Pedro Lopez Salas (piano)
Born in 1997, Pedro López Salas is a Spanish pianist who is currently studying an Artist Diploma with Prof. Vanessa Latarche at the Royal College of Music of London (RCM). Previously, he finished his Masters of Performance also at the RCM with Prof. Norma Fisher, receiving First Class Honours. He was awarded with full scholarship and the title of Steinway Scholar and the Leverhulme Honorary Arts Scholarships.
He has been awarded more than 40 prizes at international and national piano competitions including First Prize at the Malta International Piano Competition; Second Prize at the International Paderewski Piano Competition of Bydgoszcz (Poland), as well as four special prizes, including the best semi-final recital; the Composers of Spain CIPCE International Piano Competition (Madrid); the Joan Chisell Schumann Prize at the RCM; and the César Franck International Piano Competition (Brussels). He also won Second Prize and four special prizes at the Ferrol International Piano Competition in Madrid.
Pedro has performed throughout Europe in prestigious concert halls such as the Lutoslawski Concert Hall of Polish Radio in Warsaw and Pomeranian Philharmonic Concert Hall of Bydgoszcz, Poland, Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, Wiener Festsaal in Vienna, Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Miguel Delibes Concert Hall in Valladolid; Ferrol Concert Hall “Manuel de Falla” of Granada, “Teatro Circo” of Albacete (Spain); Theater of Aachen (Germany); and the Wiener Saal in Salzburg (Austria), Ischia “La Mortella” and Milan “Rocca Brivio” (Italy), among among many others. He has performed as a soloist with the OH! Orchestra of Warsaw, the “Pomeranian Hall Symphony Orchestra” of Poland, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Orquesta de Valencia and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.
“Three encores, standing audience and a long line of spectators lined up to congratulate the young Spanish pianist. Pedro López Salas brightened up the evening in Milan” (Cultura di Milano)
“Perfect blend of musicality, personality, and brilliantly polished technique” (La Tribuna).
“Enormous security and great capacity of the young pianist to endow Liszt’s concerto number 2 with expressiveness and poetry” (El Correo de Sevilla).
Peter Kiss (piano)
“The most beautiful part of music for me is when I have the chance to play with others. But no matter whether I play as a chamber musician or as a soloist, I primarily want to be a musician and not a pianist.”
As a chamber musician and as a soloist, Péter Kiss has performed with many excellent partners: he has played with Zoltán Kocsis, Kristóf Baráti and Jonathan Cohen, as well as Barnabás Kelemen, Gergely Vajda and the Amadinda Percussion Ensemble. He has given recitals in Chicago, Cleveland, Santiago de Chile, New Delhi, and Beijing, and presented workshops in Chicago and Beijing. Contemporary music and the music of earlier periods – by Brahms, Bartók, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven or Bach - coexist in organic harmony in the life Péter Kiss. With the structure of his concerts, he regularly tries to call the attention of the audience to the connection between contemporary music and the music of earlier times.
Mr Kiss has been, and still is, in touch with a number of significant composers of our times: he presented the Dances of the Brush-footed Butterfly by Péter Eötvös in 8 countries and he played the world premiere of Oh Rose. He has worked with Steve Reich, Michael van der Aa, Marta Ptaszyńska and Ivan Fedele. As a member of the Ludium Ensemble, Péter Kiss has been working intensively with the music of György Kurtág ever since he was a student at the Liszt Academy. Kurtág has supported the efforts of the ensemble, led by Gábor Csalog and András Kemenes, with his personal presence and instructions. With Péter Háry and Dániel Szendrey, Péter Kiss is a founding member of Trio Inception that features the unusual line-up of French horn, cello, and piano. Contemporary composers have written dozens of pieces for them, at their request, and they also plan to announce a composing competition to support the creation of new pieces.
