A violinist of dazzling technique and rare sensibility, Sung-Ju Lee has captivated audiences around the world with her "imaginative playing and luminous sound", her "impeccable technique", and her "taste for the dramatic and unflagging sense of authority".

This acclaimed violinist launched her career with a New York debut in 1977 as a winner of "Young Concerts Artists" and was immediately recognized as "a first-rate violinist" by the New York Times.

Designated by Musical America Magazine as one of the country's most outstanding young artists, she has a long list of prizes, starting as a top prize winner of Ewha Young People's Competition in Korea at age 11.  She has gone on to win 1st prize in the Wieniawski-Kosciuszko Violin Competition in New York, a top prize in the Sibelius competition in Finland, a special citation as a finalist in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a Laureate diploma from Queen Elisabeth Com­petition in Belgium.

"When Sung-Ju Lee plays, the impact is immediate", noted the Los Angeles Times.  "She is exciting and powerful."

"Miss Lee has a tone of pure gold", said the Oklahoma City Journal Record.

Upon graduation from the Julliard School (where she studied with Ivan Galamian, Margaret Pardee, and Dorothy Delay), she was awarded the First Kreisler Fellowship for graduate studies.  Her list of accomplishments is impressive, beginning with her appearance as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 9.

Read Sung-Ju Lee's complete biography on her Love2Arts page

Violinist and pedagogue Robert Szreder (born 1946, Poland) teaches violin at the Maastricht Academy of Music.  In addition, he is a guest teacher and gives master classes all over the world, including in the USA, Russia, Ireland, Poland, Germany, China, and Korea.

He studied with Professor Zenon Brzewski at the academy of Warsaw and has won various awards, among which the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition and the Bela Bartok Competition in Budapest.  He was given the Medal of Honour for Culture in Poland.

As a violinist, he has performed at a variety of festivals, such as the Holland festival, the Beethoven Festival in Sweden, the Warsaw Autumn in Poland, and the Mozart Festival in the USA.  He has toured throughout North and South America, Asia, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary, and he has made many radio, television, and CD recordings.  He is frequently asked to be a juror at international competitions.

Dirk Verelst, violinist and conductor, studied at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp with Franz Wigy and in Geneva with Henryk Szeryng.  Afterwards he specialized in the performance of 18th century music with Sigiswald Kuijken and became a member of the Baroque Ensemble "La Petite Bande".  With this ensemble, he played concerts all over the world and was able to perform on radio and television and to record for well-known labels such as Erato, Telefunken, Harmonia Mundi, Philips and Séon.  He was guest professor and conductor at the Xing-Hai Conservatory of Guangzhou (China), guest professor at The Korean International University of Arts in Seoul and guest-conductor of the Collegium Musicum of Kyiv.

Since 2003, he is the artistic director and conductor of the Love2Arts Company.  In collaboration with the famous Lakatos Ensemble he was conducting concerts and live TV and DVD productions in Leipzig, Prague, Poznan, Beograd, Cannes, Ankara, Istanbul and Brussels.  He was invited as a jury member during different international competitions such as the International Shabyt Violin competition in Astana (Kazakhstan), and the International Violin Competition in Cremona (Italy).

During Summer Courses he is guest professor and conductor on different Master-Classes with his friends and colleagues, such as M. Bezverkhny, H. Krebbers, Ph. Hirschhorn, R. Lakatos, I. Frolov, I. Oistrakh, S-J Lee and many others.

Presently, Dirk Verelst is violin and chamber music professor at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp and at the University of State (department Conservatory) in Maastricht.

Since 1991, Dirk Verelst is the president of the International Academy of Arts and since 2006 the President of Love2Arts.

Mikhaïl Bezverkhny was born in 1947 in Saint-Petersburg.  At the age of 5, he started his studies with Prof. Liubov Sigal, student of Leopold Auer.

