A highly active presence on the European concert and operatic scene, Benjamin Levy recently began his fifth season as music director of the Orchestre National de Cannes – Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, which has extended his contract until 2025.

Benjamin Levy has been the guest of the Rotterdams Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Stansilavsky Theatre – Moscow, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Gelders Orkest, Residentie Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Icelandic Opera, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Krakow Philharmonic, Bogota Philharmonic, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Jyväskylä Sinfonia and Filharmonia Balticka Gdansk.

In France, Benjamin has conducted numerous ensembles such as the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Opéra National du Rhin, the Orchestre National de Lyon and the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy.

Benjamin first sparked interest with the Compagnie “Les Brigands” and with this ensemble he performed rare pieces from the light lyrical repertoire, including Offenbach’s Le Docteur OX and Yvain’s Ta Bouche, for which he received a Diapason d’Or.

Founder of the Pelléas Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin has given numerous concerts with this collegiate ensemble in France and Europe such as Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 2011 and 2014, Pelléas et Mélisande at the TCE in 2018, Enescu Festival in Bucharest in 2019, and The Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, directed by Jacques Osinski, at the Théâtre Athénée Louis-Jouvet in 2021.

Among Benjamin’s recent recordings are a Saint-Saëns album with violinist Geneviève Laurenceau and the Orchestre de Picardie on Naïve, Dvořák with cellist Nadège Rochat and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Ars Produktion, Beethoven with pianist Nino Gvetadze with Phion on Challenge Records, Waves with Peter Von Poehl and the Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra Umeå, and Croisette années folles with the Orchestre national de Cannes on Warner Classics, all of which received stellar reviews.

Benjamin Levy was named “musical revelation” of the year 2005 by the Drama and Music Critics Union. In 2008, he received the “Young Talent – Conductor” award from ADAMI and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in May 2022.

Benjamin Levy studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon (First Prize in percussion) and Paris (Prize in analysis and conducting class). He studied at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen (USA) with David Zinman and at the Academia Chigiana in Siena.

Florian Erdl is a freelance conductor. In 2023 he took over the musical direction of the Wiederaufnahme of Schreker’s Der Ferne Klang/The Distan Sound at Oper Frankfurt. Erdl was Sebastian Weigle’s musical assistant on several productions. After working on Richard Strauss’ Capriccio he also conducted Mozart’s Magic Flute and Cosí fan tutte there. Conducting engagements have taken him to Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Schwerin, Oper Kiel,
Theater Coburg and Landestheater Innsbruck among others. Concerts have brought him together with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Merck Philharmonic, the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 Erdl was appointed to the professorship of conducting at the hmt Rostock where he had already been a substitute professor since 2020. He directs all symphony concerts and opera productions there.

Erdl was 1st Kapellmeister and deputy GMD at several theaters: at Stadttheater Pforzheim (here also acting GMD), at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater Flensburg and at Oper Graz. He organized and conducted the Frankfurt Chamber Opera for almost 10 years as artistic and musical director. Erdl recorded a number of soundtracks with the Bavarian State Orchestra Munich, the Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as the freestyle music for Isabelle Werth on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Shanghai in 2008 with the Potsdam Chamber Academy and members of Komische and Deutsche Oper Berlin. As founder and artistic director Erdl conducted the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra Munich (CD production: Beethoven 9th Symphony). Erdl always is passionate about working with youth orchestras, especially the state youth orchestras of Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as the orchestra of the Young Academy Rostock.

Erdl studied conducting/accompaniment (in Weimar with Gunther Kahlert, Nicolas Pasquet and Anthony Bramall, as well as in Bruno Weil’s master class in Munich), directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich with Cornel Franz, music theory with Stefan Rohringer and Ullrich Kaiser in Munich as well as musicology and philosophy.

Born in Treviso in 1967, he graduated in composition, in choral music and conducting chorus, in electronic music with Alvise Vidolin (with full marks) at the Conservatory Benedetto Marcello in Venice, where he attended also liturgical pre-polyphonic courses. He got a first-class degree at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice with Giovanni Morelli and Alvise Vidolin with a thesis focusing on Risonanze erranti by Luigi Nono. He attended masters on live electronics, on conducting chorus and orchestra.

He composed works performed in several Italian concerts and conducted choruses and ensembles (also proposing his compositions and transcriptions).

He wrote articles for books, magazines and program notes for important institutions. As music critic he collaborated with local newspapers.

Regularly engaged in conferences, courses and lessons, he worked in the organization of artistic activities with many institutions: among these ones, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, where he was artistic and organizational coordinator of the orchestra Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio from 1999 to 2002, achieving several projects (also in collaboration with Teatro La Fenice, Salzburg Festival 2001, Summer Academy in Salzburg).

He worked for Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, a festival dedicated to chamber music, which he helped in expanding objectives, succeeding in producing symphonic concerts and operas.

Member of the board of Fondazione Centro Musicale Malipiero, he was lecturer in Technical Arts and Media at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice for a course entitled «Theory and practice of the art direction for musical theatre».