Creative processes are highly important for the pianist: he has composed his own cadenzas for several piano concertos, including Mozart’s Concerto in D minor and Beethoven’s Concerto in B flat major. He is not satisfied with simply learning the notes and phrases: no matter what style or age it comes from, he examines passionately the building blocks of the music.
Apart from the 40-50 concerts he plays each year, Péter Kiss is also active as a professor of the Faculty of Chamber Music in the Liszt Academy. Péter Kiss won third place in the Piano Competition of the Hungarian Radio and came first in the Barletta International Piano Competition. He has been awarded the Annie Fischer Scholarship three times. In 2011, he was granted the Artisjus Award for his work for Hungarian contemporary music and in 2015 he received the Junior Prima Award for his achievements as a performing artist.
Mon-Puo Lee (Cello)
After winning top prizes in the Isang Yun and Enescu international cello competitions, Spanish-Taiwanese cellist Mon-Puo has establishe himself as a musician with a rare combination of creativity and virtuosity.
As soloist, Mon-Puo performed with worldwide renowned orchestras including the Berliner Symphoniker, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Enescu Festival Orchestra, the Nüremberg Symphoniker, the Chamber Orchestra of Andrés Segovia, the Tonyeong Festival Orchestra,the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Taiwan and the JenaerSymphoniker under the guidance of Michael Sanderling, AlexandreBloch, David Geringas, or Alvaro Albiach.
Mon-Puo is prizewinner at international competitions such as Isang Yun Competition (South Korea), Enescu Competition (Bucharest) , Brahms Competition (Austria), Davydov Competition (Latvia), Khachaturian Competition (Yerevan) and Schoenfeld Competition (Harbin).Recognized for his talent and contributions to classical music in Spain and Taiwan, he was awarded the title of “Extraordinary Musician” in Madrid and “Ambassador of Culture” in Taiwan.
Equally at home on the international stage as a soloist, as playing chamber music, he was a member of the Kelemen quartet for three years and his chamber music partners include artists such as Robert Levin, Clara Jumi-Kang, Vilde Frang and Alexander Gadjiev. Born in Madrid to a Taiwanese family of artists, Mon-Puo studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya in Madrid and Prof. Jens-Peter Maintz in Germany . Always interested in continuously developing and learning, he is completing a postgraduate degree with violinist Rainer Schmidtand pianist Claudio Martinez Mehner in Basel. He as well studied improvisation with Noam Shivam.
Tsisana Kikabidze (Conservatorio Katarina Gurska musician: piano)
Tsisana Kikabidze is a multi-prize winner young pianist. She has distinguished herself as a third prize winner of the 8th Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz in 2024, the second prize at the 2021 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Spain and third prize at the 2019 Jeno Takacs Piano Competition in Austria, earning her exceptional praise from Agenda News.
Among Tsisana's most notable performances is Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, conducted by Maestro Borja Quintas, at the prestigious Miguel Delibes Center in Valladolid in September 2024. She regularly performs at various piano festivals as a soloist and with her chamber trio. In 2023, the Georgian pianist received a scholarship from the Katarina Gurska Foundation, which supported her participation in numerous prestigious festivals and concerts throughout Spain. Born in 2001 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tsisana currently lives in Madrid, Spain, where she is completing her master's degree at the Katarina Gurska Higher Center with Professor Istvan Szekely. Previously, she studied at the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatory under the guidance of Aleksandre Garber, who played a pivotal role in shaping her artistic identity, instilling in her both the discipline of a pianist and a profound worldview.
Deschanel Gordon (jazz piano)
Deschanel Gordon was born in Hackney and attended youth programmes such as the Hackney Creative Jazz Ensemble and the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. Growing up he was surrounded by a wide range of music from gospel to reggae, and was inspired aged ten by a video of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson. This sparked his love of jazz and he switched from classical to jazz piano training.
