Violin

Joshua Bell

Music Director, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields

"Mr. Bell doesn’t stand in anyone’s shadow "The New York Times

Nicola Benedetti

"Sensational speed, clarity, articulation, depth, humanity and unerring sense of idiom and style... I realised, from close observation ... her massive drawing power. Every generation sat in..."Michael Tumelty, Herald Scotland

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky

"Nikita Boriso-Glebsky distinguishes himself with the depth of musical thinking, impeccable technique and a rare combination of elegance, naturalness and uncompromising severity of performance."La Libre Belgique

Boris Brovtsyn

Sarah Chang

"Chang is a complete package as a player -- technically assured, colorfully expansive, subtly probing, boldly commanding."Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk, Grand Rapids Press

Julia Fischer

Michael Guttman

Hilary Hahn

"She deserved the ovation. Her performance began inauspiciously, with an authority that felt cool, even chilly. But as Bach’s lines wove together, her playing gradually..."New York Times

Chad Hoopes

"This young man has a sense of musical drama far beyond his years."Arts Sarasota

Anatol Karaev

Henning Kraggerud

Artistic Director, Tromsø Chamber Orchestra;
Co-Artistic Director, Risør Festival

"Henning Kraggerud...must be counted among the world's most interesting and accomplished stars"Cincinnati Enquirer

Simone Lamsma

"She’s not only a technical wizard, but plays with the kind of artistry and maturity that makes one wonder if she started playing before she..."Cincinnati.com, Janelle Gelfand

Rachel Lee

"Lee combines the passion and impetuosity of youth with a depth and maturity of a musician two or three times her age."The Gazette

Fumiaki Miura

"The Japanese violinist Fumiaki Miura (1993) and the Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan (1989) brought moving moments of magic to the audience in Heilbronn (...). Who would have thought that..."Heilbronner Stimme

Itzhak Perlman

Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Music Director, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra

"Dmitry Sitkovetsky played the work for all it is worth, which is a great deal, despite its relative rarity in the concert repertoire. Intensity and precision..."www.seenandheard-international.com

Arabella Steinbacher

Anna Tifu

Nikolaj Znaider

Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra

"This Mahler Five was spine-shudderingly good...there was also much sumptuous, idiomatically Viennese string playing to admire — and especially the silky deftness, free of cloying over-sentimentality,..."Richard Morrison, The Times