Francesco Mariozzi
Figlio d’ arte si è diplomato in violoncello con il massimo dei voti sotto la guida
del M° N. Sarpe, ha continuato i suoi studi alla Hochschüle fur Musik di Würzburg conseguendo la Meisterklassendiplom con il Maestro J. Metzger; si è perfezionato con artisti prestigiosi come Maisky, Gutman, Geringas, Perènyi, Meunieur, Palm, nonché presso importanti accademie quali “Stauffer” di Cremona, Università di Mainz, l’Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Hochschüle di Vienna.
Dal 2007 al 2012 è stato primo violoncello presso il Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, è stato spesso primo violoncello ospite presso il Teatro S. Carlo di Napoli, l’Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, il Teatro Regio di Parma e l’Orchestra sinfonica di Roma e del Lazio. Collabora con gli attori Claudio Santamaria, Anna Foglietta, Marco D’Amore, esibendosi in importanti festival teatrali. In passato ha collaborato con altre importanti istituzioni, quali l’Orchestra Santa Cecilia di Roma e la prestigiosa Orchestra Filarmonica “Arturo Toscanini”, diretta da Loorin Maazel, nella quale ha ricoperto il ruolo di primo violoncello. È ospite, sia come solista che come camerista, di prestigiose istituzioni musicali e straniere come la Società del Quartetto di Firenze, il Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, l’Institut Culturel Italien de Montreal, gli incontri Musicali di Fiesole, il Festival delle Nazioni di Portogruaro, il Festival di Pomposa, l’Associazione Filarmonica Umbra, a Marzo 2019 suonerà come solista nella famosa sala CARNEGIE HALL di NY, spesso suona in duo con il pianista Bruno Canino.
È direttore artistico del Festival delle Città Medievali (Roma e Lazio). Ha inoltre effettuato diverse registrazioni per Radio Vaticana.
Il M° Mariozzi oltre ai concerti e all’insegnamento si dedica alla composizione.
Sì è laureato in violoncello e composizione al Hochschule für Musik di würzburg Frankfurt am Main (Germania).
Emmanuelle Verger
Emmanuelle Verger est née à Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne). Après avoir obtenu la médaille d´or en violoncelle au C.N.R. de sa région, dans les classes de Sylvie Cagnoncle et Lionel Michel, elle partit étudier au Conservatoire National de Musique de Boulogne-Billancourt à Paris, dans la classe de Xavier Gagnepain. Elle obtint son prix de violoncelle en supérieur à l´unanimité, ainsi que deux prix à l´unanimité en musique de chambre, dans les formations quatuor à cordes et trio avec piano. Ses professeurs furent Hortense Cartier-Bresson et Christophe Poiget. Ensuite, elle poursuivit sa formation avec Ivan Chiffoleau (Perfectionnement), professeur au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon. Elle obtint une formation très complète en solfège, harmonie et histoire de la musique.
Emmanuelle partit à Berlin dans la classe de Joseph Schwab et obtint son diplome de violoncelliste avec mention très bien, à la Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler. En supplément, elle passa son diplome de professeur de violoncelle et l´obtint mention très bien, à l´université des artistes de Berlin (UDK).
Elle participa à de nombreuses master class internationales avec les professeurs Michel Strauss, Florian Lauridon, Jean.Marie Trotereau, Stefan Forck, David Geringas et Boris Pergamenschikov.
Pédagogue, musicienne titulaire de son poste à Berlin, soliste et chambriste internationale, elle participa à de nombreux projets de concerts et enregistrements radio comme le concerto de Dvorak avec Orchester, une symphonie de Joseph Haydn sous la direction de Nikolaus Harnoncourt à la salle philharmonique de Berlin ainsi qu´au Neuköllner Oper. Formatrice à l’Universität der Künste, Hochschule et Professeur pour les violoncelles et contrebasses au L.J.E Neue Musik.
