Luigi Gaggero has been performing as cimbalom and percussion player and as a conductor of contemporary music ensembles at important concert halls and festivals all over Europe, USA, and China (Philharmonics in Berlin, Paris and Kiev, Milano Musica, Carnegie Hall, Salzburger Festspiele, BBC Proms in London, Biennali in Salzburg and Venezia, Klangspuren, DeSingel...) For 20 years Luigi has been dedicating himself to the development of new playing techniques on the cimbalom, revolutionizing the approach to the instrument. He premiered more than 40 compositions -among solo pieces, concertos and chamber music- written for him by many of the most important composers of our time, contributing to an essential widening of the cimbalom literature. Faraway from a widespread structuralist approach to modern music, Luigi privileges a phenomenological one: with this spirit he co-founded as artistic and music director the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, which he conducts since 2015. In 2018 he has been appointed chief conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he founded the vocal ensemble La Dolce Maniera with which he recorded 2 CDs dedicated to Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Vittorio Ghielmi wrote: “these fresh interpretations, far away from any ‘museality’, remind closely of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro and the Baroque sculpture, letting this music powerfully come to life again before our eyes”. As a conductor Luigi recorded monographic CDs dedicated to Gervasoni (Winter & Winter), Hosokawa, (Kairos), Solbiati (EMA Vinci Records), Monteverdi and Gesualdo (Stradivarius); as a cimbalom player he recorded works by Eötvös, Fedele, Francesconi, Gervasoni, Hosokawa, Lévinas, Kurtág and Solbiati. He regularly plays with the best European formations (Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Kammerorchester, Filarmonica della Scala, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestre du Théâtre de La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Orchestre de Radio France; ensembles InterContemporain, Scharoun, musikfrabrik, Modern, œnm Salzburg, Contrechamps and Remix) under the direction of Abbado, Barenboim, Boulez, Harnoncourt, Holliger, Muti, Nagano, Ono, Pappano, Poppen and Rattle. Luigi collaborated also with interpreters like Juliane Banse, Muriel Cantoreggi, Mario Caroli, Marino Formenti, David Grimal, Niek de Groot, Barbara Hannigan, Maria Husmann, András Keller and Geneviève Strosser. He has studied percussions and conducting with Andrea Pestalozza -who brought him to the enthusiastic discover of the music of the 20th Century-, cimbalom with Márta Fábián and, studying with Edgar Guggeis and Rainer Seegers, was the first percussionist to receive the soloist-diploma with honors at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Gaggero is professor of cimbalom at the Conservatoire and at the Académie supérieure de musique in Strasbourg, where he also conducts the contemporary music ensemble of the Académie.

Airam Hernández has become one of the most valued tenors of his generation. The uniqueness of his timbre and his highly developed musicality has given him a place of honor in the opera world. Season 2024/2025 and season 2025/2026 will come with great opera debuts like Erik in DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER, Walter in DIE PASSAGIERIN and Don José in CARMEN at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; Roberto Leicester in MARIA STUARDO at Teatro Real de Madrid; Carlo VII in GIOVANNA D’ARCO and Romeo, in ROMEO ET JULIETTE at Ópera de Tenerife. He will sing also Pollione in NORMA at Festival Valle d’Itria, Cassio in Otello at Teatro Real and Erik in DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER at Ópera de Tenerife. It will also come plenty of fantastic symphonic works like Mahler’s DAS LIED VON DER ERDE at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY Nº 9 at Teatro Maestranza de Sevilla; Mozart's RÉQUIEM and Chausson’s POÈME DE L’AMOUR Y DE LA MER at Auditorio Alfredo Klaus; Beethoven’s SYMPHONY Nº 9, Debussy´s L’ENFANT PRODIGUE, Mendelssohn’s PAULUS and de Falla’s LA VIDA BREVE at Auditorio de Tenerife. He will also perform recitals in Toulouse, Gran Canaria,Tenerife, Oviedo, Zamora, London and Shanghái.

Spanish pianist Josu De Solaun is a First Prize winner of the XIII. George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest (succeeding legendary pianists such as Radu Lupu and Elisabeth Leonskaja), the XV. José Iturbi International Piano Competition and the First European Union Piano Competition held in Prague. He is the only pianist from Spain to win the Enescu and Iturbi competitions in their respective histories. Josu De Solaun has been invited to perform in distinguished concert series throughout the world, having made notable appearances in Bucharest (Romanian Athenaeum), Venice (Teatro La Fenice), Saint Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre), Washington, DC (Kennedy Center), New York (Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera), Princeton (Taplin Hall), London (Southbank Centre), Paris (Salle Cortot), Leipzig (Schumann Haus), Taipei (Novel Hall), Mexico City (Sala Silvestre Revueltas), Prague (Nostitz Palace), Rome (Academia de España), Menton (Festival de Musique de Menton), and all major cities of Spain. Beginning at a young age, Josu De Solaun has performed in France, Georgia, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Japan, China, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Mexico, Chile, and Switzerland as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. He has concertized with many international orchestras such as Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, Rudolf Barshai Moscow Chamber Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic of Bucharest, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Valencia, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Spain’s Radio and Television Orchestra (RTVE), Orchestra Filarmonica la Fenice of Venice, Bari Symphony Orchestra of Italy, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra of New York, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Monterey Symphony Orchestra and Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. His performances have been broadcast on Spanish National Radio and TV, Taiwanese and Czech National TV, as well as on New York’s WQXR, Princeton’s WPRB, and Chicago’s WFMT. Josu De Solaun’s repertoire includes rare piano concertos like Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety, Giuseppe Martucci’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Britten’s Diversions, Hummel’s A Minor Piano Concerto, Constantinescu’s Piano Concerto, as well as the complete concerti of Liszt, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Bartók. In addition, his passion also belongs to chamber music – as for the literature itself but also for the non-verbal communication between musicians. He has recorded the complete works for piano of George Enescu and Les Noces by Stravinsky with JoAnn Falletta as conductor. Future releases will include an album of Czech piano music, and concertos by Liszt and Bartók. Josu De Solaun is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where his two main teachers and main musical influences have been pianists Nina Svetlanova and Horacio Gutiérrez.