Since 1997 he’s regularly been collaborating with Fondazione Teatro La Fenice. Since 2002 he’s been collaborating with the artistic direction as assistant of the artistic director and consultant dealing with researches, music studies and musicological aspects. Since 2005 until August 2014 he was artistic administrator of Teatro La Fenice.

From September 2014 to March 2021 he held the role of artistic coordinator of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Foundation.

From April 2021 he is artistic director of the Carlo Felice Theater Foundation in Genoa.

The Korean conductor Deun Lee is winner of conducting competitions such as:
– Mention Spéciale Ex-Æquo, 57th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, France
– 1st prize, Plovdiv Opera Conducting Competition, Plovdiv, Bulagaria
– 1st prize, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Recommendation prize, at International Competition for Opera
Conductor ‘L.Mancinelli’ with Verdi’s opera, Un Ballo in Maschera at Teatro L.Mancinelli di Orvieto in Italy
– 1st prize, Orchestra’s choice at Athens International Conducting Mc & Competition, Athens, Greece
– 1st prize, LWI Thessaloniki International Conducting Competition, Greece
– 1st prize and Orchestras special prize at Danube Conducting Competition at Budapest, Hungary
– 1st prize and Orchestra special prize at BMI International Conducting Competition at Bucharest, Romania

Deun Lee graduated in Piano major (under M. Silvia Rumi) and Voice major (under M. Vittorio Terranova) both at Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano. Afterword, he graduated Voice major at Accademia Chigiana di Siena (under M. Renato Bruson), Master degree and PSD diploma in Voice major at Mannes College in New York (under Prof. Arthur Levy). Deun Lee obtained Master degree in Orchestra Conducting at Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano under Maestro Vittorio Parisi with highest mark and Honors.

He conducted numerous operas and symphonic repertoire as principal conductor, including wide range of classical to contemporary repertoire including: Elisir d’amore, La Bohéme, Un Ballo in Maschera, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Turandot, Il Trovatore, La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Festival Rossini 150), Rigoletto, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Italiana in Algeri, Gounod’s Faust, Carmen, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Stravinsky’s Petrushka 1911, C.Orff’s Carmina Burana in different places and theaters such as: National Korea Theater, Lincoln Center Bruno Walter Auditoriu , The DiMenna Center, LeFrak Concert Hall, Jersey City Hall, Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall (Where he also had his Solo Tenor Recital), Seoul Arts Center, Teatro Coccia di Novara, Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto, Teatro Dal Verme di Milano, Sala Verdi di Milano, Teatro Elfo Puccini di Milano, Teatro Castagnoli di Scansano, Teatro Carcano di Milano, Teatro San Cristoforo di Milano, Teatro sull’acqua di Sassetta, Teatro Lirico di Magenta, Théâtre Ledoux de Besancon, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vigadó Concert Hall, Amphitheatre Ioannis Despotopoulos, Kocertsalen Alsion, Plovdiv State Opera, State Opera Stara Zagora, Danube Palace and Palatului Cutural.

He conducted and experienced different style and lots of professional orchestras such as: Korea national Symphony orchestra, Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche Comté, Orchestre National de Lyon, Leipziger Symphonie, Arad Philharmonic Orchestra, Athens Philharmonia, New York Classical Symphony orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic orchestra, Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra, Budapest MAV Symphony, Danubia Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Danube Symphony orchestra, Bucharest Symphony, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Filarmonica del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Berlin Sinfonietta, Ensemble Testori, Brescia MasterOrchestra, Prime Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic.

Deun Lee is Artistic Director and orchestra conductor at Bell’Opera Festival in Italy and worked as assistant conductor at Opéra de Lille, Varna State Opera, Teatro Lirico di Magenta, Teatro Coccia di Novara, Teatro Spazio89 di Milano for different opera productions and concerts at Budapest Festival Orchestra and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken.

Born in Montebelluna in the Veneto region Elisabetta Maschio was awarded her degree in piano by the conservatory “G. Verdi” in Milan with Riccardo Risaliti and started her career as a repetiteur with Lawrence Foster in Paris.

She acquires an extensive knowledge “in the field” of opera as accompanying pianist and chorus master, with a predilection for Italian opera. She worked as a repetiteur for various theatres and music festivals both in Italy and abroad – Teatro Comunale , Bologna, Teatro Regio, Torino, Macerata Festival and the Salzburg Festival. 

Ms. Maschio attended lessons in conducting given by both Edoardo Muller and Gustav Kuhn, becoming Kuhn’s assistant from1989 to 1992.  Her conducting debut took place in Pordenone in 1991 – Il Trovatore with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.  Since then she has regularly worked as a conductor in the operatic repertoire, being invited by theatres both in Italy and abroad – Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Teatro Comunale, Modena, Teatro Olimpico , Vicenza, Teatro Sistina, Rome, Auditorium “Pollini”, Padova, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, Teatro Verdi, Trieste and the Prague National Theatre.

