Nino Gvetadze started her studies in her birthplace Tbilisi (Georgia) and then studied in the Netherlands with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn. In 2008, the pianist won the second prize, the press prize and the audience prize of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht. Two years later she received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Nino Gvetadze travels the world giving recitals and has made solo CDs with works by Chopin, Liszt, Musorgsky, Rachmaninov, Debussy and Brahms. As a soloist she has been a guest with companies such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Joensuu Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors with whom she has collaborated are Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Klaus Mäkelä, Jakub Hrůša and Jaap van Zweden. During the 2017 Prinsengracht Concert she performed with the Brodsky Quartet.
Nino recorded CDs for Brilliant Classics, Etcetera and Orchid and Challenge, with whom she recently recorded a new Brahms CD. She forms a critically acclaimed trio with Frederieke Saeijs and Maja Bogdanovic and teaches at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Naarden International Piano Festival and artistic director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival.

Alexander Gavrylyuk (1984) is internationally recognized for his exciting and poetic performances. He began his piano studies at the age of seven in his native Ukraine and gave his first concert performance at the age of nine. As an Australian citizen, he moved to Sydney at the age of 13, where he lived until 2006. He won first prize and gold medal at the Horowitz International Piano Competition (1999), first prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2000) and the gold medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition (2005).
Since then he has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia London and the Vienna Symphoniker with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski and Osmo Vänska.
He has given recitals in the largest halls in the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Suntory Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of the most important piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical acclaim worldwide. Among his numerous awards are two Edisons, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason D’or de l’Annee and the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
He regularly works as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw.
Paul Lewis’ recital career takes him to venues such as the Royal Festival Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
His multi-award-winning discography for Harmonia Mundi includes Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, concertos and Diabelli Variations, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and other late works, and all of Schubert’s major piano works from the last six years of his life, including the three song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore.
Paul Lewis studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before studying privately with Alfred Brendel. He is co-artistic director of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Paul Lewis gave the Prinsengracht concert last summer.

Malaysian pianist Magdalene Ho was born in 2003 and started playing the piano at the age of four. In 2013 she began her studies with Patsy Toh at the Purcell School in Great Britain. In 2015, she received the ABRSM Sheila Mossman Prize and Silver Award. As part of a prize at the PIANALE piano festival in Fulda, Germany, she released an album of works by Bach and Messiaen in 2019. She was a finalist at the 2023 Düsseldorf Schumann Competition and a few months later received the Joan Chissell Schumann Prize for piano at the Royal College of Music. In September 2023 she won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey and received the Audience Prize, the Young Critics’ Prize and the Children’s Corner Prize. Magdalene has been studying with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music since September 2022, where she is a Dasha Shenkman Scholar supported by the Gordon Calway Stone Scholarship. She is also sponsored by the Weir Award through the Keyboard Charitable Trust.

Emanuil Ivanov attracted international attention after winning first prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy. This achievement was followed by concert performances in some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Herculessaal in Munich.
Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the city of Pazardzhik in Bulgaria. From an early age he showed a great interest and love for music. He started taking piano lessons with Galina Daskalova in his hometown around the age of seven. Ivanov studied with the famous Bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018. He is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt.
In February 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ivanov gave a solo recital at Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala that was streamed online.
In 2022 he received the Silver Medal of Honor from the Musicians’ Company, London and later that year he was awarded the prestigious Carnwath Piano Scholarship.
Emanuil Ivanov has given critically acclaimed performances and tours in Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom, among others, and has played with leading orchestras in South Africa, Bulgaria and Italy. In the summer of 2023 he recorded an album of Scarlatti sonatas for the renowned Naxos label.

Damiën Heemskerk (2002) started playing the piano at the age of twelve. He took lessons with Elly van der Wallen and quickly developed his talent for the instrument. Since 2019 he has been studying at Codarts in Rotterdam with Bart van de Roer. He won prizes at the Princess Christina Competition, but also at the Princess Marianne Competition and, together with violinist Nina Broeva, the Gelre Chamber Music Competition. He played Chopin’s First Piano Concerto in 2018, performed his own composition for piano and orchestra in 2020 and gave a performance of Willem Pijpers’ orchestral piece with piano in 2022 in De Doelen in Rotterdam. Since 2022, Damiën has regularly played in the DoelenEnsemble, where he can also express his love for the modern repertoire.
Furthermore, Damiën is also very interested in other art forms, such as graphic art and literature. He often designs and draws his concert programs himself and is always looking for new ways to combine different art forms and disciplines.