WORLD SUMMER E-MASTERCLASS 2021
VIOLIN - FLUTE - CELLO - CLARINET
The "Napolinova" Association was founded in 1995. Since then it has organized concerts and masterclasses in the most prestigious halls of Naples with artists known all over the world.
The goal of the association is to give young artists all over the world an opportunity to learn through coaching with great artists organized "World Summer E-Masterclasses 2021"( online masterclasses).
The professor and the student will be in contact through the Skype or Zoom app, available for phone, tablet and computer, according to the professor's preferences. These apps allow users to make high quality video calls and are used all around the world for teaching online. Each participants will be receiving three individual lessons.
RULES
- 1)The World Summer E-Masterclasses 2021 give the opportunity to have online lessons from some of the greatest musicians in the world. They are open to young musicians of any nationality.
- 2) Participants can only apply as "performers". No auditors admitted.
- 3) The masterclasses are open to a maximum of 8 students each masterclass, each of whom will be receiving three individual lessons. Admissions are on a first come first served basis (The first 8 students whose applications are received will be admitted). Applications must be received by the deadline for the chosen masterclass and must include all required documents as specified below
- 4) The applications deadline is different for each master’s program. Check the deadline related to the chosen master.
- 5) After the deadline for the chosen masterclass, the Napolinova Association will contact every applicant via email to notify them of their application status. Eight musicians will be "Admitted". Any students not admitted will be excluded, and their application fee shall be reimbursed (minus any bank fees).
- 6) The program is free choice. It is obligatory to write in the application form the pieces that you want to study during the masterclass. Every participant will receive a certificate.
- 7) In the event the masterclass are canceled for organizational reasons and students cannot be admitted, the application fee will be returned, minus any bank fees.
- 8) To participate, send the following items to
info@associazionenapolinova.it:
- Application Form
- Copy of valid ID (if minor, include ID of parent or legal guardian)
- biography
- copy of the PayPal receipt or Wire transfer for the application fee (total fees) of your masterclass.
Applications fees must be received in full.
Bank fees must be paid by the sender or the application will be deemed not valid
- Application fee must be sent via bank wire transfer to:
Associazione Culturale Napolinova
IBAN: IT97M0335901600100000001709 - BIC BCITITMM
Agenzia 5500, Piazza Paolo Ferrari 10 - 20121 Milano (Mi) Italia
The above bank coordinates are complete.
The above bank codes already contain information on the specific bank and branch.
-The application fee must be sent: by PayPal
It is possible to pay through Paypal increasing every application fee by 15 euros for the Europe and 20 euros for the rest of the world to cover the Paypal fees
or by bank wire transfer to Associazione Culturale Napolinova
IBAN: IT53 I030 6909 6001 0000 0001 709 - BIC BCITITMMXXX
Agenzia 5500, Piazza Paolo Ferrari 10 - 20121 Milano (Mi). - 9) Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professors with the students.
The association will give the Professors the email of the students in order to contact them.
- 10) By submitting an application to the competition, applicant thereby agrees to the competition rules.
VIOLIN MASTERCLASS
Kelly Hall-Tompkins: August 23 to 28, 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Mark Messenger: August 24 to 30, 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Solomiya Ivakhiv: August 25 to 31, 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
CELLO MASTERCLASS
Ilea Catalin: August 9 to 15 , 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Jennifer Kloetzel: August 19 to 25, 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Kyungok Park: August 23 to 28, 2021
- Application deadline: July 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
FLUTE MASTERCLASS
Irina Stachinskaya: August 24 to 30, 2021
- Application deadline: august 10th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Nicole Esposito: September 1 to 5, 2021
- Application deadline: august 20th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
CLARINET MASTERCLASS
Nikolai Larin: September 15 to 21, 2021
- Application deadline: August 30th , 2021
- Application fee (total fees): € 350
- Class times and days will be arranged directly by the Professor with the students
Biography of the teachers
KELLY HALL-TOMPKINS
Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize and featured in the Smithsonian Museum for African-American History, Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur who has been acclaimed by the New York Times as "the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive,” for her "tonal mastery" (BBC Music Magazine) and as New York Times “New Yorker of the Year.” She has appeared as co-soloist in Carnegie Hall with Glenn Dicterow and conductor Leonard Slatkin, in London at Queen Elizabeth Hall, at Lincoln Center and with the Symphonies of Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, Oakland, recitals in Paris, New York, Toronto, Washington, Chicago, and festivals of Tanglewood, Ravinia, Santa Fe, France, Germany and Italy. She was “Fiddler”/Violin Soloist of the Grammy/Tony-nominated Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. Inspired by her experience, she commissioned and developed the first ever Fiddler solo disc of all new arrangements, “The Fiddler Expanding Tradition,” which is featured in the new documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles” on the 55-year history of the musical. As founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a pioneer of social justice in classical music, bringing top artists in over 100 concerts coast to coast in homeless shelters from New York to Los Angeles and in internationally in Paris, France. Music Kitchen will present the World Premiere of the Forgotten Voices Song Cycle in Association with and coming soon to Carnegie Hall. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a newly appointed faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music.MARK MESSENGER
Mark Messenger is recognised globally as a violinist, conductor, teacher, and educationalist.
