Augustin Dumay in recital & Violin Master Class

A live recording of his performances at the competition was released on the Honens label in March 2013, BBC Music Magazine hailed its "tremendous clarity, unfailing musicality and considerable beauty". Since then, he has recorded a first studio album on the Hypérion label; this record, released in June 2014, is entirely devoted to Tchaikovsky. Warmly received by the critics, the Sunday Times stressed "the affection and élan" of the young artist's playing.

Winning the Honens Prize has enabled Pavel Kolesnikov to give recitals and play at major festivals, at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Louvre in Paris, the Vancouver Recital Society, La Jolla Music Society, the Spoleto Festival in the United States, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Summer Arts Festival in Canada, and at the Plush Festival in the UK. Invitations soon arrived to play with orchestras, including the National Philharmonic of Russia, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Pavel Kolesnikov, who now lives in London, was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. He studied the piano and violin for ten years, before devoting his energies exclusively to the piano. He studied at the Moscow State Conservatory under Sergeï Dorensky, at the Royal College of Music in London under Norma Fisher, and at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels under Maria João Pires, thanks to the support of Christopher D. Budden, the RCM Scholarship Foundation and the Hattori Foundation.

In October 2014, Kolesnikov was named one of the "New Generation Artists" by BBC Radio 3 for 2014 to 2016, This programme comprises tours and recordings, as well as broadcasts of concerts with the BBC orchestras.

Moving to Moscow, he entered the Central School of Music under the patronage of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where for six years he studied in classes held by Galina Turchaninova. Aged eleven, he played with the Moscow State Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chernivtsi City, in the Ukraine, as well as appearing with two recitalists. He then began playing with many Russian regional orchestras. Awarded First Prize at the Moscow International Violin Competition in 2005 and at the Russian string competition, in Kazan, in 2008, he also received Third Prize at the International Vaclav Huml Violin Competition, Croatia, in 2013.

Studying for six years in the class of Professor Irina Bochkoba at the Central School of Music and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he subsequently joined the Antwerp Royal Conservatory in 2012. He has been offered a grant for the academic year 2014-15 by Mrs and Mr Leopold Van Hool.

He now studies at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Belgium, under Augustin Dumay.

Since her début with the Liepajas Amber Sound Symphony Orchestra in Latvia at the age of twelve, Elina has played with numerous other orchestras, including the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Liège Royal Philharmonic, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and Musica Viva in Moscow. In 2013, Elina won the prestigious Début of the Year award, the highest prize given by the Latvian state in the field of music.

The highlights of this 2014/2015 season will be her débuts with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev, and the Kansai Symphony Orchestra in Japan, with Augustin Dumay. She has a scholarship from Mr and Mrs Michael Guttman. Elina plays a Domenico Montagnana 1723 violin, on loan to her from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

Since September 2011, she has been studying at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, under the direction of Augustin Dumay.

She took her end-of-year exam in June 2012, achieving a grade of 100/100. She then joined the Ensemble des Jeunes Solistes de Belgique, conducted by Ulysse Waterlot and Igor Tkatchouk, in September 2012. In March 2013, she took part in the Bravo! international competition, winning the top prize awarded by the A. Grumiaux Foundation.

In May 2013 Alexandra won the Bärenreiter Award and became Absolute Laureate of the Kocian Violin Competition in the Czech Republic, the first Belgian to do so in the 55 years of the competition. In May 2014, she played in the Czech Republic with the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice, at the Kocian’s Usti Music Festival.

For the academic year 2014-15 she is the recipient of a scholarship from Mr and Mrs Ludo Van Thillo.

Since September 2013, Alexandra has been training at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under the direction of Augustin Dumay and Tatiana Samouil.

Scholarship offered by Mr and Mrs Ludo Van Thillo.

In 2013, he won the National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition, as well as first prize at the 2013 OSM Standard Life Competition.  Kerson was named Revelation Radio-Canada 2014-2015 for classical music.

He has appeared as a soloist around the world with such ensembles as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, I Solisti Veneti, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.  Highlights of his young career include a special Christmas performance of Mozart's concerto No. 4 at the Quirinale Palace in Rome for the Italian President, a special appearance at the prestigious Kavli Prize Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, his solo début with an orchestra at the NCPA Concert Hall in Beijing, China, and his performance of the Brahms Double Concerto with his cellist brother Stanley, and orchestra, in Los Angeles.  A very active chamber musician, he has also performed at many international music festivals, including the Bergen Music Festival in Norway, the Menuhin Gstaad Festival in Switzerland, the Trasimeno and Assisi festivals in Italy, and the Rheingau Musik, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Fraenkische Musiktage festivals in Germany. Last year, as a laureate of Concertino Praga, he represented Radio Canada on a performance tour at the South Bohemian Festival in the Czech Republic. He has been featured on CBC Television, CBC/Radio Canada, BBC Radio 3, American Public Media’s SymphonyCast, NRK, RAI, Deutschlandradio Kultur, and Czech Radio. In the 2014/2015 season, he will be making his début at Wigmore Hall in London and at the Louvre Auditorium concert series in Paris.

He plays the Stradivarius ‘ex Auer’ 1691, with a François Peccatte bow and a modern François Malo bow kindly lent by Canimex Inc., a company from Drummondville, Quebec.

She has since performed in a number of festivals and solo recitals such as the Shipley Festival and the Thaxted Festival in the UK. In 2012, Jane took up a place at the University of Music Performing Arts in Graz under Professor Boris Kuschnir.

In Korea, Jane has performed numerous repertoires such as the Bruch concerto, Mendelssohn concerto, Carmen Fantasy and Vivaldi's Four Seasons with orchestras, and recently played in concerts with the Salzburger Orchester Solisten. She was also chosen as one of the most promising musicians by the Kumho Asiana group in Korea in 2011.