Author: Ben Marder

  • Katharina Naomi Paul

    Katharina Naomi Paul

    Katharina Naomi Paul studied violin with Kathrin Scholz, Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath and Stephanie Conley, and chamber music with the Belcea String Quartet and the Auryn String Quartet. She has ‘participated in master classes with Louis Kaplan,Werner Scholz, Igor Ozim and András Schiff. Katharina is a graduate of the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold and…

  • Quirijn van Regteren Altena

    Quirijn van Regteren Altena

    Quirijn van Regteren Altena is a highly sought after soloist, chamber music player and orchestral musician. As a soloist, Quirijn has commissioned various compositions for his instrument, which have been featured on his critically acclaimed CDs “Characters” (Olympia Records) and “Pantomime” (Aristo). As a long-time member of the world-renowned AskoSchönberg Ensemble, Quirijn has worked closely…

  • Anneke Janssen

    Anneke Janssen

    Anneke Janssen studied at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam with Dmitri Ferschtman and Jean Decroos. She has participated in master classes with Karine Georgian, Mischa Maisky and Natalia Gutman. In 1994 she graduated from the conservatory and joined the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands.

  • Natalia Gabunia

    Natalia Gabunia

    Natalia Gabunia was born into a family with a broad musical tradition in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her father, Nodar Gabunia, was a prominent pianist and composer who studied with Khatchaturian. She was trained at the conservatories of Tbilisi, Moscow, Hamburg and Utrecht with such eminent teachers as Phillip Hirschhorn, Mark Lubotsky and Maya Glezarova. Miss Gabunia…

  • International Piano

    “Together, these discs provide an unmissable survey of a composer whose music calls out for much wider exposure. Sicroff’s expertise is invaluable and his pianistic prowess second to none. ”   Colin Clarke, International Piano, July 2021  

  • Why Thomas de Hartmann?

    Thursday, April 1, 2021   Elan Sicroff shines a light on an unfairly neglected composer as a new series of recordings is released on the Nimbus label   Elan Sicroff (photo: Ingrid Pape Sheldon) Jeaneane Dowis, assistant to the famous piano teacher Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School, once said to me that in modern…