Worldwide pianist and composer, Vasily Lobanov was born in Moscow. He studied piano with legendary Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Naumov and composition with Sergej Balassanjan and Alfred Schnittke.

Alfred Schnittke, one of the most significant composers of the 20th century, said of Lobanov, "There are talented composers and there are talented pianists, but seldom do those two talents converge in such brilliant proportion as they do in Vassily Lobanov …"

Lobanov initially began making concert appearances abroad in 1978, performing in the music metropolises of Europe, in the US, in Japan and South America with such conductors as Gennady Rozhdestwensky, Heinrich Schiff, Juri Bashmet, Christoph Poppen, Kurt Lewin, Alexander Lasarev...

He performed in a piano duo with Svjatoslav Richter, a piano trio with Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman and still, today remains a member of a piano quartet alongside Victor Tretiakov, Juri Bashmet, and Natalia Gutman. He concertized with many other renowned artists, such as Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Elmira Darvarova, Marc Kaplan, Eduard Brunner, Kolja Blacher, Charles Neidich, Kim Kashkashian...

1997-2012 he was the Professor for piano at Musikhochschule Cologne and currently he is the Professor in Zurich at the Kalaidos University and at the Schloss Akademie Germany.

Paolo Baglieri has brilliantly obtained the diploma of piano at the Conservatory "V. Bellini" of Catania. He continued his studies at the "Codarts - University of Arts" in Rotterdam and at the "Schola Cantorum" in Paris, concluding his studies with top marks. He obtained a second level degree in musical disciplines at the Conservatory "E. F. Dall'Abaco" of Verona with full marks and honors. He attended
masterclasses with Pavel Gililov, Franco Scala, Benedetto Lupo, Boris Petrushansky and Sergio Perticaroli.

In 2014 Paolo Baglieri is appointed director of the International Musical University Talent Music Master Courses in Brescia, of which he currently holds the position of President.

Since the year 2017, he has been Artistic Director and President of the Judging Committee of the Brescia Classica International Piano Competition, an international piano competition now in its fourth edition.

Paolo Baglieri is considered one of the most prominent artistic personalities of his generation. Acclaimed as "a pianist who perfectly combines his personal vision with the composer's intention", he is the winner of numerous national and international piano competitions.

He has performed in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Austria, Germany, Israel, Chile in over 500 solo, chamber and orchestral concerts, in the most important concert halls such as the National Theatre of Jerusalem, the Centrum Beeldende in Amsterdam, Castel d'Ursel in Antwerp, Palazzo Biscari in Catania, Sala Manzoni in Pistoia, Circolo Ufficiali in Bologna, and many other cities such as Taormina, Lucca, Rome, Turin, Verona, Galeazza Castle, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Brussels, Haifa, Madrid, Santiago de Chile.

Formerly a professor at the Conservatories of Music in Pavia and Siena, he was Principal Professor of piano, chamber music and piano literature at the Jerusalem State Conservatory in Israel. He has given masterclasses at the Yerevan Conservatory (Armenia) and is regularly invited to serve on the juries of some of the most important international piano competitions, such as Paderewski International Piano Competition, Enschede, Campillos, Mayenne, Brussels, Brasov, Madrid, Yerevan, Clavicologne, Malta International Piano Competition, German Piano Open Competition in Berlin, Eurasian Music Games in Astana (Kazakhstan), International Music Competition Moscow Piano Open in Moscow, Transylvanian International Piano Competition in Brasov (Romania), Lyon International Piano Competition in Lyon (France), MozARTe International Piano Competition in Cologne (Germany), "Santa Cecilia" Piano International Competition of Porto, Olga Kern International Piano Competition.

Dr. Anna Prabucka-Firlej, Piano (Poland) - Professor, Head of Chamber Music Department, Academy of Music "Stanislaw Moniuszko", Gdansk. A chamber ensembles of her class won more than 200 rewards and distincions on international and national competitions.

Board Member, European Chamber Music Teachers' Association. Director, Johannes Brahms International Chamber Music Competition, Gdansk.

Director, International Piano Duo Festival, Gdansk.Founder and Member of the Gdansk Piano Trio. She gives master classes in various countries as Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia, Finland, Moldova, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia, Chile, Peru and Tahiland.

She is a member of jury international and national competitions (Germany, Greece, Sweden, Lithuania, Byelorussia, Poland).

Ms. Derzhavina was born in Moscow. Her studies were first at the Specialized Gnessins Moscow Music school, then at the Gnessins Russian Music Academy, where she also finished the post-graduate course. Her Professors were Yuri Polunin, Valeria Polunina and Vladimir Tropp.

In 1992 Ekaterina won the First Prize at the "J.S.Bach" International Piano Competition in Germany. From 1993 she was teaching in the piano department of the Gnessins Russian Music Academy, then
since 2003 she has been a Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

Ekaterina has appeared in such concert halls as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Place des Arts in Montreal and many other renowned venues. She's given master-classes in Germany, Russia, the USA, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Her performances have been recorded on the radio of Moscow, Cologne (WDR), Saarbrücken (SR), Berlin (Deutschland Radio), and Montreal (Radio Canada).

In 1996 Arte Nova Classics released her disc with Goldberg-variations by Bach, which received the 1999 "Choc du Monde de la Musique" award in Paris. Ekaterina's 2CD-set with the piano works by Nikolai Medtner (Phoenix Edition) received the French Diapason d'or award in January 2009. In February 2013 the German label "Profil" released her 9CD-set of the complete Piano Sonatas by Josef Haydn. This edition was nominated for ICMA in 2014 and has received "Choc de Classica" in 2016. The set of Bach works (2 CDs) that includes all French Suites, the French Overture and some other pieces came out at "Profil" in September 2015 and has got a lot of enthusiastic reviews, as well as CD with rarely played piano works by Alexey Stanchinsky (released in
2017) and complete works for violin and piano by Nikolai Medtner with Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (released in 2018).