Stefania is an international concert pianist, recording artist, music director and radio broadcaster. Twice Gold Medal winner at The Akademia Awards in Los Angeles and Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards, her solo albums have been selected at the prestigious Grammy’s Awards in Los Angeles as best soloist and best album of the Classic fields, while she appeared to the red carpet of the Classic BRITs Awards and BRITd Awards in London in several editions. Her recordings are broadcasted by the major Classical radios worldwide, including BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM in UK, while many solo recitals and concertos with the orchestra have been televised broadcasts, including RAI 3 and Sky TV in Italy, TVG in Spain, 1plus1 TV in Ukraine among the others. Stefania has given recitals in the major concert halls worldwide, including “St Martin in The Fields” in London, National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kiev, “Sala Puccini” in Milan, Palau da Musica in Valencia, Sibelius Hall in Finland, “Salle Munch” in Paris, Varna Opera Theatre in Bulgaria, Casa da Musica in Porto. Selected to perform on the stage of the most famous international piano competitions as the Chopin Competition of Warsaw, the “Vladimir Horowitz” of Kiev, the “Maria Canals” of Barcelona, “Jose’ Iturbi” of Valencia, Porto Competition in Portugal and Beethoven Klavierwettewerbe of Wien, Stefania won several awards, among which the prestigious “Premio Ghirlandina” and the 2020 Artist Vision Award, a once-in-a-lifetime award bestowed by the Akademia in Los Angeles in recognition of her exceptional talent, originality and vision in the field of music: “A visionary artist destined to shape the course of Classical music and broaden the musical landscape in the years to come”.

Born in Moscow, Hana is a Swiss-based viola-soloist of outstanding creative artistry, constantly breaking new ground for her instrument through new music, transcriptions, and innovative interdisciplinary projects. Numerous composers have dedicated works to Gubenko, including Uri Caine, Garth Knox, Frank Ezra Levy, Daniel Schnyder, Wolfgang Andreas Schultz, and Graham Waterhouse. Hana has made several world-premiere recordings, including the album “Sonata Ebraica” featuring sonatas by Ernst Levy and Daniel Waterhouse, the album “Franz Ezra Levy” featuring the Swiss composer concertos for Viola and Orchestra, and “Jewish Music in Switzerland”, a double-disc recorded in collaboration with Swiss Radio SRF2. Her latest album, “Hommage to Ysaÿe – Vol.1” not only features new music composed in reaction to Ysaÿe’s music by leading composers, but also explores the art of transcription – with Gubenko performing Ysaÿe’s famously virtuosic Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op.27, in transcription for solo viola. Hana studied at Moscow’s Central School of Music with Galina Tourchaninova and Yulia Tomanova, in Austria with Wolfgang Klos, Spain with Igor Sulyga, Germany with Hartmut Lindemann, and Switzerland with Alexander Zemtsov.

‘One appreciates the remarkable technical potential of Roustem Saitkoulov, but even more the musical perspective he conveys. Saitkoulov does not over-exploit his considerable abilities, but is most sensitively aware of the poetical essence of the music he plays. Without a doubt an artist to be followed.’ – Diapason
Winner of the Grand Prix Monte Carlo Piano Masters 2003, Rome Piano Competition, the “F.Busoni” in Bolzano, “Marguerite Long” in Paris and “Geza Anda” in Zurich, Roustem is a Russian pianist based in Paris. Roustem is frequently invited to perform as a soloist with renown orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, RAI Symphony Orchestra Torino, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and St-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Radio and television broadcasts include France Musique, Radio Classique, DRS 2 (Switzerland), France 2, France 5 and Mezzo in France, and the international European channel 3Sat. His recordings include “Piano Etudes” released by EMI Classics to the great acclaim of both press and audiences.

