Pavel Kolesnikov became Prize Laureate of the Honens International Piano Competition in 2012, and recital and festival appearances resulting from the Honens Prize include Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, the Louvre (Paris), Vancouver Recital Society, La Jolla Music Society, Spoleto Festival USA, Canada’s Ottawa ChamberFest and Banff Summer Festival.
Pavel has performed with the Toronto Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé, the BBC Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He has undertaken UK and European tours with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony and Flanders Symphony Orchestras. Pavel made his BBC Proms debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland conducted by Ilan Volkov. He also joined the BBC Proms at the inaugural event in Australia. Pavel will perform his first Beethoven Concerto cycle with Sinfonia Cymru during the 2020 Beethoven anniversary year.

He has given recitals at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, as part of the international Piano Series, and at Kings Place, London. He enjoys collaborating with other musicians, such as the Brahms Violin and Viola Sonatas with Lawrence Power, again at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Pavel has also given recitals in South Korea, Japan, Spain, and Germany, and at the La Roque d’Antheron festival, the Musiq3 Festival in Brussels, and the Aldeburgh Festival. He returns regularly to the Wigmore Hall in London.

London-based Pavel Kolesnikov was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. He studied both the piano and violin for ten years, before concentrating solely on the piano. He has studied at Moscow State Conservatory with Sergey Dorensky, at London’s Royal College of Music with Norma Fisher and at Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Maria João Pires thanks to the generous support of Mr Christopher D Budden, the RCM Scholarship Foundation and Hattori Foundation. Pavel is the recipient of the Milstein Medal and is the RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow. Pavel was a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists from 2014 to 2016.

Munich-born violinist Viviane Hagner, highly praised for her highly intelligent musicality, is in high demand worldwide as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator.

Since her international debut at the age of twelve, Hagner has become known for her intelligent interpretations and gorgeous, substantive sound. She has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Munich Philharmonic, among others.

Hagner’s impressive 2019-2020 season takes her across Europe and North America, including Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D minor with the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg, Berg’s Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic and conductor Markus Stenz, and Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto with Vancouver Symphony led by Otto Tausk. In February, Hagner embarks on a tour of Italy with the Camerata Salzburg, where she will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Schubert’s Rondo in A major in such major concert halls as the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Teatro Communale di Modena.  As a chamber musician, Hagner appears this season at the Lammermuir Festival and Villa Music as well as in recital with Nicole Hagner in Winnenden.

Viviane Hagner ardently promotes and performs new, undiscovered music. She has performed works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Witold Lutoslawski. In 2002, she gave the world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s violin concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano. Recently, Hagner gave the Asian premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Second Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.