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the Evian Festival and from that moment on his
solo career took off. A frequent soloist with the
leading orchestras of today, Marc Coppey has
collaboratedwithmany distinguished conductors
such as Eliahu Inbal, Emmanuel Krivine, Rafael
Frühbeck de Burgos and Asher Fisch and
has appeared in some of the most prestigious
concert halls of the world. He is the dedicatee
of a number of works by composers such as
Christian, Durieux, Fedele and Fénelon, and
his numerous recordings have received critical
acclaim worldwide, including Télérama’s ffff,
Diapason d’Or, a “Choc” from the Magazine Le
Monde de la Musique and BBC Magazine five
stars.
Tim Park / cello
Cellist Tim Park has been praised for his
energetic and exhilarating performances as
well as for his expressive and beautiful sound.
Concerts as soloist, recitalist and chamber
musician have brought Tim to many of the
world’s most prestigious concert halls. Tim has
performed as soloist with orchestras such as the
New York Chamber, Detroit Symphony, Palo
Alto Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica
Nacional de Venezuela, Moscow Radio
SymphonyOrchestra, Berlin Sinfonie-Orchestra,
Berliner Symphoniker, Lithuanian National
Chamber Orchestra, Tel-Aviv Camerata,
Berliner Camerata. An avid chamber musician,
Tim performs frequently at music festivals such
as the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Bach
FestwochenAnsbach, Schleswig-HolsteinMusic
Festival, and the Kennedy Center, and regularly
collaborates with such distinguished artists as
Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Alessio
Bax, and Emmanuel Pahud. Born to Korean
parents, Tim grew up in New York and began
cello lessons at the age of eight. He entered the
Juilliard School at eleven and continued studies
at Yale University withAldo Parisot. He finished
his degrees in Germany studying with David
Geringas at the Musikhochschule Lubeck and
the Hochschule fur Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin.
Tim has also studied with Steven Isserlis, Boris
Pergamenschikov, M. Rostropovitch and Janos
Starker in masterclasses.
Massimo Mercelli / flute
Massimo Mercelli became, at the age of 19, the
first flute of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice, and
won the Francesco Cilea Prize, the International
Competition Giornate Musicali and the Stresa
International Competition. As a soloist, he
appears regularly in the most prestigious concert
halls in the world – Carnegie Hall in New York,
Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam, Saint Martin in the Fields and
Wigmore Hall in London, Parco della Musica in
Rome, Philarmonica in Warsaw, Tchaikovsky
Hall inMoscow– and collaborates withmusicians
such as Yuri Bashmet, Krzysztof Penderecki,
PhilipGlass, and Peter-Lukas Graf, and orchestras
such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow
Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic,
Prague Philarmonia, Wiener Symphoniker, and
the Franz List Chamber Orchestra. Mercelli has
premiered a number of works which are dedicated
to him, including, Facades by Philip Glass, Ennio
Morricone’s Cantata Vuoto di Anima Piena,
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by Michael
Nyman, and Contrafactus by Giovanni Sollima.
In September 2012 the CD Massimo Mercelli
plays Philip Glass was released, and recent
engagements include the recording of J.S. Bach’s
sonatas with Ramin Bahrami under the DECCA
label, the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s
new concerto, dedicated to him, his participation
in the concert for the celebration of Krzysztof
Penderecki’s 80th birthday at the Warsaw
Philharmonic and the exclusive performance of
his Sinfonietta for Flute and Strings.
Cyprus Guitar Trio
The Cyprus Guitar Trio was founded in
2015. Comprising three renowned classical
guitarists from Cyprus – Vasilios Avraam,
George Christofi and Socrates Leptos, the Trio
is dedicated to the promotion of the important
yet unexplored repertoire of the combination
of three classical guitars, as well as the creation
of new works for this combination, and the
arrangements and transcriptions of existing
works. Vasilios Avraam studied at the Ferenc
Liszt Conservatory in Hungary, at the National
Conservatoire of Region in Strasbourg and