2020 COMPETITION WINNERS - WOODWINDS , AGE GROUP A (5-7)

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 I was born on September 20, 2009 in Jurmala, Latvia. I'm studies flute  at the National Art Secondary School “Emila Darzina Music school” in  Riga. My flute teacher is a prominent Latvian flutist Dita Krenberga.  I have participated in several competitions. Some of them: Muse 2019  International Music Competition – first prize; VII Stockholm  International Music Competition – first prize; 2019 “ Viena” Grand Prize  Virtuoso – first prize; Golden Classical Music Awards, New York 2019 –  first prize; Glory Int’l Strings, Winds & Percussion Competition  2020 – first prize; V Odin International Music Competition 2020 – first  prize; Karlis Strals XXth International competition “Young Flutist” –  first prize. I have performed at the winners concerts: Glaserner Saal, Musikverein,  Viena; Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York e.t.c. 

 Ryan Wang is a 11-year old boy. He is a 6th grader at Ida Price Middle  School, San Jose CA. He started playing flute at the age of 7 under the  guidance of his mother Li-Ling Chen. He was the second place winner of  INSTRUMENTAL SOLO ELEMENTARY in the United States Open Music Competition  (USOMC) in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, he won second place of SHOWCASE  INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE-SONATAS INTERMEDIATE in USOMC, and second place of  INSTRUMENTAL SOLO JUNIOR GROUP A in USOMC.  Ryan loves flute and he  will continue on playing flute. 

 Lelde Pucite was born on December 14, 2007 in the city of Jurmala,  Latvia. She has been studying flute since the age of six at Emil`s  Darzins Music School, in Riga, Latvia. Since September 2018 Lelde`s  teacher is Dita Krenberga. Lelde Pucīte is the winner of 19 competitions  in Latvia and abroad. Lelde has participated in competitions and  festivals in Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Serbia and Italy. In addition  to the modern flute, Lelde learns the baroque traverse flute. 

 Madara born in 2009. From 01.09.2016. – till today she attends “Emils  Darzins Music School” wind instrument oboe specialty . From 09.2019 take  participating girls’ chamber choir ”Tonika”. Madara is communicative,  success-oriented and energetic.  She likes horse riding, swimming and  drawing. Madara is several international competitions laureate, such as  XX International Competition for Woodwind Instruments Jurmala 2019 , The  IV International competition of young performersvof wind musical  instruments „Naujene WIND 2020”,  MusiComicaMente Perusia Harmonica  Classic Music OnLine Competition.  

 Born in Porto, Portugal (2007), she started learning saxophone at the  age of 8. Today she study at Costa Cabral Music Academy in Porto, in the  class of Jorge Sousa. Masterclasses with: Henk van Twillert,, Vicent David, Kenneth Tse,  Nicolas Prost, Mario Marzi, Henrique Portovedo, Rob Buckland, Michel  Supéra, Fernando Ramos, etc... Competitons, in her category, she won: “Internacional Winds Competition  of Alto Minho” Portugal; “Parisian Saxophone Competition” France;  “International Competition Adolphe Sax L’Hay les Roses” France; “New  Talent British International Music Competition” UK; “Odin International  Music Competition” Estonia; “International Grand Music Competition”  Russia; and “Texas International Music Competition” USA. 

 Davit Hakobyan is a 11 year-old musician, who plays the saxophone with  great joy. His love for music started from early childhood. His Mom,  being a musician herself, helps him navigate through this journey. Being  the youngest in the class, he is working even harder to keep the bar.   Davit likes to switch genres. One day you might catch him playing jazz,  another day R&B and maybe even Armenian songs. Well, now that you  are somewhat familiar with his journey I hope you will follow his path  to success. 

 Kendall Fisher is currently a junior at Bentonville High School. She has  been playing flute for six years. Kendall has been in Bentonville's  highest ensemble and been featured in their marching shows for two  consecutive years. She is an established competitive player, having made  all-region band for five years, as well as been in the top Arkansas All  State band.  