She also conducts across the symphonic and operatic repertoire, in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Bilbao, Budapest, Mexico City, Prague, Seoul, and in Italy she has led the Virtuosi di S. Cecilia, Haydn Orchester Bolzano, Sinfonica di Sanremo. Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Ente Arena di Verona, Teatro Lirico di Trieste, etc.

In 1995, Ms Maschio founded the Sardinia Youth Orchestra in Sassari and from 1995 to 1997 she was appointed musical Supervisor for the Ente Concerti “M. de Carolis” (operatic and symphonic repertoire, chamber music).

 In 1996/97 she was appointed musical director and conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra in Lecce, personally conducting symphonic repertoire from the eighteenth century to contemporary music. 

Ms Maschio has worked with such artists as Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ghena Dimitrova, Giorgio Merighi, Roberto Servile, Bruno Practico, Andrea Bocelli (with whom she recorded some pieces of his first CD), Benedetto Lupo, Pavel Berman, Thomas Demenga, Lucero Tena, Yasuko Hayashij and Leonidas Kavakos.  She has collaborated with stage directors such as Mauro Bolognini and Lorenzo Mariani. 

Ms Maschio has recorded (as pianist for RCA) a selection of pieces from 8th and 9^th century composers, and has also conducted a recording of unpublished pieces by L. Leo and N. Porpora for Bongiovanni.  For Kicco Classic, Milano, she has recorded Verdi’s Falstaff (live), Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (DVD), Carmen (DVD) and Cin Ci La (DVD). 

She is also the artistic director of the International Youth festival Gioie Musicali-Asolo since 2005 and holds the position of advisor on the board of directors of the Sistema Italia Abbado Abreu. 

Elisabetta Maschio is currently Professor of orchestra repertoire at F. Venezze Conservatory of Music in Rovigo. 

After winning the First prize at the 9th Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition in Bucharest in August 2018 Anton Shaburov is considered to be one of the most promising young Russian conductors.

Other competition successes include the First prize at the 2016 Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition and Grand Prix together with the special audience award at the 2013 Ilya Musin all-Russian Conducting Competition.

In August 2021 Anton Shaburov became a principal conductor and artistic director of the Rostov Symphony Orchestra (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 2019 Tirgu-Mures Philharmonic orchestra (Tirgu-Mures, Romania) elected Anton Shaburov as its principal guest conductor. Since 2017 Anton Shaburov also holds the position of a permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre (Primorsky Stage, Vladivostok, Russia).

As a guest conductor, Anton Shaburov performed with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra). George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra in Debrecen, I Solisti Aquilani Chamber Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu, Heilongjiang Symphony Orchestra in Harbin, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic orchestra and Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra in Kazan among the others. In 2018 Anton Shaburov took part in the Valery Gergiev’s International Mariinsky Far East Festival in Vladivostok and Yuri Bashmet’s Festival in Khabarovsk.

In 2017-2020 Anton Shaburov held the position of the chief conductor and artistic director of the Far Eastern Symphony Orchestra (Khabarovsk, Russia). During his work in Khabarovsk, Anton Shaburov managed to enrich the orchestra repertoire with pieces by Paul Hindemith, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Walter Piston, Alfred Schnittke, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Vladislav Zolotaryov. Anton Shaburov led a highly successful performance of the Far Eastern Symphony Orchestra at the V all-Russian Symphonic Forum in Yekaterinburg in September 2018.

Anton Shaburov received his musical education in two major Russian music institutions – the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatory and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In Moscow, he studied conducting with the legendary professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

GRAMMY® winning conductor Michael Repper is one of the most sought-after young directors in the world. With work spanning six continents, Mr. Repper has an international reputation for engaging and exciting audiences of all spectrums, and for promoting new and diverse musical talents. He is the youngest North American conductor, and the second youngest of all time, to win a GRAMMY® in Best Orchestral Performance.

Mr. Repper is the Music Director of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Northern Neck Orchestra of Virginia. From 2020-2022 he was the Principal Conductor of Sinfonía por el Perú, one of South America’s most versatile social impact music programs, and he recently concluded his tenure as Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Recognizing his success at these ensembles, and his growing profile as a guest conductor all over the world and as a past Conducting Fellow of the Baltimore Symphony, Mr. Repper was awarded a Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award in 2020, 2021, 2022, & 2023.

His album with the New York Youth Symphony, which features debut recordings of works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman, achieved widespread critical acclaim and reached #1 on the Billboard Chart. Mr. Repper’s mission is to use music as a vehicle for positive change within our communities.

Taras Kutsenko is a graduate of the most prestigious and elite universities and conservatories of music including the Moscow School of Musical Performance and Composition (Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory), Moscow Academy of International Cooperation (Managementе) the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) School of Conducting, the Kharkiv National University of Arts, the New York Film Academy, and the Berklee College of Music of Sound Engineering.

He founded the record label ‘Terry Heimat Studios LLC’ (US Florida www.terryheimat.com), which releases music albums and singles mainly in the genre of classical music and crossover music. As a performer, conductor, producer he has collaborated with such musicians as Francis Goya, Al di Meola, Amaury Gutierrez, Richard Baravo, Camilo Valencia, Leonid Agutin, Camilo Velandia, Angelica Varum, Julio Ariel Diaz, Slava Vakarchuk, Alexandr Ponomarev and others.

