Martin Galling, Piano

The German pianist, harpsichordist and chamber musician, Martin Galling, gave numerous concerts in Germany and toured Western Europe, the USA, Israel and Japan. During his career he has been involved in recordings of the most important composers of the Classical and Romantic periods. Galling was a soloist in numerous tours with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Karl Münchinger and worked a lot with Helmuth Rilling. Read more here.

Sergio Gallo, Piano

A Steinway artist, Sergio Gallo specializes in the repertoire of the Romantic period, especially Liszt and his contemporaries, including Schumann, Henselt, Brahms, and Chopin. He has also championed the work of composers in Brazil, the nation of his birth. His recent release for Naxos is Liszt’s transcriptions of opera by Meyerbeer (8.573235), and in 2011 he won the Global Music Awards Award of Excellence for his album, Mostly Villa-Lobos: 20th Century Piano Music from the Americas. Read more here.

Patrick Gallois, Flute

Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians leading highly successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. Gallois has a wide repertoire, with a predilection for contemporary music and many new works have been dedicated to him. For Naxos he has recorded the complete flute concertos of C.P.E. Bach, Mercadante and Devienne, works by Franz and Karl Doppler, as well as W.F. Bach’s Six Flute Duets (8.573768) with Kazunori Seo, among many others. Read more here.

Boris Giltburg, Piano

The young Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is lauded across the globe as a deeply sensitive, insightful and compelling musician. He has played recitals in leading venues such as the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Southbank Centre in London, Bozar in Brussels and the Louvre. In 2018 he won Best Soloist Recording (20th/21st century) at the inaugural Opus Klassik Awards for his recording of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto (8.573629). Read more here.

Amy and Sara Hamann, Pianos

The pianists Amy and Sara Hamann have won international recognition, captivating audiences and critics alike wherever they appear. Frequently, their performances have been broadcast on national and international television and radio, including NPR’s Performance Today and Studio 360. The Hamann Sisters are the first American duo to win the Absolute First Prize in the Fryderyk Chopin Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, First Prize in the International Grieg Competition, and First Prize of the Ellis Competition for Duo-Pianists. Read more here.

Jenő Jandó, Piano

The Hungarian pianist Jenő Jandó all the piano concertos and sonatas of Mozart for Naxos. Other recordings include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody and the complete piano sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven. He has performed and recorded a wide repertoire of chamber music, in addition to his recording of the complete piano music of Bartók. Read more here.

Jakub Junek, Violin

Jakub Junek has won prizes at many international competitions, including the 2006 Beethoven’s Hradec International Interpretation Competition and the A.I. Yampolsky International Violin Competition, Moscow. His discography comprises an album of Dvořák and Sibelius violin concertos, and more recently a solo release featuring pianist Karel Vrtiška. Renowned Czech director Hana Pinkavová has created two documentaries featuring Junek for Česká televise: Do Not Extinguish, I’m On Fire! with cellist Ivan Vokáč and Go For Your Dream. Read more here.

Dong-Suk Kang, Violin

Korean violinist Dong-Suk Kang studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music in the USA. He has appeared with many great orchestras and conductors and performed at major music centres and festivals including the BBC Proms in London. Kang is also a sought-after recording artist whose album have won critical acclaim, including a Gramophone ‘Recording of the Month’ and award nomination for his Walton Violin Concerto disc. Read more here.

Maria Kliegel, Cello

Maria Kliegel’s subsequent success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris led immediately to an international profile. Recording highlights include her Dvořák and Elgar Concertos and Schnittke’s Cello Concerto No. 1, described by the composer as ‘definitive’. Her playing is notably refined and beautiful, with a fastidious approach and the ability to adapt a mainstream style to suit a variety of repertory. For Naxos, Kliegel has recorded Beethoven’s cello sonatas, as well as some chamber works as part of the Xyrion Trio. Read more here.

Warren Lee, Piano

Warren Lee has performed on four continents, often in collaboration with international artists and leading orchestras. His recordings for Universal Music (Hong Kong) and Naxos have garnered favourable reviews worldwide. A Steinway Artist as well as an award-winning composer, Warren Lee received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong Kong in 2012 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2015 for his contribution to the music profession. Read more here.

