Maria Canyigueral has been described by La Vanguardia as 'a pianist of great personality'. One of the leading lights among the new generation of Spanish pianists, Maria Canyigueral has inspired collaborations with outstanding contemporary Spanish composers such as Antón García Abril, Benet Casablancas, Joan Magrané, Josep Maria Guix and others. Her partnership with Antón García Abril has been particularly successful, attracting high praise from critics and audiences both in Spain and the UK. Antón García Abril has written 'Reverberaciones' for Maria's 'Avant-guarding Mompou' project and 'Hoy es siempre todavía' for her Horn trio. Having spent her formative years between Spain and the UK, she has since attracted a devoted following of her worldwide concert itineraries. Having completed her undergraduate studies at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona with Michel Wagemans, she later attained a Master of Arts in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with Sulamita Aronovsky. She has also received musical advice from Nino Kereselidze and André de Groote. Maria Canyigueral’s name soon became a fixture of the international piano circuit, embracing Spain, the UK, Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya), Belgium and other countries. Recent highlights include solo recitals at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and at Fundación Juan March in Madrid; a recital at the Wigmore hall with violinist Lana Trotovsek; a performance as part of the composition seminar by Benet Casablancas at the Royal Academy of Music, London; solo appearances at the Festival Portaferrada, Schubertíada Vilabertran and Festival de Música de Cervia - Ibercamera; recitals in Zulte, Belgium; and a performance at the Echoes Festival, St. James Piccadilly, London. In addition to her live performances, Maria has made an impact with her recordings of chamber music. She won the Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards in California for her album of works by C. Franck, Granados, Skerjanc and Finzi, recorded with violinist Lana Trotovsek (Hedone Records, 2016). A recording with flautist Boris Bizjak, of works by Martinu, Poulenc, Fauré and Böhm, was also released by Hedone Records in 2016. She is currently recording the complete set of Sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven with violinist Lana Trotovsek. Maria has lately been working with internationally known composers on her own project ‘Avant-Guarding Mompou’. This was premiered at Conway Hall, London in June 2018 and featured contributions from Nicolas Bacri, Antón García Abril, Joseph Phibbs, Konstantia Gourzi, Jiri Gemrot, Josep Maria Guix, Joan Magrané, Victor Estapé and Moritz Eggert. The project was supported by Instituto Cervantes, Arts Council England, Institut Ramon Llull, Fundació Mompou and fashion label Lilly e Violetta. Released on Cd on the Audite label. Having now been a touring artist for many years, Maria Canyigueral has continuous plans for further international performances including solo recitals in Spain and England. A return appearance in Duo with Lana Trotovsek at Ljubljana Festival and Lozer Festival, featuring the complete set of sonatas by Beethoven. Recitals in Serbia and Scotland.

Jean-Baptiste Dupont enjoys as musician an international career. He performed more than 500 recitals in most of the European countries, in the USA and in Russia, in prestigious venues (Cathedrals from Paris, New York, Berlin, London, Cologne, Copenhagen, Mariinsky concert hall, Bolshoi Theatre, etc...). He has a broad repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present days, including many transcriptions. Jean-Baptiste Dupont has been hailed as one of the greatest young improvisers on the organ. He is a frequent guest performer at international festivals, radios, etc. As a specialist of improvisation, he’s regularly invited to give masterclasses and workshops on that field. He has been a jury member in competitions in France, USA and Germany. Born in 1979, Jean-Baptiste Dupont began his musical studies at the piano. He discovered the organ later, at the age of 12, and began organ studies at the Institute of Sacred Music of Toulouse. He graduated with distinction from the organ department at the Conservatoire in Toulouse. As one of the top alumni of the Conservatoire, he was awarded the Francis Vidal prize by the city of Toulouse in 2006 and subsequently continued his studies at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Musique et Danse in Toulouse where he obtained performing and teaching diplomas. Jean-Baptiste Dupont’s organ, improvisation, harpsichord and piano teachers included Michel Bouvard, Louis Robilliard, Philippe Lefebvre, Jan Willem Jansen and Thérèse Dussaut. He was finalist and laureate in many organ competitions, both in interpretation and improvisation. He won the 1st prize (improvisation) in St-Albans international competition in July 2009 ; the 2nd prize, audience prize, Glinka and De Boni Arte foundations prizes in "Mikael Tariverdiev" competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, 2009 ; and the 3rd prize in “Xavier Darasse” international competition (Toulouse, France) in October 2008. Latest releases include Widor's Symphonie No. 8 for the label audite. His work on Max Reger’s complete organ works have been acclaimed by international press and gained an international recognition, and subsequently, Jean-Baptiste Dupont was invited in several symposium and international events about the composer. Jean-Baptiste Dupont was appointed organist at Bordeaux Cathedral after a competition which took place in April 2012. He was founder and artistic director of Cathedra (sacred music at Bordeaux Cathedral) from 2014 to 2019, and speaks up for the rebuilding of the cathedral organ.