 Morgan Murphy is a 10th grade student at Bentonville High School in  Bentonville, Arkansas, where she is a member of the Bentonville Pride  Marching Band and Wind Ensemble. She has been playing flute for 4 years.  Morgan is grateful for Mr. Greg Guiffria, Mrs. Sharon Burrall, Mr.  Dylan Gililland, Mr. Philip Shewmaker, Mr. Tim Hendrix, and Mrs.  Stephanie Richardson for their efforts in pushing her to improve as a  musician.  

 I am Jenna Kate Bohnert. I have been playing the flute since sixth grade  and participate in the marching band and symphonic band at my high  school. I have made All Region band four years in a row and I also  played in piano competitions when I was younger. I’ve always been drawn  to music and I enjoy everything about it.

 Veronica Li is currently an eleventh grader at Princeton Day School in  New Jersey. She is also a third-year student at Juilliard Pre-College  studying under Alan Kay with a clarinet concentration. She attended the  High School Orchestra Program in 2019 at Interlochen Arts Camp and the  Young Artists Summer Program in 2020 at Curtis Summerfest. Her other  musical experiences include playing in the New Jersey Youth Symphony’s  Philharmonia Orchestra (2016-2017) and in the middle school region band  in Central Jersey as second chair with the CJMEA Intermediate Wind  Ensemble in 2017. Veronica has consistently won first place numerous  international competitions. 

 Ryan (Yan Ching) Lai was born in 2006. He began his clarinet studies in Vancouver Academy of Music following  the clarinet teacher Christopher Lee in British Columbia, Canada when he  was 10 years old and has dedicated his life to music since then.  Winner of Classical and Romantic class for 12 years under in Vancouver  Kiwanis Music Festival 2018, 2019, Richmond Music Festival 2019.  First Place of “International Crescendo Competition”2020. Performed at Chilliwack Provincial Festival. January 2020, performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.  November 2020, rewarded Golden Standing in 20th and 21th Century  Composer of “KPU International Music Festival”. 

 Caroline Kao is 15 years old and attends tenth grade at The Urban School  in San Francisco, CA. She has been playing oboe for five years and also  plays bassoon, piano, and guitar. She studies oboe with James Moore at  the Pre-College Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In  2020, she won first place at the NY International Music Competition,  second place at the Silicon Valley Competition, and second place at the  KAMSA Music Competition, and attended the Young Artist Summer Program at  Curtis. She was selected as first chair in the California All-State  Honors Band in 2019.  

 Emanuel Sint ( 2004) was born in Madrid and grew up in Ireland. He started taking piano lessons with Elisaveta Blumina at the age of  four and began taking bassoon lessons with Prof. Mathias Baier in Berlin  at the age of nine.  In the 2013-2014 season Emanuel was a member of  the children's choir of the Berlin State Opera and performed  with the  children's choir of RTE (Irish Broadcasting) in Dublin.  Due to his  extraordinary musical talent, he was accepted into the Berlin music high  school "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" in 2018 and also became a junior  student at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in the bassoon  class of Prof. Rainer Luft.  Emanuel won first prizes at the national  competition "Jugend musiziert", and at the international competitions in  Dublin, Paris and Stockholm. Since 2020, his artistic training has been  supported by a scholarship from the International Music Academy Berlin  and the association "Musikförderung Berliner Entdeckungen". Most  recently, he won the Gran Prix  in the international Competition for  Wind and Percussion Instruments Performers “Northern Rhapsody” in Russia 

 Ashley Ko is a junior at Saratoga High School California. She has  participated in the California Youth Symphony since 2016 and competes as  a solo flautist to this day. She has been chosen to attend Northern  California Flute Camp for two consecutive years, where she performed in  masterclasses with professors of USC and Stanford University. Ashley is  currently playing in the California Youth Symphony Wind Symphony as  Principal Chair. She was a finalist for the United States International  Music Competition in 2017, a winner of the United States Open Music  Competition in 2020, winner of the American Fine Arts for the 2019-2020  season, and won first place in the 2020 American Protégé Music  Competition. Ashley is currently studying flute with Liling Chen. .

