top of page
ARCHIVE
Brussels
image0-1_edited.jpg

Brussels, Belgium

18th-19th April 2026

TEACHERS
Screenshot 2026-03-08 at 19.05.28.png

Igor
Tkatchouk

Violin

Founder and President of the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition and renowned violin professor. He graduated from Kyiv State Conservatory, studying under pupils of David Oistrakh. He enjoyed an active international performing career as soloist and chamber musician, winning Third Prize at the 1993 Paris International Competition. Following a 2004 accident, he devoted himself to teaching and is currently Professor of Violin at IMEP Namur. He founded the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition and co-founded the Ensemble of Young Soloists of Belgium. His students have become laureates of major competitions including Queen Elisabeth.

1627116529518.jpg

Marie Paule

Thill

Speaker

An ENT doctor specializing in ear surgery and former Head of Department at CHU Saint-Pierre in Brussels.An internationally renowned surgeon, she developed a strong interest in coaching, completing a Masters in business coaching and seminars in neurosciences and co- development. She also explored holistic, energy-based approaches to treating individuals. A musician in her youth, music has guided both her professional and personal life— evident in her chosen specialization healing hearing and voice. She is passionate about sharing her scientific and human knowledge with young musicians, bridging her medical expertise with her lifelong connection to music.

Andriy-1103.jpg

Andriy
Viytovych

Viola

Principal Viola of the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana in Valencia the Symphony Orchestra and formerly of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.Andriy has collaborated with renowned conductors including Mstislav Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, and Bernard Haitink. His enthusiasm for chamber music has led to collaborations with Camerata Lysy, the London Symphony Chamber Players, Razumovsky Ensemble, and Covent Garden Soloists. He is a professor of Viola at the Royal College of Music, London.

Brescia

Brescia, Italy

13th-19th July 2025

image1.jpeg
TEACHERS
Screenshot 2025-04-10 at 17.22.09.png

Ksenia
Milas

Violin

Ksenia Milas is a Russian violinist who has been living in Italy for over 15 years. She maintains an active concert schedule, performing solo recitals and concertos all over the world. From 2010 to 2023, she has taught at the International Academy of Imola (Honorary Director the Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazi). Through her passion for teaching, she seeks to pass on the secrets of the violinistic techniques to her numerous students. In 2021 she returned to teach in Florence and the following year received an invitation from Fiesole Academy where she is still teaching.

antonello-farulli_edited.jpg

Antonello

Farulli

Speaker

A student of Piero Farulli, viola of the legendary Italian Quartet, and later of Mazumi Tanamura and Nobuko Imai, Antonello Farulli is one of the most active Italian violists both in playing and teaching. A member of the Youth Orchestra of the Eurpoean Union, and later solo viola player of Solisti Veneti, Farulli's concert activity has taken him to into the most important concert halls in the world. He has also developed with passion his role as a mentor to some of the most succesful professional musicians working today, as well as renowned enembles, including the Cuarteto Casals, and has recorded for the Amadeus, Dynamite, Stradavarius and Tactus labels.

Screenshot 2025-04-10 at 17.22.17.png

Oleksandr

Semchuk

Violin

Oleksandr Semchuk began studying violin at 4 years of age with Maestro I. Pylatiuk. When only eight years old he started his career performing his first concert as a soloist with an orchestra. Among his teachers are such world-renowned violinists as Bohodar Kotorovych, Yehudi Menuhin, Tibor Varga, Viktor Tretyakov, and Alberto Lysy. At an early age, he won the prestigious and much coveted All-Soviet-Union Competition “Youth Assembly of Art” in Moscow, going on to win many international competitions including the Mykola Lysenko International Competition, Ukraine and the City of Gubbio Award, Italy. He has had a career that has brought him worldwide success, both as a soloist with orchestra and chamber music performer, collaborating with such internationally renowned musicians as B.Canino, R.Koelman, V.Sirenko, A.Lucchesini, O.Mandozzi, M.Brunello, V.Kozhukhar, K.Bogino, L.Gorokhov, M.Kugel, V.Mendelssohn, E.Baatarzhavyn, G.Mirabassi, M.Rysanov, M.Diadiura, O.Kogan, D.Cohen, B.Petrushansky, K.Karabitz, N.Eppinger, D.Shapovalov, A.Casellati, G.Fratta.

Rotherhithe
image1-1_edited.jpg

Lerici Italy

16th-26th July 2023

Lerici
TEACHERS & PROVOCATEURS
Andriy-1103.jpg

Andriy
Viytovych

Viola

Ukrainian born Andriy Viytovych was appointed Principal Viola of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2000. In the same year he became viola professor at the Royal College of Music in London. Andriy has worked with most of the world’s most eminent conductors and in March 2003 Andriy was invited to Berlin to play principal viola with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He has also toured the world as a soloist and chamber musician and is much in demand as an inspirational and insightful pedagogue.  

PHOTO Speaker Dominika.JPG

Dominika
Kulczyk

Speaker

Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, founder and president of Kulczyk Foundation. A supporter and promoter of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is an author of over 60 documentaries produced along with “The CNN Freedom Project” and TVN documentary series “Domino Effect” which tackle the problems of global discrimination and injustice. She is a supporter and promoter of Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations. For several years, Dominika has been undertaking menstrual health initiatives, including countering menstrual poverty in Poland and around the world. A promoter of the idea of a tender revolution to rebalance the position of women and men in the world. Chair of the Supervisory Board of Kulczyk Holding, Supervisory Board of Polenergia S.A., co-founder of the Values Group of Advisory Firms. In 2018, she was awarded the Order of the Smile for her outstanding contributions to children.

IMG_2411_edited.jpg

Gemma
Rosefield

Cello

Winner of the Pierre Fournier Award in 2007, Gemma Rosefield has been described by The Strad as ‘a mesmerising musical treasure’, by the London Evening Standard as ‘a phenomenal talent’, and featured in BBC Music Magazine as ‘one to watch’, Gemma has played throughout Europe, the USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Kenya and New Zealand as a soloist and chamber musician. Gramophone Magazine commented that she plays ‘with truly glorious affection’ and that ‘it is hard to imagine playing of a greater intensity’. 

IMG_0998.JPG

Dr Jonathan
Barnes

Speaker

Jonathan’s abiding interests are in values, creativity and child/teacher well-being. He has taught throughout Asia and Africa and in primary and secondary schools in England. A former primary head teacher and lecturer he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2015. He now researches, writes and speaks on play, imagination and creativity and their essential role in promoting mental and social health. His recent international work on the values that guide, build and sustain us suggest a central role for the arts and other creative pursuits. Using a strong focus on universal values, his charity Education4Diversity, works with schools and refugees to value, welcome and nurture diversity through arts and sports.

Popiglio, Italy

2019

image2_edited.jpg
Popiglio
TEACHERS

Nathan Braude - viola, Thomas Carroll - cello

Speakers: Kasia Szychowska, Krzysztof Plesniak, Mark MacLaine

image2_edited.jpg

Popiglio, Italy

2018

TEACHERS

Nathan Braude - viola, Thomas Carroll - cello

Speakers: William Neale, Jonathan Barnes and Cherry Tewfik

Tienen , Belgium

2017

image0.jpeg
Tienen
TEACHERS

Nick Jones cello

Speakers: Dirk De Wachter, Luc Vanliedekerke, Suzan Langenberg, Catherine Schnitzer, Raymond Langenberg

The Thinking Musician ©  2026​

bottom of page