Formed in 2010, the Goldmund Quartet is now counted amongst one of the most exciting young string quartets in Europe. Educated by Günther Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, the Quartet has received important artistic impulses in master classes with the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaÿe and Cherubini quartets. The Quartet has been awarded several prizes including the second prize at the International Wigmore Hall String Competition 2018 and the first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018. They have also been named Rising Stars 2019/20 by the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) as well as recipients of the 2020 Jürgen Ponto Foundation music prize. Since their debut, the Quartet has appeared at numerous international festivals such as Rheingau, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Festival de Música y Danza Granada as well as notable halls including Musikverein Graz, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Elbphilharmonie and the KKL Lucerne. Named ECHO Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season, the Goldmund Quartet will perform in many of the most prestigious halls around Europe such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In October 2016 NAXOS released their debut CD with works by Joseph Haydn which garnered great reviews from the BBC, The Strad Magazine, Gramophone Magazine, American Record Guide. Their second album including string quartets by Shostakovich was released on Berlin Classics in July 2018.
https://www.goldmundquartet.com/

Yasuko Ohtani completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her career as a soloist began while studying, with recitals in Vienna, Rome, Cologne, and Berlin, as well as invitations to the Toronto Music Festival, the city of Salzburg, and others. In 2017, she performed in the Musikverein Wien. Ohtani has performed with renowned orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. In 2019, she released her latest CD of Franck & Poulenc Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Itamar Golan. She has also released many CDs such as “Fantasie de la Traviata” and “Richard Strauss/Beethoven Sonata No. 5” from Sony Music. She hosts and performs on the TV music program “Ongaku Kosaten” along with rakugo artist Koasa Shunputei. She published the book “Violinist, Kyo mo Hashiru!” (KADOKAWA) in 2018. She received the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Art Festival Award” in 2010. She is Professor at Tokyo College of Music and a distinguished professor at Tokyo University of the Arts Junior Academy. She also serves as Chair of the Nerima Cultural Promotion Association, Cultural Ambassador of Kawasaki City, Kochi Prefecture Tourism Special Envoy, and Chair of the Japan Symphony Foundation and the Japan Federation of Musicians. She was a former visiting professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. She celebrates the 50th anniversary of her debut in 2025.

Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Dmytro Udovychenko has studied at the Kharkiv Special Music School for gifted children with Ludmila Varenina. At age 14, he was admitted in the class of Boris Garlitsky at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany. Dmytro has participated in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenko, Christian Tetzlaff, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Stephan Picard and Leonidas Kavakos. In 2022, he was accepted to the Kronberg Academy Professional Studies Program in the class of Christian Tetzlaff. He was awarded the Second Prize at the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius and First prize at Odesa International Violin Competition, as well as 2018 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo. Most recently, he was awarded First Prize at the 2022 Singapore International Violin Competition, the 2023 Montreal International Violin Competition, and the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. He was also invited to perform at numerous international festivals.
He is supported by the Ukrainian VERE MUSIC FUND, Villa Musica Rheinland Pfalz, and Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
https://mcsya.org/artists/dmytro_udovychenko/

Born in Canada, Timothy Chooi has studied with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music, Catherine Cho at the Julliard School’s Artist Diploma Program and Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy. He gained international recognition by winning the first prize at the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Germany and the second prize at　the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. He is also the first violinist and Canadian to win the “Prix Yves Paternot Prize” at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Since his debut performance with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at 16, he has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Belgian National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Wiener Concert-Verein, among others. He has performed at prestigious venues including the Carnegie Hall, Musikverein Wien, Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall. He has collaborated with esteemed artists including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zuckerman, Jukka Pekka Saraste, and Lang Lang. Upcoming engagements include collaborations with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a return to the Toronto Symphony, and debuts with the European Union Youth Orchestra, Brucknerhaus Orchester Linz, and the Wimbledon Music Festival in London. Timothy serves as a Professor of Violin at the University of Ottawa.
https://www.timothychooi.com/
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Born in Granada, Spain, María studies with renowned violin teacher Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. She is a 1st Prize and audience Prize winner of the 2021 Menuhin Competition for Young Violinists and was named "New Generation artist" by BBC Radio 3. She has performed with prestigious orchestras and conductors including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Kazuki Yamada as a soloist of their Germany tour, as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic under Manfred Honeck, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Herbert Blomstedt, the San Francisco Symphony and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra under Marek Janowski, and the Orchestre de Paris and Tonhalle Zürich under Paavo Järvi. In 2022, María was dedicated “Altar de Cuerda” by Gabriela Ortiz’s and premiered it with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. On an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon since September 2022, she released her debut album in 2023, recorded live with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck at the Golden Hall in Musikverein, featuring Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with her own cadenzas. In the same year, she released “Homage 1770”, another of her own compositions for solo violin dedicated to Beethoven.
https://www.mariaduenasviolin.com/en