In 2018, he was inducted into the Musicians’ Hall of Fame in China.

Founder and director of Puskás International, born in Vienna, Peter started his musical education with the Vienna Boys Choir, while also working for over 7 years as an actor at the Vienna Burgtheater.

He later studied piano at the Vienna Conservatoire. Combining both his musical and stage interests, Peter worked for several years as assistant and musical advisor to Stage Designer Günther Schneider Siemssen, subsequently working in a variety of roles for large scale opera productions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Moving to the UK in 2005, Peter has had several positions with video on demand platforms dedicated to classical music, before joining the Arts Council of England’s London Music Team. Peter set up Puskas International Artist Management Consultancy in 2012.

Returning to Vienna in 2024, Peter set up Puskas & Puskas Stage Media Productions OG, an event and TV production company along side his activies with the agency. In a voluntary capacity, Peter is a board member of the English Touring Opera and several other arts organisations across Europe, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Considered by the public and critics as one of the best oboists on the international scene, he is also active as an Artistic Director and Manager.

He has been Vice President of la Filarmonica della Scala in Milan and is currently Artistic Director of Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana.

Francesco Di Rosa holds the role of principal Oboe in Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and is oboe Professor at Lugano Conservatory in Switzerland.

He studied with Luciano Franca and Maurice Bourgue. From 1994 to 2008 he was principal oboe of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Music directors Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim).

He played in the most prestigious concert halls in the world and was conducted by conductors such as Abbado, Giulini, Chailly, Gatti, Boulez, Sawallisch, Pretre, Maazel, Muti, Metha, Gergiev, Blomstedt and Chung.

The only Italian oboist to play as principal oboe with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he has been invited as  such by the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Mozart Orchestra, the Luzern Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra National de France, and the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande.

He  has taught at the Guildhall School in London, Royal College of Manchester, at Stanford University, at the Toho Graduate School in Tokyo, at the Conservatory of Valencia, at the University of Stuttgart, at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, at the China Conservatory of music in Beijing, all Paderwsky Academy of Poznan, at the University of Bogotá, at the Conservatory of Mexico City, at the Oboe Fest in Belgrade, and in the main Italian Conservatories.

He is President and founding member of the Musicians for Human Rights association.

In June 2021, he was appointed Cavaliere al merito of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella.

Hae Lee was the 2nd prize winner of the Kussewitzky Conducting Competition and the Finalist of the Besançon Conducting Competition in France. Hae was invited to the LEAD! Foundation’s masterclass in Finland and after it, he was selected as the young conductor for the final concert of the Fiskars Festival. In this concert, Hae shared the podium with Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Gaffigan, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

In the States, Hae served as a cover conductor of Marin Alsop for her concerts at Carnegie Hall. Hae also conducted at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as an assistant for David Hayes and Mannes Orchestra when they performed Ives’ Symphony No. 4 which requires three conductors. Hae was a fellow of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the assistant conductor of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy.

In South Korea, Hae was invited to the master classes with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean National Symphony Orchestra, and Korea National Opera. He conducted operas such as Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, La Bohème, and Gianni Schicchi.

In Europe, Hae studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as an exchange student, and he has conducted Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, Orchestre Victor Hugo, and Orchestra sinfonica città di Grosseto.

Hae received his Bachelor of Artsin Conducting from the Korea National University of Arts, and he holds his Master of Music from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Lendvai was born in 1960. in Hungary and began to study violin and music at the age of seven.

He completed his second degree at the Liszt Academy of Budapest as a violinist and teacher. From 1989-1992 he was a member of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Costa Rica, under the direction of Mtro. Irwin Hoffman. He continued his studies in the United States and received a master’s degree in performing arts as a violinist in 1994.

After returning to his native country, he became a teacher at St. Stephen High School specializing on performing arts of classical music. He played in different chamber orchestras from 1994-2005 such as the Weiner Szász Chamber Symphony, Solti Chamber orchestra. He collaborated with various orchestras as an organizer and manager during that period. He joined the Somogyi String Quartet in 1999 until the present time, giving concerts, and touring with them regularly (all over Europe, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey).

He holds the position of CEO of the MAV Symphony Orchestra of Budapest since 2005.

Matt Wilshire is an accomplished arts administrator, educator, and musician, currently serving as the Vice President of Artistic Planning and Orchestra Operations with the Richmond Symphony. Prior to this role, Matt held various key positions in arts organizations, including the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and as Vice President of Artistic Planning and Artistic Operations at the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.

Before transitioning to arts administration, Matt enjoyed a vibrant performance career, playing with ensembles such as the Illinois Symphony, Transit Brass, and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. He also served as an adjunct instructor of Tuba at Purdue University in 2017 and maintained a large studio of students in central Illinois.

Matt holds an undergraduate degree in music education and music performance from the University of North Texas, a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from Oklahoma City University, and has completed coursework toward a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Illinois.

