ARCHIVE

Brussels, Belgium
18th-19th April 2026
TEACHERS

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.

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
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.
TEACHERS

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
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.

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.

Lerici Italy
16th-26th July 2023
TEACHERS & PROVOCATEURS

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.

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.

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’.

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

TEACHERS
Nathan Braude - viola, Thomas Carroll - cello
Speakers: Kasia Szychowska, Krzysztof Plesniak, Mark MacLaine

Popiglio, Italy
2018
TEACHERS
Nathan Braude - viola, Thomas Carroll - cello
Speakers: William Neale, Jonathan Barnes and Cherry Tewfik
Tienen , Belgium
2017

TEACHERS
Nick Jones cello
Speakers: Dirk De Wachter, Luc Vanliedekerke, Suzan Langenberg, Catherine Schnitzer, Raymond Langenberg


