Yoko Ishikura
JAPAN Yoko Ishikura was born in Kanagawa, Japan. She began attending the Toho Gakuen School Of Music For Children at the age of three and she started taking violin lessons when she was five years old. Yoko won 2nd prize at the Japan Mozart Music Competition in 2013, and the Ishikawa Music Academy Music Award […]
Reika Sakamoto
JAPAN Reika Sakamoto completed her studies at the Toho Gakuen College Music Department, where she pursued the Soloist Diploma Course under Koichiro Harada, and the Master program at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne. Currently she studies at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien under Pavel Vernikov. Reika won 1st prize at […]
Levin-Sieun Kwon
SOUTH KOREA Born on September 1, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea, Levin-Sieun Kwon started studying violin at the age of 5. After winning several national competitions for young musicians in Korea, Kwon went to Germany to study music. He pursued his bachelor studies in Münster with Prof. Helge Slaatto and the master studies in Frankfurt […]
Kristina Besman
RUSSIA Kristina Besman was born in 1994 in Moscow. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Prof. Victor Pikayzen and Prof. Eduard Grach, and she completed her master’s degree at the same institution. She currently lives in Vienna and is studying with Prof. Igor Petrushevski. She played recitals and concerts in most of the important […]
José Fraguas
SPAIN José Fraguas was born in Madrid and is 23 years old. His violin teachers include Sergey Fatkulin, Zakhar Bron, Yuri Volguin, and Manuel Guillén. Recently José recorded two albums: José Fraguas plays Francisco Estévez and José Fraguas plays Manuel Quiroga. He performed at the Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș (Romania), the Auditorio Nacional […]
Ming-Chun Teng
TAIWAN, CHINA Ming-Chun Teng was born in September 2000 in Taiwan and he began his violin studies at the age of 8. He currently studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis. He has performed in masterclass with musicians such as Nai-Yuan Hu, Yu-Chien Tseng, Keng-Yuen Tseng, Bomsori Kim, Ching-Yi […]
Andrea Hughes
USA Andrea Hughes was born in Romania in 1991 and raised in Utah, USA. She began studying violin at age 3. She received a Bachelor Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music under Paul Kantor and Ivan Zenaty. Her childhood teachers include Deborah Moench, Dara Morales, and Ralph Matson. She has had additional instruction from […]
Inhee Park
SOUTH KOREA Born in Seoul, Korea, on October 6, 1991, Inhee Park studied music at the Sunhwa Arts High School and the Seoul National University. She won the grand prize at the Seoul Music Competition, and the Gwangju International Music Competition. She held numerous solo and chamber recitals at the Seoul Arts Center, and the […]
Grégoire Torossian
FRANCE Born on September 21, 2000, in Boulogne-Billancourt, Grégoire Torossian began playing the violin at the age of 4. He did his apprenticeship with Maja Lazko in Paris, then at the Conservatoire de Tours with Pierre Ivanovitch, where he obtained his Diploma of Musical Studies unanimously. In 2018, he joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique […]
Enrico Dindo
Enrico Dindo was born into a family of musicians. At the age of six he began studying cello and afterwards graduated at the “G. Verdi” Conservatoire of music in Turin. Later on, he perfected his studies with Egidio Roveda and with Antonio Janigro. In 1987, at the age of 22, he began performing as principal […]
Registrations for the 2022 George Enescu International Competition have opened
Young musicians are invited to submit their applications for the 4 sections of the Competition: cello, violin, piano and composition As a result of the successful experience with the hybrid edition from 2020/2021, the organizers changed the structure of the George Enescu International Competition. Thus, the 18th edition will have one online stage in May […]
George Enescu International Festival – the World’s Largest Classical Music Festival in 2021
As George Enescu International Festival came to a close, it announced the numbers of its Jubilee Edition, successfully held from August 28 to September 26, 2021.
DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 16
Enescu’s Ballade performed on stage at the Festival, after going viral on August 19, the composer’s birthday George Enescu’s Ballade and Caprice Roumain for Violin and Orchestra open today’s concerts at the Romanian Athenaeum and the Grand Palace Hall respectively, performed by two acclaimed violinists and connoisseurs of Enescu’s music, Remus Azoitei, with the […]
DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 18
Classical music, contemporary music, and jazz meet in a wealth of events at the Enescu Festival Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, conductors Paavo Järvi, Tito Ceccherini, and Tiberiu Soare, violinist Carolin Widmann, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Radio Chamber Orchestra are just some of the artists headlining today’s Enescu Festival concerts, with a program of classical […]
DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 15
Conductor Cristian Macelaru to record the complete works by Enescu Yuja Wang returns to the Festival stage * Romanian premiere of the opera Der Zwerg Conductor Cristian Macelaru will record the complete works of Enescu for Deutsche Grammophon, as part of a project estimated to take 10 years. The recording will be made with […]
DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 14
Starring today at the Enescu Festival: Joyce DiDonato, Yuja Wang, Cristian Macelaru, and Denis Matsuev Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, winner of multiple Grammy Awards and the 2018 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, seen as “probably the most powerful soloist of her generation,” performs works from the Baroque repertoire today at the Romanian Athenaeum, from […]
