Artisti 2025
Alessandra DONINELLI / cellist
La giovane violoncellista elvetica ha ottenuto un riconoscimento internazionale con il suo debutto alla Berliner Philharmonie dando la premiere del concerto per violoncello e orchestra di Daniel Pacitti. La sua personalità radiosa e la sua espressiva musicalità hanno portato Alessandra sui palchi delle più importanti sale al mondo, tra cui la Tokyo Opera City, la Tonhalle di Zurigo, la Minato Mirai Hall di Yokohama, il Palazzo Federale a Berna, il Palau de la Musica Catalana di Barcellona e l'Auditorio Nacional de Musica di Madrid.
Alessandra è apparsa recentemente come solista con l'"Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana", la "Basel Sinfonieorchester", la "Stuttgarter Kammerorchester", la "Camerata dei Castelli" e la "Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra" sotto la guida di Andrey Boreyko, Kevin Griffiths, Andreas Laake e Francois Benda.
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"La musica è in grado di muovere le montagne, e quando possiamo condividerla, l'intero pianeta si ritrova in un'altra galassia". Con queste parole, Alessandra esprime il potere che la musica da camera ha per lei. Nell’ambito cameristico ha lavorato sotto la guida di maestri come Günter Pichler (Quartetto Alban Berg), Oliver Wille, Rainer Schmidt (Quartetto Hagen), Heime Müller (Quartetto Artemis), Heinz Holliger e ha vinto il premio per il "miglior gruppo di musica da camera con pianoforte" dell'anno accademico 2020-2021 alla Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia consegnatole dalla Regina di Spagna.
Alessandra si è esibita in vari festival tra cui "Herbst in der Helferei", "Pablo Casals Festival", "Monighetti&Friends", "Musik Miteinander" alla Kronberg Academy, "Musique à Flaine", "Eggenfelden Klassisch" e "Ceresio Estate" dove ha collaborato con musicisti rinomati come Vilde Frang, Yura Lee, Fabio di Casola, Mi-kyung Lee, Roland Glassl e Calogero Palermo.
LA BBC Radio3 ha trasmesso più volte la registrazione live del suo concerto di Saint-Saens con l'Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. Alessandra ha creato un rapporto duraturo con la Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (RSI) per la quale ha tenuto un recital in diretta con il pianista Dominic Chamot, è apparsa nel programma televisivo "Paganini" e nel documentario "Archi nel Sol Levante". Per la RSI Alessandra ha inoltre registrato il trio con pianoforte della compositrice olandese Elisabeth Kuyper, dimostrando la sua passione per la scoperta di compositori poco conosciuti e il suo obiettivo di portare alla luce la loro musica.
Alessandra ha studiato con Ivan Monighetti e Sol Gabetta alla Hochschule für Musik di Basilea e successivamente alla Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia di Madrid. Ha inoltre fatto parte della classe 2019 della Pavia Cello Academy con Enrico Dindo e attualmente studia con Wen Sinn Yang alla Hochschule für Musik und Theater di Monaco.
Alessandra plays a 1840 cello by Bernard Simon Fendt II.
Michele FONTANA / clarinetist
Michele Fontana si è laureato in clarinetto Summa Cum Laude nel 2019 e attualmente studia presso l’Accademia Internazionale di Imola. Ha collaborato come primo clarinettista e solista con vari festival, tra cui il Festival Angelica, il Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte, il Verdi Festival, l’Emilia-Romagna Festival e il Ravenna Festival.
Finalista in diversi concorsi nazionali e internazionali, ha vinto il Primo Premio al Crescendo International Music Competition, al Concorso Nazionale per l’esecuzione musicale “Città Piove di Sacco”, al Concorso Internazionale “Luigi Zanuccoli” e il Premio della Giuria al Concorso Internazionale “Premio Crescendo”.
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Co-fondatore del collettivo di musica contemporanea “WKO – Camerata degli Ammutinati”, ha collaborato con compositori e artisti come Yuval Avital, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Mauro Montalbetti, Paolo Geminiani.
Ha partecipato a masterclass tenute da Fabrizio Meloni, Calogero Palermo, Giovanni Riccucci, Peter Sparks, Antonio Salguero, Luca Milani e Simone Nicoletta.
È cofondatore del collettivo di musica contemporanea "WKO - Camerata Degli Ammutinati", con il quale ha portato in scena la Prima Italiana dell’opera “The Tell-Tale Heart” del compositore olandese Willem Jeths”. Ha collaborato con numerosi compositori, tra cui Yuval Avital, Gene Coleman, Mauro Montalbetti, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Paolo Marzocchi, Graziano Riccardi, Vincenzo Parisi.
