Konstantinos Diminakis, artistic director of “Orpheus Kammerorchester Wien”, studied orchestra conducting at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts (U.Lajovic) and piano at the University of Macedonia - Department of Music Science and Art (class D. Evnouhidou). He attended master classes with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Collin Metters, Daniel Harding. He has conducted among others the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Kammerorchester Graz, as well as the Rzeszow Orchestra Poland, the orchestra of Ploesti Romania and ALEA III Boston.  He was chosen by the London Symphony Orchestra as one of the most talented young conductors of Europe for 2012 (Donatella Flick Competition).  He has conducted performances in opera houses like Klosterneuburg Opera Austria, Opera de Bauge France, Rose Theater London, National Opera of Greece and various concert halls including Musikverein Vienna, Gasteig Munich, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Brucknerhaus Linz.

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Cláudio Cruz started with the music with her father and later he took lessons with Erich Lenninger, Maria Vischnia (violino) e George Olivier Toni (Teoria e Regência). He was awarded by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Artes (APCA), Prêmio Carlos Gomes, Prêmio Bravo, Grammy Awards, among others. He's been invited to conduct many orchestras, among the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Osesp), the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, the Petrobras Sinfônica, the Sinfônica do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, the Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, the Sinfônica de Brasília, the Orquestra Sinfônica de Curitiba, the Orquestra de Câmara de Osaka, the Orquestra de Câmara de Toulouse, the Orquestra Sinfônica de Avignon, the Northern Sinfonia (Inglaterra), the Sinfonia Varsovia, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Hyogo Academy Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony (Japão), the Vogtland Philharmonie (Alemanha), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

He participated of many music festivals. In the Festival Internacional de Campos de Jordão, he was the conductor of the Orquestra Acadêmica in 2010 and 2011; he participated of the Festival de Verão da Carinthia (Austria) and the Festival Internacional de Música de Cartagena, in which he was the guest conductor of OSESP.

He act as artistic director and conductor of the operas Lo Schiavo and Don Giovanni in Campinas; Rigoletto and La Boheme in Ribeirão Preto. From 1990 to 2014 he was the concertmaster of OSESP. In 2018 he was the principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. Currently he is the first violin of the Quarteto Carlos Gomes, conductor and musical director of the Orquestra Jovem do Estado de São Paulo. With this orchestra he participated of the Festival MDR Musiksommer in Germany (2012), of the Festival Young Euro Classic in Berlin (2013),  of the Festival Berlioz in France and of the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam (2014); march 2015 he performed at the Lincoln Center em Nova York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

In the season of 2017/2018 he performed in the US, Japan, Uruguai with many brazilian orchestras.

In 2019 he recorded a CD with pieces by Cláudio Santoro with the  Orquestra Jovem do Estado de SP,  the trios of Villa-lobos with Antônio Meneses and Ricardo Castro, the quartets from Meneleu Campos, quartet n. 3 from Villa-Lobos with the Quarteto Carlos Gomes, Valsas e Choros with Rafael Santos and many other etudes for solo violin.

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Abel Rocha is the artistic director of the OSSA - Symphony Orchestra of Santo André, since 2014. Specialist in opera, his prominent position in the brazilian scenario is due also by his diversity and versatile actuation in the symphonic repertoire and in the musical direction of ballets, theater and many musicals and shows. He was the responsible of the conducting and musical direction of operas, from Monteverdi to Schönberg e Debussy, performed the premiere of many symphonic pieces and operas of brazilian composers.

In the season of 2011-2012 he was the artistic director of the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo and principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica Musical, and was awarded by the specialized critics for his intense and innovative lirical programs. Between 2004 and 2009 he made his mark as artistic director and principal conductor of the Banda Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, where he worked in the artistic restructuration and in the administration of the group.

Beyond his intense artistic career, Abel Rocha is doctor in Music and develop a strong activity in the formation of the new conductors in many music festivals. He is the artistic director of the Oficina de Música de Curitiba since 2018, professor of orchestral conducting and opera of the UNESP, where he lead the project "Fábrica de Óperas".