As a soloist, conductor and chamber musician (member of the Bochmann and Bingham Quartets since 1984), has worked internationally with - amongst others - Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Ivy Gitlis, Maxim Vengerov, Bernard Greenhouse, Natalie Clein, Raphael Wallfisch, Thomas Carroll, Yonty Solomon, Howard Shelley, John Lill, Dame Thea King, Michael Collins, David Campbell, Chris Garrick and Sir John Dankworth.
He is in demand as a teacher, international judge, external examiner, to give masterclasses and as a lecturer. In 2004 he was appointed artistic director of London String Quartet Week and was on the board of the London String Quartet Foundation. He has also undertaken work for Oxford University Press, New Holland Publishing and the Associated Board, for whom he has just finished editing the complete works for violin and piano by Elgar.
Students travel from across the world to study with Mark Messenger, and currently his class includes musicians from the UK, Japan, the USA, Russia, China, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Australia and Azerbaijan. His students have an enviable track record of competition success and international acclaim.
This year sees concert and masterclass appearances in the Middle East, China, Australia, Russia and throughout Europe. As well as Head of Strings at the Royal College of Music in London, Mark is consultant for the Norwegian Academy in Oslo.
SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV
Violinist SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, hailed by critics for her “crystal clear and noble sound” (Culture and Life, Ukraine), enjoys an international career as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, North America, and China. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, CBC Glen Gould Studio, Curtis Institute Field Concert Hall, Italian Academy in New York City, Pickman Hall in Cambridge, MA, San Jose Chamber Music Society, Old First Concerts in San Francisco, Astoria Music Festival (Portland), Tchaikovsky Hall (Kyiv), and at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Ms. Ivakhiv has made solo appearances with the International Symphony, Istanbul State Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Hunan Symphony Orchestra in China, the AACC, and the Bach Festival Orchestra. Her debut album, Ukraine-Journey to Freedom, released on Labor Records with NAXOS of America was featured among the top four classical albums on iTunes. Her album of Mendelssohn Concertos, featuring the “other” violin concerto and a grand double concerto with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi, conductor Theodore Kuchar and the Slovak National Symphony, was released on Brilliant Classics and made it to the top New Classical Releases on Spotify. Mendelssohn Concertos was Album of the Week on WRTI Cleveland, on the Top 10 chart on WFMT Chicago, and aired on stations throughout America, including KRWG New Mexico, WRTI Philadelphia, New England and Wisconsin Public Radio, and The Grand 101FM in Canada. Ms. Ivakhiv’s album of Haydn and Hummel Concertos also aired nationally and internationally, from KING FM Seattle to WETA Washington DC and RAI3 in Italy and Indonesia. Her newest album, Poems and Rhapsodies, is set to release on Centaur in late 2021. Ms. Ivakhiv is currently Associate Professor of Violin and Viola and Head of Strings at the University of Connecticut and Professor of Violin at the Longy School of Music. She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, and the late Rafael Druian. During this time, she was concertmaster of both Curtis and Tanglewood Center Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Ivakhiv holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where her principal teachers were Philip Setzer and Pamela Frank.CATALIN ILEA
Catalin Ilea studied – among others – with Dimitrie Dinicu, Enrico Mainardi and Pierre Fournier. His career as a soloist started with four first prizes in international competitions, that led to frequent cooperations with orchestras such as Staatskapelle and Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Tonkünstler Vienna, the NDR Hannover, LA Philharmonics, the Bucharest Philharmonics and the Romanian Broadcasting Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande etc. Catalin Ilea is a regular guest in the main concert halls of Europe, North America and Asia and appears in festivals such as „Bruckner“ Linz, „Flanderen-Festival“, „Warsaw Autumn“, „Cologne Music Days“, "Messiaen" Avignon, the UNO-Special Concerts New York, „Israel Music Summer“, „ Shanghai Broadcasting Festival“. He has recorded over 40 records and CDs (among others for Electrecord, EMI, EMS, Olympia, OWM) displaying a vast variety of works like the cello concertos by Haydn, Schumann, Offenbach, d’Albert, Enescu, Vieru, Berger and the suites and sonatas by Bach, Brahms and Enescu. He is a founding member of the ensemble “Musica Nova”, has been for a long number of years a member of the “Trio Bucharest” and the “Sharon Quartet” and maintains to this day a very active chamber music schedule. His accomplishments have been rewarded with eight critics’, public and official awards. He has been a professor for cello at Berlin’s prestigious University of the Arts since 1994 as well as a member in various juries of international competitions such as “Casals” (Spain) or “Brahms” (Austria); he is offering master classes on regular basis in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, South Korea. Graduates of his class follow prestigious soloist careers, teach themselves at various universities or perform as members of internationally acclaimed orchestras like the Berlin, Munich and Vienna Philharmonics.