Born in Paris, Claire Oppert studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire of Moscow, where she graduated in 1993. Prize winner of several international competitions in France, Italy, Germany and South Africa, Claire is a regular guest soloist with renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of Antwerp and several Russian Symphony orchestras. Member of the Helios Quartet, she takes part in many creations and recordings of modern music. In duet with her husband Roustem Saïtkoulov she gives numerous concerts in France, Europe, China, Australia and carried out recordings for the BBC, France Musics and FR3. She is also a privileged partner of musicians such as Boris Bérézovski, Michaël Gutman or Pierre Amoyal. Alongside her prolific concert career, Claire is also an award winning author and art therapist. A graduate from Sorbonne Paris University in Philosophy and the Faculty of Medicine of Tours in Art Therapy, she demonstrates through clinical studies that live music can relieve the most intense pain. Her critically acclaimed book “Le Pansement Schubert” recounts her experiences of music therapy with autistic children, elderly people with dementia and dying patients, testifying the beneficial effect of music on people hospitalized in palliative care through several clinical studies the positive impact of live music on patients at the end of their life, patients with Alzheimer’s disease and on caregivers as well as families.

Acclaimed throughout the music world as not just a performer, but an “artiste,” Italian violinist Roberto Cani has been hailed by critics as “…a violinist of high caliber following the great Italian tradition of the virtuoso violinist, Paganini.” Roberto Cani launched his concert career when he won the prestigious Paganini International Competition in Genoa at the age of 21. In the same year, he won the Courcillon International Competition in France, and the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade, where he also captured a special prize for the best performance of a contemporary work. He also won the national Minetti Prize in Italy, and top honors at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. In addition to his native Italy, Roberto Cani concertizes throughout the United States as well as Germany, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Russia, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, France, Taiwan, Japan, and South Africa. He is a frequent soloist with orchestras and has performed, most notably, with the Moscow Philharmonic, La Scala Orchestra, RAI Symphony (Italy), Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, Orchestra Cantelli, Belgrade Orchestra, Zagreb Orchestra, and Missouri Chamber Orchestra. Roberto Cani has performed in major music halls worldwide including Los Angeles’ Royce Hall, Belgrade’s Lisinski Hall, Milan’s La Scala, Paris’ Gaveau Hall, Tokyo’s Suntori Hall, and Moscow’s Bolshoi Zal and Tchaikovsky Zal.

Acknowledged as one of the UK’s most prestigious orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) enjoys an international reputation for bringing audiences worldwide first-class performances and the highest possible standards of music-making across a diverse range of musical repertoire. This was the vision of the Orchestra’s flamboyant founder Sir Thomas Beecham, whose legacy is maintained today as the Orchestra thrives under the exceptional direction of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Maestro Charles Dutoit.
‘The RPO’s athletic and fastidious response to this impressive score of interruptions and luminous twinklings augured well for Dutoit’s new reign as the orchestra’s principal conductor.’ The Times, August 2009 ‘The Orchestra was electric, the strings … on masterful form. The brass gently warmed the texture or smashed clean through it with confident blasts, and the woodwind, too, were very much alive to the demands.’ The Guardian
‘Brass and timpani played … with such exciting ferocity. Woodwind were always eloquent, too. But the strings, led by Clio Gould, excelled. Their tone is strong and focused … ’ Evening Standard, August 2008

Umberto Jacopo Laureti has widely performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in some of the most important European venues, combining with enthusiasm the established piano repertoire with contemporary music and unjustly neglected Italian piano works. His performances have been live broadcasted by Rai Radio Tre. Umberto performed concertos with several orchestras including Pergolesi Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Gigli, Orchestra Vivaldi, Camerata Classica and the orchestra and ensemble of the Royal Academy of Music. First Prize winner of many national and international competitions, amongst which the Nuova Coppa Pianisti International Competition, Umberto has been invited to several renowned festivals, such as the Encuentro de Musica de Santander and the Oxford Piano Festival. Born in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, Umberto graduated from Pergolesi Conservatoire under the guidance of Enrico Belli and Alessandra Gentile, Royal Academy of Music in London with Prof. Ian Fountain and Accademia Nazionale “Santa Cecilia” under Benedetto Lupo. Umberto is researching on the figure of Ferruccio Busoni for his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music.

