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Yuko Sano
Steinway Artist Yuko Sano was born in Tokyo and began her international career as a concert pianist at the age of 8 in Salzburg. She has performed across China, Europe, the UK, and South America as well as in Japan.
At the age of 15, she had her concerto debut performing Mozart alongside the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and in October 2013, she made her London debut at the Southbank Centre for the festival ‘The Rest is Noise’. Since then she has performed at Abbey Road Studios, St. James’s Piccadilly, St. John’s Smith Square, St. Martin in the Fields, Steinway Hall, the Japanese Embassy in the UK, Draper’s Hall, and Senate House.
In 2014, Yuko was the first Japanese pianist to become a Young Steinway Artist, and she became a Steinway Artist in 2018. She was invited to New York to record for Steinway’s SPIRIO catalogue, available worldwide.
For the past eight years, she has been invited to perform at La Folle Journée Tokyo Festival, Japan’s most eminent music festival. The British government has given her the prestigious “Tier-1 Exceptional Talent” UK visa in recognition of her remarkable international musical career.
Victor Aguirre
Victor Aguirre is a Spanish and French violinist who went on his first orchestra tour at the young age of 10 to Morocco.
As a concertmaster and conductor, he was seen in a Spanish television production of Beethoven's First Symphony in 2010. He was a member of many orchestras, among others, in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim where he performed for the Proms Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, the Salzburg Festival, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Philharmonie Berlin and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
As a soloist, Victor has performed with the Malaga Philharmonic and with the Spanish Chamber Orchestra in Europe and toured in South Korea in 2014. In Hannover, he has performed the biggest Concertmaster Solo for violin 'Heroe’s Life' by Richard Strauss and in Salzburg the 'Four Seasons' by Antonio Vivaldi.
Victor is committed to charity work and has performed with Live Music now in Austria as well as in Germany. Upcoming projects in countries like Brazil and Mexico are part of Victor’s agenda. Creating inclusive and measurable social impact through music is very important to him.
Emmanuel Sowicz
Emmanuel Sowicz is a British and Chilean guitarist who combines his passion for the guitar’s traditional repertoire with a keen interest in new music and the art of transcription.
In 2014 he won First Prize at the II SMBA International Guitar Competition in Buenos Aires, and in 2017 he was awarded First Prize and the Audience Award at the XLIV Dr. Luis Sigall International Music Competition in Viña del Mar – Latin America’s most prestigious classical music competition. In 2018 he became a EuroStrings Artist after winning First Prize by a unanimous decision at the London International Guitar Competition, leading to a European tour across eight countries.
Emmanuel complements his solo career by working with some of the UK’s finest orchestras. He performed as part of the Philharmonia Orchestra at Southbank Centre for the UK premiere of Franco Donatoni’s Refrains II and at Barbican Hall alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus for the UK premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana. In July 2021, he was invited to perform as part of Chineke Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.