Nina HAUG / conductor
Swiss conductor Nina Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite programme ‘Dirigentforum’ by Talent Norge. Recent highlights of her career have included her debuts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (RO), and with Sinfonietta Schaffhausen in Tonhalle Zürich. She was leading the Christmas Gala 2022 with choir, orchestra and soloists at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo and the final concert of the Festival Pianistico Internazionale del Mediterraneo in Bari, Italy. Through Talent Norge, Nina Haug regularly works with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. She participated in the renowned Conducting Academy of Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2024, and the Järvi Academy 2023 in Estonia. In summer 2024, she completed her master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Prof. Ole Kristian Ruud.
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Nina Haug graduated as a pianist from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and has been working as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. She made her début at Tonhalle Zurich in 2022 with Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto and she played Alban Berg’s Kammerkonzert as a soloist at Helsinki Music Centre. Nina Haug regularly enjoys leading from the piano. Her most influential teachers include Matti Raekallio, Tuija Hakkila, Gerold Huber and Silke-Thora Matthies. Nina Haug is currently employed by the Norwegian Academy of Music as a teacher for conducting.
It is Nina Haug’s mission to bring people together to enjoy the energising power of live music.
SOFIKO TCHUMBURIDZE / VIOLINIST
Born in 2000 in Mersin, Turkey, into a Georgian musical family, Sofiko Tchumburidze began studying the violin at theage of six under the guidance of her mother, Lily Tchumburidze, at the Mersin University State Conservatory. She started her undergraduate studies in 2018 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Prof. Lena Neudauer and completed her degree under Prof. Julia Fischer. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree with Prof. Julia Fischer, while also studying Baroque violin under Prof. Mary Utiger.
The violinist has participated in masterclasses withrenowned musicians such as Lukas David, Nora Chastain, Rudens Turku, Volker Jacobsen, Sergey Kravchenko, Dora Schwarzberg, Pierre Amoyal, Mayumi Hirasaki, Cihat Aşkın, Özcan Ulucan, and Dimitri Sitkovetsky. Chamber music holdsa prominent place in her artistic life. As a chamber musician, she has performed at prestigious events such as the Istanbul Boğaziçi Albert Long Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Days of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and the Schloss Elmau Chamber Music Festival, with some performances recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk radio station.
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In addition to her chamber music work, Tchumburidze also appeared on stage as a soloist with orchestras such as the Presidental Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Türkiye, Bursa Government Symphony Orchestra, Eskişehir Symphony Orchestra, Antalya Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated in national and international festivals, including the Youth Classics Festival, Semmering International Summer Festival, Istanbul Young Classical Musicians Festival, Seefeld Starnberger Music Days, Salzburg Festival, Tsinandali Festival, and Insel Festival, in Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, and Germany. recorded a CD with the Mozarteum Orchestra under the direction of Howard Griffiths for Alpha Classics and has performed concerts with Julia Fischer in Grünwald. She shared the stage with Maxim Vengerov at a concert organized by ÇEV Sanat at Istanbul’s Zorlu PSM. Since 2022, she has been performing with the renowned West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, appearing in cities such as Cologne, Ljubljana, Salzburg, Berlin, and Lucerne. Additionally, she performed at the Schloss Elmau Georgian Festival alongside world-famous mandolinist Avi Avital and the celebrated Georgian ensemble, the Rustavi Ensemble.
Sofiko has won numerous awards from an early age. She earned first prize at the Gülden Turalı National Young Musicians Violin Competition and was named “Student of the Year” by the Rudens Turku Foundation through audience choice, receiving a special award as well. She won first prize at the Ana Chumachenco Competition in Germany, first prize at the 3rd National Chamber Music Competition in Turkey with her piano trio. Also she was the winner of the first prize given in the name of Meriç Soylu at the concert series organized in İstanbul “İş Sanat Parlayan Yıldızlar” which is one of the important organizations for young artists.
A scholarship recipient of the ÇEV Sanat (Contemporary Education Foundation), Sofiko Tchumburidze continues her musical career playing a highly valuable 1890 Lorenzo Ventapane violin, awarded to her as a result of winning the 2024 Musikinstrumentenfonds competition, organized by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
SUSANNA DANIELA BRAUN / PIANISTA
The emerging Swiss pianist Susanna Braun made her debut at the Tonhalle Zürich in 2024, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto KV 466. She is captivating audiences and critics alike with her delicate and sublime touch, high virtuosity, and profound musical sensitivity. Susanna impressed the audience with her mature and nuanced interpretation of Mozart’s piano concerto “Where one often has to endure perhaps routine but uninteresting, because clichéd, performances of Mozart’s works, Susanna has set a refreshing and confident counterpoint, making it a true joy to listen!” Highlights in 2025 will include a performance with the BBC Philharmonic.