Although he has only just graduated from Trinity Laban, pianist Deschanel Gordon is already making waves on the UK jazz scene winning BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020. One of the brightest prospects of his generation he has worked with the likes of Mark Kavuma, Cassie Kinoshi’s SEED Ensemble and US-born singer Judi Jackson. He has performed at many of London’s best-known jazz venues, including the 606 Club, Ronnie Scott's, Jazz Café, Barbican and Cadogan Hall. He has also travelled widely, playing at jazz festivals in Europe and the USA, including Moods in Zurich, New York’s Winter Jazz Festival, Jazz TM in Romania and Fasching in Sweden.
Emma smiraglia (Trinity Laban Conservatoire dancer)
"Emma Smiraglia is a 21-year-old contemporary dancer from Italy, currently based in London where she is studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. With a strong foundation in ballet, contemporary, and modern dance, Emma also explores improvisation and choreography as essential parts of her artistic practice. Her work blends technical precision with expressive movement, reflecting a deep passion for physical storytelling and creative exploration."
Simone Alessandro Tavoni (piano)
The Italian pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni has given recitals internationally, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Hungary, France, Spain, Malta, Estonia, Greece and across Italy. He has been awarded a place on the BBC Pathway scheme during the 2015/2016 academic year and through this, he has had the opportunity to rehearse and perform as an orchestral pianist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and some of these performances have been played by BBC Radio 3.
In 2019 Simone has been selected as a Parklane Group Artist, as Keyboard Charitable Trust Artist and received the Luciano and Giancarla Berti full-ride scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School studying with renowned Professor Fabio Bidini.
He has featured as a soloist with the East London symphony orchestra, the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Ashod Symphony Orchestra, the Alion Baltic symphony orchestra and the Luigi Cherubini Symphony Orchestra. Performance venues have included the Liszt House (Budapest, Hungary), Salon Christophori (Berlin, Germany), the Florence Conservatory Concert Hall (Florence, Italy), the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, St.Mary's Perivale, 1901 Art Club, the Brunel University, St Martin in the Fields, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Regent Hall, St. James’ Piccadilly (London. U.K.) The Winchester Cathedral (U.K.), Petit Palau in Barcelona ( Spain),The Talliin Philarmonia and Glehn Castle (Talliin, Estonia) the Hausmusik of Aarhus and the Italian institute of culture in Copenhagen (Denmark). He is also a regular guest artist at the En Blanc Et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse, (France) and of the Aegean international art festival in Heraklion ( Crete). During a recent recital in Spain his recording has been broadcasted by the Canal du sur ( Almeria, Spain).
After graduating from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire in La Spezia, Liguria (Italy) when he was 18, where he studied the piano under Marco Podestà, he then moved to Florence to study at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatoire, continuing piano studies with Giuseppe Fricelli, and studying composition with Rosario Mirigliano.
Winner also of numerous national competitions in Italy, he had also the opportunity to participate in an exchange programme in Budapest on a full scholarship at the Franz Liszt Academy studying with Professors Kesckes Balazs and Rita Wagner.
In 2014, he moved to London to study on the Master of Performance programme at the Royal College of Music with Professor Andrew Ball. After winning a second exchange bursary in Autumn 2015, he pursued his studies for one term at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany with Dr. Peter Nagy. He has received also masterclasses by Dmitri Bashkirov, Fabio Bidini, Aldo Ciccolini, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonio Pompa Baldi and Malcolm Bilson.
Simone has been generously supported by the Talent Unlimited organization and by the Henry Wood Trust at Royal college of Music. During the 2018/2019 academic year he obtained an Advanced Diploma course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with professors Deniz Gelenbe and Peter Tuite majorly supported by a scholarship and selected as a Alfred Kitchin and Trinity College London Scholar.
Simone is supported by the Talent Unlimited organization; he is a trustee of the prestigious and long established Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and Founder and Artist Director of Paisajes Piano Festival, Sierra de Gata in Spain https://paisajespianofestival.com.
He is currently performing, closely assisted and supported by Prince Dr. Donatus Von Hohenzollern.
