Silvia Marcovici, born in Romania is one of the most renowned and highly regarded violinist of our times.
A student of Professor Stefan Gheorghiu at the conservatory in Bucharest, she made her professional debut at the age of sixteen with the Residentie Orkest of The Hague under Bruno Maderna. A few years later she won first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, the special prize of Prince Rainier of Monaco for the intepretation of a contemporary work; and first prize in the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Since then, Ms. Marcovici’s perfomances have brought her to the leading orchestras throughout Europe, Israel, Japan, North and South America, appearing with the most celebrated conductors including Leopold Stokowski, Claudio Abbado, Erich Leinsdorf, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Eugene Ormandy, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, Eliahu Inbal, Zubin Mehta, David Zinman, Mstislav Rostropovich, André Previn, Riccardo Muti, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Michael Gilen, Herbert Blomstedt and many others. She has been soloist with most of the world’s great orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra della Scala di Milano, New York Philarmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philarmonic, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philarmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra etc.
A multifaceted musician and fascinating stage presence, she maintained a rich involvement in chamber music as well. She appeared frequently with such pianists as Evgeny Kissin, Boris Berezovsky, Pascal Rogé, Valentin Gheorghiu; and cellists David Geringas, Lynn Harrell, Antonio Meneses, Boris Pergamenscikov.
Silvia Marcovici has numerous critically acclaimed recordings including the live performance of the Glazunov Violin Concerto with London Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, the Nielsen Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montpellier under Yoël Levi and the Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin with Valentin Gheorghiu. The Canadian record company DOREMI has released several CDs and DVDs in its «Legendary Treasures» series of live performances by Silvia Marcovici.
Silvia Marcovici is a passionate and active teacher , now in Academia Perosi, Biella Italy.
Also,she is currently giving masterclasses all over the world and she is in jury of famous competitions.

The first instrument Madeleine Carruzzo learnt at the age of seven was the guitar. Her teacher in Sion, the father of violinist Tibor Varga, noticed her good hearing and recommended that she try the violin instead. When she first received the instrument in her hands, she felt: ‘This is it!’ She later became a pupil of Tibor Varga and completed her studies with him at the Detmold Academy of Music. She graduated with a first prize in interpretation.
Madeleine Carruzzo joined Tibor Varga’s chamber orchestra as concertmaster, before moving to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1982, under the baton of Herbert von Karajan. She was the first woman to be a member of this orchestra, one of the most renowned in the world. She also performs as a soloist and with various chamber music ensembles, both as a violinist and violist, including the Metropolis Ensemble in Berlin, the Venus Ensemble, the Haydn Ensemble and the Berlin Philharmonischen Streichersolisten. She has taken part in numerous chamber music festivals in Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Berlin and Jerusalem.
The violinist was awarded the Rünzi Prize in 2001 and the Prix de la Ville de Sion in 2012.
Madeleine Carruzzo performs regularly with Yefim Bronfman, Sir András Schiff, Nikolaj Znaider, Renaud and Gauthier Capuçon, Guy Braunstein, Gérard Caussé, Nobuko Imai, Boris Pergamenschikow, Frans Helmerson and Emmanuel Pahud.

Julien Zufferey is professor of violin at the HEM in Geneva-Neuchâtel, professor of violin at the Lausanne Conservatoire, regular professor at the Tibor Varga Academy and guest professor in the pre-HEM classes at the Conservatoire du Valais, where he imparts a musical education shaped by such masters as Tibor Varga, Margarita Karafilova, Berent Korfker, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Zakhar Bron and Pavel Vernikov.
Regularly invited to sit on juries for national and international competitions, Julien Zufferey also has the opportunity to demonstrate his teaching skills to some of the most talented young violinists of their generation, who go on to win national and international competitions year after year.
Julien Zufferey is a founding member of Trio Nota Bene, with whom he has toured the international scene for over twenty years, collaborating with artists such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Renaud Capuçon, Ilya Gringolts, Pierre Amoyal, Shlomo Mintz, Nobuko Imai, Gérard Caussé, Christoph Schiller, Jürg Dähler, Silvia Simionescu, Brigitte Fournier and Malin Hartelius. Nota Bene has several recordings to its credit (released on the Claves label), including two quintets by Hungarian composer Ernö Dohnanyi, recorded alongside legendary artists Shmuel Ashkenasi and Nobuko Imai.
In addition to numerous appearances on the Swiss scene, Julien Zufferey performs throughout Europe, as well as in the USA, Israel and Turkey. He currently plays on a Tommaso Balestrieri violin (1788) generously made available to him by a Swiss patron.