JENNIFER KLOETZEL
A graduate of The Juilliard School and a Fulbright Scholar, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel has concertized throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. A founding member of the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet (1996-2016), Ms. Kloetzel has toured the globe and performed at such renowned venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Chautauqua Institute and the Ravinia Festival, the Lobkowicz Palaces in both Vienna and Prague, as well as prominent colleges and conservatories worldwide.
Ms. Kloetzel is noted for her elegant playing and her vibrant tone. She is a sought-after recitalist, performing concerts for San Francisco Performances and on WQXR in New York. Strad Magazine hailed, “Cellist Jennifer Kloetzel is impressively passionate…” A fervent champion of new music, she has received the Copland Award for her work with living American Composers and has commissioned and premiered over fifty works, including five concertos written specifically for her. In the past few seasons, premieres included a Cello Suite by Daniel Asia, a Cello Concerto, “Cloud Atlas” and two unaccompanied cello works “Lift” and “Cricket the Fiddler,” which were both written for her by MIT composer Elena Ruehr and a Cello Sonata dedicated to her by Joseph Landers. The San Jose Mercury News proclaimed, “Cellist Jennifer Kloetzel shines in premiere” and called her a “terrific soloist…with a robust and earthy sound.” Ms. Kloetzel has recorded the Ruehr Cello Concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which was released to critical acclaim in October 2014. “Lift” is the title track of an all-Ruehr disc, released on the Avie label, and was included on Keith Powers’ 13 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016. Ms. Kloetzel is the featured cellist on a 2019 Albany Records release of music by Richard Aldag, and recently premiered Lee Actor’s Cello Concerto, written for her in 2017. In the upcoming seasons, she will give world premieres of sonatas written for her by composers Richard Aldag and Elena Ruehr and “Inferno: Double Concerto for Viola, Cello and Chamber Orchestra” by Joel Friedman.
Ms. Kloetzel is winner of The Juilliard School’s top award, the “Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in Music,” and a Presser Music Award, as well as a Fulbright Grant to England. In 2004 she was honored with the McGraw-Hill Companies’ “Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach” in recognition of years of outreach work in schools and community centers. She has appeared at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota and Aspen Music Festivals, the Britten-Pears School, the Prague Mozart Academy, and performed as cellist of the Cassatt Quartet during the 1995-96 season. From 2003-2009, Ms. Kloetzel taught cello and chamber music at San José State University, where the Cypress String Quartet was Ensemble-in-Residence. She has given master classes at The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory and at universities throughout the U.S.
Growing up near Baltimore, Ms. Kloetzel began her cello studies at age six. Her teachers included Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, Harvey Shapiro, Stephen Kates and Paula (Virizlay) Skolnick, as well as members of the Juilliard String Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet and the Cleveland Quartet. After performing with pianist Andre Previn at the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Ms. Kloetzel was invited to appear as one of his select “Rising Stars” for two seasons at the Caramoor Festival in New York.