After having completed his studies at the Central Music School of Leningrad, he joined the Tschaikowsky Conservatory of Moskow to study with Prof. Yuri Yankelevitch, one of the most prominent violin professors of the 20th century.

His career started already at the Moscow Conservatory.  He won several international first prizes: the Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan (1967), the Chamber Music Contest in München (1969), the Chamber Music Contest in Belgrade (1972), the Violin Contest in Montreal (1972), the Interforum in Budapest (1974) and the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels (1976).

Since 1957, he has toured in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, England, Mexico, Columbia, the USA, etc.

During all these years, he has recorded over 40 albums with different recording companies, such as: Melodia, Deutsche Grammophon, Victor and Pavana.  He has been the director of the "La Campanella" record company since 1993.

Over the course of his career, Mikhaïl Bezverkhny has been very active as violinist, viola player, composer, director, cinema actor and as President of the Artists for Artists ES-SO-ES association.

Jenny Spanoghe is known as a Belgian virtuoso soloist, on violin and viola.  She is primarius of the Landini string quartet and the Trio Landini piano trio.  With Jan Van Landeghem (composer, organ, piano and harpsichord-player), she forms the Landini Duo.

Her repertory goes from baroque to contemporary music.  She created over 100 compositions, and a lot of composers dedicated their work to her.  She is also the protagonist of a new type of instrument, the 5-string viola.

Jenny gives recitals in Belgium and abroad, in which she changes from violin to 5-string viola and to viola.

Jenny is professor of violin and chamber music at the Fontys Conservatory at Tilburg (Netherlands).

She received a lot of prizes in Belgium and abroad (prize of Sabam, first Prize of Dexia-Brussels and Prize of the French Foundation in Paris).  Jenny made about 15 cd's, and is in her free time a painter (canvas on oil) and writes poems in three languages.

Angelo Zanin was born in Mogliano Veneto (Treviso).  He studied cello at the B. Marcello Music Conservatory of Venice, with Aldo Pais and Adriano Vendramelli, getting a master degree in 1982 with the maximum of the votes.  He also studied with Paul Szabo, cellist of the famous Vegh Quartett, and was also a pupil of Pablo Casals.

He was First Cellist of the orchestra "Little Simphonya", conducted by Sirio Piovesan, with whom he played as soloist on important festivals in Italy, France and Germany, and played in the orchestra "Villa Lobos", a group of only cellos, coordinated by Mario Brunello.

From the age of 25, he played in the Quartett of Venice with whom he has recorded complete works of Malipiero, Bazzini, Saint-Saëns, Hartmann, Beethoven, Boccherini, Verdi, Respighi, Martucci, etc.  He had among his teachers two of the most important figures of the European history of the Quartett of this century: Sandor Vegh (founding violinist of the Vegh Quartett and director of the Camerata of Salisburgo), and Piero Farulli, alto in the Italian Quartett.  At the quartett, he taught courses at the Fiesole Music School and at the Siena Chigiana Academy.

Zanin collaborated with big musicians such as Bruno Giuranna, Oscar Ghiglia, Pietro De Maria, Lukas Foss, Michele Campanella and the Borodin Quartett.  He also played in front of John Paul II and in front of the President of Italy, that conferred him a prize for the 20th anniversary of the activity.

Angelo Zanin taught in Italy, the USA and Austria, and is cello teacher at the Conservatory of Music of Venice.

Angelo Zanin plays a G. B. Martinenghi, Venezia, 1931.

Gian Paolo Luppi was born on 9th March, 1959 in San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna.  After classical studies he graduated in Piano, Choral Music, Instrumentation for wind ensemble, Composition and Conducting.  His teachers were B.M. Furgeri, B. Bettinelli, F. Donatoni and A. Solbiati for Composition and T. Gotti, G. Bellini and P. Olmi for Conducting.  During his studies he also attended courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna and the Accademia St. Cecilia in Roma.