Ann-Helena Schlüter is one of the most versatile artists of her generation and enjoys international renown as a concert pianist and organist, and also as a composer, poet and writer of books. Born into a family of pianists, the German-Swedish musician received her first lessons from her parents, Ann-Margret and Prof. Karl-Heinz Schlüter. She went on to study piano, organ, composition, musicology, music and instrumental education, which took her to Perth, Australia, as well as Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA. She completed her training as a concert pianist with Bernd Glemser and as a concert organist with Pieter van Dijk and Christoph Bossert. International masterclasses with, amongst others, Hakim, Latry, Roth, Jacobs, Perticaroli, Schmeding, Gulda, Weissenberg, Kämmerling, Gililov, Margulis, Badura-Skoda and Hewitt complemented her training. Ann-Helena Schlüter won prizes at the International Piano Competitions in Nuremberg, Munich, London and Ettlingen as well as at the Steinway Piano Competition in Hamburg and in Italy. Prior to that she won several first and special prizes as well as scholarships at the Jugend musiziert competition, and also at international literary competitions. She is a sought-after soloist worldwide on the piano and organ. In addition to numerous concert engagements in Germany and other European countries, she has appeared in Israel, Russia, Africa and Nepal, in the Philippines, Australia, the USA and Asia, performing alongside renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Jena Philharmonie, the Nuremberg Staatsphilharmonie, the MasterWorks Festival Orchestra and various chamber orchestras at distinguished venues, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Stuttgart Liederhalle, Salzburg Mozarteum, Berlin Admiralspalast, Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle, Schloss Elmau and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. Numerous recordings for the Bavarian, North German and Saarland Radio with piano and organ document her work. Schlüter has received scholarships from the DAAD, Erasmus, the Gisela Bartels Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Neumann Foundation Frankfurt, the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festival, among others. She has taught her own piano class at the Universität and Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, devoting herself intensively to nurturing young talent as well as teaching the music of Bach.

The German conductor Dominik Beykirch has been responsible for shaping the artistic profile of the Deutsches Nationaltheater (DNT) and the Staatskapelle Weimar since the 2015/16 season, most recently in the position of Music Director. Throughout this period, he has consistently upheld the highest standards of excellence. From the 2025/26 season onwards, however, he intends to pursue new opportunities, performing as a freelance conductor at various opera houses and concert halls. Dominik Beykirch's highlights for the 2025/26 season include his debut in the orchestra pit of the Semperoper Dresden with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, as well as new productions of Die tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold at the German National Theatre Weimar (director: Dorian Dreher) and Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus at the Staatstheater Schwerin (director: Stephanie Schimmer). In the concert field, he is particularly looking forward to working with percussionist Vivi Vassileva (Recycling Concerto with the Mecklenburg State Orchestra) and with pianist Alexander Krichel in a concert with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. He is also looking forward to performing exciting programmes featuring works by Elfrida Andrée, Cécile Chaminade, Florence Price and Alice Mary Smith. He will be making his first guest appearances with the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, among others. Dominik Beykirch continues to make a name for himself internationally through his work as an opera conductor. At the Deutsches Nationaltheater (DNT), his initiative led to the first performance in 170 years of the opera Samson by Swiss composer Joachim Raff (director: Calixto Bieito) in October 2022. During the 2019/2020 season, Beykirch enjoyed great success with Paul Dessau's opera Lanzelot, which had not been performed for 40 years. The production, directed by Peter Konwitschny, was named ‘Rediscovery of the Year’ by the trade journal Opernwelt, which also nominated Beykirch as ‘Conductor of the Year’. In January 2023, the CD label audite released a recording of the complete opera. This recording received significant press attention and was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize and the 'CD of the Year' prize by Opernwelt, as well as having been nominated for the International Opera Awards. New productions such as Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos in Martin G. Berger's award-winning production (FAUST Prize 2020), Salome (director: Friederike Blum), Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi (directors: Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito), Der fliegende Holländer (directed by Barbora Horáková), Aida and La traviata (directed by Andrea Moses) and L'italiana in Algeri (directed by Tobias Kratzer) were all also very well received by audiences and the trade press. In recognition of their conceptual work in the opera department of the Deutsches Nationaltheater (DNT), Dominik Beykirch, Michael Höppner (senior dramaturg) and Andrea Moses (opera director) were awarded the 2024 German Theatre Publishers' Award. Thanks to the precision of Beykirch’s craftsmanship, his sensitivity to the needs of singers and to his musical enthusiasm, he has also created exceptional theatrical events at other opera houses, such as the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, the Leipzig Opera, the Kassel State Theatre and the Chemnitz Theatre. When it comes to concerts, Dominik Beykirch has long been a highly sought-after guest conductor. He has collaborated with numerous renowned orchestras, including the HR, MDR, SWR and WDR symphony orchestras, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonie Zuidnederland, the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reutlingen, and the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra. He has also performed with soloists such as Nemanja Radulovic, Cameron Carpenter, Jens Peter Maintz, Jan Vogler, Danae Dörken, Michael Barenboim, Harriet Krijgh and Claudio Bohórquez. Dominik Beykirch enjoys an intensive collaborative relationship with the pianist Frank Dupree. Together, they have introduced a wide audience to Nikolai Kapustin's piano concertos. Their second joint recording, featuring Kapustin's second and sixth piano concertos with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and SWR Big Band, was released in November 2024. Dominik Beykirch was nominated in the category Conductor of the Year at the OPUS Klassik awards for his multi-award-winning recording of Kapustin's Fifth Piano Concerto (International Classical Music Award, Diapason d'Or), released in February 2023. In 2020, the Berlin Classics label released the album Clarinet Concertos, featuring clarinettist Sebastian Manz performing Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken under Beykirch's direction. Beykirch also recorded Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (narrator: Malte Arkona) with the Dresden Philharmonic for Berlin Classics. Dominik Beykirch completed his studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar, studying conducting under Prof. Nicolás Pasquet, Prof. Gunter Kahlert and Martin Hoff. He gained valuable artistic inspiration from renowned conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Ton Koopman, among others, and as a scholarship holder in the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council. He now shares his experience in master classes and by teaching at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. During the winter semester of 2024/25, he also taught the main Orchestral Conducting class at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar.