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The detailed concert programme will be announced during the masterclasses.

Anna Molinari & Alvar Ceamanos – violins
Dante Lind – viola
İdil Bursa – violoncello
Lidiia Nochovska – piano
Joshua Weilerstein – conducting tutor

Anna Molinari was born in Italy to a family of musicians. She studied mainly in Italy with Ivan Rabaglia and in Switzerland with Pavel Vernikov and Svetlana Makarova. Her strong interest in chamber music led her to found the Daidalos Quartet in 2015, with whom she played until 2021. Thanks to this group, she could work with great musicians such as Hatto Beyerle, Alfred Brendel, Patrick Jüdt and Lukas Hagen. She played numerous solo and chamber music concerts all around Europe and in the US. Currently, her main concert activity is with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, of which she’s been a member since 2022, but she performs regularly in different chamber music groups in Italy and Switzerland.

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Alvar Ceamanos has been playing the violin since the age of 7 and began his violin studies in 2016 at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg with Petru Munteanu. He enriches his studies with regular lessons from internationally sought-after tutors in masterclasses. From 2018 until the 2022/23 season, Alvar Ceamanos was under contract with the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and in addition to regularly assisting many professional orchestras, he can also be found performing chamber music with renowned ensembles such as the Henschel Quartet. Since September 2023, Alvar Ceamanos has been the Deputy Principal of the second violins in the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt.

Dante Lind, born in Sweden in 2003, began learning the viola at six. He has toured and performed with youth orchestras in Sweden (such as VÄGUS) and in Northern Europe. Dante received valuable guidance from esteemed artists, including Michael Kugel, Alexander Gordon, Maxim Rysanov and Mikhail Zemtsov, through masterclasses and lessons. Between 2019 and 2022, he attended Musica Mundi School in Belgium, studied with Julia Dinerstein and performed in notable venues like the European Parliament and with the Uta trio at Château du Karreveld. In 2021, he won the 1st Prize at the Ingrid & Per Welins Youth Scholarship (ESTA) in Stockholm. Since September 2022, Dante has been pursuing his viola studies at Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands with Julia Dinerstein.

İdil Bursa was born in 2004. She started her cello education at the Bilkent University Music and Performing Arts Faculty Primary School with Artur Rahmatulla. After that, she continued her high school education with Claire Oppert, Jerome Pernoo and Vladimir Perlin at Musica Mundi School in Belgium. Since October 2022, she has been studying at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin with Frans Helmerson towards a bachelor’s degree. Among other awards, she won 1st prizes at the 11th Janigro Cello Competition and the 13th International Jan Vychytil Violoncello Competition in Prague. In April 2024, she played in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim in Philharmonie Berlin. She also performed Jörg Widmann’s “180 beats per Minute” with Quartet Amabile in the Pierre Boulez Saal. In May 2024, she gave a concert as a string quartet member together with Michael Barenboim and fellow students from the Barenboim-Said Akademie in the St. Peter Church, Zürich.

Lidiia Nochovska was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1988. She started her music education at the age of six. 2006, she completed her studies at the Lysenko Specialized Music School under L. Vakarina and L. Rayko. Lidiia graduated later from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy (Kyiv) under the direction of O. Ryndenko and from the Instituto Internacional de Música de Camera de Madrid in the class of Ralf Gothoni, Eldar Nebolsin, Ángel Quintana, Luis del Valle and Kennedi Moretti. She was a founding member of Trio Areti. Lidiia is currently an accompanist at the Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv), as well as an orchestra artist and a choir accompanist at the Kyiv National House of Music. Lidiia is also a member of the musical and theatrical team Art Razom.

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Joshua Weilerstein enjoys a flourishing guest conducting career across the globe and has forged close relationships with many of the world’s finest orchestras and soloists. He is praised for his expressive and dynamic presence on the podium and his “intense, eloquently moving and spectacularly knife-edge” performances. His deep love for canonical masterpieces is combined with a passionate commitment to uncovering the works of under-represented composers. Furthermore, he is also a tireless advocate for the music of today. In 23/24, Weilerstein begins his tenure as Chief Conductor of Denmark’s Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and in 24/25, he will take up the position of Music Director of Orchestre National de Lille. www.joshuaweilerstein.com

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Other info :

Entrance passes can be purchased at the following locations and times:

From Monday, August 26 until Wednesday, August 28: 

10:00-12:00 Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata

From Thursday, August 29: 

10:00-12:00 Kalamata Dance Megaron

18:00-20:00 Kalamata Dance Megaron

On Sunday, September 1: 

10:00-12:00 Kalamata Dance Megaron

Reservations: +30 697 4373173

Daily: 10:00-12:00 and 18:00-19:00

Get the festival pass to attend all concerts:

€40 and €20 (reduced).

REDUCED ADMISSION FOR:

Students and disabled persons with the relevant proofs.

FREE ADMISSION TO ALL CONCERTS:

Participants of the masterclasses, students of the Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata, as well as volunteers of the festival. Unemployed persons with a valid unemployment card.