https://www.universal-music.co.jp/maria-duenas/biography/

A native of Japan, Risa Hokamura started the violin at age 3. She received her Artist Diploma Degree at Tokyo College of Music studying with Koichiro Harada, Mayuko Kamio, and Machie Oguri. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Violin Performance at Manhattan School of Music with Koichiro Harada and Lucie Robert. She first came to international attention upon winning first Prize in the 2018 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, and Silver Medal at the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She has performed with notable conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Naoto Otomo, Junichi Hirokami, Kazuki Yamada, and orchestras such as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. Her recital highlights include debuts at the Merkin Concert Hall, Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Kioi Hall and The Symphony Hall, and Morgan Library Encore Series presented by Young Concert Artists.　 Risa is a recipient of the 2018 and 2019 Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship as well as the 47th Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Scholarship. https://www.kajimotomusic.com/artists-projects/risa-hokamura/

A native of Nara, Japan. After graduating first class from Toho Gakuen Music High School, MINAMI completed her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees at the New England Conservatory of Music as a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship. She also received a Soloist Diploma from the Toho Gakuen College of Music as an honor student as well as an Artist Diploma from Tokyo College of Music as an honorary student. She has studied with Miriam Fried, Koichiro Harada and Kyoko Takezawa and is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy under Michaela Martin. She was a finalist at the Hannover and Sibelius International Competitions, as well as received 3rd Prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition in 2016 and bronze medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2022. She also won the 6th Prize and City of Brussels Prize at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, resulting in a tour of Belgium through Brussels, Antwerp, and Brugge. She has performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. She has also collaborated with many notable conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Hannu Lintu, John Storgårds, Andrew Manze and Antony Hermus. https://www.aspen.jp

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Fumika Mohri began playing the violin at the age of three, learning from Kaori Tajiri and Sachika Mizuno. She continued her studies with Koichiro Harada at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and Mihaela Martin at the Kronberg Academy and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 2012 she won the first prize at the Seoul International Music Competition, becoming the youngest and first ever Japanese first-prize winner in the history of the competition. In 2015 she won the second prize at the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and sixth prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. In 2019 she won the third prize at the Montreal International Music Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with major orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. She has collaborated with eminent artists including Sir András Schiff, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Ilya Gringolts, Nobuko Imai, Tabea Zimmermann, Frans Helmerson and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. She released “Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos Op.2 & 7” from NAXOS in June 2023.
https://www.fumikamohri.com/

Born in Italy, Giuseppe Gibboni was admitted at age 14 to the Stauffer Academy in Cremona, where he received lessons from the violinist Salvatore Accardo. After graduating from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, he also learned from Pavel Berman at the Accademia Perosi in Biella and from Pierre Amoyal at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He is the winner of the 56th International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini" in 2021 as well as top prizewinner of the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in 2016 Leonid Kogan International Competition in 2017, the George Enescu International Competition in 2018 and the Valsesia Musica Competition in 2020. He has made collaborations with such orchestras and conductors as the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Lorenzo Viotti, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta, the Orchestra della Toscana under Diego Ceretta, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Joel Sandelson, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Jader Bignamini, the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo under Dan Ettinger, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under John Axelrod. He also gives recitals regularly across Italy and has released his debut CD featuring violin masterworks at age 15 for the Warner Classics label.
https://www.gibbonigiuseppe.it/