A highly active presence on the European concert and operatic scene, Benjamin Levy recently began his fifth season as music director of the Orchestre National de Cannes – Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, which has extended his contract until 2025.

Benjamin Levy has been the guest of the Rotterdams Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Stansilavsky Theatre – Moscow, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Gelders Orkest, Residentie Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Icelandic Opera, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Krakow Philharmonic, Bogota Philharmonic, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Jyväskylä Sinfonia and Filharmonia Balticka Gdansk.

In France, Benjamin has conducted numerous ensembles such as the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Opéra National du Rhin, the Orchestre National de Lyon and the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy.

Benjamin first sparked interest with the Compagnie “Les Brigands” and with this ensemble he performed rare pieces from the light lyrical repertoire, including Offenbach’s Le Docteur OX and Yvain’s Ta Bouche, for which he received a Diapason d’Or.

Founder of the Pelléas Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin has given numerous concerts with this collegiate ensemble in France and Europe such as Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 2011 and 2014, Pelléas et Mélisande at the TCE in 2018, Enescu Festival in Bucharest in 2019, and The Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, directed by Jacques Osinski, at the Théâtre Athénée Louis-Jouvet in 2021.

Among Benjamin’s recent recordings are a Saint-Saëns album with violinist Geneviève Laurenceau and the Orchestre de Picardie on Naïve, Dvořák with cellist Nadège Rochat and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Ars Produktion, Beethoven with pianist Nino Gvetadze with Phion on Challenge Records, Waves with Peter Von Poehl and the Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra Umeå, and Croisette années folles with the Orchestre national de Cannes on Warner Classics, all of which received stellar reviews.

Benjamin Levy was named “musical revelation” of the year 2005 by the Drama and Music Critics Union. In 2008, he received the “Young Talent – Conductor” award from ADAMI and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in May 2022.

Benjamin Levy studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon (First Prize in percussion) and Paris (Prize in analysis and conducting class). He studied at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen (USA) with David Zinman and at the Academia Chigiana in Siena.

Florian Erdl is a freelance conductor. In 2023 he took over the musical direction of the Wiederaufnahme of Schreker’s Der Ferne Klang/The Distan Sound at Oper Frankfurt. Erdl was Sebastian Weigle’s musical assistant on several productions. After working on Richard Strauss’ Capriccio he also conducted Mozart’s Magic Flute and Cosí fan tutte there. Conducting engagements have taken him to Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Schwerin, Oper Kiel,
Theater Coburg and Landestheater Innsbruck among others. Concerts have brought him together with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Merck Philharmonic, the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 Erdl was appointed to the professorship of conducting at the hmt Rostock where he had already been a substitute professor since 2020. He directs all symphony concerts and opera productions there.

Erdl was 1st Kapellmeister and deputy GMD at several theaters: at Stadttheater Pforzheim (here also acting GMD), at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater Flensburg and at Oper Graz. He organized and conducted the Frankfurt Chamber Opera for almost 10 years as artistic and musical director. Erdl recorded a number of soundtracks with the Bavarian State Orchestra Munich, the Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as the freestyle music for Isabelle Werth on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Shanghai in 2008 with the Potsdam Chamber Academy and members of Komische and Deutsche Oper Berlin. As founder and artistic director Erdl conducted the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra Munich (CD production: Beethoven 9th Symphony). Erdl always is passionate about working with youth orchestras, especially the state youth orchestras of Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as the orchestra of the Young Academy Rostock.

Erdl studied conducting/accompaniment (in Weimar with Gunther Kahlert, Nicolas Pasquet and Anthony Bramall, as well as in Bruno Weil’s master class in Munich), directing at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich with Cornel Franz, music theory with Stefan Rohringer and Ullrich Kaiser in Munich as well as musicology and philosophy.

Born in Treviso in 1967, he graduated in composition, in choral music and conducting chorus, in electronic music with Alvise Vidolin (with full marks) at the Conservatory Benedetto Marcello in Venice, where he attended also liturgical pre-polyphonic courses. He got a first-class degree at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice with Giovanni Morelli and Alvise Vidolin with a thesis focusing on Risonanze erranti by Luigi Nono. He attended masters on live electronics, on conducting chorus and orchestra.

He composed works performed in several Italian concerts and conducted choruses and ensembles (also proposing his compositions and transcriptions).

He wrote articles for books, magazines and program notes for important institutions. As music critic he collaborated with local newspapers.

Regularly engaged in conferences, courses and lessons, he worked in the organization of artistic activities with many institutions: among these ones, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, where he was artistic and organizational coordinator of the orchestra Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio from 1999 to 2002, achieving several projects (also in collaboration with Teatro La Fenice, Salzburg Festival 2001, Summer Academy in Salzburg).

He worked for Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, a festival dedicated to chamber music, which he helped in expanding objectives, succeeding in producing symphonic concerts and operas.

Member of the board of Fondazione Centro Musicale Malipiero, he was lecturer in Technical Arts and Media at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice for a course entitled «Theory and practice of the art direction for musical theatre».

