Jacques Zoon

Flute
Multiple-prize winner Jacques Zoon played in the European Community Youth Orchestra with Abbado, Dorati, Solti, Bernstein. He was principal flute in Residentie Orkest, Royal Concertgebouw, Chamber Orch. of Europe, Boston Symphony Orchestra; substitute principal flute in Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He teaches at Haute école de musique (Geneva) and Reina Sofía School of Music. Since 2003 he is principal flute in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He plays soloist and chamber music internationally and invented a new key system improving intonation of the flute.

Iseut Chuat

Cello
Iseut Chuat is a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and has been guest soloist of numerous orchestras throughout the world. She performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician as well as being a guest artist of prestigious international festivals. She has recorded for Saphir productions for which she received praise from critics. Several works are dedicated to her, notably the suite for solo cello Jaguar song by Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne. Ofer Ben Amots is presently composing for her a cello concerto that will be premiered in 2023.

Noémi Zoon

Piano
Noémi Zoon, 17 years old, is currently studying at Geneva Conservatory, enrolled in the pre-professional program, both in piano and in singing. She was only 6 years old when Maria João Pires noticed her for her exceptional musical talent. She regularly receives advice from Claudio Martinez Mehner and has been participating in master classes given by Elisabeth Leonskaïa and Ivan Klánsky. She has performed in Vilnius, Lisbon, Madrid, and many different parts of France and Switzerland, as a piano soloist and chamber musician, as well as a singer.

Nikolay Shalamov

Piano
Nikolay Shalamov was born in Russia, where he started his musical path in the S. Rachmaninoff conservatory in Rostov-on-Don. After studying with numerous outstanding musicians such as D. Bashkirov, R. Gothoni, E. Nebolsin, M. Mollova, H-P. Stenzl and V. Stenzl in Bulgaria, Spain, and Germany, the 1st and audience prizes of the prestigious ARD 2015 competition in Munich brought him a very successful career in Europe. Currently based in Berlin, Nikolay combines teaching with chamber and solo playing.

Max Werner

Oboe / English Horn
Max Werner studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Jacques Tys and at the Musikhochschule in Hannover with Klaus Becker. In 2009–10 he was principal oboe in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and since 2011 has been principal English horn in the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He also performs regularly with: the NDR-Elbphilharmonie-Orchester in Hamburg, the Bayerischen Staatsoper in Munich, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Deutschen Oper Berlin, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden.

Ralph Skiano

Clarinet
Ralph Skiano currently serves as Principal Clarinet of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra after serving in the same position in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as guest principal clarinet of the Seattle Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Skiano has served on the faculties of several American colleges and conservatories, including the College of William and Mary, James Madison University, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He now lives in Detroit, Michigan with his wife Stacie and their dog, “Bear.”

Marc Goldberg

Bassoon
Bassoonist Marc Goldberg is a member of the NY Woodwind Quintet, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and principal bassoonist of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, and NYC Opera. Solo appearances with the Brandenburg Ensemble, Mostly Mozart, American Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Saito Kinen Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Faculty: The Juilliard School Pre-College, New England Conservatory, Mannes College, The Hartt School, Bard College Conservatory, and NYU.

Julia Pilant

Horn
Julia Pilant is the assistant principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a horn instructor at Bard College Conservatory of Music. In addition to playing guest principal horn for Saito Kinen Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Nomori music festivals, and Mito Chamber Orchestra, she is a guest artist with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has participated in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Affinis Music Festival (Nagaoka), Classical Tahoe, Mainly Mozart, and La Jolla Music Society SummerFest.