Carolina Cury (piano)
Carolina Cury (1997 - Venice IT) is a pianist, singer, composer and performance artist. She graduated from the Venice Conservatoire and achieved a Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees at Trinity Laban, securing the 2021 Gold Medal award, Director’s prize of excellence and John Halford piano and composition prize among others.
Carolina has performed in international music halls, such as Teatro La Fenice (Sale Apollinee), Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), Megaron Theatre (Mitropoulos Hall), St James Piccadilly and Southwark Cathedral.
She co-founded the electronic music duo Hypereyess with Konstantinos Damianakis and currently collaborates with choreographers Franziska Boehm and Iris Athanassiadi.
Helen Ottoway (composer)
Helen Ottaway is a composer, pianist, installation artist and curator. While a student at Goldsmiths’, University of London in the 1980s, she studied briefly with John Cage and up to 1998 worked as a performer, musician and composer with experimental music and theatre groups, touring nationally and internationally. In 1999, with arts administrator Steve Ehrlicher, she formed Artmusic to promote and produce collaborative,site-specific and participatory work. As lead artist she has had extensive experience of working with artists from different disciplines and curating and producing her own and other artists work. As a composer she has received commissions from BBC2, Salisbury Festival, Bath Film Festival, the Bernardi Music Group and others. Landscape, water and nature provide inspiration and and are recurring themes in a style that is predominantly minimalist with influences from folksong and English pastoral and church music traditions.
Hear HERE the perfomance of Paisajes Imaginados piano solo piece performed by Carolina Cury at the second edition of Paisajes Piano Festival 2023
Peter Szucs (clarinet)
Clarinetist Péter Szűcs received his artistic diploma with honors from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 2008. He is a regular participant and guest of international courses and festivals, such as the Lucerne Festival, Klangspuren Festival, Ostrava Days, Bartók Seminar and Festival. He has worked with such renowned artists as: Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Alain Gilbert, Péter Eötvös, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Heinz Holliger, Barbara Hannigan. In addition to classical and romantic works, he also places significant emphasis on the interpretation of contemporary music. He has premiered numerous pieces, given Hungarian premieres and made radio recordings. As a soloist or chamber musician, he often performs at Café Budapest, the Korunk Zenéje Festival and the Hungarian Radio concert series. He has won the Fischer Annie Performing Arts Scholarship twice, in connection with which he has performed in several other countries, in addition to concerts in Hungary, with one of his regular chamber partners Péter Kiss. They have given concerts in Rome, Paris, London, New Delhi, Bombay, Tallinn, Helsinki, Warsaw, among others. He has a regular working relationship with the UMZE chamber ensemble, and was also selected as a member of the Lucerne Festival Young Performance Ensemble for the 2015-16 season. His openness to different musical styles, primarily jazz, is well reflected in the fact that he was a founding member of the Oláh Dezső Septett - their first album was released under the title Hungarian Dreams on Hunnia/EMI - and has also worked with multiple Grammy award-winning Maria Schneider. In 2017, he studied bass clarinet at the Paris Conservatoire under the guidance of Alin Billard, and since 2014, he has been a student at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music.
EVA ZAVARO ( violin)
This sums up Eva Zavaro’s mission, which she aims to fulfil whenever she gets onto the most prominent concert podia in the world, from France through the USA all the way to China and Japan. Eva Zavaro was born in Paris in 1995 in a musical family and started playing the violin age five. When she was twelve she won the Vatelot-Rampal Competition in Paris and two years later she had a debut with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. These days she ranks among the most prominent French violinists of her generation.
Eva Zavaro studied with Roland Daugareil at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich.
In 2016 Eva Zavaro received the Georges Enescu Prize from the French Composers Association (SACEM) and in 2018 she was the first prize winner of the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, where she also gained the Vadim Repin Prize for the best Mozart interpretation. In 2021 she was nominated for the french award "Les Victoires de la Musique classique" in the "Revelation" category which broadcasted her performances on a large televion scale.