Since 1997 he’s regularly been collaborating with Fondazione Teatro La Fenice. Since 2002 he’s been collaborating with the artistic direction as assistant of the artistic director and consultant dealing with researches, music studies and musicological aspects. Since 2005 until August 2014 he was artistic administrator of Teatro La Fenice.

From September 2014 to March 2021 he held the role of artistic coordinator of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Foundation.

From April 2021 he is artistic director of the Carlo Felice Theater Foundation in Genoa.

The Korean conductor Deun Lee is winner of conducting competitions such as:
– Mention Spéciale Ex-Æquo, 57th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, France
– 1st prize, Plovdiv Opera Conducting Competition, Plovdiv, Bulagaria
– 1st prize, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Recommendation prize, at International Competition for Opera
Conductor ‘L.Mancinelli’ with Verdi’s opera, Un Ballo in Maschera at Teatro L.Mancinelli di Orvieto in Italy
– 1st prize, Orchestra’s choice at Athens International Conducting Mc & Competition, Athens, Greece
– 1st prize, LWI Thessaloniki International Conducting Competition, Greece
– 1st prize and Orchestras special prize at Danube Conducting Competition at Budapest, Hungary
– 1st prize and Orchestra special prize at BMI International Conducting Competition at Bucharest, Romania

Deun Lee graduated in Piano major (under M. Silvia Rumi) and Voice major (under M. Vittorio Terranova) both at Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano. Afterword, he graduated Voice major at Accademia Chigiana di Siena (under M. Renato Bruson), Master degree and PSD diploma in Voice major at Mannes College in New York (under Prof. Arthur Levy). Deun Lee obtained Master degree in Orchestra Conducting at Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano under Maestro Vittorio Parisi with highest mark and Honors.

He conducted numerous operas and symphonic repertoire as principal conductor, including wide range of classical to contemporary repertoire including: Elisir d’amore, La Bohéme, Un Ballo in Maschera, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Turandot, Il Trovatore, La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Festival Rossini 150), Rigoletto, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Italiana in Algeri, Gounod’s Faust, Carmen, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Stravinsky’s Petrushka 1911, C.Orff’s Carmina Burana in different places and theaters such as: National Korea Theater, Lincoln Center Bruno Walter Auditoriu , The DiMenna Center, LeFrak Concert Hall, Jersey City Hall, Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall (Where he also had his Solo Tenor Recital), Seoul Arts Center, Teatro Coccia di Novara, Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto, Teatro Dal Verme di Milano, Sala Verdi di Milano, Teatro Elfo Puccini di Milano, Teatro Castagnoli di Scansano, Teatro Carcano di Milano, Teatro San Cristoforo di Milano, Teatro sull’acqua di Sassetta, Teatro Lirico di Magenta, Théâtre Ledoux de Besancon, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vigadó Concert Hall, Amphitheatre Ioannis Despotopoulos, Kocertsalen Alsion, Plovdiv State Opera, State Opera Stara Zagora, Danube Palace and Palatului Cutural.

He conducted and experienced different style and lots of professional orchestras such as: Korea national Symphony orchestra, Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche Comté, Orchestre National de Lyon, Leipziger Symphonie, Arad Philharmonic Orchestra, Athens Philharmonia, New York Classical Symphony orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic orchestra, Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra, Budapest MAV Symphony, Danubia Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Danube Symphony orchestra, Bucharest Symphony, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Filarmonica del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Berlin Sinfonietta, Ensemble Testori, Brescia MasterOrchestra, Prime Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic.

Deun Lee is Artistic Director and orchestra conductor at Bell’Opera Festival in Italy and worked as assistant conductor at Opéra de Lille, Varna State Opera, Teatro Lirico di Magenta, Teatro Coccia di Novara, Teatro Spazio89 di Milano for different opera productions and concerts at Budapest Festival Orchestra and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken.

Born in Montebelluna in the Veneto region Elisabetta Maschio was awarded her degree in piano by the conservatory “G. Verdi” in Milan with Riccardo Risaliti and started her career as a repetiteur with Lawrence Foster in Paris.

She acquires an extensive knowledge “in the field” of opera as accompanying pianist and chorus master, with a predilection for Italian opera. She worked as a repetiteur for various theatres and music festivals both in Italy and abroad – Teatro Comunale , Bologna, Teatro Regio, Torino, Macerata Festival and the Salzburg Festival. 

Ms. Maschio attended lessons in conducting given by both Edoardo Muller and Gustav Kuhn, becoming Kuhn’s assistant from1989 to 1992.  Her conducting debut took place in Pordenone in 1991 – Il Trovatore with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.  Since then she has regularly worked as a conductor in the operatic repertoire, being invited by theatres both in Italy and abroad – Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Teatro Comunale, Modena, Teatro Olimpico , Vicenza, Teatro Sistina, Rome, Auditorium “Pollini”, Padova, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, Teatro Verdi, Trieste and the Prague National Theatre.

