Asia Music & Arts

Dilbèr
Native of the autonomous region of Xinjiang in which her people the Uighur live, Dilber graduated from the music academy of Beijing. After having started a successful career in Asia, a career that still flourishes, she began a European career when she took part in the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki.

Engagements followed swiftly in Finland, Europe and the rest of the world. Some of the opera houses Dilber has performed in, are Amsterdam, Bonn, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Goteborg, Hamburg, Munchen, Salzburg- and Edinburgh Festivals, Stockholm, Venice and Vienna. In Finland she has a permanent contract with the Finnish National Opera.
Dang Thai Son
“A genuine musician” - Isaac Stern

An outstanding international musician of our time, Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Xth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist
Cavatina Duo
“Style, sympathy, and technical aplomb… it's doubtful that the Cavatina's sophisticated and artistic playing could be surpassed.”

— Fanfare
The Cavatina Duo — Eugenia Moliner, flute (from Spain) and Denis Azabagic, guitar (from Bosnia) — has become one of the most impressive combinations of its kind in the world.
They have recorded five CD's for Spanish and North American labels: Opera Tres, Cedille, Bridge and Orobroy Records.
Singer Pur
The aim to make a capella singing their lives already developed at school: soon after leaving five former members of the famous Regensburger Domspatzen cathedral boys´ choir put it into practice and founded Singer Pur in 1992.

It was a fortunate love affair that brought a soprano into their ranks: soon afterwards the sextet with the unusual combination of voices (a soprano, three tenors, a baritone and a bass) won first prize in the 1994 Deutscher Bundeswettbewerb, a year later the coveted Grand Prix for vocal ensembles at the international Tampere Music Festival in Finland, and was launched on its road to becoming the leading German-speaking vocal group. Soon television and radio appearances, CD recordings, invitations to major festivals and concerts in over 40 countries established an international career
Piano Battle
The black and the white are ready to fight.

Two piano champions on stage; one in black, the other in white. They perform, compete, and shine; the concert hall packed full of people, applauding, clapping, and raising their voting cards; the referees observing and counting votes, sometimes struggling with their duty …

Welcome to the Piano Battle !!
Gwhyneth Chen
Ms Gwhyneth Chen, a Taiwanese American pianist who in 1993, won the biggest cash prize in the history of piano competitions. Ms. Chen, then a young lady of 23, was the youngest contestant at the 1993 Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competition. Subsequent to the award, Mr. Pogorelich himself said of her talent, “She is too good to be true.” Immediately recognized as one of the foremost pianists of her generation, the victory was broadcast internationally on CNN television.
Taiwan Connection
Nai-Yuan Hu, violist, is the Music Director of Taiwan Connection Music Festival, which he founded in his native homeland in 2004 to bring together talented Taiwanese musicians from home and abroad in chamber music performances. The festival has the further aim of promoting classical music all over Taiwan, often reaching general public beyond the usual concert hall setting. In the spirit of chamber music collaboration, a string orchestra was formed in 2007, and two years later, a full complement of winds was added to form the TC Chamber Orchestra, performing always without a conductor. In the 2010 festival, TC Chamber Orchestra tackled Beethoven Eroica Symphony, receiving much critical acclaim.