Susanna is currently pursuing the prestigious postgraduate program “International Artist Diploma” at the Royal Northern College of Music in England on a full scholarship. In addition, she is enrolled in the “Post-Diploma Course” at the Imola International Academy “Incontri con il Maestro”, where she is mentored by Boris Petrushansky. In February 2025, she will complete her Master’s studies at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar, where she has been under the guidance of Grigory Gruzman. She continues to work with Helen Krizos from the Royal Northern College of Music, with whom she previously studied both at this institution and at Chetham’s School of Music. She owes her successful start in professional piano playing to Danilo Manto from Milan.
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Still in her early career, Susanna has already received numerous awards. At the 21st International Competition Piano Campus 2023 in Paris, she received the “Brigitte Engerer Prize”, which honours the candidate with the greatest career potential as “Jeune Espoir” as well as the partner “Sogel Pontoise Prize”. In 2018 she won first prizes at the 10th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede and the Ferrara International Piano Festival in Italy. The following year she received the encouragement prize from the Neues Orchester Basel, and in 2020 the “RNCM Chopin Prize” and “The Marjorie Clementi Memorial Award” from the RNCM. She celebrated further successes at the 7th Andrea Baldi International Piano Competition, International Anton Rubinstein Competition, 8th International Rosario-Marciano Competition, Mazovia XXII International Chopin Festival, 4th International Piano Competition Piano Talents, Euterpe International Music Competition.
Appearances with orchestra have been made with the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, Jena Philharmonie, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Orchestra d’Archi Ferruccio Bevenuto Busoni and the Orchestra del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Florence.
VERIKO TCHUMBURIDZE / VIOLINIST
Since winning the 2016 International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition at the age of 20, Veriko Tchumburidze has built a reputation as a captivating soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. “She is a breath of future,” said Andrzej Wituski, the competition’s director, “She brings us closer to the world of her own imagination”. Andante, Turkey’s leading classical music magazine named her the country’s Best Emerging Musician. Born into a Georgian family in Adana, southern Turkey, Veriko Tchumburidze initially trained at Mersin University State Conservatory with Selahattin Yunkus and Lily Tchumburidze.
In 2010 she has started to study in with Dora Schwarzberg at the MDW in Vienna as a scholar of the Young Musicians on World Stages (YMWS) project. Between 2015-2022, she studied at Prof. Ana Chumachenko’s class and since 2022 she continues her second master’s degree studies in chamber music with the Dirk Mommertz and Raphael Merlin at the Munich’s Musikhochschule. She has also participated in the masterclasses of Albert Markov, Shlomo Mintz, and Igor Ozim, in the Seiji Ozawa Academy Masterclass and, also in Switzerland, the Verbier Festival Academy.
In the 2025/26 season, Veriko Tchumburidze makes her Polish debut of Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto with the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra under Pawel Przytocki. She also debuts at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, performing Respighi’s Concerto Gregoriano. Additionally, she returns to NOSPR Katowice for Kancheli’s Chiaroscuro with Andrey Boreyko. She appears for the first time at Schiermonnikoog Festival, Wonderfeel Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn and Europäische Wochen Passau, while returning to the Istanbul International Music Festival and Storioni Festival. This season also features the world premieres of two works dedicated to her: Kaan Bulak’s Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 and Aris Alexander Blettenberg’s Byzantine Rhapsody.
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As a keen exponent of chamber music, she partners in recital with Pianists Ketevan Sepashvili and Mamikon Nakhapetov and was formerly a member of Trio Arte, a piano trio which in 2016 won first prize at the Pietro Argento International Music Competition in Gioia del Colle, Italy. 2016 also brought the world premiere at the Istanbul Music Festival of Ludus Modalis, a work dedicated to Trio Arte by the distinguished Turkish composer Özkan Manav. Since 2022, she is a member of Trio Vecando, a piano trio.
Veriko Tchumburidze recorded Anton Wranitzky’s Violin Concerto in C for Sony Classical with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Howard Griffiths. Her recording on the Klanglogo label of John Williams’ music for the film Schindler’s List with Howard Griffiths conducting the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt led to a headlining appearance, under the aegis of the Orpheum Musik Stiftung, at the opening concert of the 2016 Zurich Film Festival at the Swiss city’s opera house.
Since 2016 Veriko Tchumburidze has played a Giambattista Guadagnini violin, made in Milan in 1756 and generously loaned by Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Vittorio BENAGLIA / violist
"Magnifica l’interpretazione di Vittorio Benaglia, che sa trarre dalla viola capacità sonore e timbriche uniche, creando suoni nuovi e magici, quasi riconducibili alla voce umana." Rivista MUSICA
Vittorio Benaglia (classe 1999) si è esibito come solista in sale concertistiche come Weill Recital Hall della Carnegie Hall di New York, Wiener Saal del Mozarteum di Salisburgo e il Madinat Theatre di Dubai. Come solista con orchestra ha suonato con: I Musici di Parma, Master Orchestra di Verona, Eurasia Chamber Orchestra e Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra.