Venezuelan guitarist Miguel Clavijo is a versatile artist developing a reputation across Europe as a truly exciting guitar player. By personal invitation of the artistic director, Miguel Clavijo became laurate of the “Fete de la Musique” International Music Festival in Caracas-Venezuela. Since then, Miguel has performed extensively in Venezuela, and later on, he was invited to play in New York, Paris and London, and other major venues in Europe. Miguel was finalist at the Antonio Lauro Guitar Competition and has shared platform with guitar virtuoso Nirse Gonzalez and outstanding violinist Paula Martínez (London Philharmonic Orchestra).
Miguel started in music at an early age playing the Venezuelan national instrument: el cuatro. He began studying in Caracas at the L. Gallardo Music School and the J.M. Olivares with Antonio Lauro’s student (J. Guanchez) and later in Washington D.C at the Levine School of Music with Manuel Barrueco’s assistant (F.Platino). He then received a full scholarship to attend the GPD Program at the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
“Miguel Clavijo, was quite exceptional. His tone was uniformly beautiful and his phrasing extraordinarily poised, keeping the audience spellbound. There was plenty of Latin warmth and passion in evidence. The length and vigour of the [audience’s] applause spoke volumes.”

Born in Italy to parents of Italian and Spanish heritage, Marco graduated in piano at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro, Italy, before moving to the United States to study with Joaquin Achucarro at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas where he completed the Artist Certificate program and a Master of Music in Piano Performance by the age of twenty one. He then completed his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the guidance of Christopher Elton and graduated with the highly coveted DipRAM award.
Marco has performed in some of the most prestigious venues across Europe and the United States, including the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, the Auditori in Barcelona, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Recent highlights include an invitation by the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs to perform at the EXPO in Saragozza, performing on the revolutionary instrument Fazioli ‘Onda’, his debut at Wigmore Hall collaborating with the Pavao String Quartet and a chamber recital in the Palau de la Musica in Valencia. His performances have been recorded and broadcasted by the Spanish RTVE, Irish RTE, Polskie Radio and several times by the BBC, including a live appearance in the program ‘In tune’ presented by Sean Rafferty.
“These interpretations offer a different and refreshing slant on Brahms from a vantage point south of the Alps” International Record Review, Stephen Pruslin

Dimitri Scarlato is an Italian composer from Rome. After his studies in Composition, Piano, Jazz and Conducting at the Conservatorio di Musica S.Cecilia, Dimitri moved to London to attend an MMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a DMus in Composition at the Royal College of Music, which in 2010 selected him as a RCM Rising Star. His music has been performed in several venues across Europe, among them the Barbican Hall and Cadogan Hall in London, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Argentina in Rome and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 2011 he was selected to join the VOX 3 – Composing for Voice workshop at the Royal Opera House in London, he was incited to the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 as film composer and in 2015 he won the 3rd Composition Competition at the International Spring Orchestra Festival. His two Operas, “Fadwa” and “La tregua di Natale”, have been fully produced and staged by Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Nuova Consonanza at Teatro Olimpico in Rome. Dimitri has an intense activity in films: he worked in the music pre-production of “Sweeney Todd” (film by Tim Burton), he composed and supervised the music for “The City in the Sky” (featured film selected for the 66th Venice Film Festival), he was the conducting coach of sir Michael Caine in “Youth” (film by Oscar winning director Paolo Sorrentino) and scored the soundtrack for “Sparks & Embers” (British independent film starring Kris Marshall). Dimitri is also a songwriter, producer and arranger, working for singers and bands such as “Queens of the Stone Age”, Classical-crossover Opera band “Appassionante”, and musicals (among them he wrote the original score for “Piaf…l’Hymne à l’Amour”, directed by Carlo Lizzani and performed in the major Italian theatres). Dimitri is currently a lecturer of History of Music (with focus on contemporary music and film music) at Royal College of Music.

After her piano degree at the Musical Institute “G.Briccialdi” of Terni with Angelo Pepicelli, Lucrezia enriched her studies with masterclasses from Aldo Ciccolini, Boris Petruschansky, Bruno Canino, Tatiana Zelikman, Simone Pedroni and Lev Naumov. She then gained the much coveted “Concert Diploma” at the International Music Academy “St Cecilia” of Portogruaro with Piero Rattalino. Lucrezia is also Doctor of Literature and Philosophy, with a first class degree from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and an original dissertation about the hymns and songs of the Fascism. Prizewinner of several piano competitions (Bela Bartok in Rome, “Clementi – Kawai” in Florence), she performed solo recitals in some of the best concert halls worldwide, including the Italo-German Cultural Institute of Bologna, the Maison Francaise, the Roman Sinfonietta in Rieti, the Agimus and Philharmonic Association of Umbria, the Lyceum in Florence, the Concert Society of Milan, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome, the Theatre Music Society “L. Barbara” in Pescara, in the Arabian Emirates, in Hungary, in Serbia and at the Real Accademia of S. Fernando in Madrid, the Argentino Theatre “Astor Piazzolla” in La Plata, the “Usina de l’Art” Theatre in Buenos Aires, the “Anita Villalaz” Theatre in Panama City and in many of the southern theatres and concert halls of Brazil, as well as Warsaw, Budapest, London and Belgrade. A refined chamber musician, she performed at the Budapest String Festival, in Canada and Arabia (Ryadh and Jedda) with opera singer Leonardo De Lisi and cellist Pierluigi Ruggero. As a soloist with the orchestra she performed with the “Umbria Philharmonia”, the “West London Symphony” and the “Chamber Orchestra of Padova and Veneto”, under the baton of Lev Markiz.