She also conducts across the symphonic and operatic repertoire, in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Bilbao, Budapest, Mexico City, Prague, Seoul, and in Italy she has led the Virtuosi di S. Cecilia, Haydn Orchester Bolzano, Sinfonica di Sanremo. Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Ente Arena di Verona, Teatro Lirico di Trieste, etc.

In 1995, Ms Maschio founded the Sardinia Youth Orchestra in Sassari and from 1995 to 1997 she was appointed musical Supervisor for the Ente Concerti “M. de Carolis” (operatic and symphonic repertoire, chamber music).

 In 1996/97 she was appointed musical director and conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra in Lecce, personally conducting symphonic repertoire from the eighteenth century to contemporary music. 

Ms Maschio has worked with such artists as Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ghena Dimitrova, Giorgio Merighi, Roberto Servile, Bruno Practico, Andrea Bocelli (with whom she recorded some pieces of his first CD), Benedetto Lupo, Pavel Berman, Thomas Demenga, Lucero Tena, Yasuko Hayashij and Leonidas Kavakos.  She has collaborated with stage directors such as Mauro Bolognini and Lorenzo Mariani. 

Ms Maschio has recorded (as pianist for RCA) a selection of pieces from 8th and 9^th century composers, and has also conducted a recording of unpublished pieces by L. Leo and N. Porpora for Bongiovanni.  For Kicco Classic, Milano, she has recorded Verdi’s Falstaff (live), Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (DVD), Carmen (DVD) and Cin Ci La (DVD). 

She is also the artistic director of the International Youth festival Gioie Musicali-Asolo since 2005 and holds the position of advisor on the board of directors of the Sistema Italia Abbado Abreu. 

Elisabetta Maschio is currently Professor of orchestra repertoire at F. Venezze Conservatory of Music in Rovigo. 

After winning the First prize at the 9th Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition in Bucharest in August 2018 Anton Shaburov is considered to be one of the most promising young Russian conductors.

Other competition successes include the First prize at the 2016 Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition and Grand Prix together with the special audience award at the 2013 Ilya Musin all-Russian Conducting Competition.

In August 2021 Anton Shaburov became a principal conductor and artistic director of the Rostov Symphony Orchestra (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 2019 Tirgu-Mures Philharmonic orchestra (Tirgu-Mures, Romania) elected Anton Shaburov as its principal guest conductor. Since 2017 Anton Shaburov also holds the position of a permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre (Primorsky Stage, Vladivostok, Russia).

As a guest conductor, Anton Shaburov performed with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra). George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra in Debrecen, I Solisti Aquilani Chamber Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu, Heilongjiang Symphony Orchestra in Harbin, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic orchestra and Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra in Kazan among the others. In 2018 Anton Shaburov took part in the Valery Gergiev’s International Mariinsky Far East Festival in Vladivostok and Yuri Bashmet’s Festival in Khabarovsk.

In 2017-2020 Anton Shaburov held the position of the chief conductor and artistic director of the Far Eastern Symphony Orchestra (Khabarovsk, Russia). During his work in Khabarovsk, Anton Shaburov managed to enrich the orchestra repertoire with pieces by Paul Hindemith, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Walter Piston, Alfred Schnittke, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Vladislav Zolotaryov. Anton Shaburov led a highly successful performance of the Far Eastern Symphony Orchestra at the V all-Russian Symphonic Forum in Yekaterinburg in September 2018.

Anton Shaburov received his musical education in two major Russian music institutions – the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatory and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In Moscow, he studied conducting with the legendary professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

GRAMMY® winning conductor Michael Repper is one of the most sought-after young directors in the world. With work spanning six continents, Mr. Repper has an international reputation for engaging and exciting audiences of all spectrums, and for promoting new and diverse musical talents. He is the youngest North American conductor, and the second youngest of all time, to win a GRAMMY® in Best Orchestral Performance.

Mr. Repper is the Music Director of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Northern Neck Orchestra of Virginia. From 2020-2022 he was the Principal Conductor of Sinfonía por el Perú, one of South America’s most versatile social impact music programs, and he recently concluded his tenure as Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Recognizing his success at these ensembles, and his growing profile as a guest conductor all over the world and as a past Conducting Fellow of the Baltimore Symphony, Mr. Repper was awarded a Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award in 2020, 2021, 2022, & 2023.

His album with the New York Youth Symphony, which features debut recordings of works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman, achieved widespread critical acclaim and reached #1 on the Billboard Chart. Mr. Repper’s mission is to use music as a vehicle for positive change within our communities.

Taras Kutsenko is a graduate of the most prestigious and elite universities and conservatories of music including the Moscow School of Musical Performance and Composition (Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory), Moscow Academy of International Cooperation (Managementе) the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) School of Conducting, the Kharkiv National University of Arts, the New York Film Academy, and the Berklee College of Music of Sound Engineering.

He founded the record label ‘Terry Heimat Studios LLC’ (US Florida www.terryheimat.com), which releases music albums and singles mainly in the genre of classical music and crossover music. As a performer, conductor, producer he has collaborated with such musicians as Francis Goya, Al di Meola, Amaury Gutierrez, Richard Baravo, Camilo Valencia, Leonid Agutin, Camilo Velandia, Angelica Varum, Julio Ariel Diaz, Slava Vakarchuk, Alexandr Ponomarev and others.