Ms. Kloetzel has been featured regularly on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” as both a soloist and a chamber musician and her performances have been broadcast on radio stations from coast to coast. A passionate recording artist with 36 CD releases to date, recent recordings include the entire cycle of Beethoven Quartets and Brahms Sextets on the Avie label. In 2021, Avie will release her recordings of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano with Robert Koenig. She performed as principal cellist of the Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Baltimore Opera and the Juilliard Orchestra under Maestro Kurt Masur. In addition, she is a frequent soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, performing works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Elgar, Glazunov, Fauré, Ibert, Haydn, Hindemith, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Strauss, and Walton. In 2016, Ms. Kloetzel was invited to join the faculty at University of California Santa Barbara, where she serves as Professor of Cello and Head of Strings.KYUNGOK PARK
Cellist Kyungok Park is known for her versatility and high-quality performance as a soloist and a chamber musician. Winning major music competitions in South Korea like the Ehwa-Kyunghyng, Joong-Ang, Dong-A and graduating from Seoul High School of Music and Arts and Seoul National University each with the Ministry of Education Award and Prime Minister Award as a valedictorian, Park has gained renown as a distinguished cellist from a young age. Upon graduation, Park continued her studies abroad as a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Scholar with Prof. Andre Navarra at Staatliche Musickhoschule in Detmold, Germany and as a Rotary International Scholar with Prof. Aldo Parisot at Yale University, U.S.A. Park then pursued her doctorate degree with Prof. Bernard Greenhouse and Prof. Timothy Eddy at State University of New York at Stony Brook and acquired her DMA degree in 1988.
Park has given numerous recitals in Korea, Japan, Europe, and the United States. Domestically, she frequently appears with the major Korean orchestras including the KBS Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, and Puchon Philharmonic Orchestra. Internationally, Park has appeared with the Jangchun Philharmony of China, National Orchestra of Avignon of France, and Festival Orchestra of Kirishima of Japan. She has also performed with leading artists such as Dang Thai Son, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Paul Edmund-Davis, Krzystof Jablonski, Emily Beynon, Jakob Leuschner, Gerald Fauth, Shigeo Neriki, and Emil Chudnovsky.
As a founder of Quartet 21 since 1991, Park has been an acclaimed chamber music player upon receipt of prestigious titles awarded to artists who have greatly contributed to the industry –President’s Award by President Roh Moo-hyun, Artist of the Year by the Ministry of Culture, and Daewon Music Award by Daewon Cultural Foundation. Quartet 21 has also been appointed as the Cultural Ambassador of South Korea, performing at a World Tour Concert series in Southwest Asian countries.
Passionate in educating the younger generation, Park has been a faculty artist at Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan for more than 20 years and at Euro Music Festival in Germany, and currently teaches at the Summit Music Festival in New York. She has also been a jury of International Johannes Brahms Competition since 2007, and is a professor of Department of Orchestral Instruments at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.
IRINA STACHINSKAYA
Moscow born flutist Irina Stachinskaya came from a family of distinguished musicians. She was accepted at an early age into the prestigious Gnessin Academy of Music where she studied until 2010 under the tutelage of Professor Valdimir Kudya. In addition, she is a graduate of the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot (assistant of Jean Ferrandis) where she was awarded prestigious Le diplôme supérieur de concertiste à l’unanimité avec les félicitations du jury. While at Gnessin, Irina was the recipient of numerous awards including the “golden trophy” awarded to her ensemble KUI in the 2nd International Web Concert Hall Competition (New York 2009), first prize in the classical Heritage Competition (Moscow 2004), first prize in Musicalia (Athens 2000). In 2003, at age 14, she was awarded the position of principal flute with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and in 2006, at age 17, she was awarded position of co-principal flute with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Following graduation from Gnessin, Miss Stachinskaya has maintained a robust schedule of solo and chamber performances, master classes and competitions throughout Russia, Asia, and Europe. Irina has been invited as guest soloist to the International Festival and Master Class of Sir James Galway in Wegiss. In 2010, she was awarded the Rising Star Series Prize by Sir James Galway, and in 2011, she was awarded third prize in the 2nd Maxence Laurreiu Flute International Competition held in Nice, France. Miss Stachinskaya’s performances have included a concert with Davide Formisano and Cameristi della Scala in the Tchaikovsky Concert hall in Moscow. She has had numerous solo performances with multiple orchestras including New Russia Orchestra (chief conductor Yuri Bashmet), President Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic (maestro Thomas Sanderling), Saint Petersburg Symphonietta (maestro Fabio Mastrangelo), and the New Opera Orchestra named after Eugeniy Kolobov. Since 2014, she has been invited for annual touring of Japan and South Korea. In 2014, Irina became a Powell Artist and performed her solo debut at the National Flute Association in Chicago with pianist Phillip Moll and flutist Jean Ferrandis. In 2015, she was invited back to the US to perform in the Opening Gala concert which included 2000 flutists from around the world. In May 2016, in collaboration with Phillip Moll Miss Stachinskaya released her first solo album under the Russian label Melodia Records. After leaving her position at the Moscow Philharmonic orchestra in March 2017, Irina enjoys a very rich solo career popularizing flute as a solo instrument in Russia and abroad. She has performed in collaboration with renowned musicians including Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Dmitry Kogan, Magda Amara, Harriet Krijgh, Basinia Shulman, Arthur Jussen, Amalia Hall, Alexandr Gindin, Pauline Sachse, Julia Hagen, Davide Formisano, Jean Ferrandis, Cammeristi della Scala, and others. In March 2018, Irina appeared with Mariinsky orchestra in Saint Petersburg at the « Virtuous of the flute » festival.