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Alpaslan Ertüngealp was born in Istanbul, where he graduated from the German School and continued his studies in Budapest at the Franz Liszt Music Academy as pianist and later as conductor. He is regarded as an outstanding representative of the infamous Hungarian School of Conductors of the 20. Century. His technical mastery of orchestral and opera conducting reached newer heights during and after his assistantship for Claudio Abbado, the legendary conductor, for three years.

Alpaslan Ertüngealp is the founder and artistic director of Szolnok International Conducting Masterclasses, which is hosted by the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra and is held annually in the Szolnok region (Southeast Hungary).

Alpaslan Ertüngealp began to play the piano in his early childhood and kept pursuing his career as a pianist during his studies as a conductor. During this time, he recorded Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Chamber Works for Naxos/Yellow Label with Leila Rásonyi and László Fenyő. Due to a severe hand injury in a car accident he had to give up playing piano professionally and concentrated on conducting. Thus, he became a holder of prestigious international awards such as the 3rd Prize of the International Conductors’ Competition of Hungarian Television in Budapest (1998) and the 3rd Prize of the International “Prokofiev” Competition for Conductors in St. Petersburg (1999), which led to his international recognition as a talented young conductor. His awards were crowned with the 1st Prize of the “Dimitri Mitropoulos” International Conducting Competition in Athens in 2002.

Following the success Alpaslan Ertüngealp started to perform as guest conductor with Hungarian orchestras and abroad. From 2001 to 2006 he was the principal guest conductor and from 2006 to 2009 the music director of Savaria Symphony Orchestra in Szombathely. In 2001, he founded a chamber orchestra, the “Academia Hungarica” with the finest musicians of the Hungarian orchestras. With this orchestra, he conducted a series of performances of Mozart’s Magic Flute for the inauguration of the György Solti Chamber Hall in Budapest. In 2011, he recorded Mozart piano concertos with the Italian pianist Marisa Tanzini for the Vista Vera label.

Alpaslan Ertüngealp was the artistic assistant to Claudio Abbado from 2011 until his death. During this time, he has worked intensively with the following orchestras: Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, La Scala, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma, Orchestra di Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Mozart and with soloists such as Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu and Maria Joao Pires. 

The repertoire of Alpaslan Ertüngealp spans over 750 symphonic and lyric works. Although most of the works are from the early classical era (including all symphonies by Joseph Haydn and W. A. Mozart), Alpaslan Ertüngealp is an avid interpret of works by Bartók, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Richard Strauß as well as the French impressionists.

A noted conductor of contemporary music as well, Alpaslan Ertüngealp received the Artisjus Award in 2003 for his achievements in and contribute pjs to performing Hungarian Contemporary Music. He conducted the world premiere of the new opera “Eumenides” by Vasil Tole, commissioned for the Cultural Olympiads in Athens at the Odeon of Herodus Atticus during the Hellenic Festival of Athens in September 2005.

Parallel to his artistic activities as performer, Alpaslan Ertüngealp emphasizes the importance of the education of the younger generations. From January 2018 until the end of 2019 Alpaslan Ertüngealp was the Cultural and Artistic Director of the Gül Baba Heritage Foundation in Budapest. 

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Neil Thomson, was born in London in 1966, studied violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music (1984-87) and conducting with Norman Del Mar at the Royal College of Music (1987-89). He was a member of the conducting class at Tanglewood Summer School in 1989 where his teachers included Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Sanderling and Leonard Bernstein.

Since March 2014 he has served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra in Brazil. The orchestra has rapidly developed a reputation for its dynamic performances, its wide-ranging repertoire (with a special emphasis on Brazilian and contemporary music). In December 2018 the orchestra performed the South American debut of Messiaen's monumental "Des Canyons aux Étoiles". This was a highlight in development of the orchestra and an extremely important moment in the history of Brazilian orchestral music.

