LISE BOREL, PARIS, FRANCE

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Lise Borel began studying the piano at the Conservatoire de Suresnes. She then entered the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, before joining the Maîtrise de Radio-France . After high school, she studied literature and graduated in Musicology at the Sorbonne. Then she obtained four musical prizes at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt: musical writing, analysis, history of music, and orchestration. She also attended classes of composition there, as well as conducting classes at the Conservatoire du 18ème arrondissement de Paris. In 2015, she started teaching music theory and musical writing at the Maîtrise de Radio-France, and from 2018 on, she started to conduct the choir for rehearsals. Since 2016, she has been teaching the piano at the Académie Philippe Jaroussky, in Boulogne-Billancourt. She started composing at ten, and has written more than a hundred of songs. She also composes choir music. She has been commissioned to create pieces by institutions such as Radio-France, the Sorbonne, El Sistema Greece orchestra, and the Notre-Dame de Paris.

daniel grotino, LYON, FRANCE

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Born in Lyon, France, in 1976, I grew up in France and I had since then the opportunity to live abroad in several countries: England, Mexico, Morocco, etc. Since my early childhood, I have been strongly interested in classical music. I studied piano and I liked improvising. I was and I am still today very impressed by the power of instrumental music to express thoughts and feelings without using any words. Up to now, music is my main hobby. I am an economist working in the area of Development Aid. Leaving most part of my life abroad and far from my home country, I keep a strong link with music as it is a universal art and mean of communication. As a classical music trained pianist, I have only very recently discovered the vast possibilities offered by the development of computer music composition and sample libraries. I started to compose last year. The standards reached by the sample libraries open a new world for my creativity. This has been an important step in my life.

ALLA LOWERY, North Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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Alla Lowery started her classical piano education at the age of 4, under her mother, a classical pianist and musicologist. Alla earned her bachelor’s degree in classical piano from Kazan State Music College (Kazan, Russia) in 1977, and master’s degree in classical piano from Kazan State Conservatory (Academy) in 1983. After graduation Alla worked at the State music colleges in Lithuania and Russia for many years, teaching classical piano performance and ensemble, accompaniment, and piano pedagogy. She played in chamber ensembles, accompanied solo instruments, vocalists and choirs, and worked 10 years at Yaroslavl Academic Governor’s Symphony Orchestra (Yaroslavl, Russia) as a full-time pianist and the administrator of its chamber ensembles. Since immigrating to the USA in 2005, Alla Lowery continues her work as a private piano teacher.

Maksim Markov and Igor Sviridov, Moscow, Russian Federation

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Maksim Markov and Igor Sviridov are graduates of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. While studying, we began to study composition, where we created two cycles for two pianos - "Decadence" and "Lunapark."

Felipe Portinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Mr. Portinho began his studies at the age of 10, having been a student of the legendary brazilian classical guitarist Leo Soares and bass players Omar Cavalheiro and the italian/brazilian Sandrino Santoro. Also he was Maestro Roberto Tibiriçá student of conducting. He graduated in double bass at UFRJ (Rio’s Federal University) (1995), Master in Arts at the UFRJ School of Music (2017) and PhD at the same university (2020).