition.

He has participated in several editions of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as a member of the Menuhin String Academy under Ettore Causa, with chamber music masterclasses led by Rainer Schmidt and Ivan Monighetti. He was also a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid Talent Project.

He has collaborated with ensembles and orchestras including the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, ADDA Simfònica, the Orquesta Freixenet and the orchestra of the Santander International Music Festival. He has frequently played as principal viola with the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia (OSRM) and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC), with which he has also recorded two CDs. He is currently a permanent member of the OSRM.

He has also been a permanent member of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and Spain’s National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), and is the violist of the Schubert Quartet. He has worked with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Iván Fischer, András Schiff, Vasily Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Plácido Domingo, Juanjo Mena, David Afkham, Ludovic Morlot and Nuno Coelho.

“A cellist with brilliant technique and an exceptional sound. His musical expression is intense, and his rich, impetuous and passionate character immediately captures our attention.” These words from Roland Pidoux best describe Christophe Morin’s talent and dedication. His thirst for knowledge led him to masterclasses with János Starker, Mstislav Rostropovich and Yo-Yo Ma, who offered him private lessons. Today he performs with internationally renowned soloists such as Renaud Capuçon and Jérôme Ducros, with whom he recorded a live album of Schubert’s Trio Op. 100, and collaborates with Nicholas Angelich, Augustin Dumay, Jean-Marc Luisada, David Grimal and the Modigliani Quartet.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Zsófia Keleti began her musical training at the age of six with the Kodály method at a school specialising in music education. She toured and entered international competitions as a member of a children’s choir. She began playing the cello at seven, joining the children’s orchestra and later becoming principal cellist of the youth orchestra. At fourteen she won first prize in the Pál Járdányi Young Performers Competition and first prize in the Zoltán Kodály National Traditional Folk Music Competition. For two consecutive years she received the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture’s scholarship for the best arts student. At sixteen, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Interlochen Arts Center in Michigan, United States.

She pursued advanced studies in cello and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar in Germany and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with László Mezö of the Bartók Quartet. In 2006 she graduated with an outstanding achievement award.

She continued her training with János Starker at Kronberg Academy, Miklós Perényi and Zoltán Onczay in Budapest, Wolfgang Herzer and Josef Luitz in Vienna, and Pieter Wispelwey.

She was principal cellist of the Szent István Philharmonic Orchestra in Budapest and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and has worked with German orchestras including the Staatskapelle Weimar and Detmold Chamber Orchestra.

She has given recitals in Budapest’s major concert halls, appeared as a soloist under Kálmán Záborszky and Gergely Ménesi, and performed at diplomatic events in the Hungarian Parliament for guests including the King and Queen of Spain.

She moved to Spain in 2006, collaborating with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. From 2009 to 2019 she performed with the Spanish National Orchestra under conductors including Sir Neville Marriner, Neeme Järvi, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Afkham, Marin Alsop, Juanjo Mena and Fabio Luisi. She is currently a member of ADDA Simfònica in Alicante.

She regularly performs chamber music at festivals and venues including the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and Müpa Budapest.

She has taught privately, been invited to teach at summer courses in Sydney, Australia, and Hungary, and coached the cello section of ADDA Jove.

Principal clarinet of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed across Europe, Asia and the United States, in halls such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Carnegie Hall in New York and the KKL in Lucerne. A prizewinner at the 2012 Turin International Clarinet Competition, he has recorded for ARTE, BBC, Mezzo, WDR, NDR, DR and Radio Swiss Classic, and has played at the Verbier, St-Prex Classics and Moritzburg international festivals.

Born in Beniaján, Murcia, Juan Antonio Nicolás began his musical studies with José Miguel Peñarrocha Desco, continuing at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Murcia with Juan F. Cayuelas Grao and Manuel Guerrero. He graduated with the highest marks, earning honours and end-of-course awards in flute and chamber music.

He has attended advanced courses with István Matuz, Aurèle Nicolet, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Joaquín Gericó Trillo, Frank Theuns, Jaime Martín, Vicent Prats and Magdalena Martínez. In 2003 he was the only Spanish performer selected for a masterclass led by Sir James Galway in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

He has been principal flute of the Youth Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Murcia and the Orchestra of the Region of Murcia under Manuel Hernández Silva.

He has performed under conductors including Odón Alonso, José Collado, Enrique García Asensio, Leo Brouwer and Tamás Vásáry, and alongside artists such as Carlos Moreno, Mario Monreal, Narciso Yepes, Vicente Amigo, Michel Camilo, Ainhoa Arteta, Montserrat Caballé and Rocío Jurado in Falla’s El amor brujo.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Orquesta Ciudad de Elche and the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, and appeared at the International Mediterranean Music Festival in A. Stamitz’s Concerto for Two Flutes. He has also performed in chamber ensembles including the F. Danzi Wind Quintet and the Nicolás–Casanova flute and piano duo, which appeared at the Fundación Juan March and in France, Italy and Germany.

In September 2005 he performed with the Wiener Mozart Orchester at the Musikverein’s Golden Hall in Vienna.

On 13 March 2008 he premiered the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra dedicated to him by Manuel Moreno-Buendía in Córdoba, with the city orchestra conducted by Manuel Hernández Silva. He performed the work again as soloist in December 2009 at Murcia’s Auditorio Víctor Villegas, in the concert commemorating the Spanish Constitution.

In June 2013 he collaborated with Singapore’s Metropolitan Festival Orchestra.

He currently teaches flute at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Mariana Baches in Pilar de la Horadada, Alicante, and is principal flute and a founding member of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia.