#FLVfromhome : Masterclasse Promotion VI

She has appeared as a soloist with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer, the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, and the Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra. She made her debut at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in June 2019 and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 2018. The same summer, she appeared at the Mendelssohn Festival with Hamburger Symphoniker. In April 2017, Ildikó made her recital debut at the Berlin Konzerthaus, invited by her mentor Sir Alfred Brendel. Previous festival invitations have included the Verbier Festival, Piatigorsky Festival Los Angeles, Krzyzowa Music, Holland Music Sessions.

Her interest in working with living composers has led her to collaborate with Peter Eötvös and Gyorgy Kurtag. In January 2019 she was awarded the Special Prize for Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work at the Mendelssohn Competition and premiered Christian Jest's Lautlos II at the Konzerthaus Berlin. In April 2019 with Concerto Budapest, she played the Budapest Premiere of the Rözsa Concerto nearly 50 years after it was composed.

Ildikó is a scholarship holder of the Study Foundation of the German Nation and currently plays an Antonio Sgarbi cello (Rome, 1894), generously loaned by the German Foundation of Musical Life. 

He is the winner of several awards, among which the second prize in the International Competition of German and Austrian Music "Magic" in 2015, the first prize of the 25th Young Musician International Competition "Citta di Barletta", the first prize in the "International Young Talents Competition" in 2017, the first prize in the Gaetano Zinetti Music Competition in Italy and the "Tremplin" International Cello Competition in France in 2018. He also performed with the pianist Eren Aydoğan at the "Rising Stars Concert Series" held by Is Sanat, and was awarded first prize and the "Meriç Soylu Special Award".

He made his first debut as a soloist at 15 under the baton of the Turkish conductor Gurer Aykal. Since then, he performed as a soloist with various orchestras such as Bakirkoy Chamber Orchestra, Ankara Youth Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey.

Umut also followed masterclasses and shared the stage with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Jorg Widmann, Steven lsserlis, Gary Hoffman, Claudio Bohorquez, among others. In 2018 he was invited by Maestro Daniel Barenboim to be a part of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Since 2017, Umut is a scholar of the "Young Musicians on World Stages"(YMWS) project mentored by Guher & Suher Pekinel, supported by the Tüpra$ Company. He currently studies with Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and plays on a Nicolas Lupot cello made in 1810 in Paris, generously provided by the YMWS Project. 

Born into a family of musicians, Daniel began playing the cello at the age of five. He made his debut as a soloist at the age of eleven, performing Saint-Saens A-minor Cello Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has performed regularly as a soloist with orchestras around Sweden including the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The season 18/19 included performances playing Rococo-variations, Schumann Cello Concerto and Saint-Saens Cello Concerto, as well as chamber music in festivals in Germany and Scandinavia.

Daniel is currently studying his soloist diploma at the Norwegian Academy of Music with prof. Torleif Thedeen and is often attending masterclasses around the world with a number of renowned teachers including Jens-Peter Mainz, Danjulo lshizaka, Maria Kliegel, Claudio Bohorquez and Antonio Meneses. He is a recipient of numerous scholarships from foundations such as SWEA International Scholarship for the arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Daniel is playing a L. Bisiach generously on loan from the Jarnaker Foundation. 

He also won the 2nd prize at the Young Virtuosos International Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria, the 1st prize at Klaipeda International Competition, Lithuania, the 1st prize at the ProArt Competition in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, the 4th prize at the Johannes Brahms competition. He participated at masterclasses held by Marin Cazacu, Octavian Lup, Mihai Marica, Denis Severin, Frans Helmerson, Judith Ermert, Jacob Shaw, Romain Garioud, Raphael Pidoux, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.

In 2018, Jan was selected as an active participant at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, studying with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.

Gaeun has also performed with many orchestras, among which Jagred Soloists, Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bucheon Philharmonic Orchertra.

She also is the winner of several competitions, including the 2012 Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition, the 2013 Liezen International Cello Competition, and the 2015 David Popper International Cello Competition.

More recently, Gaeun took part in this year's XVI Tchaikovsky International Competition, where she was the youngest participant in the history of the event.

Jeein was selected as a laureate for Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle at the Louis Vuitton Foundation during seasons 2019-2022, and in the 2022-23 season will also partake in the recently launched Fondation Gautier Capuçon.

This season, Jeein will perform in recital at the Seoul Arts Center in IBK Hall, as well as on tour throughout Europe (including Konzerthaus Vienna, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, Salle Métropole Lausanne and Victoria Hall Geneva) with Gautier Capuçon and ensemble Capucelli. In 2021 the ensemble of seven cellists recorded works to be released on Gautier’s upcoming album ‘Sensations’. Later this season Jeein will also perform at Classeek’s concert hall in Switzerland, as part of their Ambassador Programme concert season for emerging young artists.

As well as gaining recognition on the concert stage throughout Europe, Jeein is also expanding her profile in Korea. Following her recital performance at the PyeongChang Music Festival in December 2021, Jeein was reinvited to perform at the closing concert of the festival in July 2022, this time with a chamber septet alongside artists such as Svetlin Roussev, Arah Shin, Alexandre Baty and Ralph Szigeti.

Championing many acclaimed competitions, Jeein has won several first and special prizes including the 5th International Dotzauer competition for Young Cellists in Dresden, Germany (First prize and special prize), 23rd International Cello Competition in Heran, Czech Republic (First prize and grand prize), 11th OSAKA International Music Competition (First prize) and 7th International Music Competition for Young People in Oldenburg, Germany (Second prize). Furthermore, she won both the first prize and special prize for the best performance of a masterly piece at the 10th International Competition for Young Musicians in Tallinn, Estonia, which was followed by a winners performance of Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C with the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a soloist, Jeein has performed concerti with the Philharmonia Korea Orchestra, Guro Arts Valley Orchestra, Gunpo Philharmonic Orchestra, Wonju Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra, Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. In recital, she has performed in many established concert series and venues including the 28th Kumho Prodigy Recital, Blue House (official residence of the President of the Republic of Korea) for the King and Queen of Malaysia, ISANGYUN Competition Young Cellists Invitation Concert, International Art Festival Invitation Chamber Music in Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Great Mountains Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival, Mozarthall Open Piano Forum Season, and Maison Heinrich Heine (Paris).