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Jury
Andreas Weber
Professor at Mozarteum & head of the Leopold-Mozart-Institute
Andreas Weber began his pianistic education at the Music University of Cologne with Prof. Karin Merle and continued with Prof. Hans Leygraf at the University of Music in Salzburg. His gives concerts as a soloist and as chamber musician in Europe and Asia, i.a. with the Trio Cartellieri and with the Violinists Luz Leskowitz and Albert Fischer. Television recordings in Austria, Korea and China. He holds many Masterclasses in US, Japan, Russia, Korea, China, Thailand, Australia, Germany, Croatia and Belgium and is
member of juries in national and international piano competitions in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Singapore, Russia, China and Korea. He has made CD recordings with the Cellist Hanna Spielbüchler (Brahms, Schubert and Franck) as well with the Violinist Albert Fischer (Mozart, Brahms, Schubert) and with the Trio Cartellieri (Turina, Takacs, Piazzolla)
Since 2002 Andreas Weber is professor for piano at the University Mozarteum and since 2005 he is the head of the Leopold-
Mozart-Institute for highly talented young students and is promoting young talents at national and international level. Concert tours in Japan, Russia and China with the violinist Luz Leskowitz.
Since 2009 he is professor at the International Summer Academy of Mozarteum and the head of the Leopold-Mozart-Institute as the representative for the highly talented program. Many of his students are prize winners of renown international piano competitions in Germany, Austria, South Corea, Spain, Serbia, Netherlands, Kazakhstan,Poland, Italy, Hungary etc.
Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryla
Professor at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music
Pianist, chamber musician, teacher, Habilitated Doctor of Musical Arts, associate professor at the Chair of Piano of the Chopin University of Music, from which she graduated with honours in 2004 in the piano class of Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and in the chamber music class of Krystyna Borucińska. Since 2020, she has been a Deputy Dean of the Department of Instrumental Studies of her alma mater.
Prizewinner of national and international piano competitions, including the 1st prize in the All-Polish Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2000). She received an honourable mention in the Estrada Młodych as part of the 35th Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (2001); finalist of the International Piano Competition ‘Sergei Rachmaninov’ in Morcone (2003); winner of the second prize in the 3rd Concorso Pianistico Internazionale ‘Andrea Baldi’ in Bologna (2013). Two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as well as recipient of other prestigious scholarships.
She has participated in numerous master classes led by such artists and teachers as Andrzej Jasiński, Marek Mizera, Jerzy Godziszewski, Oxana Yablonskaya, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli, Hiroko Nakamura, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Arie Vardi, Dominique Merlet, Alexei Nasedkin, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Vera Gornostaeva, Lee Kum-Sing, and Nikolai Demidenko. The artist has performed in many Polish cities (including seven philharmonic halls) as well as in renowned concert venues in Austria, Azerbaijan, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, or the USA. She has co-operated with such conductors as Łukasz Borowicz, Rafał Janiak, Monika Wolińska, Sławek A. Wróblewski, Tadaaki Otaka, Daisuke Soga and Jiří Petrdlík. She has run master classes for pianists in Poland, Azerbaijan, China, Italy, Tunisia, and the USA.
In 2014, together with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka and Tomasz Strahl, she recorded complete chamber works by Fryderyk Chopin for the DUX label. The album won the Excepcional award of the Spanish magazine Scherzo and received a nomination for a Fryderyk. In addition, the artist participated in the recording of two CDs under the Saxophone varie series (vol. 2 and vol. 3, nominated for a Fryderyk) with saxophonist Paweł Gusnar; in 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of Poland’s independence, she recorded cello sonatas by Zygmunt Stojowski and Ludomir Różycki, together with Tomasz Strahl, for Chopin University Press. In 2019, the album won a Fryderyk in the category Album of the Year – Chamber Music.
Moreover, in 2014 Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła published the book Sonata w twórczości Siergieja Rachmaninowa [Sonata in the Output of Sergei Rachmaninov] (Toruń 2014).
Vladimir Kharin
MDW , universität für Musik und darstellende kunst Wein
Vladimir Kharin began his musical education at the age of 6 years at the Central Music Special School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for specially gifted children. He gave his first piano recital at the age of eleven and made his orchestra debut at the age of 13. He then studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Jevgeni Malinin and Lev Naumov (both students of Heinrich Neuhaus), which he graduated with Distinction. Many of his concerts were broadcast live on Russian TV and Radio. He continued his studies and took the “Konzertexamen” (also with distinction) with Michael Roll and Boris Bloch at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as with master classes with Vitaly Margulis, Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitri Bashkirov. Vladimir Kharin was invited to the concert halls of Germany, the CIS states, France, Italy, Japan, China and Indonesia as a laureate of international competitions with recitals and chamber music, as well as concerts with orchestra. He has appeared several times with recitals at the Ruhr Piano Festival and has recorded several CDs, including together with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jonathan Darlington. Vladimir Kharin focuses on his teaching activities, which he began in 2005 at the Folkwang University of the Arts as an assistant to Boris Bloch. Since 2009 he became the director for piano instruction for particularly gifted children and young people at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His students attracted attention at international competitions with several first prizes. Kharin is a highly sought-after jury member at competitions, to which he is regularly a part of, all-throughout Europe, as well as in the Far East, along with giving concert performances and master classes.
Eva Gevorgyan
Online Jury (First Round)
Eva Gevorgyan was born in Moscow in 2004. In 2022 she graduated from the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Natalia Trull), since that year Eva has been a student of the conservatory (class of the same teacher). She is also studying at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid (class of Stanislav Ioudenitch). Previously Eva had studied under Stanislav Ioudenitch, William Grant Naboré and Dmitri Bashkirov at the International Piano Academy Lake Como and under Andrea Bonatta at the Piano Academy Eppan (Appiano sulla Strada del Vino, South Tyrol, Italy). Has taken part in masterclasses given by Pavel Gililov, Grigory Gruzman, Piotr Paleczny and Klaus Hellwig.
Grant recipient of the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation and the New Names foundation. Prize-winner at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth (Szafarnia, Poland, 2014; 1st prize), the Santa Cecilia International Competition (Porto, Portugal, 2015; 1st prize), the International Giuliano Pecar Piano Competition (Gorizia, Italy, 2016; Grand Prix), the International Competition for Young Pianists Astana Piano Passion (2017; 2nd prize and Audience Award), the International Robert Schumann Piano Competition (Düsseldorf, 2017; 1st prize), the International Competition for Young Pianists Grand Piano Competition (Moscow, 2018; five special prizes), the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists (2018; 1st prize and prize for the best performance of a work by Bach), the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition (Dallas, 2019; 2nd prize and Press Award), the All-Russian Competition Young Talents of Russia (Moscow, 2019), the Chicago International Music Competition (2020; Grand Prix and prize for the best performance of a work by Chopin), the International Piano Competition Jeune Chopin for Children and Youth (Martigny, Switzerland, 2020 (the jury was chaired by Martha Argerich); 1st prize) and the 1st Grand All-Russian Selection of the Russian National Orchestra (Moscow, 2021; Grand Prix) among other contests. Took the Prize for the Youngest Female Finalist at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw, 2021). Won 3rd prize and the Bronze Medal at the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors (Moscow, 2022). Winner of the Öschberghof Piano Festival (Donaueschingen, Germany, 2021) and the Prix du Piano Bern competition (2023).
She received an ICMA (International Classical Music Award) in the category “Discovery of the Year” (2019), as well as the Prix Serdang, a Swiss piano award presented by its curator, Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder (2026).
Grant recipient of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr (Germany, 2020).
Has taken part in the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron (France), the Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival (Poland), the Eilat Chamber Music Festival (Israel), the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, the Music Fest Perugia and the festivals Stars of the White Nights (St Petersburg), Stars on Baikal (Irkutsk), ClaviCologne (Cologne) and Piano Without Borders (Kazan) to name but a few. Has toured to Austria, Great Britain, France, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Israel, Armenia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Morocco, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Monaco, Sweden, Norway, Taiwan, Cyprus and Malta.
Has collaborated with such ensembles as the Mariinsky Orchestra, Musica Aeterna, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra), the Russian National Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, the Gewandhausorchester (Leipzig), the Brussels Philharmonic, London’s Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Romania’s Bacău Philharmonic Orchestra.
Has worked with conductors including Teodor Currentzis, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Vasily Petrenko, Lawrence Foster, Valery Polyansky, Stéphane Denève, Alexander Liebreich, Andrey Boreiko, George Pehlivanian, Jaime Martín, Dimitris Botinis, Gerhardt Zimmermann, Eduard Topchjan, Pyotr Gribanov and Ilmar Lapiņš.
In 2019 she gave a recital at London’s Royal Albert Hall, and in 2025 – opened Emir Kusturica’s festival Kustendorf Classic (Serbia).
Her chamber music partners include Pablo Ferrández, Kristóf Baráti and Julia Fischer.
Has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Tonhalle Zürich, Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música, the Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Seoul Arts Center, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes and Prague’s Rudolfinum among many other venues.
Participant in programmes of the St Petersburg Music House (since 2020) and the Moscow Philharmonic Society.
In 2021 she received the title of “Young Yamaha Artist”. Orpheus Radio Artist.
In 2022 the Melodiya label released Eva Gevorgyan’s first solo disc with works by Scriabin and Chopin.