In the UK he has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.

Recent débuts include concerts with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Century Orchestra Osaka, Kansai Philharmonic, Concert Orchestra, Lahti Sinfonia, Romanian National Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Orchestra of Gothenburg Opera, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra and Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has performed with many distinguished soloists including Sir James Galway, Dame Moura Lympany, Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott, Philip Langridge, Sarah Chang, Antonio Meneses, Nelson Freire, Alice Zawadzki, Steven Isserlis, Julian Lloyd Webber, David Geringas, Natalie Clein, Gyorgy Pauk, Brett Dean, Jean-Philippe Collard, Stephen Hough, Peter Jablonski, Jean-Louis Steuerman, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. 

Recent collaborations include Brahms Second Piano Concerto with Nelson Freire, a tour of Japan with Nobuyuki Tsujii and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Unsuk Chin Violin Concerto with Viviane Hagner, an opera gala with Danielle de Niese, tours in Brazil with Antonio Meneses, Cristian Budu and Jean Louis Steuerman, Liszt Second Piano Concerto and Brahms Second Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough, the premiere of Joseph Phibb’s new Percussion Concerto with Dame Evelyn Glennie and a rare performance of the complete Incidental Music from ‘Hassan’ by Delius at the Cheltenham Festival.

His skills as a natural communicator have enhanced an already growing reputation as a professor throughout Europe. He has been a Guest Professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Krakow Academy of Music, the Conservatoire "Arrigo Boito" in Parma, the Lithuanian Academy of Music, the Campos do Jordão Festival and the Los Angeles Conducting Workshop. In 2002 he was invited by Lorin Maazel to be on the jury for the European rounds of the Maazel Conducting Competitionandin 2007 was on the jury, alongside Gunther Schuller, of the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City.

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Natália de Souza Larangeira started her musical studies at the Conservatório Arte Musical de Osasco. She graduated in orchestral conducting at the UniFaam in the class of Abel Rocha and Naomi Munakata. Natália conducted many orchestras including Orquestra FIlarmônica de Minas Gerais, Orquestra Bohuslav Martinu (Rep. Tcheca), Orquestra Sinfônica da USP, Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de João Pessoa, Orquestra de Câmara da USPF.

During 2013 and 2015, Natália was the principal conductor of the Coral da Cidade de São Paulo, Coral do CEU Butantã, Coral do CEU Jaguaré and Coral dos Meninos Cantores de Campinas. She was invited to conduct the Orquestra de Cordas do Projeto Guri (2014) as well as the Femina Chamber Orchestra (2016). 

Natália was the principal conductor of the Coro Sinfônico de Itu, Coro infanto-juvenil de Itu and Coral Infanto-Juvenil da ONG Manaem de Itu. She is invited to conduct the Banda Sinfônica Jovem do Guri Santa Marcelina, is a member of the Mulheres Regentes and is currently the principal conductor and artistic director of the Camerata Filarmônica de Indaiatuba (ACAFI) and assistant conductor of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Santo André.

In 2019, Natália won the 2nd Prize in the III Concurso para regentes da Ópera de Baugè (França) and in 2020 won the place as Assistant Conductor of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Buenos Aires, Argentina (Teatro Colon).

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Catherine Larsen-Maguire was born in Manchester and is now based in Berlin. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque to the 21st century; she has a special interest in contemporary music and has directed the first performances of numerous works. After ten years as principal bassoonist at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she also directed concerts and operatic performances, she began to concentrate exclusively on conducting in 2012. She made her operatic debut at the Komische Oper in 2009, conducting the German premiere of Elisabeth Naske’s „Die Rote Zora“. 

Catherine Larsen-Maguire has shared the concert platform with internationally acclaimed singers and soloists; orchestras she has conducted include the Bremen, Magdeburg, Augsburg and Nuremburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, OFUNAM in Mexico City, Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, the orchestra of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik and Ensemble Resonanz. 