Takako Nishizaki, Violin

Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and bestselling violinists of all time. Her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was named the 8th best-selling classical disc of all time with sales exceeding one million copies and her recordings of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by He and Chen sold more than three million copies in China and throughout South-East Asia. She has recorded more than 100 albums to date, including the complete works for violin and orchestra by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Tchaikovsky as well as the concertos of Brahms, Bruch and Mendelssohn. Read more here.

Carl Petersson, Piano

Carl Petersson has appeared at venues such as Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio at the CBC Centre, Shanghai Oriental Art Center and Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York. He has performed with orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kraków Philharmonic, and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. His most recent recordings include Beethoven’s ‘military’ pieces (Wellington’s Victory, Ritterballet) as well as some rare miniatures (8.573928), and Friedrich Burgmüller’s etudes. Read more here.

Hermann Prey, Baritone

The German lyric baritone Hermann Prey was equally at home with in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires. He made his American debut in 1952 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy. He was a gifted interpreter of Schubert’s Lieder, especially Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang. Especially successful in music that required a comic touch, Prey possessed a voice of great warmth, with complete dynamic control. Read more here.

Matti Salminen, Bass

Finnish singer Matti Salminen his international career as a member of the ensemble at the Cologne Opera in 1972, and has subsequently performed in the world’s leading opera houses including Opéra National de Paris, New York Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Teatro alla Scala in Milan among many others. His discography comprises an impressive number of recordings that document his exceptional career. Read more here.

Konstantin Scherbakov, Piano

Konstantin Scherbakov was the winner of the first Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in 1983. Boasting a phenomenal repertoire of some fifty concertos and a similar number of recital programmes, Scherbakov has recorded music from Bach to Strauss and Scriabin and from Beethoven to Medtner and Respighi, and the complete piano music of Leopold Godowsky. For Naxos he recorded Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s Symphonies, of which the Ninth Symphony (8.557366) was awarded the German Critics’ Prize 2005. Read more here.

Kazunori Seo, Flute

A prizewinner of international competitions, notably the Carl Nielsen and Jean-Pierre Rampal in 1998, the Geneva in 2001 and the Pro Musicis International Award in Paris in 2005, Kazunori Seo has gained recognition as one of the world’s outstanding flautists through numerous appearances as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. His recordings for Naxos currently include Flute Concertosby Hofmann, music by Karl and Franz Doppler, Moscheles, Czerny, and Beethoven (8.573569 & 8.573570). Read more here.

Nina Tichman, Piano

Acclaimed as one of the leading pianists of her generation, American born Nina Tichman is at home in repertoire ranging from Frescobaldi to composers writing today, many of whom have entrusted her with world premieres of their compositions. Her discography includes solo recordings of the complete piano works of Copland and the complete piano music of Debussy, with the complete Piano Trios of Beethoven for Naxos as a member of the Xyrion Trio, among others. Read more here.

Stefan Vladar, Piano

The Austrian pianist Stefan Vladar has won a number of awards in piano competitions in Austria, including the first prize in the Rudolf Heydner Piano Competition, and the first prize in the 1985 Vienna International Beethoven Competition, the youngest of the 140 competitors. Stefan Vladar’s subsequent career has brought him a busy schedule of engagements, with performances throughout Europe and appearances in China, Thailand, Japan and Korea, as well as in the United States of America. Read more here.

Larry Weng, Piano

A laureate of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, Larry Weng has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times. He also garnered critical praise for his 2014 New York debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall from the New York Concert Review, and from Harry Rolnick of ConcertoNet for his performance of Ravel’s Alborado del Gracioso. He has played in major venues around the world as both a soloist and chamber musician. Read more here.

Ian Yungwook Yoo, Piano

In 2007 Ian Yungwook Yoo won first prize in the Second Beethoven Competition in Bonn. His professional career was first launched when he won by unanimous vote first prize in the Thirteenth Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition in 1998. Since then he has performed in over twenty countries throughout the world, and released his first commercial records under the Naxos label, featuring piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt. Read more here.

Herbert Blomstedt

Herbert Blomstedt is a musician of sensitivity and refinement who ignores the media attention frequently focused upon major contemporary conductors, maintaining his attention upon the work in hand. His interpretations are notable for their clear sense of musical architecture. He is not afraid to impart the sense of drama inherent in the work of many composers such as Beethoven, and in this respect leans towards the values of conductors from earlier eras. Read more here.

Oliver Dohnányi

Oliver Dohnányi has toured with the Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta, Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestras and appeared with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Prague, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Japan and the United Kingdom. He has made many recordings with Naxos and Marco Polo. Read more here.