 Maciej Kasperek was born in 2003 in Warsaw. When he was 7 he started his musical education. Ever since he was very young he took part in numerus competitions playing on the flute solo and in chamber groups. Only in 2020 - 2 nd prize Switzerland – Iscart International Music Competition - 1 st prize in Serbia - International Competition – Constantine the Great - 1 st prize in 5 th Swiętokrzyski Festival For Blowing Instruments - 2 nd prize in 8 th Marian Katarzyński Flute Competition . In 2019 he took part in several competitions. He also played in Concertgebouworkest Young. 

 In 2017 and 2018 I was a finalist in the BBVA national competition of  music. In April 2018 I won the prize ACCat for the best interpretation  of a catalan piece. In the same month, I won the mention of honour in  the Chamber music competition Higini Anglès. In 2018, I was a member of  the Youth Orchestra of Vallès, Youth Orchestra of Diputació of Tarragona  and Youth Symphonic Band of Diputació of Tarragona. In 2019 I entered  the Young National Orchestra of Catalonia. In 2020 I won the  Ferrer-Salat scolarship and the extraordinary prize of the Conservatori  of Reus. 

 Hongbo Zhao, a 2020 undergraduate student of the School of Art, born in  December 2002, began to learn clarinet at the age of 8 under the  tutelage of Ma Ming, the former chief clarinet of the Hebei Symphony  Orchestra.  ) Professional, under the tutelage of Dr. Dong Lechen.  In  June 2019, he participated in the Hebei Province Clarinet International  Art Week and won the first prize for outstanding performance. At the  same time, he participated in the Jeffrey Olin master class and received  unanimous praise. In July 2019, he participated in the Lanzhou  International Clarinet Art Week and participated at the same time.  He  attended the Corrado Giuffredi master class and received unanimous  praise. In November 2019, He participated in the Ivan Bridgekov master  class and received unanimous praise.  Won the intermediate category,  clarinet second place of the 2020 Rocky Mountain Woodwind and brass   Competition. 

 Higher Diploma of the Economic Technical Institute "B. Tallini ”of  Castelforte. - Attending the third year of the triennium at the Ottorino Respighi  Conservatory of Latina in the clarinet class of M ^ Francesco Belli. - Clarinet Masterclass at the Ottorino Respighi Conservatory on  28/05/2019 with M ^ Paolo Beltramini (First Clarinet of the Orchestra of  Italian Switzerland) - Clarinet course with M ^ Giovanni Punzi (Principal Clarinet of the  Copenhagen Philharmonic) at the Majella Sound Festival. - Third prize of the VII Music Competition "Crescendo Prize 2016" at the  Teatro 13 in Florence on 05/06/2016. - Third prize of the IX Music Competition "Crescendo Award 2018" at the  13 Theater on 07/06/2018. - Participation in the concert "VISIONI FUTURE" with the Orchestra di  Fiati Città di Ferentino with the presence of the Pianist Monaldo  Bracconi on 19/11/2017. - Participation in the Festival "Fiati in Concerto" with the Wind  Orchestra of the city of Ferentino on 02/07/2019 at Ceccano. - Participation in the Ferrandina 2019 Winds Festival with the Wind  Orchestra of the city of Ferentino on 07/26/2019 - Participation in the Social World Film Festival with the Città di  Ferentino wind orchestra on 27/07/2019 at Vico Equense - Participation in the Spring Concert with the Latin Philarmonia  Orchestra with the performance of the Concertino in Bb for clarinet and  orchestra under the direction of M ^ Francesco Belli on 08/05/2016 - Participation in the "La bacchetta D'oro" music competition with the  G. Rossini di Larina wind orchestra with 1st Prize at Frosinone on  05/05/2019 - Third Eligible Result at the 2020-2021 auditions of the Rome Youth  Orchestra on 10-10-2020      Third Eligible Result at the 2020-2021 auditions of the SAMNIUM  SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA on 06-12-20 

 Siyeon Esther Kim has started playing clarinet in 4th grade, in a small  church organization that taught students. Throughout her years of  playing clarinet, she enjoyed her times of learning to express and play  for other people. It started off with that, and later with competitions,  orchestras, and chamber groups. She have achieved in SYMF 1st place  awards 3 times in 2016, 2017, and 2018. She also had the opportunity to  join in orchestras in IUSD honor orchestras in 2015 as first chair,  2016, and 2018 also as first chair. Another opportunity she had got to  play in was the PSYWE orchestra. Siyeon had also joined in a chamber  group called JCM, and had gotten honors, which she and the chamber group  got to play their songs in the opportunities given in concert halls,  along with other chamber groups.  