Nicolas Chalvin began his career at the Lausanne Opera, where he was inspired by Armin Jordan, who encouraged him to trade in the oboe for the baton. There, he led a wide range of repertoires – Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, Messager’s Véronique, Offenbach’s Parisian Life, Pascal Dusapin’s Niobé, Philippe Boesmans’ Reigen and Verdi’s The Troubadour, as well as Carmen, Madame Butterfly and The Trojans, among others. « With opera, it’s the conductor who breathes life into the drama, and the conductor who draws together the various elements of the orchestra pit to create perfect harmony », he enthuses. Before long, Chalvin was making frequent forays into the world of symphonies, performing as a guest with the Orchestre National de Lyon and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, as well as at orchestras in Innsbruck and Geneva. In 2009, he was appointed musical director of the Orchestre National des Pays de Savoie, which he soon brought to international prominence.
A great admirer of the Viennese masters (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms), Chalvin strives to recreate the tone and style of their phrasing and places a particular emphasis on orchestral balance. His preferred repertoire, however, extends much further. He enjoys the subtlety and transparency of French music, as well as its colour and bold harmonies. Yet his devotion to the great works of the classical repertoire has not prevented him from leading his musicians into less charted territory – this has resulted in the Orchestre National des Pays de Savoie recording rarer pieces by Reynaldo Hahn and Paul Le Flem. Contemporary music is also an area of particular interest for Chalvin.
A firm believer in the rich value and limitless potential of the chamber orchestra as an ensemble, Nicolas Chalvin leads the Orchestre National des Pays de Savoie in a range of repertoires, from Baroque to contemporary, in programmes that have been warmly received by the public and critics alike. Not just an artist, a conductor is also a manager. As Chalvin himself explains: « The conductor’s role is a difficult yet fascinating one, requiring great interpersonal skills and a keen sense of awareness. More than anything, I like to draw the orchestra with me, each step of the way, so that, together, we can bring concerts to life with moments of magic. » In addition to a full season with the Orchestre National des Pays de Savoie, Chalvin will also direct Peer Gynt at the Opéra de Limoges in May 2017.
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Christian Favre is a Swiss-born musician with a triple career as a pianist, teacher and composer. He has performed in recitals, in chamber music and with orchestras throughout Europe, under the direction of Armin Jordan, Franz Welser Möst, Tibor Varga and Jesús López Cobos. He has also performed with, among others, François Guye, Tedi Papavrami, Pierre Amoyal and Raphaël Oleg. As the pianist for the Schumann Quartet from 1996 to 2016, he has given numerous concerts and performances. Since 1985 he has been a professor at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne and regularly gives master classes. Christian Favre is the author of chamber music works as well as a Requiem premiered in Buenos Aires in 2008. On this subject, let us quote François Hudry, producer at France Musique: “Christian Favre is a romantic, passionate and tormented musician. He tries to resolve the tensions between the fear of death and serenity, between a dodecaphonism with tonal roots and polytonality”. Or Thierry Dagon in the Revue musicale suisse: “His Requiem is a deeply moving page. With its refined writing and its sure craftsmanship, this is a score that is unquestionably to be placed alongside the great requiems of history. His latest creations to date are the Quintet for clarinet and strings in March 2022 and the opera Davel at the Opéra de Lausanne in january 2023.