piano

RUBEN
DALIBALTAYAN

Ruben Dalibaltayan (1973) was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied with Anahit Shahbazyan in Yerevan and Arthur Berngardt and Valery Kastelsky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

He has won ten prestigious international piano competitions in Armenia, China, Croatia and Italy. He is particularly dedicated to the promotion of works by Armenian and Croatian composers. For his double album Piano Works by Blagoy Bersa, he received the highest award of the Croatian Ministry of Culture - the Vladimir Nazor Prize.

harp

PATRIZIA
TASSINI

Patrizia Tassini je diplomirala z odliko na Konservatoriju za glasbo G. Tartini v Trstu. Po študiju v Franciji je magistrirala v ZDA na Eastman University of Rochester (NY). Osvojila je več državnih in mednarodnih tekmovanj kot tudi II. nagrado na mednarodnem tekmovanju harf v Izraelu. She has been a jury member in Israel, Paris, Lille, Belgrade and Bloomington (USA), and has given concerts and masterclasses in Europe, China, Taiwan and Turkey.

clarinet

JOŽE
KOTAR

Professor at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and since 2007 solo clarinettist of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, he was solo clarinettist in the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra for twelve years. As a soloist, chamber musician and member of various chamber ensembles, he performs at home and abroad, conducts clarinet and chamber music seminars and participates in juries of international competitions.

violin

JANEZ
PODLESEK

Janez Podlesek is a renowned Slovenian violinist and pedagogue. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of the renowned professor Primož Novšak, where he also graduated For 15 years he was a concertmaster at the of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber String Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Regularly active in Ensemble Dissonance and the trio Clavimerata, with whom he has recorded several He is happy and inspired by his work as a teacher. He is a successful teacher at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana and the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he directs the Chamber String Orchestra and teaches violin and chamber music. For years 2012 he was awarded the title of Assistant Professor of Violin and a year later, he received the University of Ljubljana's solemn charter for for outstanding teaching and research achievements. He participates in the ambitious EMARS project, in the framework of which he has regular summer schools and violin masterclasses. Since 2018 she has been 2018 he is a full-time assistant professor at the Ul Academy of Music.

flute

MATEJ
ZUPAN

Matej Zupan is a professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. From 1996 to 2008 he was a solo flutist of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Prof. Fedja Rupel. He studied in Firenze with Mario Ancillotti and at masterclasses led by Trevor Wye, Michael Debost, Peter-Lukas Graf and James Galway.

cello

IGOR
MITROVIĆ

Igor Mitrović was born in 1968 in Beirut. He started teaching cello at the age of seven to Relja Ćetković. He studied in Ljubljana and Basel with Miloš Mlejnik and Antonio Meneses and chamber music with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet). During his studies, he took one year of lessons with Daniil Šafran, Janos Starker and Boris Pergamenshchikov, and in 1987 became a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

trumpet

MARCO
PIEROBON

Marco Pierobon has performed as a soloist with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Kammerkonzert, I virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, I Solisti Veneti, the Junge Philharmonie Salzburg, Marchigiana Philharmonic, and with the Symphony Orchestras of Mantua, Bolzano, Vicenza, and Sanremo. He won first prize in the international competitions of Passau, Germany and Imperia and Aqui Terme, Italy.

From 1999 to 2002 he was principal trumpet of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, and from 2003 to 2008 he was principal trumpet of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra. He has collaborated as principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra. Pierobon has worked with conductors Zubin Mehta, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Etienne Siebens, Friedrich Heider, Guenther Neuhold, and Ralph Gothoni. He has also performed works dedicated to him him by composers Giancarlo Aquilanti, Angelo Sormani, Giuseppe Bonafine, and Michele Mangani. In 2014, he premiered Aquilanti’s Trumpet Concerto on tour with the Stanford Wind Symphony. Since 2014 he has conducted the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra and the Haydn Symphony Orchestra of Bolzano Croatian National Theatre Orchestra Zagreb, The Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Carlo Felice Orchestra Geova and the Orchestra da camera di Perugia. In 2017 he was featured as soloist during the Astana 2017 Expo (Kazakhstan) and was invited to perform at the International Trumpet Guild Conference (USA) 2017 and 2021. In 2018, he premiered Aquilanti’s Double Concerto on tour with the Stanford Wind Symphony In the same year he appeared as soloist with the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra (Mahler's Third Symphony) and in worldwide live streaming with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Pierobon has released several instructional DVDs and solo recordings. Among them are: “Solo,” (2011, Marche Wine Orchestra with conductor Michele Mangani) “Nano Nano,” (2013, New Project Funk Orchestra) “The Golden Trump” (2015, Giovani Fiati Umbri with conductor Filippo Salemmi) “Made in Italy” (2015, Insubria Wind Orchestra with conductor Angelo Sormani) and “The Maestro” (2017, Orchestra di Fiati dell’Istituto Vecchi Tonelli di Modena e Carpi with conductor Massimo Bergamini). Pierobon has held master classes in the United States, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Canada, England, Greece, Germany, Austria, and Italy. He has been a trumpet professor at the Bolzano Conservatory in Italy since 2007. He has recorded for Sony and EMI with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Antonio Pappano. As a member of the Gomalan Brass Quitnet, he has performed throughout the world and recorded four CDs and two DVDs for Summit Records and Naxos. Pierobon is Yamaha Performing Artist and Wedge Mouthpiece Endorsing Artist and plays exclusively on Yamaha instruments and Wedge mouthpieces. He currently lives in the countryside near Parma with his wife Francesca, violinist and music teacher, two sons, Biagio (electronic music composer) and Amelia (Horn player), and two dogs, Violetta and Alfredo.