“Classics from the Other Side” was started with the inspiration of bringing together young musicians from Asia and Europe to connect our cultures through chamber music.
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Music has the ability to bridge cultural misconceptions and divides: The medium of chamber music is ideal, as it is an unique form of collaboration where every individual is equal.
We aim to create a multi-national, cooperative network of performance opportunity connecting the younger generation of dedicated professional musicians with experienced mentors on stage, as well as to give young musicians a platform to showcase their artistic voices. ​
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Featured Artists
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(c) Andrej Grilc
​Born in 1996 in Hamburg, Anton Gerzenberg began to play the piano at the age of four. His
teachers include Julia Suslin and Julia Botchkovskaia in Hamburg, Jan Jiracek von Arnim in
Vienna and currently Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Cologne.
In 2019 he became one of the founders of the New Music ensemble ÉRMA in Cologne, who played their first concert in close collaboration with Unsuk Chin.
Anton appeared in chamber music with such musicians as Martha Argerich, Dora Schwarzberg and Alvise Vidolin as well as with various orchestras including the Taipeh Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Symphoniker, Hamburger Camerata, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich.
He is also a frequent guest at festivals including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Mozartfest Würzburg. In June 2021 Anton won the First Prize at the 15th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Recognized for her finely nuanced interpretations and her artistic versatility, Belle recently won a principal position at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
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As a soloist, she has collaborated with orchestras including the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Gdansk, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra, under conductors that include Lan Shui, Eiji Oue, Jahja Ling, and Gabor Kali.
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She has won top prizes at the International Grumiaux Competition, International Cooper Competition, International Brahms Competition and the International Khachaturian Competition, she has since performed at venues including the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus, as well as at events that include the Verbier Festival and the Ravel Festival.
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Belle's debut album, “Impressions”, focuses on the works of French Impressionism: Her performances have also been broadcast on ORF, IDAGIO, Classic FM and medici.tv.
(c) Julia Wesely
Ania Druml is an accomplished cellist and pianist, who was recently introduced in the ORF III program "Kultur Heute": She has also won the "Goldene Note" prize of the ORF for young musicians.
She studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and has since won numerous prizes on both instruments, which have led to concerts all over Europe, China, and the USA.
Sophie Druml impresses equally on the violin and the piano, described as "an extraordinary talent" by the Mittelbayerische Zeitung. In addition to her studies at both the Mozarteum Salzburg and the HfM Frankfurt, she is known for her viral videos with TwoSet Violin, which have garnered over 15 million views in total, leading to a world tour in 2024.
Korean-American pianist Margaret Kim has performed throughout Europe and the United States as both a soloist and chamber musician, in venues such as the Chicago Cultural Center, the Chateau de Fontainebleau, the Bösendorfer Salon, the Vienna Musikverein, and at festivals such as the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West.
Margaret has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Jack Kent Cooke Talent Development Award, the Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship and the Ravel Prix from the Écoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainebleau.
Margaret earned her bachelor of music from Mannes College in New York, her master of music from Northwestern University of Chicago, and completed her master's degree in chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She studied intensively with Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Srebra Gelleva, Jura Margulis, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and Angela Hewitt. Since October 2023 she has been working as staff pianist at the Bernstein Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
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(c) Andrej Grilc
Salzburg violinist Benjamin Herzl made his debut at the age of thirteen at the International Mozart Festival with the Kurpfälzische Kammerorchester in Mannheim.
Since then, he has performed at venues including the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Wiener Musikverein, Festspielhaus Salzburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, San Felipe Neri Havana, among others.
His chamber music partners include Imogen Cooper, Julia Hagen, Ingmar Lazar, Beatrice Rana, Fazil Say and Thomas Zehetmair.
Benjamin Herzl has performed at festivals such as Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, LOISIARTE, Julian Rachlin & Friends, Dialoge Salzburg, Internationale Nikolaus Harnoncourt Tage, Les Musicales de Redon and Mozart Festival Havana.
The OeNB exclusively lends the artist the “ex Guilet” Joseph Guarnerius violin, year 1732, from its collection of valuable string instruments. This instrument was previously played by Daniel Guilet (Beaux Arts Trio), David Oistrach, Henriyk Szeryng and Joshua Bell.