 Started clarinet studies in 2012 at the “Alejandro García Caturla”  elementary music school. In 2017 she entered “Amadeo Roldán”  Conservatory, where currently studies her final year and integrates the  Youth Symphonic Orchestra as principal clarinet. Rachel has participated  in the First Encounter of New Clarinetists, the First National Clarinet  Contest held in Havana (sponsored by Vandoren and Buffet Crampon), and  the 4th , 5th and 6th editions of the international project “Fiesta de  los Clarinetes”. She has received master classes from Jon Manasse  (United States), Phillip O. Paglialonga (United States), Florent Heau  (France), Florian Shüle (Germany), and Mauricio Murcia (Colombia)  

Born in 2002 in Portugal,  Manuel Teles is the winner of several competitions and prizes, from  soloist to chamber music, as the Portuguese Young Musicians Award 2019,  provided by the Portuguese radio Antena 2, INATEL Foundation Soloist Award, Cultivarte Competition, Vitor Santos  International Saxophone Competition, and Silver Medal awarded by Palmela  county.
Usually performs as a soloist  and has a special relationship with some composers to write and premier  some new works for the new Saxophone repertoire. Often plays with some  orchestras, ensembles and groups from Classical to Modern Music, like Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Ensemble MPMP, ESM, with some presentations in concert halls as Casa da Música, Altice Arena, Coliseu do Porto, Grande Auditório da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Aula Magna de Lisboa, among others.
Attended in masterclasses and  workshops with Jean-Marie Londeix, Claude Delangle, Timothy McAllister,  Vincent David, between many others. Worked directly with composers and  conductors as Jacob TV, Jorge Salgueiro, Pedro Amaral, Daniel Bernardes, Lino Guerreiro and António Victorino  d'Almeida. 
After finished his high school  studies with João Pedro Silva in Lisbon, Manuel is now studying in the  Saxophone class of Mario Marzi at Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, in Italy.

 I was born in 1998. Since 2020 I have a bachelor's degree in flute.  Currently, I am studying for a master's degree at the Academy of Art in  Szczecin. In August 2020, I took part in the international project of  the Szczecin Philharmonic, International Lutoslawski Youth orchestra,  where I played the 2nd flute part. 

 Martina Arampi si è diplomata brillantemente nel 2020 presso il  conservatorio Franco Vittadini di Pavia. Ha intrapreso gli studi di  flauto traverso sin da giovane, sotto la guida di M. Barbara Tartari,  mostrando sin da subito propensione, meticolosità e doti spiccate nello  strumento.Ad esso ha affiancato lo studio del pianoforte con i maestri  Roberto Plano e Sabrina Dente.  Ha frequentato i corsi pre-accademici  presso il Conservatorio G. Puccini di Gallarate, con M. Dessislava  Peteva e M. Fulvio Fiorio. Contemporaneamente ha conseguito  la maturità  linguistica con punteggio 100/100.Attualmente è iscritta al biennio ad  indirizzo interpretativo presso il Conservatorio F. Vittadini di Pavia  sotto la guida del M. Paola Fre. Ha seguito numerose masterclass in  qualità di allieva effettiva con M. Valentini, M. Dessislava Peteva, M.  Stefano Maffizzoni, M. Fulvio Fiorio, M. Francesco Loi e un corso di  respirazione e consapevolezza corporea con M. Ermes Giussani. Ha  partecipato a concorsi nazionali e internazionali, Concorso “ Insieme  per cantare e danzare” di Verbania, “ Concorso Nazionale città di Piove  di Sacco”, “ Concorso musicale nazionale civica scuola di musica di  Milano” e alla prima edizione de “ Concorso Internazionale Sergio  Zampetti di Saronno”. Nel 2017 è stata proclamata miglior solista al  concorso Nazionale “ Civica Scuola di Musica” di Milano.Nel 2018 ha  vinto il primo premio assoluto al concorso “ V. Centurione” di Genova,  in duo con il flautista Gabriele La Venia, per il concorso di musica da  camera. Ha partecipato a “ Maratona in rete”, “ Entriamo nella casa  della musica” e “ Il giardino di suoni”, manifestazioni indette dal  conservatorio Vivaldi di Alessandria. Collabora con L’ensemble di musica  contemporanea del conservatorio di Alessandria e l’orchestra del  Vivaldi, diretta da M. Marcello Rota e il “Trio instabile” ( Violino,  flauto e pianoforte). È membro del corpo Musicale La Casoratese di  Casorate Sempione, con cui ha partecipato a numerosi concorsi ( Bannio  Anzino, Vimercate e Riva del Garda). Ha ricoperto il ruolo di primo  flauto presso l’Orchestra Mozart di Novara.  Attualmente è risultata  l’unica varesina finalista della borsa di studio indetta dalla Samnium  University of Music di Vienna. Accanto all’attività concertistica,  affianca l’attività didattica presso la scuola allievi del  Corpo  musicale La Casoratese, Accademia Sant’Agostino di Biandronno e Ispra  Blues Band. 

