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.
Magí Garcías
Associate professor at the Conservatorio Superior de les Illes Balears

Magí Garcías is an eclectic and active pianist born in Mallorca. He continued his Master's degree studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany, with Professor Gerlinde Otto where he obtained the highest marks in Piano and Chamber Music. He receives masterclasses and highly influential advice from teachers such as Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Natalia Trull, Grigory Gruzman, Iván Martín, Josep Colom, Henry Bonamy, David Kayjken, Lluís Rodríguez, Enrique Bagaría, Iván Cítera or Aquilles Dellevigne. Nowadays he is a "Meisterklasse" student in the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg in the class of the Prof. Dr. Aurelia Visovan.
His chamber music training was led by Cuarteto Quiroga and influenced by teachers like Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel or Prof. Dirk Mommertz. He also delves into the piano and cello repertoire learning from professors such as T. Svane, Fernando Arias, J. Peter Maintz or W. E. Schmidt. This knowledge was fundamental to develope his profile as cellists' collaborative pianist.
He performed in various countries as Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria or Spain, and in festivals as the International Chopin Festival of Valldemossa, Festival of New Creation (Valencian Community), Jornadas de Música Contemporánea Española (Aragon) or Festival de Encuentros Sonoros (Andalusia), International Festival of Deià, Festival Inclàssic, etc.
As solo pianist he's been awarded in several competitions. In 2021 he was awarded the 2nd prize and the Special Prize Jardí dels Tarongers of the International Competition of Les Corts, in Barcelona. In 2018 he won the Young Art of Soloists competition unanimously, promoted by the Ministry of Culture of the Balearic Government. He receives several awards in various competitions, such as the prize for best resident performer in the Rottary-Palma International Piano Competition, Ravel Award at the 13th San Daniele PianoMeeting, 1st Prize in the Rafel Nadal Musical Contest, Scholarship Prize at the Paola Baschetti International Competition, and Diploma di Merito at the Concorso Internazionale Pianisitco Maria Giubilei, 3rd prize in the Gabriel Giubilei Competition. 1st prize in the Ciutat de Felanitx competition, Finalist in the Permanente Juventudes Musicales Competition, Prize for the best classical concerto for piano and orchestra at the 15th San Daniele Piano Meeting (Italy), etc.
He has performed as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker JOL (Joven Orquesta Leonesa), the Orquesta Sinfónica Solidaria of the CSMA, or the OCM (Orquestra de Cambra de Mallorca) and worked with various conductors such as Fernando Marina, Jorge Manrique, Bernat Quetglas, Albert Gosálvez, Fernando L. Briones, etc.
He combines his solo activity with an intense activity in the world of chamber music. Within this field he has performed with musicians such as Dudu Carmel, Thomas Indermhülle, José Manuel Montero, José Manuel ÁLvarez-Losada or Andreu Riera. He is member of the stable chamber music duo "Sosnowska-Garcías with the renowned cellist Zuzanna Sosnowska. In 2019 they were awarded the 1st ex-aequo Prize at the prestigious Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition. In 2022 they got awarded with the 2nd Prize in the International Swedish Duo Competition. The Sosnowska-Garcías Duo has performed in international Festivals like the J. Waldorff Festival in Radziejowice, the Linköpping Kammarmusicforening or the Festival Brahms 2022 Mallorca-Pollença. They have received advice from teachers like T. Svane, J. P. Maintz, Dirk Mommertz, T. Steinhofel, W. E. Schmidt, F. Arias, etc. and performed in many different countries like Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain or Poland.
In 2018 his first album "Before you fall asleep" is released, paying homage to the composer Sergi Ramis (1990-2017), with the BLAU label (DISCMEDI). In 2020 he also published "Nuredduna", a concept album based on the poem by Costa i Llobera, which receives a special mention at the Ciutat de Palma Awards 2020 and is a finalist in the Enderrock Awards of Balearic Music. Refractio VOL is published in 2021. I (Columna Música), a dialogue between interpretation and improvisation with jazz pianist Diego Hervalejo and the featuring of Clara Fiol.
He has been co-artistic director of the BTHVN2020 Festival, MZRT2021 Festival and Festival BRAHMS 2022 in Pollença together with the conductor Bernat Quetglas.
He currently combines his artistic activity with teaching, as an associate professor at the Conservatorio Superior de les Illes Balears, and he has accompanied masterclasses by famous teachers like Ramón Ortega, Dudu Carmel or Thomas Indermhülle.a
Eva Gevorgyan
XVIII 18th Chopin Competition Finalist,
Warsaw, Poland (Online jury)

Eva was born on the 15th of April 2004. She is studying with Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch at Reina Sofia School of Music and with Professor Natalia Trull at the Moscow State Conservatory.
