Beatrice has played with Ensemble Respighi, the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Nizhnij Novgorod Academic Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also recorded works by J S Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov for the Italian Music Magazine Suonare News. Born in 1988, the French pianist Guillaume Sigier entered the class of Henri Barda and Isabelle Dubuis at the Paris Conservatoire in 2005. There he also studied accompaniment, chamber music, and harmony, most notably with Roger Muraro, Claire Désert and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. Eager to encounter leading musical personalities, Guillaume has benefited from the advice and masterclasses of Susan Manoff, Anne Quéffelec, Denis Pascal, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Ivry Gitlis, Byron Janis, Gilbert Amy, Michel Béroff, Christian Ivaldi and the members of the Wanderer Trio. He has performed in recitals at Salle Pleyel and Cité de la musique in Paris and in Lille as a soloist in Beethoven’s Concerto no 3, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Ravel’s Concerto in G. An enthusiastic chamber musician, he has collaborated with the gifted young artists Rika Masato and Yury Revich, as well as with the cellist Honorine Schaeffer at the Roque d’Anthéron Festival. Guillaume was a prize winner at the 57th Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, and winner of the Ravel Prize given by the town of Ciboure in 2011. He is planning to record a CD dedicated to Ravel’s work in 2013.
Natalia Sokolovskaya began her acquaintance with music at the age of
three. In 2003 she studied at the special music school at the Music College of Musorgskiy in the south of Russia. In December 2005, she made her solo debut in The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory under the baton of A Levin. She has since performed with the St Petersburg Symphony, Classica, and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Kharkov. Natalia is currently studying piano and composition at the Moscow Conservatory. She has taken part in masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich, Dmitriy Bashkirov, Dmitriy Alexeev and Michell Beroff.
During the last ten years Natalia has taken part in international music competitions and festivals in Russia, England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic. She has performed solo in the concert halls of Moscow, St Petersburg and the Astrakhan Conservatory. In addition to the competitive awards Natalia has been a scholarship holder of the Rostropovich, Spivakov Charitable Foundation, the Russian Performance Art New Names, and a Special Scholarship from the President of the Russian Federation.