 Hourun Qu, a 2018 undergraduate student at the School of Arts of  Shandong University, was under the tutelage of Dr. Dong Lechen, a young  teacher of the school.  Won the 2018 second-class academic scholarship,  academic characteristic scholarship, and the third prize in the  professional adult category of the first national clarinet concerto  competition, College and Professional Category, Clarinet，second place  winner of the Rocky Mountain Woodwind and Brass Competition，2018  Shandong Youth Actors Talent Show Competition, first prize of clarinet  youth group A solo and ensemble，2020 Qilu Instrumental Competition Youth  Western Wind Group First Prize and many other awards. 

 Michelle Hromin is an award-winning Croatian-American clarinetist based  in New York City. She recently collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera  and countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo to give a preview performance of  Philip Glass’s opera Ahknaten at the Brooklyn Museum. Michelle has  collaborated with artists such as Julia Bullock and DeMarre McGill. She  was named the winner of the 2019 Sidney Forrest Clarinet Competition and  was featured as a guest artist with the Long Island Youth Orchestra and  the Taconic Opera.  Michelle has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully  Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and with the 1:2:1 Winds Festival, the  Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute, and with the  International Chamber Orchestra of America. She has served as principal  clarinet of the New York Youth Symphony and Mannes Orchestra. 

 Massimo Restifo Pecorella (Venice 2000) obtained in 2019 the Bachelor  Degree in Clarinet with 110 at the Conservatory of Venice and he attends  the Master Degree in Clarinet at the Milan Conservatory. He enriched  his education with masterclasses held by internationally renowned  clarinetists such as M° Fabrizio Meloni. Winner of numerous prizes in international competitions, he ranked: 1st  absolute in 2013 in Trento and in 2016 in Treviso, in 2020 1st at the  CIMP Rossini International Competition of Pesaro, 1st at the ISCART in  Lugano, the 3rd prize at the Crescendo International Competition that  will let him play in Saint Petersburg. He has played as a soloist and orchestral in prestigious palaces in  Venice. In 2019 he collaborated with the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra  (RO) and later at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice as the first  clarinet. 

 Wojciech Buczek born on April 26, 2000 in Bielsko Biała, Poland.  As a  little boy, he did not show any interest in music. He played football,  rode a bicycle like his peers.  He started his adventure with music very  late, at the age of 14.  For three months of playing the clarinet, he  entered the state music school in Bielsko Biała. In just three years he  completed twelve years of music education. He graduated with a very good  grade in the clarinet class of Łukasz Iskrzycki.  At the age of 18, he  got into Piotr Lato clarinet class at the Academy of Music in Krakow,  where he continues to develop his instrument playing skills. 

