President of TYM COMPETITION and TYM FESTIVAL. Raffaele Ficuciello, born in 1998, graduated at the Conservatory in Salerno, Giuseppe Martucci, with Maestro Salvatore Lombardi and after he is in the process of obtaining the graduation at the Conservatory in Avellino, Domenico Cimarosa, with Maestro Roberto Maggio. He studied for three years the annual courses held at the Falaut Association by […]
Franco Ascolese
International Soloist. Passionate about teaching, he conducted a Masterclass in Moscow, taught at conservatory in Udine and currently in Benevento. He completed Advanced Studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance in Lugano and the Soloist – Specialized Master with Maestro Andrea Oliva. He refined his skills with renowned flutists […]
Andrij Ilkiv
Professor of trumpet at the Glinka Musical Academy in Dnipro, Ukraine. Previously professor at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. He studied playing trumpet in Rivne and Khmelnitsky Musical Colleges. He graduated Kyiv Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music. Solo trumpet player of the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra. Andrij was awarded with many prizes and nominations in a series of national and […]
Philippe Ranallo
Professor of trumpet at the Royal Conservatory of Liege. Soloist at the Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been teacher assistant for trumpet and orchestral excerpts at the Higher Institute of Music and Education (IMEP) Namur from 2008 until 2021. Since several years, he devotes himself to coaching various instrumentalists who wish to prepare for orchestra recruitment auditions. He studied […]
Ana Santisteban
Guitar teacher at the Brussels International Music Academy. In 2022, she obtained her Pedagogical and Didactic Master At UNIR.Between 2018 to 2021, she studied privately with the guitarist Johan Fostier. In 2017, she received her Master in Performance with the Carlo Marchioness the Conservatoire de Maastricht, Pays- Bas. In 2015, she received her Master Degree for Guitar with Cum Lauden […]
Hugues Navez
Since 1999, Hugues Navez has been the full professor of the guitar class and head of the guitar department at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles–École Supérieure des Arts. Hugues Navez studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the classes of Ilse and Nicolas Alfonso, at the Conservatoire de Lille with Jean-Philippe Grüneissen as well as the Conservatoire National Supérieur […]
Oleksiy Shadrin
International soloist, previously artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapelle. Oleksiy Shadrin received his Bachelor and Master of Musical Arts at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover with Prof. Leonid Gorokhov. He won the first prize of the 4th M. Lysenko International Music Competition in 2012. In 2018, he has been awarded the 3d Prize at the Prague […]
Steven Caeyers
Professor of violoncello at the Kunsthumaniora in Brussels and at the Municipal Conservatory of Leuven. Cellist with ‘Le Concert Olympique’ and a Professional cellist with the Ensor string quartet, soloist at the “Beethoven academy”. Won a First Prize for cello and chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. As a soloist at the “Beethoven academy” he performed throughout Europe […]
Romain Garioud
Professor of Cello at the Akademie für Tonkunst (Darmstadt) and at the Akademie für Musik (Berlin). Romain Garioud is prize winner at such prestigious international competitions as Moscow’ s T chaikovsky (2001) and Paris’ Rostropovitch (2002), he is also a second prize winner at Chile’s Vina del Mar competition in 2002. In 2005, Romain Garioud wins the 1st Prize of […]
Pierre Fontenelle
Teacher at the IMEP (Royal Institute for Music and Pedagogy Namur); Founder and artistic director of the Concerts des Dames at the Abbaye Notre-Dame du Vivier (Marche-les-Dames). He initially took up the cello as an autodidact in his hometown of Seattle before studying traditionally at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg, then the IMEP (Namur) with Éric Chardon, before specialising in Soviet […]