Born in Terni (Italy), Riccardo graduated with full honours in Piano and Organ from the Conservatoires of Terni and Perugia, trained as Repetiteur and in 1998 was awarded an European Diploma by the “Teatro Lirico Sperimentale” in Spoleto. He then graduated from the “Postgraduate in Performance” Organ course at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Distinction and the special award of “DipRAM”, and also was given the “PIDEM Organ Fellowship”.
Riccardo has performed with some of the world’s most distinguished musicians and musical institutions, in prestigious venues and for well-known concert societies. Among the latest professional engagements there is the Opera conducting debut in London (Madama Butterfly, November 2011) and the collaboration with the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai as chorus master.
Riccardo is currently Assistant Organist at St. Barnabas Church, Dulwich, Choirmaster at Alleyn’s Junior School and accompanist for Thomas’s Choral Society, Battersea, and is very much in demand as a performer, instrumental and vocal teacher, recitalist, and recording artist.

The Colli&Rubini Duo was born from a long friendship. Martina Colli and Rossella Rubini graduated from the Music Conservatoire in Teramo, respectively under the guidance of Piero Di Egidio and Erika Vicari. Martina then perfected her repertoire with Oleg Marshev, Andrei Jasinski and Annalisa Bellini, while studying jazz with Toni Fidanza. She gained her second degree in Composition at the “Santa Cecilia” Music Conservatoire in Rome with Alessandro Sbordoni, then completed her studies with Dieter Schnebel in Berlin.
Rossella received a full scholarship to attend the classes of Alfons Kontarsky at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and gained a Master degree in Music with Honours at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She than continued her chamber music studies with Pier Narciso Masi in Florence and Bruno Canino in Rome.
Their London debut at St.Martins in the Fields was received with full house and standing ovation for their new album album, “The Voyage: Dvorak, Grieg, Poulenc”, which is now competing as Best Chamber Music Album at the forthcoming Grammy’s Awards 2013.

“Intimacy, sorrow, a rather thin but infinite line of beauty and a constant quest for truth. These are, whether I like it or not, the engines of my creative world. And overall, a discrete amount of love and faith.” Alberto begins playing the piano at an early age, devoting himself to the classical repertoire. The creative potential of the instrument has always attracted him, whether it was from jazz, folk or contemporary art music. He studied composition at the International Academy of Music in Milan while graduating at “G. Verdi Conservatory” in the same city. He performed in Europe, Australia and United States, where he lived and where he obtained his Master Degree in Classical and Jazz Piano (WSUniversity). The Lionel Hampton Jazz Competition has awarded him in 2014 as outstanding musician in the solo category. Improvisation has always been for him a privileged path for expressivity, and throughout the years he has developed a creative approach that aims to merge composition with improvisation, where genres dialogue with each other in an uninterrupted flow. His artistic search points at the full expression of the creative potential unleashed only when body and mind work in unison.

Originally from Italy, Elena moved to London in 2006 , after training as an actress, pianist and gaining a degree in English and German. Elena have acted in both Italian and UK stage and film productions. In 2017 I have been awarded an Arts Council Research and Development Grant to write her first one woman show, which received great acclaim of audience and critics. “Elena Mazzon…takes the stage as Clara with a piano as her costar…She has done all this with unflinching pragmatism and humour celebrating Clara as she exposes the hypocrisy and the frustrations of a woman’s life then and now. Elena Mazzon is breathtaking as Clara…her brilliance, her devotion to the story, her creativity in its execution…Sometimes, on a rainy night in a small theatre in Sherman Oaks, magic happens…”