 He is a Colombian musician, he studies in the National University of  Colombia and belongs to the Young Philharmonic of Colombia, Jhoan Has  had some national and international tours with the orchestra.   He has also won the contest of young scholars at the national level of  the International music festival of Cartagena.   He has been under the baton of directors such as Andres Orozco-Estrada,  Lawrence Renes, Tobias Wunderli. He has performed in prestigious  concert halls such as Musikverein Goldener Saal (Vienna), Tonhalle  (Zurich), Konzertaus Freiburg, Liederhalle (Stuttgart), Brucknerhaus  (Linz), Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Cologne Philharmonie, Teatro Mayor Julio  Mario Santo (Bogota) among others. 

 I was born on 23th of November, 1998 in Ternopil, Ukraine. I studied at  Ternopil Coledge of Music named after Solomiya Krushelnytska at the  class of Andrii Dolishnii. In 2018 I graduated the coledge and continued my study at the Academy of  Music in Kraków with a dr Damian Lipień. During my study I participated in a numerous count of international EDUCATION Ternopil Secondary School with a special learnings of Physical Education  Finished with a honor Ternopil Music School Studied in the class of a pedagogue Andrii Palytsya Ternopil Coledge of Music named after Solomiya Krushelnytska Finished with a honor and titles — Artist of orchestra, ensemble;  Teacher of primary specialized art education institution (Orchestral  winds and percussion instruments); Leader of amateur group (Orchestras,  ensembles); Conductor; in the class of a pedagogue Andrii Dolishnii. Academy of Music in Kraków Currently studying on the third year of bachelor MASTERCLASSES Took part in the masterclasses of Sophie Dervaux (France), Valerii Popov  (Russia), Volodymyr Apatskii (Ukraine), Carlo Colombo (France), Tomáš  Františ (Czech Republic), Konstantin Yakovlev (Russia), David Tomas  Realp (Germany) 

 Tan Yun Qu is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music majoring in  saxophone performance at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. During her  time in NAFA, Yun Qu has been the finalist of the 2020 NAFA-Kris  Foundation Fund Concerto Competition and has also been awarded for her  academic and musical excellence with both the Tan Chay Bing Scholarship  (2019) and OCBC Local Undergraduate Scholarship award (2020). She is  also an avid performer of chamber music and is part of Singapore-based  saxophone groups such as the Protégé Saxophone Ensemble and the New Meta  Saxophone Quartet. 

 Danielle Ong is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music (Honours) at  the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in Singapore under the tutelage  of Dr Leslie Wong Kah Ho. Her recent achievements include the San San  Music Merit Award for her first year of Bachelor studies and overall  winner for the Woodwind category in the NAFA Concerto Competition 2020.  As an active musician and teacher who regularly participates in  international/local performances, masterclasses and outreach projects,  she believes in giving back to society through music and hopes to help  establish a strong base of musicians in her community.  

 He started playing the accordion at the age of 6. He is currently a  student at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. He is a multiple winner of  national and international competitions.  

 Crystal Kim was born in South Korea and raised in Texas, where she began  playing the flute at the age of 10. Since recognizing her love for  music, she has continued to perform in both competitive and concert  settings. She has previously been named winner or finalist of many  competitions, including the Claire Johnson Flute Soloist Competition and  the Austin Flute Club YAC, and has also performed as a guest soloist  with several orchestras. Crystal received her Bachelor’s degree in Flute  Performance from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing her  Master’s degree with Lorna McGhee at Carnegie Mellon University. 

 Marcelina Błasiak was born in 1996 ( Poland). She is student of flute at  Music Academy in Łódź (Poland). Currently student in class of Dejan  Gavric at Johaness Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). She  participated in music courses led by Carlos Bruneel, András Adorján,  Janos Balint. She won few prizes with flute quartet and she recorded  album “Flute Impressions” with flute orchestra in 2017, which received  bronze medal from Global Music Awards. In 2019 Marcelina participated in  project "Triangle Orchestra"where took place premiere of Henoch Kon's  opera "Bas- sheve", which is the only one opera in Yiddish which  survived. 