Placing great emphasis on working with young professionals, Larsen-Maguire is very much in demand as a conductor for youth orchestras and in music colleges all round the world. As part of the Young Euro Classic Festival she made her debut in Berlin’s Konzerthaus, returning a year later to conduct a world premiere with the German Youth Ballet; this was followed by a tour of China with the same group. Becoming increasingly well-known as a teacher of conducting, she held a guest professorship in conducting at the University of the Arts, Berlin and was a faculty member at the annual Femusc Festival in Brazil for five years. She gives regular masterclasses in Germany and abroad, and was a jury member for the Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 2017 and 2019. 

The season 2019/20 and beyond will see Catherine conduct world premieres at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany and the Bridge Strings Festival in Glasgow, and make her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, OSUSP in Sao Paulo, the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile, the Orchestre de Picardie and the Young Israel Philharmonic. She will also return to Granada, China, several orchestras in Mexico, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra, and to summer festivals in the USA. 

Catherine Larsen-Maguire read music at Cambridge University, and studied the bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with Klaus Thunemann in Hanover, and at the Karajan Academy in Berlin. She won the top prize in the 1996 

Prague Spring Bassoon Competition and has played as guest principal bassoonist in many of the major orchestras in Germany and England, working regularly with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle and Kirill Petrenko.

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Conductor and composer, born in 1982 in Curitiba, Márcio Steuernagel is the principal conductor of the Orquestra Filarmônica da Universidade Federal do Paraná and professor of conducting and composition of the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná/UNESPAR, conductor of the Ensemble Móbile and founding member of the "Ensemble entre Compositores", group that he conducted the Bienal Música Hoje from 2011 to 2017.

Currently living in Austria, he's a doctoral student of the Künstuniversität Graz.

Master in music by UFPR, graduated in composition and conducting by EMBAP, Steuernagel studied conducting with Osvaldo Ferreira, Daisuke Soga and Alpaslan Ertüngealp, and composition with Maurício Dottori. His awards include 1st place in the Concurso Nacional de Composição Michel Debost (2005), the Prêmio Funarte (XVII Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea (2007), and the Prêmio Funarte de Composição Clássica (2010); he made the premiere of orchestral pieces with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná and Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba.

He was assistant conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná from 2011 to 2013 and performed as a guest conductor in orchestras such as Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro and Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba, making the brazilian premiere of the Ramifications de György Ligeti (2015) and the american premiere of the "L'ideale lucente" and "Le pagine rubate de Salvatore Sciarrino" (2017), leaving his mark by directing new music with dozens premieres of national and foreigners composers. 

Resident conductor of Tokyo New City Orchestra(A full member of Japanese Professional Orchestra Association). Born in 1965 OSAKA, Japan. 

Studied music in Toho-Gakuen Univ.Tokyo, Music University Bucharest(double bass) with professors, Masahiko Tanaka and Ion Cheptea, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst(dirigieren), Accademia Musicale Chigiana(Siena-Italia), Tanglewood Music Seminar(as Fellowship conductor), with professors including, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Uros Lajovic, Ilya Mushin, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Ferdinand Leitner etc. 

Won prizes from numerous major competitions for conductors as: Besançon(1993-Grand Prix). Kondrashin(1998-1st prize, EBU prize), Geneve, Prague-Spring, Toscanini. 

Soga made his debut as conductor in 1989 with Romanian Professional orchestras and until now he conducted numerous orchestras from Europe, Asia, USA, Brasil including; Orchestre National de Capitol de Toulouse, Orchestre de Chambre Lousanne, Wiener Kammerorchester, Teatro Massimo Catania, the Netherland Philharmonic, George Enescu Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, Petrobras Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, Hiroshima Symphony, China National Symphony etc. 

He activated as a youngest Music Director in Japan with Osaka Symphony, and made success with their first European Tour. He also worked as Principal conductor in Tokyo New City Orchestra. 