She has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras around the globe including Orchestre de Paris in 2021 for her Paris Philharmonie debut performing Saint-Saëns, Potsdamer Kammerorchester for her Berliner Philharmonie debut performing Bach and Mozart, Prague Philharmonia, Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, Brandenburger Symfoniker to name a few.
Alongside her career as a soloist, she devotes herself intensively to chamber music and among her partners are excellent players, such as Julia Fischer, Lucas Debargue, Alexandre Kantorow, Marie-Ange Nguci, Jérôme Ducros, Jérôme Pernoo and many others. She is a member of the Trio Hélios since 2023.
She performed at festivals such as Sommets Musicaux in Swiss Gstaad, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern Festpiele in Germany, at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, « Rencontres Musicales d’Évian » Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival and at Valery Gergiev’s « White Nights » Festival at the Mariinsky Theater Saint-Petersburg.
Eva Zavaro plays an italian violin named "Le Bel Inconnu" made by Nicolo Amati and Antonio Stradivari which is generously loaned to her.
Lilla Verriez ( F.Liszt Academy musician: piano and violin)
First year student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest.
Born: March 25, 2006 in Budapest
She started playing piano and violin at the age of 6 in music school, then continued at the Bartók Béla Conservatory.
She has won prizes in national and international competitions.
Most recently, she won 1st place at the National Violin Competition in December 2022, and also 1st place at the National Piano Competition in March 2024.
She has performed in the following concert halls: - Budapest Music Center, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, Bartók Béla Memorial House, Marble Hall of Hungarian Radio, M5 Hungarian Television.
She has participated in courses by Gábor Echardt, Erika Becht, Gyula Stuller, Katalin Sebestyén
Jose Navarro-Silberstein (piano)
José Navarro-Silberstein is a Bolivian pianist whose artistry has captivated audiences across more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He has performed in renowned venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Flagey in Brussels, ACT City in Hamamatsu, Merkin Hall in New York, and TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander among many others.
Navarro-Silberstein has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, and La Paz Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductors including Timothy Redmond, Markus L. Frank, Wojciech Rajski, and Andreas Penninger. His deep musical curiosity extends beyond modern pianos to period instruments, an interest nurtured during his studies with the legendary Paul Badura-Skoda, as one of his last pupils.
His debut album, Vibrant Rhythms, released by GENUIN Classics, has garnered international acclaim, receiving praise from BBC Music Magazine, Pizzicato, PianoNews, Interlude, and many others. The album was awarded the Supersonic Award by Pizzicato and nominated for the ICMA 2024.
Navarro-Silberstein has distinguished himself in major competitions, winning prizes at the Anton Rubinstein Piano Competition in Düsseldorf, the Tbilisi International Piano Competition, the International Competition Young Academy Award in Rome, and the Claudio Arrau International Piano Competition in Chile, among others. He was a finalist at the Eppan Piano Academy and the prestigious 63rd Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, as well as the edition of the present year.
Beyond his solo career, he is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Masurka Concerts, a forward-thinking concert platform based in Cologne, Germany, which reimagines the concert experience by fostering a closer connection between young performers and audiences through creative ensemble collaborations. As a passionate chamber musician, he has worked with leading performers of his generation, as well as with Augustin Dumay, Eberhard Marshall, Frank Braley, under many others. With his Trio Silberstein, he won a special prize at the Martha Debelli Chamber Music Competition in Graz.
As an educator, he has given masterclasses and workshops at the Pre-College Department of the Manhattan School of Music, Third Street Music Settlement in New York, Rutgers University, the Eppan Piano Academy, La Paz and Sucre Conservatories and the Santa Cruz Fine Arts College. He has also served as a jury member for national music competitions in Bolivia.