Japanese-American violinist Mayumi Kanagawa began the violin at age 4. Her musical education has been shaped by Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, as well as by Yoshiko Nakura, Masao Kawasaki, and Robert Lipsett. In 2024 she won 1st Prize and Best Interpretation of a George Enescu Sonata at the George Enescu International Competition Violin Section. She is also a prizewinner at the 2018 Long-Thibaud Crespin competition and 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition.
She has performed with many orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. The 2023-24 season highlights include engagements with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras, Gunma Symphony Orchestra and Macao Orchestra with Charles Dutoit, Marc Piollet, Nodoka Okisawa, and Kazuhiro Koizumi. Recital and chamber music concerts with colleagues including Yu Kosuge and the Lazarus String Quartet bring her across Europe and Japan.
Her debut CD “Recital” with pianist Giuseppe Guarrera was released in Japan in February 2023 to wide critical acclaim, and in 2024 she received the “Fresh Artist” award from Nippon Steel. In 2025, she received the 26th Hotel Okura Music Award and the 34th Idemitsu Music Award. An advocate for communication through music making, she is currently an ambassador for El Sistema Japan’s new “Ribbon” project, bringing instruments and music education to children in the foster care system. Since October 2023 she is also teaching at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.
https://mayumikanagawa.com/
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A native of Shanghai, China, Lun Li holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. His mentors include Ida Kavafian, Catherine Cho, and Joseph Lin. He has won First Prize at the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions as well as the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize and Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize. Additionally, he is a First Prize winner of the 2021 Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition. He has appeared on major musical stages throughout the world including Konzerthaus Berlin, Kulturpalast Dresden, and Wiener Konzerthaus. He has also appeared on tour with Curtis Institute of Music and Musicians from Marlboro, bringing him to Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and 92Y. An avid chamber musician, Lun has performed in the Marlboro Music Festival, Verbier Music Festival and Music@Menlo’s among others. Lun is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program in their 2024-2027 seasons. 2023/24 highlights include recital and chamber music performances with the Morgan Library & Museum (NYC), Caramoor Center for Music and Chamber Music Chicago, as well as concerto performances with the Brevard Philharmonic and Aiken Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.lunliviolin.com/
https://yca.org/artist/li-lun/

22-year-old Japanese violinist Rino Yoshimoto has captivated audiences around the world. She has performed in the world’s most prestigious halls, including Carnegie Hall and the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. Her powerful command of standard violin literature has led her on concerto and recital tours across Europe. She was invited on a tour to Spain with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra as a soloist and it was received with critical acclaim. She has performed many solo recitals as well as participated in numerous orchestral projects in Japan, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, the USA, Russia, France, Belgium, and Italy. Known for her phenomenal musicianship, Ms. Yoshimoto is a prizewinner of numerous international violin competitions, including the 16th Padova International Music Competition "Premio Citta Di Padova", the 10th Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition 2022 (2nd place), and the 2020 Shanghai Isaac Stern international violin competition. Ms. Yoshimoto is currently studying at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the classes of Prof. Augustin Dumay and Prof. Yossif Ivanov. She has studied with Masako Kida, Gerald Poulet, Mauro Iurato, Yoshio Unno, and Michael Frischenschlager.

Zlatomir Fung was born into a family of mathematicians and began playing cello at age three and studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. Fung is the youngest cellist ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 as well as the winner of 2016 George Enescu International Cello Competition, 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and the 2018 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, among others. He was selected as a 2016 US Presidential Scholar for the Arts and was awarded the 2016 Landgrave von Hesse Prize at the Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, among others. He made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2021 and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Verbier Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. He was appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2024.
https://www.zlatomirfung.com/
https://www.kajimotomusic.com/eng/artists-projects/zlatomir-fung/

Born in Paraguay, Michiaki Ueno spent his childhood in Spain. He studied under the tutelage of Iñaki Etxepare, Hakuro Mohri and Pieter Wispelwey, further honing his musical artistry as an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium under Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling. He has enriched his artistry through masterclasses of Steven Isserlis and Frans Helmerson, among others. He made his solo debut at the Suntory Hall at age 11. He won first prizes the 6th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 2009, the 6th Romanian International Music Competition in 2010, where he was also awarded the Romanian Embassy Prize and Romanian Radio Culture Prize, 21st International Johannes Brahms Competition in 2014, and the at the 75th Geneva International Music Competition in 2021, where he also won three special awards including the Young Audience Prize, among other accolades. He is also a recipient of the Bonn’s Beethoven Ring Award 2024. Ever since, he has performed with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Warsaw Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He has performed chamber music with Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Augustin Dumay, and has also participated in festivals such as the Verbier Music Festival and La Folle Journée de Nantes.
https://www.michiakiueno.com/about

Born in USA, Benjamin Beilman studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank, and with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy. His international career was launched after winning two first prizes at the Montreal International Musical Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York both in 2010. He has also received many other prestigious accolades including a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a London Music Masters Award. He has performed with notable conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Krzysztof Urbański, and Matthias Pintscher and orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 2023-24 season includes his debut with the St. Louis Symphony under Cristian Macelaru and BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Ryan Bancroft. In recital and chamber music, he performs at major halls including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonie, the Louvre and Wigmore Hall, as well as the Marlboro Music Festival and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others. His debut album “Spectrum” was released from Warner Classics in 2016.　In 2022, he became one of the youngest artists to be appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music.
https://benjaminbeilman.com/
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