Soga, as Music composer, his composisiton is performed worldwide ; Japan, USA, Romania, Austria, Brasil, Italy, Spain. His new composition “Overture after Traditional folk tunes  from Kamimizo” will be performed on September 2020.   Musical Seminars and Festivals including Londrina-Brasil, Catania-Italy for young musicians invited him as professor. 

Also, Soga was invited as a one of the member or jury in Concorso "Antonio Pedrotti" in Italy. In 2013, Soga was invited to conduct Inauguration concert of New Brasov Philharmonic"Patria" hall, also Season Opening performances of the Brasov Philharmonic and the Brasov Opera. Soga is Citizen of honor of Londrina City in Brasil and Brasov City in Romania. 

Born in Mexico, Enrique Arturo Diemecke comes from a family of musicians. He studied violin with his father and with Henryk Szeryng; then piano, horn and percussion. He attended the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in violin, horn and direction. With a scholarship granted by Madame Monteux, she perfected with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School in the United States.

He is frequently invited by orchestras from around the world. In the United States, for example, by the Washington National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco, Baltimore, Houston, Minnesota, Colorado, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Chautauqua, Pacific, Charlotte, Phoenix, Hartford and Columbus symphonies . In Europe, by the symphony of the BBC of London and Liverpool, Royal Philharmonic, National of France, National Philharmonic of Montpellier, National of Lorraine, Orchestra of Paris, of the Island of France, Symphony of Valladolid, Orchestra and Community Choir of Madrid and Orchestra of the Residence (The Hague), among others. In Latin America, by the national symphonies of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Chile, Peru, Argentina; the philharmonics of Mexico, Bogotá and the Autonomous University of Mexico; Simón Bolívar Symphony (Venezuela), Stable of the Colón Theater, San Pablo Symphony and Petrobras (Brazil). In Oceania and Asia he collaborated with the symphonies of Auckland, New Zealand, Queensland, Singapore, Philharmonic of Malaysia and Suwon in South Korea and the symphony of Beijing and Shanghai.

In 2017 he was appointed General Artistic and Production Director of the Teatro Colón. In addition, he is in his twelfth year as artistic director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires and his twenty-ninth year as artistic director of the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Michigan (United States). A notable interpreter of Mahler's works, he has been awarded a medal by the Mahler Society for his versions of the composer's complete symphonies in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. He was Artistic Director of the Opera of Fine Arts of Mexico in the decades of the '80s and' 90s, where he directed more than 30 lyrical productions, from Gluck to Puccini. In 2007 he arranged Werther on the Colón and Le jongleur de Notre Dame de Massenet with Roberto Alagna for the National Opera of Montpellier. With this same house and the National Philharmonic of Montpellier he arranged the premieres of the operas The Exiles of Siberia by Donizetti and Parisina by Mascagni, as well as the operetta The Ring of the Nibelungen, by Oskar Straus, and made live recordings of the operas of Mascagni and Donizetti at the Radio France Festival. He participated in the production of Pacific Opera by Pagliacci and Carmina Burana, and directed the National Orchestra of France and Cecilia Bartoli, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maria Joao Pires and Pierre Amoyal for Les Victoires de la Musique Classique et Jazz. During 2007 and 2008 he made several productions for the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. He received the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique of France on several occasions, including the Bruno Walter Orfeo de Oro as "Best Director of Opera" and the Orfeo of Jean Fontaine de Oro for the "Best Vocal Recording". In Montpellier he directed the launch of Deutsche Grammophon of Le jongleur de Notre Dame with Roberto Alagna and won the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique. Other releases include music by Villa-Lobos and Silvestre Revueltas with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. He has made recordings with the main record companies of the world, among them Sony, Deutsche Grammophone, Lyric, Dorian and EMI.

Composer and arranger, he has directed his own works, among which are Die-Sir-E, Chacón a Chávez, Concierto para guitarra and Camino y visión. His most recent Autumnal Party - concert for marimba and orchestra - was performed in Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Spain, USA, Slovakia, Peru and Brazil.