 Flautist Chaeyoung Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. She started to learning  and majoring in flute at age 13 with Uikyung Park. She graduated from  Sunhwa Arts High School. She has won the 2020 International Music  Competition Bonn “Grand Prize Virtuoso” as a First Prize winner. She has  also won the grand prize for the whole woodwind instruments and the  first prize at the Seoul Art Competition. She has also won awards at the  Haneum Music Competition and Seoul Music Competition. She is now  pursuing a BMus degree at Royal College of Music studying with Sue  Thomas and Katie Bedford. She has performed in masterclasses for Mathieu  Dufour, Karl Heinz Schutz, Julien Beaudiment, Michel Moragues, Sandrine  Tilly, Sandrine Francois, Claude Lefebvre, Jose-Daniel Castellon,  Henrik Wiese, Jonathan Keeble, Hideaki Sakai and Brad Garner. 

 Double Flute master performance degrees, graduated with honor in  Conservatorio Svizzera Italiana in Mario Anicillotti's class and Sichuan  Conservatory of music in Ji Zhu's class.  The organizer of Ciao international music festival. Flute major teacher in Sichuan Conservatory of music in China, second  flute in conservatory professional orchestra.  Participate the solo, chamber music and orchestra performance in Suoni Riflessi in Italy, Kusatsu music festival in Japan, Musicalta festival in France and  many festival in China. 

 Yoana Dimova was born in the city of Plovdiv in 1994. In 2013 was  accepted to the NAM “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov ”- Sofia, in the flute  class of Prof. Lidia Oshavkova. She won awards in the competition "Music and the Earth" in Sofia:    • 2017 - Awarded two First Prizes for chamber ensemble    • 2019 - First prize for chamber ensemble In 2016 won third prize in the International Flute Competition, Varna.  In 2018 he won the first prize of the Academic Competition "Prof. Nikola  Stefanov" for wooden wind instruments – Sofia. She has participated in the master classes of Prof. Lydia Oshavkova,  Philippe Bernold, Felix Renggli, Michel Lavignole , Sandrine François,  Adah Jones, Evgenia Epshtein, Ana Domančić. 

 Born in Tbilisi, Georgia 24.03.1996.  She started musical education at age 6 with playing classical piano at  Z.Paliashvili Tbilisi Central music school. At age 14 she started to  play on flute in class of Nugzar Kiknadze. at the same time Nino was  journalist in  children's TV studio.  2014 - She passed at V.Sarajishvili Tbilisi state conservatoire in class  of Meri Zhvania. 2016-2017 - She god Erasmus + scholarship and went to  study at Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo 9 class of Tom Ottar  Andreassen ) Since 2010 she is active participant in different concerts,  chamber ensembles, orchestras ,festivals and masterclasses. During this  years she got various scholarships : Academic achievement scholarship,  Conservatoire's nominal scholarship, IFSB scholarship for international  summer seminars in Bruges, Belgium. City hall Scholarship, Erasmus +,  Creative Georgia grant for short term education.  Since 2019 Nino is part Pan-Caucasia youth symphonic orchestra at  Tsinandali Festival. Present days she continues her master degree at Tbilisi State  Conservatoire and searches new opportunities to develop her future  career 

 Anna began her musical studies at the age of 7. She obtained the Diplom  at the Wiener Musikakademie with Simon Ibanez last September and is  currently studying at the Anton Brückner Privatuniversität in Linz,  Austria, with Gernot Fresacher.  Anna has performed with "Jove Orquestra Auditori Girona', "Fo-Guang  Youth Orchestra", Ton der Jugend Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Richard  Wagner Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Ibero-American Orchestra, Junge  Philharmonie Orchester Niedersachsen, The new Symphony Vienna, Oper im  Berg Festival Orchestra (Salzburg) and other orchestras. In recent years Anna has performed in halls such as Goldener Saal and  Brahms Saal (Musikverein), Altes Rathaus, Odeon Theater, ORF-Kulturhaus,  Rathaus, MuTh and Konzerthaus in Vienna; and participated in a tour in  China too. She also participated in Strenes Festival in Spain, "Vienna Summer Music  Festival" and Oper im Berg Festival in Salzburg. At the age of 11, Anna won "Honourable Mention" from "8ns Premis  d'Interpretació i Composició" in Girona, Spain. 