Béla Drahos

Béla Drahos is well known both as an outstanding flautist and as a conductor. For Naxos, he has produced several discs of the complete cycle of Haydn symphonies, to great critical acclaim. The complete Beethoven symphonies Drahos conducted with the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia were described as ‘the Beethoven cycle to have’ by BBC Music Magazine. Read more here.

Stephen Gunzenhauser

Stephen Gunzenhauser is a prolific recording artist and has sold over two million discs. For Naxos he has recorded some of the label’s most successful and best-selling titles including works by Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Bruch, Orff, Borodin, Dvořák, Rachmaninov, Copland, Goldmark, Paganini and Prokofiev. For Marco Polo he has been hardly less prolific with recordings of music by Liadov, Gliere, Dvořák, Rubinstein, Lachner, Taneyev and the Chinese composer Chen Gang. Read more here.

Michael Halász

Michael Halász’s recordings for Naxos include ballets by Tchaikovsky, operatic excerpts of Wagner, symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler, Rossini’s overtures, three volumes of Liszt’s symphonic poems (the latter critically acclaimed by the Penguin Guide), Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s operas and a pioneering recording of Schreker’s opera Der ferne Klang. He has also recorded Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Orfeo, Richard Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Rubinstein’s Don Quixote. Read more here.

Kenneth Jean

In 1984 Kenneth Jean won the prestigious Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award. Jean recorded a number of works by Chinese composers, and among them, the album Colourful Clouds achieved bestseller status when it was first released in 1982. With Japanese violinist Takako Nishizaki he recorded the violin concertos of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Jean also recorded works by Da Falla, Ravel, Brahms, Massenet and Berlioz. Read more here.

James Judd

Conductor James Judd has amassed an extensive collection of recordings on the Naxos label, including an unprecedented number in partnership with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, where he is Music Director Emeritus. His acclaimed recordings of works by Copland, Bernstein, Vaughan Williams, Gershwin and many others, and he brought the orchestra to a new level of visibility and international renown. Read more here.

Ondrej Lenárd

World-renowned conductor Ondrej Lenárd is the principal conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and was also appointed principal guest conductor and advisor of Fine Arts for the Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra. Throughout his career he has conducted many orchestras including the Czech Radio Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Eva Urbanova. Read more here.

Kenneth Schermerhorn

Kenneth Schermerhorn was a most versatile conductor, equally at ease with symphonic repertoire, opera and ballet. Becoming music director of the Nashville Symphony in 1983, he steered the ensemble to new levels of artistic achievement and public support. The Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee was named in his honour. Schermerhorn’s career led him to podiums around the world, including appearances in Australia, China and Japan. Read more here.

Leif Segerstam

Leif Segerstam is recognised internationally as a conductor, composer, violinist and pianist. He is currently chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, and was one of the most important ambassadors for Sibelius’ 2015 anniversary year. His many recordings have been critically acclaimed, and feature works by contemporary composers as well as the complete symphonies of Mahler, Sibelius and Nielsen among many others. Read more here.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

During his long and highly distinguished career, Stanisław Skrowaczewski commanded a rare position on the musical scene worldwide as both a renowned conductor and highly regarded composer. He has conducted the world’s major orchestras and collaborated with some of the musical giants of the 20th century, including Shostakovich, Lutosławski, Penderecki and Andrzej Panufnik. Skrowaczewski’s mastery of orchestral colour and balance is fully displayed in his recordings. Read more here.

Marek Štilec

Marek Štilec conducts a wide range of leading orchestras, including the New World Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, London Classical Soloists, Berlin Camerata, Kammerphilharmonie Graz and Sinfonietta Bratislava, as well as the top orchestras in the Czech Republic. His recording project Czech Masters in Vienna for Naxos features the orchestral works by Leopold Koželuch and Zdeněk Fibich, among others. Read more here.

Hilary Davan Wetton

Hilary Davan Wetton has been artistic director of the City of London Choir since 1989. One of the country’s most distinguished choral conductors, he was founder of Holst Singers, conductor emeritus of the Guildford Choral Society and artistic director of Leicester Philharmonic Choir. He has conducted many first performances for British composers as well as neglected works by Parry, Holst, Dyson, Bridge, Sterndale Bennett and Samuel Wesley, many of which he has recorded. Read more here.