Un point fort de sa vie artistique est son engagement dans la pédagogie du violoncelle et de la musique de chambre. A coté de ses nombreuses expériences dans les Conservatoires de Neukölln, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, l´école de musique franco-allemande de Berlin, elle a été titularisée à la Musikschule de Charlottenburg. Chaque année, elle présente brillamment ses élèves au concours » Jugend Musiziert. » Ses élèves obtiennent des prix au niveau national. Au sein du conservatoire, elle est également responsable des élèves qui se destinent à devenir professionnels. Elle les prépare avec succès aux écoles supérieures (Musikhochschulen) de différentes villes d’Allemagne.
Bledar Zajmi
http://www.bledarzajmi.com/
Bledar Zajmi was born in Tirana, Albania in 1973. He took his first cello lessons at the age of six and already showed an amazing amount of talent. At his 12 years of age, he won the 2nd prize in the Cello national competition and started to perform at concerts in Albania and abroad. After graduating the music high school in Tirana with Gjovalin Lazri he studied at the Academy of Music in Prague (1992–1997 with Rudolf Lojda) and graduates with honors. In 1997, he participated in the master class of Josef Chuchro in Semmering, Austria. Already during his university studies, he began to concentrate on his solo career and chamber music. He performed solo concerts in Japan, Italy, Germany and Czech Republic. In 1999, he won the 2nd prize and the jury’s Special Prize for the best interpretation of the contest piece played in the International chamber music competition “Palma d’Oro” (Duo cello and piano) in Finale Ligure, Italy. In 2004, he won silver and 3rd prizes in the International chamber music competition “Rovere d’Oro” (Duo cello and piano) in San Bartolomeo al Mare, Italy. His rich discography includes CDs with various chamber music ensembles. He regularly records for Czech Radio and Czech Television and continues to perform concerts in many countries in Europe, Japan, China and Brazil. Since 2000, he has been the concertmaster and cello soloist of Prague National Theatre Orchestra. He plays a cello by the Czech violin-maker Jan Slípka “Clarus” (1996).
Martin Barral

Hila Karni
Hila Karni was born in Tel Aviv. She took up the cello at the age of 9 and four years later started touring Europe, Canada and the United States.
Her teachers were Zvi Harel, Uzi Wiesel, David Geringas and the legendary Bernard Greenhouse, who has described Hila as “one of the most musically sensitive and technically exciting cellists of the younger generation.” Her chamber music training was with Haim Taub, Ilan Gronich and the Alban Berg Quartet.
Together with violinist Daniel Bard and pianist Ohad Ben-Ari, she founded the successful Trio Mondrian in 2006. The trio won 1st Prize, the “Young Award” and a special prize for its interpretation of a Brahms trio at the International Chamber Music Competition in Trieste in 2007. At the Bologna Festival in 2008, it received the Audience Prize. In 2009, it was awarded the Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship (London). The Italian composer Marcello Abbado dedicated a piece titled “Trio Mondrian” to the ensemble.
As a guest at numerous festivals, among them Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Stresa, Kfar Blum and Ravinia and through appearances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York, she has gained international acclaim. Among her many musical partners are Boris Pergamentschikow, Guy Braunstein, Ralf Gothoni, Bernard Greenhouse, Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy and the Scharoun Ensemble. She also regularly collaborates with Israeli singer Achinoam Nini, known internationally as “Noa.”
Hila’s recordings of the “Romantic Serenades” and the Cello Concerto op. 33 by Robert Volkmann with the Hamburg Camerata, whose principal cellist she is, and of Max Richter’s “War Anthem” with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg received enthusiastic reviews.
Albanian composer Dhora Leka wrote the solo piece “Improvisus” for her.
From 2013 to 2015, Hila taught chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.
At the urging of her then ten-year-old daughter, Lir Vaginsky, who expressed the wish to make music with her mother, she established the successful chamber music series “Prelude Concerts” in Berlin in 2015. As a result, not only her daughters, Lir (violin) and Dorel (flute), but also many other young talents are given the opportunity to appear with professional musicians.
Denis Jeannet, violoncelle