Since 1984 he has been awarded many prizes in Composition Competitions: 1984, "Città di Belveglio"; 1985, "Città di Castagneto Carducci" (Peters-edition prize in Italy); 1986, "B. Brecht prize" in Milano and "Città di Belveglio"; 1987, "Biennale87" of Barcellona; 1988, "Viotti-Valsesia" prize in Vercelli and "G. Briccialdi" prize in Terni; 1989, "E. Porrino" prize of Cagliari; 1990, "V. Bucchi" prize in Roma and "E. Toldrà" prize in Barcellona; 1991, "S. Guzzi" prize in Lamezia Terme; 1992, "F. Civil" prize in Girona; 1995, "Festival de Musique Sacrée" in Fribourg; 1996, "Città di Viareggio" prize and "A.GI.MUS Varenna" prize in Como; 1998, "Abbazia di Villanova" prize in Verona; 2002, "Salvatore Quasimodo" prize in Cesena; 2004, "International Competition of Sacred Composition" in Lugano and "Ivan Spassov Foundation Prize" in Plovdiv (Bulgaria); 2005, "Città di Cesenatico" Composition Prize.

Several of his compositions were performed at Italian, Belgian, Spanish, Vatican and Romanian radio, and in a lot of important festivals in Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Hungary and Romania as well.

His musics have been recorded by Edipan-Roma; Crescendo-Bari; Quadrivium-Perugia and Pentaphon-Roma.  His works have been published by Peters-Francoforte and Edipan-Roma.

Since 1980 Gian Paolo Luppi has worked as a teacher in various Conservatories, and since 1996 he is teacher of Composition at "G. B. Martini" Conservatory of Bologna.  In 2002 he has taught as guest professor at the Royal Unversity of Stockolm.  In 2003 he has thaught as guest professor at the Royal Conservatory of Bruxelles.  In 2005 he has taught Composition at the Summercourse of Mirecourt (France).

Jan Van Landeghem started his music studies at the Academy of Sint-Niklaas Belgium.  As a child he started at early age to play the recorder, the flute, the organ and the piano.

Currently, he makes his career as composer (having written over 100 works), as organist, as piano player and as choir and orchestra conductor.

He also teaches at the Brussels Royal Flemish Conservatory and is director of an academy of 1000 pupils for music, theater and dance in Bornem, Belgium.

Internationally highly acclaimed, Ludwig Albert belongs with the top-flight of marimbists nowadays.  After obtaining with greatest distinctions a First prize Percussion, the Superior Diploma and a Masterdegree specialisation marimba at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp-Belgium, he was in 1994 the first Belgian marimbist admitted to the Toho Gakuan Music School in Tokyo, where he studied marimba specialisation with the Japanese marimba-virtuoso Ms. Keiko Abe.  Afterwards he was invited by Ms Abe and performed with her several concert tours such as: 'Keiko Abe plays Keiko Abe' (1996 Belgium), 'Ludwig Albert in concert' (Osaka-Japan 1996), 'Keiko Abe charity gala concert' (1996 Japan), Belgium Tour 1997 & 2000: 'Dialogue in Nature/ K.Abe & L.Albert in concert', Japan Tour 1997: 'Dialogue in Nature', 'Concert International academy' (Belgium 2007).

Starting 1995 Ludwig Albert searched for new sound-combinations and founded the duo 'Patrasche' with the unique combination of marimba & voice.  As true pioneers of this combination, they developed a style of their own and knows to inspire several artists and composers to create new music for this strenght.  They mainly perform Albert's own compositions, creations and improvisations, all based on International traditional folksongs.  Their musical combination evokes a fascinating world.  For their first album 'Japanese Impressions', prefaced by Keiko Abe, they received International outstanding critics and they were regular invited guests of several dedicated radio-broadcastings & Festivals.  In 2002 they released their second album 'Impressions of the low-countries' and are preparing nowadays their newest production (release 2008).

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