 Jakub Chomiczewski was born on 2nd July 1997.  In 2016-2017 he studied  at University of the Arts Bern in Switzerland with prof. Ernesto  Molinari.  He graduated from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz (2017-2020).  Since 2020 he's been studying at The Fryderyk Chopin University of  Music in Białystok. He’s won the 1st Prize in Grand Music Competition  2020 in Moscow and the IV International online-competition arts "Music  Modern". He cooperated with the Pomeranian Philharmonic, Podlaskie Opera  and Philharmonic in Poland.  

 Dimitri Bokolishvili 18.10.1985  (Clarinet) dimitribokolishvili@yahoo.de Principal Clarinet of Mannheimer Philharmoniker, Mannheim, Germany Teacher at the Tbilisi State Conservatory, Gerogia, Tbilisi 2014-2016 Principal Clarinet of the Contemporary Music ‘’Ensemble  Novecento’’, Music Director -  Carlo Rizzari, Ivan Fedelle.  Auditorium  Parco della Musica,  Rome, Italy  Education  2002-2008 V. Sarajishvili  State Conservatory, Master Degree. Tbilisi,  Georgia 2012-2016 Postgraduate at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with   Alessandro Carbonare. Rome, Italy Competitions 1St  Prize at the International Competition ‘’AGIMUS’’ Citta di Padova –  Padova, Italy 2014 Finalist at the International Competition ‘’Le Prix International de  Musique  Promusicis’’ 2015 Paris,France  International Festivals: 2013 Recital at the World Clarinet Festival -  Assisi, Italy 2016- Recital At the International Clarinet Festival – Camerino, Italy 2018- Recital at the European Clarinet Festival – Ostend, Belgium 2019 Recitals on 13 SINTESE Festival of Contemporary Music, Guarda,  Castelo Branco, Portugal.  Member of The  ’World Clarinet Alliance’’ (WKA) Member of the ‘’Accademia Italiana del Clarinetto’’    

 ・Begin the piano at the age of 4 and the Clarinet at the age of 10 ・Finish Master at Tokyo College of Music and Perfectionnement at CRR of Versailles  ・The first prize of the 45th competition "Sanyo"  ・The first prize of the 27th and 29th competition "Chugoku-Youth"  ・Guiseppe Garbarino special prize at  Premio di Interpretazione Musicale Città di Chiavari ・Study with Shuji Ashida, Nori Yuki Kumazawa, Kenji Matsumoto, Philippe Cuper and Hugues Soualhat    

 Jonas Morkunas is studying at Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in  the class of professor Francois Benda. A laureate of numerous  international competitions, he has performed solo with the Lithuanian  State Wind Orchestra "Trimitas" and Vilnius University Chamber  Orchestra. He has given recitals at Thomas Mann, Mikalojus Konstantinas  Ciurlionis and Sobrio music festivals and played with the Lithuanian  National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic as an  orchestral musician. Granted the Nominal Jonas Aleksa Scholarship for  artistic merits, he had masterclasses with clarinetists Pascal Moragues,  Alessandro Carbonare and Yehuda Gilad.  

 Diana Pilate is 23 years old and she is currently studying at Vytautas  Magnus University (Music Academy) for Master's degree in Performance.  She is studying under the supervision of Professor Andrius Bernotaitis.  She graduated from Daugavpils University with honors in the degree in  Music teacher (wind instruments). She graduated from High Music School  in the speciality of bassoon and other instruments. Before she also  played the saxophone and oboe. She participated in different  international music competions and she was laureate in Latvia,  Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine and Poland. She plays wind and symphony  orchestras all over Europe. She plays various instruments and regularly  performs on tours with music group and orchestras. Also she studied as  an Erasmus student in Lithuania. She showed herself as a talented and  hard-working performer, who pursues new knowledge and work experience  and constantly enchances her skills thanks to different training,  courses. Erasmus projects, internships and master classes.