NICOLE ESPOSITO
A charismatic and versatile flutist, Nicole Esposito is the flute professor and head of the woodwind area at The University of Iowa School of Music, where she is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Teaching Award, and also serves as Visiting Professor at the University of Chile. She has achieved a career as a soloist, teacher, chamber and orchestral musician on an international level having been featured across the United States, Europe, Central and South America and Asia. Esposito has performed at flute festivals and events around the world including fifteen National Flute Association Conventions, the Oklahoma Flute Fair, Florida Flute Convention, Flute Society of Kentucky Festival, Wisconsin Flute Festival, West Virginia Flute Fling, Iowa Flute Festival, Atlanta Flute Festival, the LA Flute Guild Festival, San Francisco International Flute Festival, The Texas Summer Flute Symposium, FLUTISSIMO!, NSU Flute Workshop, Festival Virtuosi, Brazil, the International Flute Festival sponsored by the Brazilian Flute Association, the Santa Maria International Winter Festival, Aruba Symphony Festival and Academy, the Panama Flute Festival, the International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, the Spanish National Flute Convention, Bogotá Flute Festival, the International Flute Congress of Argentina, Chilean Flute Encounter, the European Piccolo Festival in Slovenia, International Piccolo Festival in Italy, the Adams Flute Festival in Holland, Flute Forum in Luxembourg, the Canadian Flute Convention, and the British Flute Society Convention among others. In addition to her teaching position at The University of Iowa, Professor Esposito has served on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and held guest-teaching residencies at the University of Michigan, West Virginia University and the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. She has given numerous master classes at prestigious universities and conservatories in the United States and abroad including Rice University, the Peabody Institute, the Geneva Conservatory, Royal Danish Academy, Madrid Royal Conservatory, Mannheim Hochshule, Shanghai Normal University and many others. As an orchestral musician, Esposito has performed under some of the worlds leading conductors, including James Conlon, David Zinman, Gunther Schuller, and Robert Spano. Former principal flute with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, she has also performed with the Quad City Symphony, Cedar Rapids Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, Youngstown (OH) Symphony, and the Johnstown and Westmoreland (PA) Symphony Orchestras. Esposito has held the Piccolo Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and has also been Principal Flute of the Ohio Light Opera. She has participated in a number of other music festivals including the Brevard Music Center, The Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and the National Orchestral Institute. Professor Esposito holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan. She has been a finalist or prizewinner in several prestigious competitions including the National Flute Association’s Young Artist, Piccolo Artist, and Orchestral Competitions, the WAMSO Competition sponsored by the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. Additionally, she has published articles on Banddirector.com, The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Focus and Flute Talk Magazines and can be heard on the Albany Records, MSR Classics and Con Brio Recordings labels. Her primary flute teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Amy Porter, Marianne Gedigian, Jennifer Steele, and Catherine Payne, with additional study with Mark Sparks, Alberto Almarza, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Nicole Esposito is Miyazawa Performing Artist.NIKOLAI LARIN
Nikolai Larin is co-principal clarinet at Moscow State Symphony orchestra.
In 2018 Nikolai was invited to teach at Moscow Institute of Culture after graduated from Russian Gnessin Academy of Music at the class of professor Nikolai Mozgovenko.
Nikolai participated in numerous international festivals such as "Bosco di Ciliegi" in Moscow, "Musica Iberica", Moscow International Chamber Music Festival, Yuri Bashmet Winter International Arts Festival etc.
Performed on the same stage with Mikhail Pletnev, Maurice Jansons, Vasily Petrenko, Alexander Knyazev, Joyce DiDonato, Denis Matsuev and other well-known artists.
He has toured in major concert halls in the USA, Great Britain, Europe and Asia.
As a soloist performed quintets by W.A. Mozart, K.M. Weber and J. Brahms with the State String Quartet named P.A. Tchaikovsky.
In collaboration with well-known soloists of Moscow orchestras he established woodwind quintet in 2020. After a couple of months woodwind quintet "Modern Woodwind Ensemble" won a first prize on the prestigious competition in Russia and received the status of the best quintet in Russia