A "wanderer between worlds" (Lucerne Festival), Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. Comfortable with and seeking out an enormous range of repertoire, Vonsattel displays a musical curiosity and sense of adventure that has gained him many admirers.

Hailed as a “young titan” by the Montreal Gazette after conducting the Montreal Symphony in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Gregory Vajda has become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene. In 2011 he became the sixth music director of the Huntsville (AL) Symphony, and following year he was also named principal conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony (MR Symphony Orchestra) after concluding his seventh season as resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony. He also served as artistic director and conductor of the Music in the Mountains (CA), from 2009-2013.  

GREG ANDERSON and ELIZABETH JOY ROE are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Hailed as “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “rock stars of the classical music world” (Miami Herald), the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo has appeared on NPR and MTV, recorded Billboard chart-topping albums, toured worldwide as recitalists and orchestral soloists, and released Emmynominated, self-produced music videos viewed by millions.  

David Jolley has thrilled audiences throughout the world with his “remarkable virtuosity” (New York Times), and has been hailed as “a soloist second to none” by Gramophone Magazine. He has traveled extensively in North and South America, Europe, East Asia, and Japan, sustaining an active performance career. A chamber artist of unusual sensitivity and range, Mr. Jolley has frequently collaborated with such groups as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarneri Quartet, the American String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, Musicians from Marlboro, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Jolley is currently a member of the virtuoso wind quintet Windscape; Trio Valtorna, with violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Gilles Vonsattel; and The New York Brass Arts Trio (BAT), with trumpeter Joe Burgstaller and trombonist Haim Avitsur. Mr. Jolley was for five years a member of the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O, with violinist Michael Tree and pianist Leon Fleisher. He was also a founding member, now Emeritus, of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he toured widely and made over two-dozen recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon label.

The Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini is defined by the rich musical tradition of his home country, as well as by the cosmopolitan education that he received during his formative years in New York. He studied conducting, composition, philosophy, and languages at The Juilliard School and at Yale University. Christoph Campestrini now maintains an active worldwide conducting schedule in a wide spectrum of repertoire, having appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Vienna Radio Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse, Real Orquesta Sinfónica De Sevilla, Prague Radio Symphony, Budapest Radio Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and many more.