Since moving to Berlin in 2011, Jeongwan Kim has continued to earn extensive recognition in prestigious national and international piano competitions. He has since given concerts in major halls in Berlin, Weimar, Hamburg, and Aarhus, among others. In 2023, he won 1st prize, along with two special prizes, for his performance of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and the Best Overall Concerto Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition. Since 2017, Jeonghwan has been studying at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in the class of Konrad Maria Engel. His former professors include So Yong Choi, Leda Kim, and Thomas Just. He has also participated in masterclasses with Jacob Leuschner, Bob Versteegh, and Robert Levin. Other crucial influences on his artistic development include Stephan Imorde, Konstantin Heidrich, Antje Weithaas, and Jonathan Aner.
Gorka Plada is based in Berlin. He has performed in venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the MuTh (Vienna), the Alte Aula of the Heidelberg University, the Budapest Music Center, and the Chamber Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie, where he has regularly collaborated with members of the Karajan Academy. In 2025, he was a member of the Festival Campus Ensemble of the Heidelberger Frühling, performing as both pianist and harpsichordist and contributing as a curator. Gorka is currently completing his bachelor’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Eldar Nebolsin. He previously studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Marcel Baudet. He has worked with musicians such as Stefan Dohr, Valeriy Sokolov, Vera Martínez Mehner, Abel Tomàs Realp and Thomas Carroll. In 2023, he collaborated in a CD recording for Resonus Classics, featuring chamber works by Brahms and Hindemith, which came out in June 2025. He was also a prizewinner at the Maria Canals Competition.
Rozsonits Ildikó was admitted to the Liszt Academy’s School for Exceptional Young Talents at 10, and started her Bachelor’s programme in 2024. Her professors are Gábor Farkas and Attila Némethy. She has won 17 first prizes at international piano competitions such as 4th Franz Liszt Center Competition (Spain). She had concerts at the Liszt Academy Grand Hall in Budapest, Rudolfinum Prague, Semperoper Dresden, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Orbetello Festival Italy, Classissimo Festival Brussels, House of Music Hungary, and BMC. She has performed with Ensemble Solistes de Neuchâtel, Czech Radio Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Danubia Orchestra, and the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra. She participated in masterclasses held by Philippe Raskin, William Grant Naboré, Pier Francesco Forlenza, Martina Frezzotti, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Igor Cognolato, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Kathryn Brown, Gülsin Onay, Leonel Morales, Frédéric Lagarde, Michael Davidov, Steven Spooner, Toms Ostrovskis, Kálmán Dráfi, Dénes Várjon and Boaz Sharon. She was honoured with the Cziffra Festival Creative Artist Award in 2024, Junior Prima Prize in 2022, and Zoltán Kocsis Scholarship for Young Talents.
Anastasiia Kliuchereva graduated from the Central Music School by Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Mikhail Voskresensky in 2022. She is currently studying with Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She has won numerous prestigious awards at international and national competitions such as ‘Music without Limits’ (Lithuania), International Piano Competition for Young Pianists (Mexico), Amadeus Piano Competition (Czech Republic), International Chopin Piano Competition (Estonia), Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition (Slovakia), International Chopin Piano Competition (Poland), Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’ (Italy), International Mozart Competition (China), Vienna International Competition, International Johann Nepomuk Hummel Competition (Slovakia). She has also participated in renowned festivals such as Stars on Lake Baikal, Gradus International Piano Festival, Alion Baltic, Children of Mozart, International Youth Festival P.I. Tchaikovsky, Chieti Classica, VP Bank Classic Festival and Internationale Sommerakademie.
