Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world's foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the 'Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle' at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and a passionate ambassador for the Orchestre à l'École Association, which brings classical music to more than 40,000 thousands school children across France. A multiple award winner, he is acclaimed for his expressive musicianship, exuberant virtuosity, and for the deep sonority of his 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello "L'Ambassadeur".

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Kristina Winiarski was born in Stockholm in 1994 and started her cello studies as a six year old with Maria Zhuravleva in Moscow, Russia, where she partly grew up. Back in Sweden, she continued to learn from Ulrika Edström and Ola Karlsson, before entering the Academy of Music in Zagreb with professor Valter Despalj. She later continued her studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with professor Torleif Thedéen, with whom she completed her soloist diploma in 2019. Kristina has been an active performer from a very young age. 

She had her professional solo debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts in Washington DC, USA when she was 16 years old. After that, she has performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Maryland Philharmonic, St Petersburg State Symphony, the Zagreb Philharmonic, to name a few, and in 2019 she had her Swedish debut with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. 

Kristina is especially fond of performing chamber music, and is regularly invited to festivals all over Europe. She has given concerts in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Russia, France, Switzerland, Croatia, Israel, USA and South Korea, and appeared alongside artists such as Dora Schwarzberg, Aleksander Rudin, Roland Pöntinen and Bengt Forsberg. She also appears in a regular partnership with the pianist Pontus Carron, with whom she has won the two biggest chamber music competitions in Sweden.

Kristina Winiarski

After studying with Jérôme Pernoo at the CNSM in Paris and then in Gautier Capuçon's class of excellence at the Vuitton Foundation, Caroline Sypniewski perfected her skills with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. At the same time, she obtained the DEM in piano at the CRR in Paris as well as a DEM in accompaniment at the CRR in Boulogne-Billancourt. Throughout her career, she has notably benefited from the advice of Gary Hoffman, Lluis Claret, Ivan Monighetti, Wolfgang Boettcher, Colin Carr.

Caroline has performed as a soloist and in chamber music in many festivals such as Prades, Debussy, W Krainie Chopina in Warsaw, the Orangerie de Sceaux, Vézère, Val d'Aulnay, Edinburgh Festival, Tons Voisins, Notes in Irancy, Instants de Grasse, Music at l'Empéri, Music at Versailles, Music and wines at Clos-Vougeot, Musical Thursdays in Royan, Monsieur Haydn's Holidays at Roche Posay; and in large halls European institutions such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, Philharmonie de Paris, Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, La Seine Musicale, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Schloss Elmau, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, and the Chorégies d'Orange. In April 2018 she represented the Van Cleef & Arpels brand at a private event at the Summer Palace in Beijing.

She has taken part in numerous varied projects including the Seiji Ozawa Academy, Jaroussky Academy, Villecroze Academy, and masterclasses at Kronberg. She is a resident at the Villa Musica Foundation in Germany within the Mona Quartet, also a resident at ProQuartet, and she founded a string trio with her two sisters Magdalena and Anna. On the chamber music platform, she has shared the stage with Adam Laloum, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Graffin, Emmanuel Pahud, Jérôme Pernoo, Michel Beroff, Laurent Naouri, Philippe Bernold, amongst many others. As a soloist, Caroline has performed with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra, Appassionato Ensemble, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the New Europe Chamber Orchestra.

Caroline was named Adami's Classic Revelation 2017, Young Talent 2019 at the Music and Wine Festival at Clos-Vougeot, is supported by the Safran Foundation and won the Ginette Neveu prize at the Carl Flesch Academy 2015 as well as the Grand Prix of the 2018 Ravel Academy.

Caroline Sypniewski

Anouchka Hack is acclaimed by audience and press for her expressive sound and vast musicality. With her captivating stage presence and devoted interpretations, she convinces both as a soloist and in a Duo with her sister, pianist Katharina Hack. Concert engagements have led her to play in halls like the Musikverein Vienna, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, Gasteig Munich and Konzerthaus Dortmund. 

Born 1996 in Antwerp, she grew up in a family of musicians in Germany, receiving cello lessons in Dortmund from the age of six. Following studies at the Academy of Music in Cologne, the Academy of Music in Lübeck and continuing studies with Frans Helmerson in Berlin, she was selected in the 2017/18 season for Gautier Capucon ́s Classe d ́Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. 

Anouchka Hack

Gautier Capuçon & la Classe d'Excellence's performance at the Classeek Showroom in 2019.

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