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The violinist first received his education at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Later he studied in Vienna with Christian Altenburger and in the soloist class with Julian Rachlin. He is a scholarship holder of the Mozart Society Dortmund, laureate of the International Brahms Competition and winner of the Mozart Prize donated by Vadim Repin.
(c) Angelina Larina
The Motus Quartet was founded in October 2022 and consists of Tim de Vries, Karla Križ, Julia Turnovsky and Domonkos Hartmann. Having met during their studies in Vienna, the quartet studies with Johannes Meissl and Peter Schuhmayer at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw).
Further musical impulses have come from amongst others Hatto Beyerle, Eckart Runge, the Danish String Quartet, Tim Frederiksen, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Denis Brott.
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The Motus Quartet regularly takes part in ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) and Musethica sessions all over Europe.
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The ensemble got awarded two prizes at the 2023 International Summer Academy of the mdw (isa): the Artis Quartet Award for the best participating string quartet and the Viennese Classicism Award for the best interpretation of a work from the Viennese Classicism.
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In April 2023, the quartet made its Vienna Konzerthaus debut in the Schubert Hall as part of the Classics from the Other Side Festival, and in March 2024, they made their debut at the Vienna Musikverein. Recent concert engagements brought the quartet to Tunesia, Taiwan, Italy and Denmark, with their Dutch debut scheduled at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam coming fall.
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Tim de Vries performs on a violin made by Pietro Guarneri of Mantua, 1688 and a 1793 Lorenzo Storioni violin, made in Cremona. Karla Križ plays on a composite Andrea Guarneri violin.
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Zhiyu Zhang was born in Shanghai in 2003. She started her studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. Reinhard Latzko at the age of fourteen, and was accepted to the Diplomstudium at the age of sixteen.
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She has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Villade Llanes Wettbewerb in Spain, the Classic Strings International Competition, the top prize at the International Mendelssohn Festival Hamburg, which led to a performance with the Hamburger Camerata, and the Gustav Mahler Competition (1. Prize und Larsen Prize).
She has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Mischa Maisky, Arto Noras, Jens Peter Maintz Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Troels Svane.
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Aoi Selditz left her Japanese homeland in 2017 out of love for music to study the viola in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts.
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Coming to Europe was a kind of return for her: her first solo performance was in 2000, when she played as a violinist at an international festival in Rome.
Since then, she has been pursuing her desire to be both a musician and a scientist. She first completed a bachelor's degree in ecology at Kyoto University and has already published articles and given lectures at international conferences worldwide.
In 2018, she was nominated as one of the six semi-finalists of the ARD Competition Munich, where she played with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. In the same year, she was honoured with a prize at the Allegro Vivo International Chamber Music Festival. A year later, she was awarded the special prize at the 13th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. In 2019/2020 she was a scholarship holder of the Anny Felbermayer Fund.
Since 2017, she has performed at several festivals in Austria with artists such as Benjamin Schmid, Christian Altenburger, Herbert Mayr, Franz Bartolomey, Michel Lethiec and Reinhard Latzko.
Praised for her expressive, warm sound, her captivating stage presence and her musical integrity, Dorottya is a prize winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the David Popper International Cello Competition or the Mahler Cello Prize, recipient of the Keltenklang, Forum Hungaricum and Ursula Grill Scholarships and has been awarded the Honorary Prize of the city Graz.​
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She is a passionate chamber musician and has performed at festivals such as the Styrian Chamber Music Festival, the Arsonore Festival, the Sounding Jerusalem Festival, the Moldo Crescendo Festival or the Altolivenza Festival and was also invited to participate at the YMCG Festival in China under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma and Michael Stern.
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Dorottya is a member of the Oberton String Octet. Their debut CD was released in March 2020 under the title “Slavic Soul” on the German label ARS and was nominated for two of the most important German music awards, for the German Record Critics' Award and in three categories for the renowned Opus Klassik.
She is also a member of the Ensemble XXI. Jahrhundert, with whom they promote the masterpieces of the 20th and 21st centuries and has held a two-year academy position at the Tonkünstler Orchestra.
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