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Lucas Krupinski

London-based Polish pianist Lucas Krupinski was the winner of the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition and all of its contest prizes - the Audience Award, the Music Critics’ Award and the Orchestra Award. Lucas was a finalist at the Ferruccio Busoni InternationalPianoCompetitioninBolzanoin2017,andhas won numerous international piano competitions. As a semifinalist, he ranked among the best twenty pianists at the 17th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (2015). He recently competed in the finals of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition.

LucasgaveanimpressiverecitalatCarnegieHall/IsaacStern Auditorium and has received invitations to play with the Chicago Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic. During the Winter Olympics in South Korea (2018), Lucas performed at a special recital in Pyeong Chang. He has recently performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, La Verdi in Milano, Royal Albert Hall and the Merkin Hall in New York as well as other engagements in Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney. In 2016, he was honoured with a Commemorative Medal from the Frédéric Chopin University of Music.

Lucas Krupinski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. He previously studied at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and continued his studies in Hannover and at the RCM in London. He is a Steinway Artist represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association and Madam Elzbieta Penderecki, wife of the late Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki.

Kacper Nowak

Polish born Kacper Nowak won the first prize at the Concours de Woluwé St-Pierre in Brussels in 2005 and in the following year entered the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He subsequently pursued his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and in 2012 won the Grand Prize of the Prix Edmond Baert competition. In 2014 Kacper obtained his master’s degree and was awarded the Oranjebeurs scholarship from the Netherlands. He has participated in a number of master classes with musicians such as Gérard Caussé, Augustin Dumay, Boyan Vodenitcharov, France Springuel and many other distinguished musicians.

In 2015 Kacper became a laureate of the 22nd Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria and won the first prize together with the public prize at the I Solisti competition in Belgium. In the autumn of 2018, he released his first cello piano CD Contrastes with Christia Hudziy - the CD was nominated as one of the 5 best cello recordings of the year by the Cello Society in NYC.

In May 2019, Kacper won the first prize in the solo category of the International Competition of Madrid and in January 2020, he won with the Urban Piano Quartet the Nordic Strings Competition ensuring them a tour in the most prestigious concert halls in China during the 2022/2023 season. In the same year he also secured the Gold Medal at the Vienna International Music Competition.