Si è distinto in numerosi concorsi nazionali tra cui "Premio Nazionale delle Arti" e "Premio Giovani Talenti, Vittorio Andretta di Padova". In ambito internazionale ha vinto il primo premio al “IV London International Music Competition”, “Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso”, “New York Golden Classical Music Awards”.
Ha studiato al Conservatorio G. Verdi di Como e ha frequentato l’HEMU di Losanna, l’Accademia L. Perosi di Biella e attualmente studia presso l’Internationale Musikakademie in Liechtenstein con Thomas Riebl. È studente di Anna Serova e Alexander Gordon (Zemtsov). Ha preso parte a corsi e masterclass con Nobuko Imai, Hartmut Rohde, Timothy Ridout, Danilo Rossi, Bruno Giuranna, Wilfried Strehle, Oliver Wille, Andrea Lucchesini, Paul Silverthorne, Marco Rizzi e Zakhar Bron.
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Collabora come solista e musicista da camera con Livorno Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Viotti Festival e con artisti come David Geringas, Pavel Berman, Alexander Zemtsov, Denitsa Laffchieva, Eva Bindere, Ivan Karizna, Mairèad Hickey, Andrea Lucchesini, Teofil Milenkovic, Marco Rizzi, Hugo Ticciati, Vittorio Ceccanti, Anna Serova, Giovanni Riccucci, Gabriele Mirabassi, Ilio Barontini e Maria Grazia Bellocchio.
Come musicista da camera ha collaborato con Divertimento Ensemble, Conductus Ensemble, Cesar Franck Quartet e, nell'ambito di Mit Musik Miteinander organizzato da Kronberg Academy, con Mairèad Hickey e Ivan Karizna.
Il suo primo album ‘English Music for Viola and Piano’, con il pianista Fabio Napoletano, è uscito per Da Vinci Classics nel marzo 2021 ed è stato presentato su Rai Radio 3 e Radio Musica Con le Ali. Ha ricevuto elogi da riviste come Archi Magazine, Rivista MUSICA e altre.
La sua ultima incisione discografica, per Da Vinci Classics, lo vede viola solista con la Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra diretta da Alexander Gordon (Zemtsov) e la partecipazione straordinaria della clarinettista Denitsa Laffchieva.
Ha ricevuto una borsa di studio da Internationale Musikakademie in Liechtenstein e sta partecipando alle Intensive Music Weeks e altre attività proposte dall'Accademia.
Dal 2022 Vittorio è un Artista Pirastro.
YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF UKRAINE / YSOU
The Youth symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/YSOU is a unique musical project that brings together musicians aged 12 to 25 from all over Ukraine. The Youth symphony Orchestra of Ukraine was founded in 2016 on the initiative of the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv. Her idea was supported by three German partner institutions: the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Federal Youth Orchestra of Germany (Bundesjugendorchester Deutschland) and Deutsche Welle. Since its founding, the YSOU has conducted over 35 concert tours and projects in 14 countries.
In 2022 the YSOU went on large scale European tour «United for the future», bringing up a strong message for peace, justice and freedom from Ukraine’s young generation. In frames of the tour the ensemble performed more than 30 concerts and played at 10 of the biggest festivals in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, among others at Bachfest Leipzig, Munich Opera Festival, Lucerne Festival, Young Euro Classic Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Herbstgold Eisenstadt, Festival «Aus den Fugen!» at the Konzerthaus Berlin and gave a great French debut in Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
In April 2023, the Berliner Philharmonic orchestra took on the patronage of YSOU.
In 2023, the orchestra performed at Mainzer Dom, gave the opening concert at the Audi Festival in Ingolstadt, participated in the Young Euro Classic Festival, and made its debut in Brescia, Vicenza, and Bologna as part of the Italian tour.
Additionally, the orchestra launched a significant project, ‘LOST CHILDHOOD,’ under the patronage of Dr. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, at the Centre for Fine Arts, BOZAR in Brussels. The event featured the world premiere of Evgeni Orkin’s cantata “Daddy’s Book”, commissioned by conductor Oksana Lyniv specifically for this project.
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During the summer tour in 2024 the orchestra performed at the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, the Berlioz Festival in France and gave the opening concert at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland under the direction of the chief conductor Oksana Lyniv.
Additionally, a quartet of YSOU members performed at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York and made their USA debut at Carnegie Hall in collaboration with the European Union Youth Orchestra.
In autumn 2024, the orchestra made its debut in Poland at the “Ukrainian Spring” festival under the direction of Polish conductor Norbert Twórczyński.
In January 2025, YSOU performed at the traditional San Geminiano Charity Concert in Modena, Italy, under the baton of Oksana Lyniv. Broadcast live on Italian TV, the concert raised donations to support Ukrainians in need, including children and youth.