Artists Biography
Tatiana DOROKHOVA
Tatiana Dorokhova was born in 1991 in Volgograd in a family of musicians. She started playing the piano at the age of six and went on to graduate from the Children’s Music School No. 14 in Volgograd (class of Mrs. Anna Cherfas), the Central Music School in 2009, and the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Prof. Alexander Mndoyants) in 2016. She has also participated in master classes of outstanding musicians, including Dmitry Bashkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Dina Yoffe, Richard Goode, Leon Fleischer and others.
Tatiana is a laureate of many International music competitions, including: the International Piano Competition of the City of Jaen (Spain, 2011, 2nd Prize and prize for the best performance of a compulsory work); the Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition (Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017, 3rd Prize); the 28th New Orleans International Piano Competition (USA, 2022, 2nd Prize); the Gurwitz International Piano Competition (USA, 2024, 2nd Prize and the Audience Favorite Award).
Tatiana took part in the recording of the Anthology of Russian and Soviet Piano Music CD series released by the “Melodiya” record company.
Currently Tatiana is a student of Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University in Parkville, Missouri.
Gabriele STRATA
Gabriele Strata is quickly establishing himself as one of the leading Italian pianists of his generation. In 2018 he won first prize at the XXXV Premio Venezia, the prestigious Italian piano competition where he was awarded the Plaque of the President of the Italian Republic; in 2023 he won First Prize and Audience Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition.
Regularly performing throughout Europe, recent and upcoming performances include debut concerto appearances in the Berliner Philharmonie, London’s Barbican Centre and Cadogan Hall, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, in Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall, in Mumbai’s National Centre for Performing Arts, as well as a debut recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Sala Verdi in Milan and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Gabriele received his Master of Music degree from Yale University in 2019 aged 19, under the guidance of Professor Boris Berman. He holds Artist Diploma degrees from the Guildhall School in London where he studied with Ronan O’Hora and from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Benedetto Lupo.
MIURA Kenji
Winner of the top prize and three special awards at the Concours international Marguerite-Long=Jacques-Thibaud, at which the jury chief was Martha Argerich, Kenji MIURA is renowned worldwide as a rising star. He is also a four-time winner of the gold medal at the Manhattan International Music Competition and was awarded the top prize and other awards at the first Shigeru Kawai International Music Competition.
Born in Kobe in 1993, he started playing the piano on his own when only four years old. In 2011 he was accepted by the Royal Academy of Music in London, Berlin University of the Arts, and the Curtis Institute of Music. At Berlin University of the Arts, he was a student of Klaus Helwig. Then, in the summer of 2012, he decided to leave the music world and withdrew from that university. He had various jobs in Japan, while also engaged in volunteer activities. In April 2014. he returned to Germany to study with Eldar Nebolsin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. On November 4, 2022, Warner Classics Japan released his album Identity
Orlando BASS
Orlando BASS is a franco-british pianist and composer.
He attended the CNSM in Paris, where he studied piano (Roger Muraro), chamber music (Itamar Golan), accompaniment (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) and composition (Thierry Escaich). He is pursuing an artist diploma at the HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Kirill Gerstein.
A keen interpreter of modern music and a staunch supporter for new music, he firmly believes that collaborating with living composers is key to understanding music of the past with an open mind.
Equally comfortable on modern and historical instruments, he enjoys unusual pianos, and has recently performed Saint-Saens’ 2nd and 4th piano concertos on period instruments.
A disc of Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, was released by Indésens, and an album featuring his own compositions was published by Dux. Other discs as a chamber musician or as a composer are published by Odradek, Paladino media, Triton, Hortus, Paraty, Aparté, and Soond.
He obtained first prize at the Messiaen piano competition in 2023. Since 2019, he is a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire, which generously sponsors him, both as a performer and composer.
His catalogue includes numerous works of chamber music and piano music, a handful of orchestral works, and three operas, to which should be added regular live improvisations for silent films.