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With his commanding technique and searching interpretations, the celebrated Norwegian pianist has won acclaim worldwide, giving recitals and playing concertos in the world’s leading concert halls and with its foremost orchestras, besides being an active recording artist. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, and was co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in July 2013, and received an honorary doctorate from New York’s Juilliard School in May 2016
Leon McCawley, one of Britain's foremost pianists, has forged a highly successful career since winning 1st Prize in the 1993 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and 2nd Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition at age nineteen. Championing core classical repertoire together with the unknown, McCawley’s CD releases have been impressing critics far and wide. His 2012 CD of Brahms's Piano Music for Somm Recordings is no exception: “Plenty of dynamism and passion...consistent and inspired playing” (Gramophone).
Lukas Geniušas won Silver Medals at the Chopin International Piano Competition in 2010 and the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, and the German Piano Award in 2012. Born into a musical family, he began piano studies at the age of five at the Chopin Music College in Moscow and under the mentorship of his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva. He has performed with numerous orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic and Russian National Orchestra, under the batons of such conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Andrey Boreyko, Antoni Wit and Mikhail Pletnev.
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