Eva is Young Yamaha Artist. Evgeny Kissin chose her as a scholar of Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2020. Eva is a Discovery Award winner 2019 at the ICMA 2019 (International Classical Music Award). She is a grand-prix winner of Russian National Orchestra Competition in 2021. Eva is the winner of Öschberghof Klassik Piano Festival 2021 (Germany). Eva is a winner of Prix du Piano Bern competition in Switzerland in 2023. Eva has received awards at more than 50 international competitions for piano and composition in USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Estonia, Malta, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Russia and Serbia. Among them are:
- 18th International Chopin Piano Competition (Poland, Warsaw, finalist and a special award winner)
- Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition (USA, Texas, 2-nd Prize and a special prize - Press Award)
- Cleveland International Piano Competition for young artists (USA, Cleveland, 1-st prize, special prize for the best interpretation of Bach and Canton Symphony Orchestra Prize)
- Chicago International Music Competition (USA, Chicago, Grand Prix and special prize for the best interpretation of Chopin)
- Rachmaninoff International Competition (Russia, Moscow, 3-rd prize)
- Jeune Chopin International Piano Competition (Switzerland, Martigny, 1-st prize)
- Grand Piano International Competition (Russia, Moscow, laureate and 5 special prizes)
- Robert Schumann piano competition (Germany, Düsseldorf, 1-st prize)
- Chopin International Piano Competition for young pianists (Poland, Szafarnia, 1st prize)
- International Piano Competition of Giuliano Pecar in Gorizia (Italy, Grand-Prix)
- St. Cecilia international piano competition (Portugal, 1st prize)
Eva performed in Dobbiaco at Alto Adige Festival in front of the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.
Eva receives a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and participates regularly in the intensive music weeks and activities offered by the Academy.
She took part in many festivals such as Verbier festival (Switzerland), Mariinsky International Piano Festival (Russia), Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival (Poland), Stars on lake Baikal Festival by Denis Matsuev (Russia), Ruhr Klavier Festival (Germany), VP Bank Classic Festival (Switzerland), “Stars of the White nights” (Russia), Eilat Chamber Music Festival (IsraeI), Montreal Bach Festival (Canada), ArtDialog Festival (Switzerland), Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival (Italy), “Vladimir Spivakov invites…”(Russia), Palermo Classica Festival (Italy), Samos Young Artist Festival (Greece), Perugia Piano Festival (Italy), Klassik vor Acht (Germany), Belgrade Music Festival BEMUS (Serbia), Jeune Chopin à Cannes (France), Bad Schallerbach Festival (Austria), Denis Matsuev Festival in Perm (Russia), Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), International Festival named by S. Rachmaninoff “White Lilac” (Russia), Chopin Piano Fest (Serbia), Ferrara Piano Festival (Italy), The International Keyboard Odyssiad Festival (USA), Alto Adige Festival (Italy), Lanzhou International Piano Festival (China), Wawer Music Festival (Poland), ClaviCologne Festival (Germany), Alion Baltic Festival (Estonia), New Names Festival (Armenia), Osor Music Evenings (Croatia), Denis Matsuev Festival in Tyumen (Russia), Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival (UK), Bartletta Piano Festival (Italy), Fraenkische Musiktage Alzenau Festival (Germany), Shanghai International Piano Festival (China), Summer. Music. Museum (Russia) and others.
Eva won Junior Prize (City Prize) of Eppan Junior Piano Academy (Italy).
In 2019 Eva had a solo recital in the Albert Hall (London, UK).
In 2021 Eva had a recital at Auditorio National of Madrid from Scherzo Foundation.
Eva Gevorgyan has performed with Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Russian National Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker , Canton Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic orchestra of Bacau, Yaroslavl Academic Governor's Symphonic Orchestra, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Irkutsk Philharmony, Saint-Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Neue Philharmonie Hamburg Orchestra, Palermo Classica Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, Academic State Symphony Orchestra of Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra “Musica Viva”, Chamber orchestra NRW, Academy of Russian music chamber orchestra, Astana Symphony Orchestra, Shizuoka Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, Chelyabinsk Symphony Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra named after Rachmaninoff, Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, Women Symphony Orchestra, Tula Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Academic Orchestra, Safonov Academic Symphony Orchestra, Jovem Vale Musica Orchestra and others.
