3rd prize and audience-award winner of the prestigious 2021 ARD Competition, the young Moldovan violinist Alexandra Tirsu, who completed her undergraduate studies with Pavel Vernikov in Vienna and Janine Jansen in Sion, is fast gaining recognition as one of the leading violinists of her generation.

A laureate of the 2018 Seoul International Music Competition and 2014 Osaka International Competition, her performances have garnered critical acclaim in publications such as The Strad, Classical Music Magazine, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among many others.

Her 2022/23 season included collaborations with Sol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kirill Troussov, Ioana Cristina Goicea, and Richard Galliano, as well as orchestral engagements with the London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Virtuosi Orchestra, Pilsen Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic (with immediate re-invitation), the Orquesta Filarmonica Marchigiana, Incheon Philharmonic and Orquesta Vigo 430. Additionally, she has also performed at the Solsberg Festival, the Crans Montana Classics Festival and Sion Music Festival.

The 2023/24 seasons brings Alexandra to Seoul, Korea, where she makes her debut with the celebrated Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Residence Hall as well her debut in the Isar Philharmonie (Munich) with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra playing Britten Violin Concerto, and Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), alongside some of the other halls she has performed in the past seasons, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Herkules Saal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Seoul Arts Center, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and the Beijing Concert Hall.

She has performed under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, Ronald Zollman, Gabriel Bebeselea, Dmitri Jurowsky, among others, and have collaborated with musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Michael Guttman, Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Chaushian, Friedrich Thiele, Razvan Popovici, Uto Ughi, Diemut Poppen, Boris Brovtsyn, Vladmir Landsmann, Svetlana Makarova, Levon Chilingirian and Kyril Zlontnikov. An advocate of bringing violin music to wider audiences, she regularly collaborates with the celebrated music-comedy duo Igudesman & Joo.

Alexandra plays the 1717 “Reifenberg” Stradivari, on generous loan through The Stradivari Society. She has been a Thomastik-Infeld artist since 2021.

Russian-German pianist Kristina Miller was born in 1986 in Moscow into a musical family. Her exceptional talent gave her, at a very early age, the opportunity to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with orchestra at just eight years old.

Six years later, she was invited by Professor A. E. Rubina to study at a special music school for young talents in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Having already won First Prize at the Berlin International Piano Competition (1999) and Second Prize at the Saint Petersburg International Piano Competition (2000), her outstanding achievements were recognized by the Russian Ministry of Culture, which awarded her a prize for artistic development.

Since the age of twelve, Kristina Miller has performed in concerts across Europe, the United States, Australia, and South America, and is regularly invited to appear as a soloist with orchestras such as the Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Americas, the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Claudio Santoro National Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie München, the St. Petersburg Capella State Symphony Orchestra, the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra, the USP Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Camerata, and the Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has collaborated with conductors including Ravil Martinov, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Claudio Cohen, Sergey Krylov, Patrick Hahn, Vladislav Chernushenko, Uri Segal, Roberto Tibiriçá, Osvaldo Ferreira, Fuad Ibrahimov, Helder Trefzger, Hobart Earle, and Andreas Stoehr.

After completing her studies at the special music school in 2004, she entered the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. During this time, she performed in major venues such as the Philharmonic Hall, the Capella Hall, and the Grand A. Glazunov Hall of the Conservatory.

In 2006, she won the Steinway Piano Award at the Steinway House in Munich and was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where she continued her studies with the renowned pianist Professor Gerhard Oppitz.

As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Müller-Schott, Sergey Krylov, David Aaron Carpenter, Jan Vogler, Pierre Amoyal, and Danjulo Ishizaka, among others.

In addition to several recordings for Bavarian Radio, her debut CD was released in 2008 by the Naxos label in collaboration with Nicolas Koeckert. The recording received excellent reviews and was repeatedly broadcast on Bavarian Radio and the BBC.

In 2012, she completed her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, earning a Master of Music degree with distinction under Professor Gerhard Oppitz.

In 2015, she completed a second Master’s degree at the Conservatory Wien University under Professor Dr. Johannes Kropfitsch.

Between 2017 and 2023, Kristina Miller made her debut in prestigious concert halls such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Sala São Paulo, the Stefaniensaal Graz, Victoria Hall Geneva, the Vilnius Philharmonic Hall, the Herkulessaal Munich, the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, and the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, among others.