He studied with Balasz Szokolay at the Franz Liszt University in Weimar and with Claudio Martínez Mehner at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne. In 2017-18 he had an Erasmus Year at the University of Arts in Graz and the Music Academy in Zagreb with Milana Chernyavska and Ruben Dalibaltayan. He just concluded his Artist Diploma programme at the Royal College of Music in London under the guidance of Norma Fisher and Ian Jones. Since September 2023 he is an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.
A recipient of numerous scholarships, he is supported by Talent Unlimited in London, the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation, the Theo and Petra Lieven Foundation and the Musikakademie in Liechtenstein.
Beyond his life as a pianist, he has a deep passion for literature, visual arts and electronic music, which continue to shape his artistic sensibilities and inspire his approach to performance and interpretation.
ASHLEY HRIBAR
Hailed as “a brilliant pianist and exceptional artist” (Heilbronner Stimme), Australian born pianist-composer Ashley Hribar has developed a reputation as a versatile musician embracing multimedia, world music, cross-disciplinary art forms and a broad range of traditional genres. With a deep interest in contemporary aesthetics, he is the curator of many projects including: Sound and Colour in Scriabin’s Piano Sonatas – a multi-media performance with projections of Australian opals (2017 European Tour); Intangible Landscapes – the fusion of piano, analog drum machine and didgeridoo; Magic Hands – Two hands Two pianos (in 2019 for his 4th China tour); Anatolia – arrangements of Turkish folk songs with soprano Ayse Göknur Shanal and Cyclone – a techno-piano concert by DJ Stephen Gibbs. Ashley performed the challenging piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus, by Olivier Messiaen’s in Holland and Germany, which streamed live for OpenWebcast.nl.
Ashley’s compositions are poly-stylistic collages often employing extended performance techniques, voice and electronics. Notable works include Wodunga (2019) for piano, didgeridoo and Moog DFAM in collaboration William Barton, A Night in the Outback (2018) for solo piano and didgeridoo as well as Paganini Variations (2012) and ‘ash’ Fantasie (2011) for solo piano. His Cadenza for George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (2010) has been performed by several pianists worldwide. Ashley composed and performed the music for Betty rettet die Volksbühne in collaboration with actress Bettina Lamprecht (2017, Volksbühne Berlin). An avid lover of the silent film genre, Ashley frequently performs his own scores to silent classics such as Sherlock Jnr. (1924), Hamlet (1921), Richard III (1911), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Faust (1926) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927). He received commissions for film scores by Silents Now (Richard III and Hamlet), Tallis Foundation (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Silent Remasters (Faust).
In 2005 Ashley won the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition and the 2008 Michael Kieran Harvey Award. He has since performed in countless festivals such as the Gaudeamus Week, Ultima Festival, Beethovenfest, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Mersin International Music Festival, Koper Biennale, En Blanc Et Noir Festival and in distinguished venues as the Sydney Opera House, Adrienne Arsht Center (Miami), Bunka Kaikan Theater (Tokyo) and the Melbourne Recital Centre. Ashley has performed as a soloist with the Radiophilharmonie Amsterdam and the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra.
Ashley has several recordings to his credit including Piano Rhapsody(Auster Records, 2012), Echohaus (Dekorder), Alpenglühen (Col Legno) and The Wizard Tone Records Improvisation Series I (nominated for the 2017 South Australian Arts Awards). His two latest albums have been released in 2019: Faust: A Mortal's Tale with solo works ranging from Georgy Catoire, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt to Led Zeppelin and Sleeping Orchards, a selection of neo-classical compositions with cellist Richard Vaudrey under the moniker “Two Deep Breaths”. Both albums were recorded on the world’s first 9-octave grand, an Australian-made Stuart & Sons piano.
Ashley is indebted to the invaluable guidance of his teachers Ann Adamek, Stefan Ammer, Gil Sullivan, Stephen McIntyre, Eleonora Sivan, Graham Williams and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. In 2018, he completed his performance PhD at the University of Adelaide researching the music of American composer, Frederic Rzewski.
Last updated on 6. November, 2019