She collaborated with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Andrzej Boreyko, Roberto Beltrán-Zavala, Vasily Petrenko, Lawrence Foster, Stephane Deneve, Alexander Liebreich, Eduard Topchjan, Marco Parisotto, Dimitris Botinis, Gerhardt Zimmermann, Fabio Mastrangelo, Wayne Marshall, Remy Ballot, Yuri Medianik, Dmitry Jurowski, Georg Christoph Sandmann, Yuri Tkachenko, Ivan Nikiforchin, Anna Skryleva, Piotr Gribanov, Tigran Hakhnazaryan, Ruth Reinhardt, Cesar Alvarez, Anatoly Levin, Haoran Li, Yuri Lebedev, Christian Knapp, Ilmar Lapinsh, Azim Karimov, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Ivan Demidov, Ovidiu Balan, Gaddiel Dombrowner, Nikolay Tsinman, Roberto Tibiriça, Alexey Morgunov, Anna Sułkowska, Yasuo Shinozaki, Alexander Ghindin, Alexander Skulsky, Adik Abdurakhmanov, Denis Vlasenko, Ricardo Arzate Gonzalez, Alexey Vereshchagin, Alexander Titov, Tigran Shiganyan, Arsentiy Tkachenko, Tigran Mikaelyan, Igor Manasherov, Maximilian Haberstock, Felix Korobov, Konstantin Chudovsky, Mikhail Leontiev, Artemy Veliky, Alexei Aslanov, Vladimir Dobrovolsky, Ksenia Zharko, Anton Shaburov, Bogdan Olędzki, Dmitry Schyudrov and others.
She receives scholarship from Denis Matsuev’s New Names foundation, from YerazArt foundation, Vladimir Spivakov’s foundation, International foundation Artis Futura and from the Armenian Assembly.
In January 2020 Eva performed in Yerevan in front of the President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and his spouse.
In 2021 Eva recorded her first CD with Chopin and Scriabin works at Melodiya label.
Eva was invited to the International Piano Academy Lake Como, where she participated in masterclasses with Dmitry Bashkirov, Stanislav Ioudenitch and William Nabore. She has also participated in masterclasses with Pavel Gililov, Grigory Gruzman, Piotr Paleczny, Andrea Bonatta and Klaus Hellwig.
Olivier Moulin
Professor at the Nancy Conservatory, France
President of the Épinal International Piano Competition

Hailed by the Washington Post as a « young artist displaying maturity and elegance », French pianist Olivier Moulin studied under Eric Heidsieck and Gery Moutier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded first prize with the highest honors. After advanced studies in the same institution, he continued his training in Austria at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling for the piano and Clemens Hagen for the chamber music, where he obtained a Master of Arts with the highest honors. Throughout his studies, he has also benefited from the advices of masters such as Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Dominique Merlet, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli …
Prizewinner of international piano competitions, he is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls around the world : Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, the Louvre Auditorium and Radio-France in Paris, Lyon National Opera, Metz Arsenal, Mozarteum Salzburg, Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest, BASF Gesellshafthaus in Germany, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as in Washington DC, Osaka, Beijing, Istanbul, New Delhi, Geneva, Lisbon, Oslo, Minsk …
He is also invited to perform at major international festivals : La Roque d’Anthéron, the Radio-France Festival, Chopin Festival in Paris, Central European Music Festival in Slovakia, Lisztomanias Festival in Istanbul, Virtuosi Festival in Brazil, Festival International de Piano « En Blanco y Negro » in Mexico City, Croisements Festival in China, Gümüsluk International Music Festival in Turkey, Bellapais International Festival in Cyprus … His concerts are regularly broadcasted by radio and television in France and abroad.
His tours have taken him to most European countries, as well as to the USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Belarus, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Algeria …
Olivier Moulin performs as a soloist with the Orchestre National de Metz, the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra in China, the Camerata de Coahuila in Mexico… under the baton of conductors Peter Csaba, Jacques Mercier, James Liu, Kanako Abe… His passion for chamber music also leads him to share the stage with numerous musicians : the Fine Arts Quartet, soloists of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic David Guerrier, Bertrand Chamayou, Edwin Crossley-Mercer… He also collaborates with many other artists, including Ève Ruggieri (concert-lectures on Frédéric Chopin and George Sand), or French actor Francis Perrin (Stravinsky’s « The Soldier’s Tale », Poulenc’s « Histoire de Babar »).
His first solo album, dedicated to Franz Liszt, was released under the AmeSon/Outhere label. This recording was praised by critics and featured in several broadcasts, notably on France Musique, Radio Classique…
After teaching at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Switzerland, Olivier Moulin is currently a piano Professor at the Nancy Conservatory in France, and the President of the Épinal International Piano Competition (member of the World Federation of International Music Competition in Geneva). He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Japan, China… and serves on the jury of numerous international piano competitions : Istanbul, Porto Santa Cecilia, Elevato, the Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition…