Jury

Xin Wang established herself in spite of her young age as one of the leading pianists of the inner Mongolia China. She came into public attention when she won a special prize at the national Piano Competition China with the age of seven and has since gone on to give piano concerts an recitals in concert halls all over China. She studied with Jolio Largacha and Gabriel Rosenberg in Cologne and Nurnberg. During her study she got a scholarship of the DAAD. Xin Wang has won numerous honors and prizes including the piano competition Lengano Italy, the piano competition Bettona Italy and many others.

She is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Europa and Asia like Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Concert Hall in Xiamen, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo, Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot and many others. As a soloist Xin Wang appeared with many famous orchestras, among them Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg, Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists and Berliner Camerata under the baton of famous conductors like Kazem Abdullah, Christopher Ward, Conrad van Alphen, Marek Štilec, James P. Liu, Juri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. She is a regular guest at international festivals such as Skrjabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival „federi musica“ Neapel Italy, International Piano Festival Salerno Italy, „IBLA Claasic“ Sicilia Italy, Piano Festival Orbetello Italy, „Friday Nights with Yury Revich“ Wien Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Deià Spain, Festival „Palau March Museu“ Palma Spain, „Festival de musique classique a Pompignan“ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden Germany, „Monschau Klassik“ Germany, „International Piano Festival Wuhan" China and many others. As a passionate chamber musician she regularly works with colleagues like Echo-Klassik prize winner Yury Revich or Alexandre Debrus in China and Europe.

Xin Wang is founder and artist director of the international piano festival in Geilenkirchen Germany and jury president of the international piano competition "Euregio Piano Award". She is often inivited as a jury member in many international piano competitions such as Campillos Spain, „Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition“ Novi Saad Serbia, „Neue Sterne“ Wernigerode Germany, „Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize“ Barletta Italy, „Notes in Harmony“ Bettona Italy, „Academy Award“ Rom Italy, Asian Youth international piano Competition Hongkong, and many others.

Since 2012 she teaches as a guest professor at different music universities in China and gave several master classes in China and Germany with prestigious teachers from well known music universities in Europe.

Defined by The New York Times “an artist with supreme technical mastery, dazzling and charming with his highly cultivated sound”, Alberto Nosè is one of the most awarded piano artists of his generation. His musical education started at Verona Conservatory and continued at Imola International Piano Academy. His artistic development has been also enriched by his musical studies with Maurizio Pollini, Murray Perhaia, Andrzej Jasinski, Paul Badura-Skoda, Michael Beroff, Alexander Lonquich, Arie Vardi, Fou Ts’ong, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.

Top prize winner of Montecarlo Piano Masters, New York Concert Artists, Paloma O’Shea in Santander, Long-Thibaud in Paris, Maj Lind in Helsinki, Busoni in Bolzano, he was laureate at the F. Chopin International Piano Competition in 2000 which led him to a worldwide career as soloist as well as with major orchestras in the most renowed concert venues like Carnegie Hall in New York, Southbank Centre in London, Konzerhaus in Berlin, Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris, Auditorium in Madrid, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, City Hall in Hong Kong, Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Fenice in Venice, Santa Cecilia in Rome. Jury member in many international piano competitions like Kiev, Tbilisi, New York, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Budapest, Graz, Ljubljana, Warsaw, he is co-founder of the Amadeus Competition in Lazise, Italy.

His debut album for Piano Le Magazine featuring works by Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev won several awards like CHOC du Monde de la Musique and La Clef by ResMusica. His CD of the Keyboard Sonatas by J. Ch. Bach, recorded on modern piano and published by Naxos, has been broadcast by Radio France, BBC 3, Radio 4 Netherland, Radio New Zealand, ABC Classic FM USA and Australia. His third album with Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet for Harmonia Mundi won Diapason d’Or.

Since 2019 he has been founder, artistic director and producer of Amadeus Sound Project, an independent record label which releases all his new recording projects. Invited to teach master classes around the world, he was guest professor at the Music Conservatory in Geneva, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Mannes College of Music in New York, as well as at Music Academies in Gdansk and Bydgoszcz. He has been Piano Professor at Verona Conservatory of Music since 2022 and on the faculty of the International Accademia Amadeus in Valeggio sul Mincio, Italy.

Born in Leningrad. At the age of thirteen, he made his debut with the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic under the baton of Dmitry Kitaenko. Graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he was an intern assistant later (class of Professor Lev Naumov). In 1990 he subsequently trained at the Juilliard School with Bella Davidovich, took lessons from Marta Argerich. Prize-winner at international piano competitions in Tokyo (1989), UNISA competition in Pretoria (1992), in Porto (1995). A recipient of the Angel Awards at the Edinburgh Festival (1997), a recipient of the Rachmaninoff Foundation Prize. Since 1991 he has been a student of and assistant to Alexander Toradze at his piano studio at the Indiana University South Bend. He regularly gives recitals in the best halls of Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America: Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Ravinia, and other venues. As a soloist he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Russian National Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Collaborates with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Seiji Ozawa, Leif Segerstam, Paavo Järvi, Yuri Bashmet. Honorary Professor and director of the piano programme of Zhejiang University (Shanghai). An artistic consultant to the Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts in Nanjing, organized the performances by Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev, Anna Netrebko, Leonidas Kavakos, the Vienna, Munich and New York Philharmonics. Holder of the title Best foreign expert and the China government's Friendship Award for 1000 talents.

The German pianist and music manager Florian Koltun studied at university of music in Cologne and at the University of Music Trossingen by Prof. Ilja Scheps and Tomislav Baynov.

He had Masterclasses also with prestigious teachers like B. L. Gelber or G. Rosenberg. His active concert work started at the age of 14 when already calling attention to himself by winning several first prizes at the German competition Jugend musiziert as well as the national Bach Competition in Köthen.

He is first prize winner of several international piano competitions, like the piano competition in Caraglio / Italy, the international piano competition for young pianists in Luxembourg, the Henri Herman Concours in Maastricht / Netherland or the international piano competition “Notes in harmony” in Bettona / Italy.

Florian Koltun is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Germany, Belgium, Netherland, Italy, France, Spain or China. He performed recitals in prestigious places such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berliner Philharmonie, Thürmer-Saal Bochum or Schloss Koethen.

He is artistic director diffrent concert series and festivals in Germany (Heinsberg, Aachen, Windeck, Geilenkirchen, Boltenhagen and Monschau) and gave several masterclasses at different music universities in China and Europe since 2012. From 2015 until 2017 he was teaching piano at the music university Cologne.

This French pianist Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat is highly appreciated by the public for his sensitivity and the emotions that his playing arouses. He has developed a wide range musical projects, from piano recitals to concertos with orchestra. He also does not hesitate to premiere musical dramas or lecture concerts. He played twice in concert the complete set of the famous Beethoven 32 sonatas (2023 and 2024). He is regularly invited in France and abroad for concerts, radio or television broadcasts, or masterclasses highlighting the masterpieces of the Viennese composer. Four CDs featuring to the most well-known of them are already available. Also recognized as one of French music’s specialists, his interpretations have been praised by music critics who emphasizes the “French elegance” of his piano playing, with a very colorful palette of sounds, serving the French repertory of the 20th century (Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, Poulenc…).

He is a thought-after chamber musician, who has played alongside many international artists in duos or trios. He has a strong affinity with the repertoire of Brahms, that he likes specially. Since his first concert with orchestra at the age of thirteen, Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat has been invited by numerous orchestras to play about twenty different concertos in France and abroad. He is also an artist that contemporary composers appreciate. 

Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat is regularly invited to perform on various media. He has played live in the program L’été des festivals on the national radio station France Musique. He also has recorded for that same station The Carnival of the Animals side to Anne Roumanoff, with texts by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (published by Albin Michel in 2014). Many of his concerts have been covered by French television (France 2, France 3, TLM) as well as abroad (Russian, Catalan, Italian, Bulgarian, Polish, Slovenian, Macedonian, Kosovar...). As soon as he obtained his prize at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in 1992, Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat was unanimously admitted to the postgraduate course at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris in Jean-Claude Pennetier's class. He then studied with Monique Deschaussées, a disciple of Alfred Cortot and Edwin Fischer. He is the recipient of two international prizes: Darius Milhaud 1997 and Spedidam 1999.

Artistic director of the Musicales en Tricastin festival and of the Musique en Franc-Lyonnais association, he is also artistic director of the Saint Paul Trois Châteaux international piano competition, and artistic adviser for the classic concert season of the city of Ecully.