In 2018, he was inducted into the Musicians’ Hall of Fame in China.

Founder and director of Puskás International, born in Vienna, Peter started his musical education with the Vienna Boys Choir, while also working for over 7 years as an actor at the Vienna Burgtheater.

He later studied piano at the Vienna Conservatoire. Combining both his musical and stage interests, Peter worked for several years as assistant and musical advisor to Stage Designer Günther Schneider Siemssen, subsequently working in a variety of roles for large scale opera productions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Moving to the UK in 2005, Peter has had several positions with video on demand platforms dedicated to classical music, before joining the Arts Council of England’s London Music Team. Peter set up Puskas International Artist Management Consultancy in 2012.

Returning to Vienna in 2024, Peter set up Puskas & Puskas Stage Media Productions OG, an event and TV production company along side his activies with the agency. In a voluntary capacity, Peter is a board member of the English Touring Opera and several other arts organisations across Europe, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Considered by the public and critics as one of the best oboists on the international scene, he is also active as an Artistic Director and Manager.

He has been Vice President of la Filarmonica della Scala in Milan and is currently Artistic Director of Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana.

Francesco Di Rosa holds the role of principal Oboe in Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and is oboe Professor at Lugano Conservatory in Switzerland.

He studied with Luciano Franca and Maurice Bourgue. From 1994 to 2008 he was principal oboe of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Music directors Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim).

He played in the most prestigious concert halls in the world and was conducted by conductors such as Abbado, Giulini, Chailly, Gatti, Boulez, Sawallisch, Pretre, Maazel, Muti, Metha, Gergiev, Blomstedt and Chung.

The only Italian oboist to play as principal oboe with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he has been invited as  such by the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Mozart Orchestra, the Luzern Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra National de France, and the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande.

He  has taught at the Guildhall School in London, Royal College of Manchester, at Stanford University, at the Toho Graduate School in Tokyo, at the Conservatory of Valencia, at the University of Stuttgart, at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, at the China Conservatory of music in Beijing, all Paderwsky Academy of Poznan, at the University of Bogotá, at the Conservatory of Mexico City, at the Oboe Fest in Belgrade, and in the main Italian Conservatories.

He is President and founding member of the Musicians for Human Rights association.

In June 2021, he was appointed Cavaliere al merito of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella.

Hae Lee was the 2nd prize winner of the Kussewitzky Conducting Competition in Italy and the Finalist of the Besançon Conducting Competition in France. Hae was invited to the LEAD! Foundation’s masterclass in Finland and after it, he was selected as the young conductor for the final concert of the Fiskars Festival. In this concert, Hae shared the podium with Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Gaffigan, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

In the States, Hae served as a cover conductor of Marin Alsop for her concerts at Carnegie Hall. Hae also conducted at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as an assistant for David Hayes and Mannes Orchestra when they performed Ives’ Symphony No. 4 which requires three conductors. Hae was a fellow of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the assistant conductor of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy.

In South Korea, Hae was invited to the master classes with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean National Symphony Orchestra, and Korea National Opera. He conducted operas such as Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, La Bohème, and Gianni Schicchi.

In Europe, Hae studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as an exchange student, and he has conducted Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, Orchestre Victor Hugo, and Orchestra sinfonica città di Grosseto.

Hae received his Bachelor of Artsin Conducting from the Korea National University of Arts, and he holds his Master of Music from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Lendvai was born in 1960. in Hungary and began to study violin and music at the age of seven.

He completed his second degree at the Liszt Academy of Budapest as a violinist and teacher. From 1989-1992 he was a member of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Costa Rica, under the direction of Mtro. Irwin Hoffman. He continued his studies in the United States and received a master’s degree in performing arts as a violinist in 1994.

After returning to his native country, he became a teacher at St. Stephen High School specializing on performing arts of classical music. He played in different chamber orchestras from 1994-2005 such as the Weiner Szász Chamber Symphony, Solti Chamber orchestra. He collaborated with various orchestras as an organizer and manager during that period. He joined the Somogyi String Quartet in 1999 until the present time, giving concerts, and touring with them regularly (all over Europe, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey).

He holds the position of CEO of the MAV Symphony Orchestra of Budapest since 2005.

Matt Wilshire is an accomplished arts administrator, educator, and musician, currently serving as the Vice President of Artistic Planning and Orchestra Operations with the Richmond Symphony. Prior to this role, Matt held various key positions in arts organizations, including the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and as Vice President of Artistic Planning and Artistic Operations at the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.

Before transitioning to arts administration, Matt enjoyed a vibrant performance career, playing with ensembles such as the Illinois Symphony, Transit Brass, and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. He also served as an adjunct instructor of Tuba at Purdue University in 2017 and maintained a large studio of students in central Illinois.

Matt holds an undergraduate degree in music education and music performance from the University of North Texas, a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from Oklahoma City University, and has completed coursework toward a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Illinois.